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It’s hard to believe that this is the seventh annual Robin Smith Picture Book Prize. It seems as if it’s been only a few months since my wife Robin died of cancer at age fifty-seven. I am so appreciative of The Horn Book Magazine and its Calling Caldecott blog, which...
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...
What an exciting morning it was! Calling Caldecott was tuned into the livestream, with morning coffee and popcorn. The Real Committee selected one winner and four honor books. The winner of the 2024 Caldecott Medal is Big, written and illustrated by Vashti Harrison, published by Little, Brown and Company. The Caldecott honor...
We're almost there! This weekend the Real Caldecott Committee gathers in Baltimore to advocate, discuss, listen, compromise — and then do it all over again and again, until the winner and honor book(s) are chosen. Before we get caught up in the excitement of The Big Announcement, however, we want...
The votes are in!! The results of the 2024 Calling Caldecott Mock Vote yielded a winner and two honor books. Big, written and illustrated by Vashti Harrison, is the winner. The two honor books are: There Was a Party for Langston, written by Jason Reynolds and illustrated by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey, and An...
It's been one heck of a Calling Caldecott season. Since we kicked things off on September 5, with the help of our ever-brilliant and dedicated contributors, we have covered twenty-five individual books plus many others in discussions that have touched on folklore, awards (the National Book Award for Young People's Literature), and annual...
Calling Caldecott's mock vote opens tomorrow, and we're excited to see what you, our readers, will vote for. Please come on back to the blog tomorrow to vote for your top choices. In the meantime, we're taking stock of the books that we wished we had time to include in...
[This interview took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 14, 2023.] Note: Jack was interviewed in The Horn Book's e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book, in June 2023. I deliberately decided not to tread the same water (sorry — the swimming puns are kind of hard to stop) and to ask different questions here. ...
You know that feeling when you get excited that a book you love might be a Caldecott contender, only to realize the illustrator does not meet the Caldecott’s U.S. citizenship or residency requirement? Dang it! Your beloved book is ineligible for the Caldecott. Sometimes it's something else. Sometimes a book pushes...
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