The following is a list of books which could be 2008 Caldecott Award winners. Who do you think will win?
| AUTHOR | ILLUSTRATOR | TITLE | PUBLISHER | ISBN |
| Bateman, Donna M. | Lies, Brian | Deep in the Swamp | Charlesbridge | 1570915963 |
| Bunting, Eve | Mack, Jeff | Hurry! Hurry! | Harcourt, Inc. | 0152054106 |
| Burleigh, Robert | Wimmer, Mike | Stealing Home | Simon & Schuster | 0689862768 |
| Charlip, Remy | Charlip, Remy | A Perfect Day | Greenwillow Books | 0060519728 |
| Cruise, Robin | Chodos-Irvine, Margaret | Only You | Harcourt, Inc. | 0152166045 |
| Floca, Brian | Floca, Brian | Lightship | Atheneum Books | 1416924361 |
| Florian, Douglas | Florian, Douglas | Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars | Harcourt, Inc. | 152053727 |
| Franco, Betsy | Jenkins, Steve | Bird Songs | Margaret K. McElderry Books | 0689877773 |
| Friend, Catherine | Manders, John | The Perfect Nest | Candlewick Press | 0763624309 |
| Grifalconi, Ann | Pinkney, Jerry | Ain't Nobody a Stranger to Me | Jump at the Sun | 0786818573 |
| Gutman, Dan | Johnson, Steve and Fancher, Lou | Casey Back at Bat | HarperCollins | 0060560258 |
| Harrington, Janice N. | Jackson, Shelley | The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 0374312516 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Henkes, Kevin | A Good Day | Greenwillow Books | 0061140198 |
| Johnson, Angela | Long, Loren | Wind Flyers | Simon & Schuster | 068984879x |
| Lehman, Barbara | Lehman, Barbara | Rainstorm | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0618756396 |
| Levine, Ellen | Nelson, Kadir | Henry's Freedom Box : A True Story of the Underground Railroad | Scholastic Press | 043977733x |
| Morales, Yuyi | Morales, Yuyi | Little Night | Roaring Book Press | 1596430885 |
| Newgarden, Mark | Cash, Megan Montague | Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug | Harcourt, Inc. | 152058135 |
| Palatini, Margie | Johnson, Steve and Fancher, Lou | The Cheese | Katherine Tegen Books | 0060526306 |
| Shea, Bob | Shea, Bob | New Socks | Little Brown and Company | 0316013579 |
| Yaccarino, Dan | Yaccarino, Dan | Every Friday | Henry Holt and Company | 0805077243 |