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What Never Wins?

by Roger Sutton
Oct 07, 2019 | Filed in Features & Opinion

Travis Jonker's Calling Caldecott post about wordless books being "catnip" for Caldecott committees, and he's making me wonder again about what picture-book subgenres have never figured in the medals. Like: board books, pop-up books, books illustrated with photographs. Anything else?

Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton has been the editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc, since 1996. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a B.A. from Pitzer College in 1978. Follow him on Twitter: @RogerReads.

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