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Other picture book awards

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...

Books we missed

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...

Week in Review, January 6th-10th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the January/February 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Table of Contents Editorial: Somewhat Unusual by Elissa Gershowitz   Calling Cadecott: Noodles on a Bicycle by Megan Dowd Lambert They Call Me Teach by Cathryn M. Mercier   Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: Pigs Dig a...

They Call Me Teach

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...

Noodles on a Bicycle

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...

Week in Review, December 30th-January 3rd

  This week on hbook.com...   From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Kathryn Ormsbee and Molly Brooks   Calling Cadecott: Two Together by Adrienne L. Pettinelli   Out of the Box: Horn Book trivia   Reviews of the Week: Picture Book: A Roof!...

Two Together

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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...

Week in Review, December 23rd-27th

  This week on hbook.com...   From the November/December 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Publishers' Preview: Picture Books and Graphic Novels: Hope Larson | Frank Weber   Calling Cadecott: Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube by Kitty Flynn   Out of the Box: Horn Book trivia   Horn Book Guide: Horn Book...

Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube

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...
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