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The 2025 Caldecott Announcement

The winner of the 2025 Caldecott Award is Chooch Helped, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz, written by Andrea L. Rogers, published by Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido.  The Committee selected four 2025 Honor Books:  Home in a Lunchbox, written and illustrated by Cherry Mo, published by Penguin Workshop, an...

Countdown to Caldecott: Celebrating Conversations and Community

We’re all excited about Monday's Caldecott and other Youth Media Awards announcements! The YMA presentation will be livestreamed from Phoenix starting at 8 a.m. MT (10 a.m. EST). The Caldecott announcement will come toward the end; here’s a link to the video stream. What a weekend the Committee members have before them...

Results of the 2025 Calling Caldecott Mock Vote

The votes have been counted; the readers have spoken.  Calling Caldecott’s 2025 Mock Vote Winner is {{drum roll, please}}:  The Yellow Bus, written and illustrated by Loren Long.  And our one Honor Book is:  Home in a Lunchbox, written and illustrated by Cherry Mo.  Excellent choices! Congratulations to Loren Long and Cherry...

2025 Calling Caldecott Mock Ballot — Now Open!

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...

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...

Two Together

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...

Second-round nominations results!

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...
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Review of Towed by Toad

Towed by Toad by Jashar Awan; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary    Tundra    48 pp.9/24    9781774883488    $18.99e-book ed.  9781774883495    $10.99Toad drives the tow truck for Pop’s Garage, his dad’s car repair shop. Toad is so busy that he bolts out the front door before the title page, skipping the insect his...
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Review of The Top Spot

The Top Spot by Frank Weber; illus. by the authorPrimary    Disney-Hyperion    48 pp.9/24    9781368099110    $18.99In this story told in the cadence of a folktale, a little ibex is minding his Ps and Qs when the biggest ibex comes along and challenges him to a duel for the “top spot.” The...
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