Book Awards
Winner: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by K. G. Campbell(Candlewick)Ten-year-old Flora Belle Buckman’s life changes when she resuscitates a squirrel after his near-death experience with her neighbor’s Ulysses 2000X vacuum. Flora discovers that the incident has caused the squirrel, whom she also names Ulysses, to...
Cynthia Voigt's mother and daughter profile the author to celebrate her 1983 Newbery Medal Award win for Dicey's Song.by Elise K. IrvingWhen Cynthia called that Monday night, she asked if I was sitting down before she told me that she had won the Newbery. And she was right. It is...
Three Newbery Medalists in the ladies room at the Newbery-Caldecott-Wilder banquet: Patricia MacLachlan, Cynthia Voigt, Katherine Paterson. Photo: Martha Parravano.I’ve been lucky enough to attend quite a few Newbery–Caldecott banquets, and I wouldn’t have missed a single one, but — let’s be honest — there can be low-lights as well...
Caldecott cookie.Suffering from ALA withdrawal? (Or maybe envy?) The Horn Book is here to help — we've got plenty of coverage of this year's events. For even more, check out the July/August 2013 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.Profile of Caldecott Award winner Jon Klassen by his friend and collaborator...
On the one hand, it was a very good year for children’s books. The number of books that fit the Newbery’s definition of “distinguished contribution to American literature for children” was, to my mind, unusually extensive. What they all had in common was their excellence; in other ways, from genre...
Katherine Applegate and Michael GrantKatherine Applegate was born a very long time ago in Michigan. She grew up in the suburbs, suffered no major traumas, was not shaped by great historical events, and never learned storytelling at the feet of a wise and wonderful grandmother.She attended school where she practiced...
Caldecott cookie. Newbery Caldecott Wilder program. Three Newbery Medalists in the ladies room at the Newbery-Caldecott-Wilder banquet: Patricia MacLachlan, Cynthia Voigt, Katherine Paterson. Photo: Martha Parravano. Brian Selznick and Rita Auerbach before the Newbery-Caldecott-Wilder Banquet. Photo: Martha Parravano. Betsy Bird (as "all the books") and Nina Lindsay (in a 75-year-old...
On Friday, June 27, I attended the ALSC preconference, “A Wild Ride: 75 Years of the Caldecott Medal,” which took place at the Art Institute of Chicago and was organized by co-chairs K. T. Horning and Diane Bailey Foote and their planning committee. It was an amazing day, a day...
Readers frequently ask where E. L. Konigsburg, my mother, gets her ideas. I’ll tell.Although Mom can detect the most subtle nuance in painting or prose, she never developed a musical ear. Knowing that, my brother Paul purchased several classical records and proceeded to give her a course in music appreciation....
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