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What We Wish We Had Time For
The ALA Youth Media Awards are nigh, but we here at Calling Caldecott still have some book coverage planned for this week and next. We have a few more guest posters to come who will share their thoughts on eligible 2019 titles. Even so, we know that we won’t have...
Review of Bear Is Awake!: An Alphabet Story
Bear Is Awake!: An Alphabet Story by Hannah E. Harrison; illus. by the author Preschool Dial 32 pp. g 11/19 978-0-399-18666-0 $17.99 In this diverting alphabet story, a bear wakes too early (it's the dead of winter) from hibernation, heads to a girl's cabin in the woods, rings her doorbell—and...
"Nominations," Part Two
Yes, it's time for the second round of Caldecott "nominations"! As you may recall, in November we put out a call for a first round, asking readers to name their top four choices (so far). Now we are back, asking for THREE more titles. Each member of the Real Committee must nominate...
Review of I Want a Dog
I Want a Dog by Jon Agee; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Dial 40 pp. 9/19 978-0-525-55546-9 $17.99 A determined girl heads to the Happy-dale Animal Shelter, pulling a red wagon. When she tells the shelter worker that she wants a dog, he shows her everything but a dog....
We want to know your Mock Caldecott plans (and results!)
One of the things I miss most about school librarianship is doing mock Caldecott units with students. There is a lot they can learn about picture books from a close examination of them — they learn about art and design and writing and how both art and design can extend a text...
Review of Small in the City
Small in the City by Sydney Smith; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 9/19 978-0-8234-4261-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4395-6 $11.99 In Smith’s (Sidewalk Flowers, rev. 5/15; Town Is by the Sea, rev. 3/17) debut as both illustrator and author, an intrepid child on the move in the...
River
Elisha Cooper’s River is the story of a woman who travels the length of the Hudson River by canoe. She starts one morning at a mountain lake (the book’s backmatter tells us it’s New York’s Henderson Lake), waves goodbye to her family, and heads downstream: “Three hundred miles stretch in front of her....
Review of Vroom!
Vroom! by Barbara McClintock; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Farrar 32 pp. 7/19 978-1-62672-217-0 $17.99 Annie, the daredevil young protagonist of this spirited story, has a big imagination—and a plan. She dons her striped racing helmet and gloves and then jumps into her sleek racing car. By the second...
Review of A Stone Sat Still
A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Chronicle 56 pp. 8/19 978-1-4521-7318-4 $17.99 This multilayered companion to Wenzel’s Caldecott Honor Book They All Saw a Cat (rev. 11/16) starts and ends with similar images of the same large stone. “A stone sat still with...