Carolyn Proesch

I would love to do this with my students next year. Where can I find a list of recommended books for the Caldecott Award?

Posted : Feb 08, 2020 02:28

Judy O'Sullivan

Each year for many years here at Lutz Prep, I collect as many books available from recommended lists for the Caldecott Award. This year we examined 28 books during 4 weeks of studies in our Library Classes for 3rd - 5th graders. The students take a secret ballot and vote in their "voting booths". This year they did very well. Eleven out of nearly 150 students chose the actual winner, Undefeated. We all started with a brief review of past winners to give them some basis of the selection process. They love this project!

Posted : Jan 27, 2020 05:43

DONNA MACDONALD

Six classes of 4th and 5th graders at Orchard School in South Burlington, Vermont have voted for their Mock Caldecott favorites. The medal winner is The Little Guys by Vera Brosgol! Honors go to Another, The Undefeated, Sea Bear, A Place to Land, and Carl and the Meaning of Life.

Posted : Jan 25, 2020 04:50

Bill Wright

We have our results! Mr. Wright's 3rd grade class at Kensico School in Valhalla, NY has chosen The Scarecrow as their medal winner, and has also named 5 honor books: Dasher, My Heart, A Place to Land, Sea Bear, and A Stone Sat Still. This was the 20th year in a row that my class has done a mock Caldecott, and I couldn't be more proud of the richness of the discussions we have had, and the very distinguished list of winners we have chosen!

Posted : Jan 24, 2020 02:49

Tiffany E

We are 2 classes into Mock Caldecott right now. We will vote in January right before the actual vote. Doing it with all 35 classes that I teach K-4!Class 1: A Big Bed for Little Snow and Fry BreadClass 2: Another and SaturdayClass 3: Field Trip to the Moon? The Scarecrow? The Little Guys? I am still deciding! Class 4: Heaven help me, I do not know the plans for this one yet! Class 5: VOTING and possibly one more book?Class 6: Watch the actual winners be announced! We've only done classes 1 & 2 so far. Another has the most votes so far - unofficially. We will do OUR official vote via Google Forms in about a month!

Posted : Dec 20, 2019 07:05

Julie Danielson

Thank you all for sharing. I love to read these. I imagine some of your students as future Caldecott committee members. One never knows.

Posted : Dec 19, 2019 05:35

Allison Khoury

We do our voting the week before the actual awards are announced. We vote in each class based on the books we've read and discussed. Favorites are: Sea Bear, Vroom! Big Bed for Little Snow, Whale and the Fisherman, What is Given from the Heart, Bear Came Along. More Books in the next few weeks. I will report our results in January.

Posted : Dec 15, 2019 02:52

Megan Dowd Lambert

My graduate students in CHL 403 The Picturebook at Simmons University winnowed a list of 30 titles down to 18 nominations for our Mock Caldecott debate during tonight’s final class meeting of the semester. Here are the results of the final vote:Medalist: Corinna Luyken for My HeartHonors: Juana Martinez-Neal for Fry Bread; Grace Lin for A Big Bed for Little Snow; and Kadir Nelson for The Undefeated. I think they made some excellent selections! Here’s the full list I assigned for my students to consider: http://megandowdlambert.com/2020-mock-caldecott-list/

Posted : Dec 11, 2019 04:15

Rachel J

I try to do a mock Caldecott with grades K-5 every year but I'm finding it hard to find books that cover that whole age range this year. Books that have are A Big Bed for Little Snow, Saturday, Bear Came Along, and How to Read A Book. For older kids I'm including Small World, Anya's Secret Society, Little Libraries, Big Heroes, The Roots of Rap, The Hundred-Year Barn, and Our House is On Fire. I may add Dancing Hands and The Book Rescuer. For the younger crowd, Why? is on the list (and I may try it out with the older ones, too).

Posted : Dec 10, 2019 01:50

Roger Sutton

Jules, you're reminding me of how often we review picture books from f&gs (and I'm sure you know Robin's joke about that!) and miss so many aspects of the finished books. Of course committee members will only look at bound books, but the market is such that that's not possible for reviewers.

Posted : Dec 09, 2019 03:32

Bill Wright

In the middle of our annual mock Caldecott with my 3rd graders right now! In the reading stage right now, and about to ask for 2 rounds of 2 nominations apiece in the run up to the holiday break. Early favorites are Sea Bear, The Scarecrow, You Are Home, Goodnight Wind...and probably others I am forgetting at the moment! We'll start discussions when we get back in January, and then comes the voting! Last year it took 7 ballots to get a winner...wonder what it will be this year?? Not yet sure what I will be voting as first place...too many super books (as always)!

Posted : Dec 07, 2019 04:54

Dean Schneider

Thanks for mentioning Robin's second-grade class, Julie. Robin did such a great job teaching young kids how to look at and evaluate picture books, and they became so invested in their choices and so excited when the actual Caldecott Committee announcements were made.

Posted : Dec 06, 2019 04:27