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I have to say that watching the votes come in was plenty exciting for me! Lolly gave me the super-secret location of the returns so I could check them obsessively all night long.Lolly and I had a face-to-face (really screen-to-screen) chat about how to decide where to go from here....
Here's a link to the official Calling Caldecott Ballot #1. Note that you will vote for your first, second, and third choices, just like the real committee. The polls will close at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning (Tuesday, January 17) and we will try to get the results up at noon.Tallying...
Robin and I have put our heads together and come up with a ballot of 15 books. On the real committee, once the ballot is decided there is more discussion before voting, so that's how we will do it here. We'd like to hear lots of comments. Lurkers, it's time...
I've been a fan of Kevin Henkes's "thick line" books ever since the first one came out -- Kitten's First Full Moon, the year I was on Caldecott. All of these books work well with very young children and have a timeless feeling, as if Henkes was channeling the spirit...
With Lolly under the weather, I will hop in and present this perfect story of maternal love and toddler curiosity. It’s a simple, funny, never-cloying story of one absolutely adorable elephant and her mother.While out on a walk, joined trunk to tail, Little Elephant asks questions. “If you want to...
Yes, I still have two posts to write but have been (still am) sick so I'll take the easy route for now.Back in the day, the Horn Book had a podcast. My favorite was one that Roger recorded in January 2008 when he was on the Caldecott committee. What I...
According to my calulations, there are three more books for us to blog about before we finish up our list: If You Lived Here by Giles Laroche; Tweak Tweak by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier, and Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes. I'm not sure how many people are...
After a rousing discussion, we turn to a book, set in the 1920s and 1930s with African Americans moving from the South to the cities of the North told in poetry. I love the strong, emotional poetry but it is the images that have stayed with me since I reviewed...
Travis Jonker has distilled the elements most likely to win a book the Caldecott Medal. Check out his logic over at Scope Notes!...
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