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And now the moment we’ve all been waiting for! Okay, not that moment (the YMA announcements on Jan. 27), but here at Calling Caldecott it’s what we’ve been working toward since last September. It’s time to select your top three choices for the most distinguished picture book of 2024. Along...
A bummer about Caldecott is that not all the excellent and worthwhile picture books published in a given year can win. There’s only one Caldecott winner, and even if committees are generous with their honors, many books can’t and won’t receive Caldecott recognition. However, there are a number of other...
It happens each Calling Caldecott season. We start out in September full of excitement and high hopes that we will be able to weigh in on all the books on our list...and now it's January and we've run out of time. On Thursday this week the polls will open for...
Teach learns to read alongside his master’s son and transfers this knowledge through forbidden tutorials to enslaved men, women, and children. Lesa Cline-Ransome’s free verse narrative in Teach’s hushed voice opens on Monday and closes with lifted voices at Sunday School. As the congregation reads the biblical lines “Let My...
A tall portrait layout might have been the natural choice for Noodles on a Bicycle, with its depictions of bicycling demae (deliverymen) who balance gravity-defying towers of trays and bowls of soba noodles as they move through the streets of Tokyo. Instead, Zhang opted for a square trim, which infuses her illustrations...
After 2017’s Caldecott Honor–winning They All Saw a Cat and 2021’s Inside Cat, Brendan Wenzel continues his exploration of perspective, again with a cat taking center stage. The book begins rhythmically: “Two together headed home. Cat and dog. Bell and Bone. For a moment. For a day.” Bell wears a...
In his post about Call Me Roberto!, Brian E. Wilson noted that picture-book biographies aren’t often among the Caldecott winners and honorees. The criteria states that a picture book needs to have “a collective unity of story-line, theme or concept, developed through the series of pictures of which the book...
Sixteen of you responded to our call for nominations this round, and you nominated 22 eligible (more on that in a minute) titles. Thank you! Our three leaders are: Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Mclear, illustrated by Gracey Zhang (6 nominations) Ahoy! by Sophie Blackall (5 nominations) Love Is...
Kitchen tables can serve numerous purposes. We prepare and eat our meals at kitchen tables. Children complete their homework at them. We use them as workstations for various household projects, and we play games around them. Most importantly, we sit around them and tell stories, accounts of our days at...
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