Caldecott Medal Winners & Honor Books - 2021
Awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children
Medal Winner
- We Are Water Protectors, illustrated by Michaela Goade, written by Carole Lindstrom (Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings)
Honor Books
- A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart, illustrated by Noa Denmon, written by Zetta Elliott, and published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
- The Cat Man of Aleppo, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, written by Irene Latham & Karim Shamsi-Basha (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
- Me & Mama, illustrated and written by Cozbi A. Cabrera (Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
- Outside In, illustrated by Cindy Derby, written by Deborah Underwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - 2021
Awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children
Medal Winner
- When You Trap a Tiger, written by Tae Keller (Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House)
Honor Books
- All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team, written by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)
- BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, written by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Michele Wood (Candlewick Press)
- Fighting Words, written by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
- We Dream of Space, written by Erin Entrada Kelly, illustrated by Erin Entrada Kelly and Celia Krampien (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
- A Wish in the Dark, written by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)