As K.T. Horning embarks on her decade-by-decade Caldecott Medal retrospective (Mei Li in January; Prayer for a Child coming up in March) in the Horn Book Magazine, I’m reminded of Leonard Marcus’s own Caldecott Celebration, a book for kids (but you’ll like it too) in which he similarly looked at one winner from each decade, focussing on each book’s genesis. ( I wish Peter Sieruta were here to do a similar series about the Newbery–he knew all the stories.)
And back in the present, get ready for Calling Caldecott’s Mock Caldecott Poll, coming next week.
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