Caldecott Honor Titles

4.3 stars

How did Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela end up with such a long name? As Daddy tells the story of her many names, Alma can almost feel herself grow into them.

4.4 stars

An assortment of animals living separate lives discover they need each other when they have a chance encounter on a river.

5 stars

As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.

4.1 stars

Reimagines the cycles of the moon as a mother bakes a Big Moon Cookie and, despite Mama's request to wait, Little Star begins nibbling at it every night.

A poor Japanese woman maneuvers events to change the lazy habits of her son.

4.8 stars

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

4.5 stars

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.

4 stars

Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon's grandparents during summer vacation.

3 stars

Celebrates the feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.

4.6 stars

"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--