2025 Mock Caldecott List

1.
The Last Zookeeper
The Last Zookeeper 4.24 avg rating — 751 ratings
2.
The Yellow Bus
The Yellow Bus 4.42 avg rating — 1,508 ratings
3.
The Last Stand
The Last Stand 4.39 avg rating — 632 ratings
4.
Home in a Lunchbox
Home in a Lunchbox
by: Cherry Mo
4.56 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
5.
Time to Make Art
Time to Make Art
by: Jeff Mack
4.29 avg rating — 403 ratings
6.
Being Home
Being Home 4.09 avg rating — 598 ratings
7.
Just Like Millie: (A Heartwarming Story About Social Anxiety, Overcoming Shyness, and Making New Friends After Moving to a New City - For Kids Ages 3-7)
Just Like Millie: (A Heartwarming Story About Social Anxiety, Overcoming Shyness, and Making New Friends After Moving to a New City - For Kids Ages 3-7) 4.31 avg rating — 472 ratings
8.
The House Before Falling into the Sea
The House Before Falling into the Sea 4.30 avg rating — 440 ratings
9.
Two Together
Two Together 4.01 avg rating — 562 ratings
10.
Aloha Everything
Aloha Everything 4.25 avg rating — 560 ratings
11.
Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough
Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough 4.29 avg rating — 381 ratings
12.
Look
Look 4.24 avg rating — 376 ratings
13.
Joyful Song: A Naming Story
Joyful Song: A Naming Story 4.19 avg rating — 420 ratings
14.
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava 4.18 avg rating — 236 ratings
15.
Pretty Ugly
Pretty Ugly 3.54 avg rating — 1,016 ratings
16.
Touch the Sky
Touch the Sky 4.33 avg rating — 453 ratings
17.
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall 4.58 avg rating — 592 ratings
18.
Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten: (A Heartwarming Picture Book About Friendship and Self-Acceptance for Kids Ages 4-8)
Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten: (A Heartwarming Picture Book About Friendship and Self-Acceptance for Kids Ages 4-8) 4.39 avg rating — 672 ratings
19.
Ahoy!
Ahoy! 4.05 avg rating — 741 ratings
20.
Nana in the Country
Nana in the Country 4.11 avg rating — 237 ratings
21.
Ursula Upside Down: An Inventive Picture Book Adventure about Finding Confidence
Ursula Upside Down: An Inventive Picture Book Adventure about Finding Confidence 4.31 avg rating — 794 ratings
22.
No Cats in the Library
No Cats in the Library 4.42 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
23.
Threads: Zlata’s Ukrainian Shirt
Threads: Zlata’s Ukrainian Shirt 4.17 avg rating — 214 ratings
24.
Animal Albums from A to Z: (A Musical Alphabet Book for Kids Ages 4-8)
Animal Albums from A to Z: (A Musical Alphabet Book for Kids Ages 4-8)
by: Cece Bell
4.19 avg rating — 205 ratings
25.
One Day This Tree Will Fall
One Day This Tree Will Fall 4.48 avg rating — 360 ratings
26.
Roar-Choo!
Roar-Choo! 4.01 avg rating — 397 ratings
27.
Chooch Helped
Chooch Helped 4.25 avg rating — 747 ratings
28.
Treehouse Town
Treehouse Town 4.10 avg rating — 267 ratings
29.
My Daddy Is a Cowboy
My Daddy Is a Cowboy 4.16 avg rating — 644 ratings
30.
The Blue Pickup
The Blue Pickup 4.34 avg rating — 250 ratings
31.
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller 4.38 avg rating — 533 ratings
32.
What's New, Daniel?
What's New, Daniel? 4.23 avg rating — 248 ratings
33.
The Iguanodon's Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again
The Iguanodon's Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again 4.42 avg rating — 223 ratings
34.
Something About the Sky
Something About the Sky 4.07 avg rating — 218 ratings
35.
Solar Bear
Solar Bear 3.94 avg rating — 226 ratings
36.
The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith!
The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith! 4.18 avg rating — 127 ratings
37.
Gifts from Georgia's Garden: How Georgia O'Keeffe Nourished Her Art
Gifts from Georgia's Garden: How Georgia O'Keeffe Nourished Her Art 4.10 avg rating — 145 ratings
37.
Finding Grateful
Finding Grateful 4.28 avg rating — 132 ratings
39.
Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent
Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent 4.12 avg rating — 143 ratings
40.
The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn
The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn 3.74 avg rating — 814 ratings
41.
Brave Baby Hummingbird
Brave Baby Hummingbird 4.28 avg rating — 219 ratings
42.
There’s No Such Thing as Vegetables
There’s No Such Thing as Vegetables 4.01 avg rating — 295 ratings
43.
Finding Things
Finding Things 3.43 avg rating — 303 ratings
44.
Jump for Joy
Jump for Joy 4.16 avg rating — 348 ratings
45.
Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King
Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King 4.35 avg rating — 384 ratings
46.
Partly Cloudy
Partly Cloudy 3.84 avg rating — 260 ratings
47.
My Block Looks Like
My Block Looks Like 4.17 avg rating — 325 ratings
48.
The Rock in My Throat
The Rock in My Throat 4.42 avg rating — 525 ratings
49.
The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure
The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure 4.21 avg rating — 277 ratings
50.
I Am La Chiva!: The Colorful Bus of the Andes
I Am La Chiva!: The Colorful Bus of the Andes 4.30 avg rating — 260 ratings
51.
Nothing: John Cage and 4'33"
Nothing: John Cage and 4'33" 4.20 avg rating — 199 ratings
52.
Angela's Glacier
Angela's Glacier 3.79 avg rating — 337 ratings
53.
My Guncle and Me
My Guncle and Me 4.16 avg rating — 94 ratings
54.
Lucky Duck
Lucky Duck 4.05 avg rating — 599 ratings
54.
Fox versus Fox
Fox versus Fox 3.97 avg rating — 266 ratings
56.
Gather Round
Gather Round 3.79 avg rating — 199 ratings
57.
Are You Big?
Are You Big? 3.70 avg rating — 512 ratings
58.
Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin from a Harlem Boy to a Legendary Writer and Civil Rights Advocate
Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin from a Harlem Boy to a Legendary Writer and Civil Rights Advocate 4.22 avg rating — 215 ratings
58.
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains 4.30 avg rating — 406 ratings
60.
Emma Full of Wonders
Emma Full of Wonders 3.83 avg rating — 204 ratings
61.
Noodles on a Bicycle
Noodles on a Bicycle 4.29 avg rating — 770 ratings
62.
The Sunflowers: Vincent van Gogh's Search for Beauty
The Sunflowers: Vincent van Gogh's Search for Beauty 3.56 avg rating — 106 ratings
63.
We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian America
We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian America
by: Joanna Ho
4.35 avg rating — 326 ratings
64.
Today
Today 4.31 avg rating — 212 ratings
65.
Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing
Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing
by: Amy Hest
4.04 avg rating — 284 ratings
66.
Once Upon a Sari
Once Upon a Sari 4.30 avg rating — 127 ratings
67.
Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show (A Biography Celebrating Black History, Civil Rights, and the Power of Art - For Kids Ages 8-12)
Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show (A Biography Celebrating Black History, Civil Rights, and the Power of Art - For Kids Ages 8-12) 4.23 avg rating — 90 ratings
68.
The Boy Who Said Wow
The Boy Who Said Wow
by: Todd Boss
4.28 avg rating — 242 ratings
69.
A Rainbow in Brown
A Rainbow in Brown 4.19 avg rating — 144 ratings
70.
Do You Know Them?: Families Lost and Found After the Civil War
Do You Know Them?: Families Lost and Found After the Civil War 4.34 avg rating — 166 ratings
71.
What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice
What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice 4.24 avg rating — 124 ratings
72.
A Grand Idea: How William J. Wilgus Created Grand Central Terminal
A Grand Idea: How William J. Wilgus Created Grand Central Terminal 4.15 avg rating — 113 ratings
73.
Built to Last
Built to Last
by: Minh Lê
4.17 avg rating — 584 ratings
74.
Like So
Like So 3.84 avg rating — 277 ratings
74.
Sleepy: Surprising Ways Animals Snooze
Sleepy: Surprising Ways Animals Snooze 4.18 avg rating — 106 ratings
76.
Climbing the Volcano: A Journey in Haiku
Climbing the Volcano: A Journey in Haiku 3.95 avg rating — 130 ratings
77.
Memory Garden
Memory Garden 4.13 avg rating — 103 ratings
78.
Lunar New Year Love Story
Lunar New Year Love Story 4.37 avg rating — 7,037 ratings
78.
Trick or Treat on Scary Street
Trick or Treat on Scary Street 3.45 avg rating — 267 ratings
80.
We Are Definitely Human
We Are Definitely Human
by: X. Fang
4.39 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
80.
Drawn Onward
Drawn Onward 4.30 avg rating — 540 ratings
82.
They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom
They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom 4.39 avg rating — 164 ratings
83.
Rumi–Poet of Joy and Love
Rumi–Poet of Joy and Love 4.25 avg rating — 264 ratings
83.
Dog vs. Strawberry
Dog vs. Strawberry 3.84 avg rating — 515 ratings
85.
Forest
Forest 4.02 avg rating — 113 ratings
86.
Yaya and the Sea
Yaya and the Sea 3.63 avg rating — 107 ratings
87.
Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis
Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis 4.39 avg rating — 175 ratings
88.
Rescue Cat
Rescue Cat 3.81 avg rating — 188 ratings
89.
Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera
Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera 4.20 avg rating — 225 ratings
90.
You Broke It!
You Broke It! 3.62 avg rating — 184 ratings
91.
I Am a Masterpiece!: An Empowering Story About Inclusivity and Growing Up with Down Syndrome
I Am a Masterpiece!: An Empowering Story About Inclusivity and Growing Up with Down Syndrome 4.29 avg rating — 285 ratings
92.
A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion
A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion 4.19 avg rating — 318 ratings
93.
Ten Little Rabbits
Ten Little Rabbits 3.48 avg rating — 276 ratings
93.
Crick, Crack, Crow!
Crick, Crack, Crow! 3.68 avg rating — 151 ratings
95.
The World and Everything in It
The World and Everything in It 3.71 avg rating — 474 ratings
96.
Barnaby Unboxed!
Barnaby Unboxed!
by: Terry Fan
4.25 avg rating — 398 ratings
97.
Sourgrass
Sourgrass
by: Hope Lim
4.17 avg rating — 167 ratings
97.
Tiny Jenny: Little Fairy, Big Trouble
Tiny Jenny: Little Fairy, Big Trouble 3.84 avg rating — 174 ratings
99.
Can You Hear the Plants Speak?
Can You Hear the Plants Speak? 4.27 avg rating — 104 ratings
100.
I See Color
I See Color 4.41 avg rating — 191 ratings
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