11 Caldecott Winning Board Books For The Nursery

Every year, the Association For Library Service To Children hands out pieces of embossed foil to books that show “excellence of pictorial presentation for children.” They’re known as Caldecott awards, so named for a 19th Century British illustrator of Nursery Rhymes, but over the years it’s gone to books about trucks, snow and 7 blind mice (among many, many other things). Here are 11 acclaimed titles from Amazon’s Caldecott Collection.