Caldecott Medal Winners: 1980s Caldecott Winners

1989 Caldecott Medal Winner
Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.

1988 Caldecott Medal Winner
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

1987 Caldecott Medal Winner
A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.

1986 Caldecott Medal Winner
A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

1985 Caldecott Medal Winner
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.

1984 Caldecott Medal Winner
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900's.

1983 Caldecott Medal Winner
Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.

1982 Caldecott Medal Winner
Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

1981 Caldecott Medal Winner
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich

1980 Caldecott Medal Winner
Describes daily life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.