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Hell of a long shot?: Sequels, series, and the Caldecott Award
Today on Calling Caldecott, a conversation between Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt about sequels, series, and the Caldecott Award. (This is an entry in their "why-the-hell" Calling Caldecott series. Previous posts include discussions about the Caldecott and holiday books; photography; board books; the Newbery Award; "didactic intent"; and folklore.) ELISA...
The Last Zookeeper
Under cheerfully intrepid cover art, Aaron Becker’s wordless picture book opens onto quite a mood with a wash of watercolors in gloomy grays and blues. Intricate scratchy lines depict a scene of old, crumbly stone buildings from who-knows-what era rising out of standing water. Isolated on various high points of...
Review of The Last Zookeeper
The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Candlewick 40 pp.3/24 9781536227680 $18.99Becker’s (The Tree and the River, rev. 3/23) latest wordless fantasy takes readers to a post-apocalyptic future. Animals in a flooded zoo huddle on exposed bits of dry land; they are tended by an enormous...
The Tree and the River
In this work of speculative fiction, Aaron Becker crafts an innovative wordless picture book that follows the life of a tree as it grows in a verdant valley next to a small river. Over several centuries, the tree witnesses the development of human civilizations from farm to village and then...
Review of The Tree and the River
The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 32 pp.3/23 9781536223293 $18.99Becker explores many big ideas—including war, humanity’s impact on the environment, and the resilience of nature over time—through a science-fiction lens. The wordless narrative focuses on an idyllic forested valley split by a river....
Survivor Tree and This Very Tree: A Look at Two 9/11 Picture Books
We have seen numerous books about 9/11 published in 2021, 20 years after that tragic event. Included among those titles are two outstanding picture books about what is known as the Survivor Tree, the Callery pear tree that was buried underneath the rubble of the World Trade Center and nursed...
Five questions for Marcie Colleen and Aaron Becker
This Saturday will mark the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. For children born after this tragic event in which 2,996 individuals lost their lives in New York; Washington, DC; and Pennsylvania, reading books such as Marcie Colleen and Aaron Becker’s moving tribute Survivor Tree (Little, Brown, 6–9 years)...
Review of Survivor Tree
Survivor Tree by Marcie Colleen; illus. by Aaron Becker Primary, Intermediate Little, Brown 48 pp. g 8/21 978-0-316-48767-2 $18.99 Colleen uses the cycle of the seasons to tell the remarkable story of New York City’s Survivor Tree. Through lyrical prose, she describes the Callery pear tree as it stood for...
Review of Quest
Questby Aaron Becker; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.8/14 978-0-7636-6595-1 $15.99Journey (rev. 9/13) introduced a girl with a magic red crayon who could draw her way into an adventure and back home. At the end of the book she met a boy with his own purple crayon. Quest —...
Mr. Wuffles! and Journey: Compare and Contrast
What does a wordless picture book about an imaginary world have in common with a mostly wordless book about a cat's encounter with aliens? Whether these two books -- Journey and Mr. Wuffles! -- have anything in common is an interesting question, but that is exactly what the Caldecott committee will have to consider....
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