Caldecott Honor Books

These are books that did not win the Caldecott Award, but were given Honor Awards as books of distinction.

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Book cover for "Goggles!"
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1.5 stars
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Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.
Book cover for "Going down home with Daddy"
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5 stars
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Alan looks forward to the annual family reunion at the farm where Daddy grew up, but everyone is supposed to share something special and Alan worries about arriving with empty hands.
Book cover for "Goldilocks and the three bears"
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Three bears return home from a walk to find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed.
Book cover for "Grand Canyon"
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4.3 stars
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Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder, discovering life both present and past.
Book cover for "Grandpa Green"
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2.5 stars
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A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.
Book cover for "The graphic alphabet"
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Expanding on traditional alphabet forms for children, the author uses graphic illustrations that retain the natural shape of the letter as well as represent the meaning of the word

67. Green

Book cover for "Green"
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4 stars
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green.
Book cover for "The grey lady and the strawberry snatcher"
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5 stars
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In this story without words, an old woman is pursued by a strange man with a passion for strawberries.
Book cover for "Hansel and Gretel"
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4 stars
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A retelling of the well-known tale in which two children are left in the woods but find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

70. Harlem

Book cover for "Harlem"
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A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.
Book cover for "Have you ever seen a flower?"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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A child experiences a flower by seeing its colors, smelling its fragrance, and imagining the tiny world within it.
Book cover for "Have you seen my duckling?"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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A mother duck leads her brood around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling.
Book cover for "Henry's freedom box"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
Book cover for "Hershel and the Hanukkah goblins"
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Relates how Hershel outwits the goblins that haunt the old synagogue and prevent the village people from celebrating Hanukkah.
Book cover for "Hide and seek fog"
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A fog takes over a small village for three days.
Book cover for "Hondo & Fabian"
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4 stars
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Hondo the dog gets to go to the beach and play with his friend Fred, while Fabian the cat spends the day at home.
Book cover for "Hot air"
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Presents a colorful children's story about the first passengers on the very first hot air balloon ride.
Book cover for "How I learned geography"
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As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
Book cover for "Hush!"
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3 stars
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A lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby.
Book cover for "If I ran the zoo"
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4.6 stars
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If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.