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2020 Caldecott Announcement
The wait is over! The 2020 Caldecott Medal Selection Committee has made its choices: one winner and three honor books. The winner is: The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander: The honor books are: Bear Came Along, illustred by LeUyen Pham and written by Richard T. Morris: Double Bass...
Results of the 2020 Calling Caldecott Mock Vote
The votes are in! And the results yielded a mock winner and four honor books. Our readers chose Oge Mora's Saturday as the winner. Bear Came Along, illustrated by LeUyen Pham; My Papi Has a Motorcycle, illustrated by Zeke Peña; Truman, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins; and The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, received the next highest number of...
The Undefeated
“This is for the unforgettable / The swift and sweet ones / who hurdled history / and opened a world / of possible.” From the opening lines of Kwame Alexander’s poem, readers are invited on a journey. It is a journey through a people’s story — through the sorrows, triumphs, and resilience...
My ALA 2019
My ALA began on Friday afternoon with a lunch hosted by Holiday House for their O'Dell Award winner Lesa Cline-Ransome, for Finding Langston. She's a Malden girl! So we two townies had a blast with back-in-the-day. Lesa's husband James and I discussed sartorial choices for that evening's Event, the CSK...
Horn Book Magazine — May/June 2019: Special Issue: The CSK Book Awards at 50
Cover art by Kadir Nelson Table of Contents Features "Let Our Rejoicing Rise" by Rudine Sims Bishop Celebrating fifty years of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards. "An Interview with George and Bernette Ford" by Roger Sutton Two icons of Black children’s literature reflect on its history and future....
Review of The Undefeated
The Undefeatedby Kwame Alexander; illus. by Kadir NelsonPrimary, Intermediate, Middle School Versify/Houghton 40 pp. g4/19 978-1-328-78096-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-358-05761-1 $12.99Alexander and Nelson honor the achievements, courage, and perseverance of ordinary black people as well as prominent black artists, athletes, and activists. The free-verse poem begins: “This is for the unforgettable. /...
Preview May/June 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: The CSK Book Awards at 50
Special Issue: The Coretta Scott King Book Awards at 50 On the cover: original artwork by Kadir Nelson, a gatefold portrait of Coretta Scott King. Editorial page by special guests Rudine Sims Bishop and Andrea Davis Pinkney. A welcome letter from Claudette S. McLinn, current Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee Chair."Let Our Rejoicing...
Review of Blue Sky White Stars
Naberhaus, Sarvinder Blue Sky White Stars32 pp. Dial 2017. ISBN 978-0-8037-3700-6(3) K–3 Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Spare, powerful prose presents the American flag and the American landscape and people in parallel: "Sew together one nation / So together one nation." Evocative paintings portray the natural scenery as well as images...
Updated not-so-new New Yorkers
We just HAD to update this post to include this beautiful Kadir Nelson cover: By Kadir NelsonRead 2011's Kadir Nelson Talks with Roger about Nelson's book Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans and publisher Donna Bray's 2012 profile of Nelson. By Bob Staake (Click to see...
I Have a Dream
Robin and I have been figuring out how to finish things up here with some last-minute posts before the vote. Weirdly, we find that the three books we MOST want to discuss in the next two days are all about real people and have the word "Dream" in the title....