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A Conversation with Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson is the author-illustrator of The Undefeated, winner of the 2020 Randolph Caldecott Medal. Julie Danielson interviewed him by email for Calling Caldecott. Calling Caldecott: What have been some of the highlights of your Caldecott year? Kadir Nelson: I’ve been blessed with a wonderful year thus far. The news of...
Profile of 2020 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator and Caldecott Medal winner Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson is the winner of the 2020 Caldecott Medal and the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for The Undefeated, written by Kwame Alexander, who also won a Newbery Honor for the book’s text. Here, Alexander pays tribute to his creative collaborator. I gave my father, a children’s...
A Year with Words and Pictures — but No ALA Annual
Who are we this time of year, without the organizing principle of the various celebrations of books and authors at ALA Annual? Usually, we’d be looking forward to the Coretta Scott King (CSK) Book Awards Breakfast, the Newbery-Caldecott-Legacy Banquet, the Pura Belpré Celebración; running into old friends on the exhibit...
Table of Contents: July/August 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards
Cover © 2020 by Kadir Nelson. Features A Year with Words and Pictures -- but No ALA Annual by the Horn Book editors Children's Literature Legacy Award Acceptance by Kevin Henkes A profile of Kevin Henkes by Dudley Carlson, Laura Dronzek, Virginia Duncan, and Susan Hirschman A profile of...
Editorial: Clearly Undefeated (July/August 2020)
Welcome to our annual ALA Awards issue. When it became clear that we would not be reopening the country anytime soon and that there would be no celebration of the ALSC and CSK awards at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago in June, I worried that there would...
From the Chair: Small Moments of Joy (2020 Caldecott Committee, ALA)
Readers of The Horn Book Magazine will have heard this before: a book has the power to change a person, and a person has the power to change a book. Depending on who you are at a given time and the experiences you have collected, the understanding of a book...
From the Chair: Continuing the Legacy (2020 CSK Book Awards Jury, ALA)
Since nervously accepting the appointment of jury chair from previous Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee chair Dr. Claudette McLinn, my goal has been to continue the legacy that the Coretta Scott King Book Awards have created of identifying quality children’s literature that features various narratives of the Black experience....
Read Kadir Nelson's 2020 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Acceptance Speech at ALA's Virtual Book Award Celebration
Good morning, or good afternoon, or good evening, depending on when or where in the world you are reading this. As I compose this speech, I am sitting at home under a nationwide quarantine in the midst of the proliferation of a remarkable novel virus that has commandeered the attention...
Read Kadir Nelson's 2020 Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech at ALA's Virtual Book Award Celebration
The year was 1999, and my very first picture book, Brothers of the Knight, was slated to be published by Dial Books for Young Readers. It was written by the actress and dancer Debbie Allen and based on a stage production of the same name that she had both written...
Preview July/August 2020 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: ALA Awards
Special Issue: ALA Awards. Original cover art by 2020 Caldecott Medal winner Kadir Nelson. “A Year with Words and Pictures — but No ALA Annual”: The Horn Book editors discuss the children’s book landscape of 2019 and the unusual circumstances of 2020. Kevin Henkes’s Children's Literature Legacy Award acceptance speech. A profile of Kevin Henkes by Dudley Carlson, Laura Dronzek, Virginia Duncan, and Susan Hirschman. A profile of Coretta Scott...