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NOT the Caldecott choices, well, of course them but really: Lolly and Robin. I want to thank them for starting up Calling Caldecott and doing such a nice job of keeping it going and getting it noticed. (On the day of the announcement, the New York Times even linked over...
I know you have all heard the Youth Media Awards compared to the Oscars, but that has never been how I felt. I mean, we are all wearing convention-wear (sensible shoes and the like), toting bulging cloth bookbags, gripping paper, pen, various electronic devices and our boarding passes for the...
Or, as Roger Sutton said in his blog post today, "Tuesday-morning quarterbacking."Robin and I will each write one more post this week, then Roger will tie up the first Calling Caldecott season with a guest post.Unlike Robin who went to the actual press conference at 7:45 a.m. Dallas time, I...
A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka won and the honor books were Blackout by John Rocco, Grandpa Green by Lane Smith, and Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell.Did you all listen to the awards live? Robin is in Dallas and will probably call me sometime today. I was here at...
We got a good question on another post that I think deserves its own space. Here it is:Comment from s.j. on "Are you in mourning?":For those who did mock Caldecotts with students, I would love some more information and tips on doing one for next year! I have some mixed-grade...
Picking honor books is one of the mysterious parts of the whole book committee experience. On the Caldecott committee, the manual is strangely quiet on the question of honor books.After the winner is (finally, sometimes) chosen, "The committee then addresses the question of whether to name honor books. The committee may...
Award committees, both real and mock, can give you extreme highs and lows. Just being on a real committee can be a high, and I remember walking on air for a few days after I learned that I'd been elected to the Caldecott committee. But there are lows as well,...
The winner of the 2012 Calling Caldecott mock vote is Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell! The four honor books areBalloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa SweetBlackout by John RoccoGrandpa Green by Lane SmithI Want My Hat Back by Jon KlassenThough...
Aaaaand they're off! Here is a link to the second and final ballot. We'll leave the polls on this one open until Thursday morning and aim to post the final results Thursday noon. If you missed the results of the first ballot, they are here.Balloons Over...
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