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2024 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by Vashti Harrison
“Did you know you’re the first Black woman to win the Caldecott Medal?” The morning of the American Library Association Youth Media Awards, my agent, Carrie Hannigan, called to ask me this. We had spoken the night before to celebrate, so this call felt more like a briefing. She was...
Preview July/August 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards
Special Issue: ALA Awards. Cover art by Vashti Harrison...stop by booth 1638 at ALA to help complete the puzzle! “The Year in Words and Pictures.” The Horn Book editors discuss the children’s book landscape and the books that pushed boundaries this year. Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Children's Literature Legacy Award acceptance...
More BIG news
No, this isn't the Robin Smith Picture Book Prize announcement that we promised on Monday (that's coming on Friday). We wanted to follow up on our YMA announcement post to scream from the rooftops the fact that Vashti Harrison, illustrator of Caldecott Medal winner Big, is the first Black woman to win...
Reviews of the 2024 Caldecott Medal Winners
Winner Big by Vashti Harrison; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 64 pp. 5/23 9780316353229 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780316566223 $12.99 As Harrison writes in her author’s note, “In childhood, big is good. Big is impressive, aspirational. But somewhere along the way, the world begins to tell us something different:...
From the Editor - January 2024
Earlier today Calling Caldecott announced the winner of its MOCK award, Big by Vashti Harrison, with honor books An American Story and There Was a Party for Langston; all superb choices! This coming Monday, January 22, we’ll know the winners of the actual 2024 Caldecott Medal and of the other...
Why This National Book Award Finalist Is a BIG Deal!
In September, the National Book Award released its longlist of ten books being considered for the 2023 Young People’s Literature (YPL) Award. The YPL Award typically doesn’t attract the attention of us Calling Caldecott folks, because historically it tends to skew more toward older fiction. This year, the YPL’s longlist represented a broad...
Review of Big
Big by Vashti Harrison; illus. by the author Primary Little, Brown 64 pp. 5/23 9780316353229 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780316566223 $12.99 As Harrison writes in her author’s note, “In childhood, big is good. Big is impressive, aspirational. But somewhere along the way, the world begins to tell us something different: That...
Five questions for Vashti Harrison
In the picture book Big (Little, Brown, 5–8 years), a young Black girl feels comfortable in her own skin — until classmates’ taunts and two adults’ admonishments make her question her size. Author/illustrator Vashti Harrison’s sensitive, compassionate story ends on an empowering note, with the girl finally able to hand...
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Review of I Love You like Yellow
I Love You like Yellow by Andrea Beaty; illus. by Vashti HarrisonPreschool Abrams 48 pp. g3/22 978-1-4197-4807-3 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-6470-0056-1 $15.54This bear-hug of a picture book features a series of similes that serve as declarations of love in various forms. Constructed in a first-person narrative in which the “I” switches...
Review of Sulwe
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o; illus. by Vashti Harrison Preschool, Primary Simon 48 pp. 10/19 978-1-5344-2536-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-2537-8 $10.99 In a story partially based on the author’s childhood in Kenya, “Sulwe was born the color of midnight.” So begins a journey to self-love for a little girl whose name...
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