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2025 Calling Caldecott Mock Ballot — Now Open!
And now the moment we’ve all been waiting for! Okay, not that moment (the YMA announcements on Jan. 27), but here at Calling Caldecott it’s what we’ve been working toward since last September. It’s time to select your top three choices for the most distinguished picture book of 2024. Along...
Books we missed
It happens each Calling Caldecott season. We start out in September full of excitement and high hopes that we will be able to weigh in on all the books on our list...and now it's January and we've run out of time. On Thursday this week the polls will open for...
Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube
In his post about Call Me Roberto!, Brian E. Wilson noted that picture-book biographies aren’t often among the Caldecott winners and honorees. The criteria states that a picture book needs to have “a collective unity of story-line, theme or concept, developed through the series of pictures of which the book...
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Review of Molly, Olive, and Dexter: You Can’t Catch Me!
Molly, Olive, and Dexter: You Can’t Catch Me! by Catherine Rayner; illus. by the authorPreschool Candlewick 32 pp.1/25 9781536235586 $17.99The three animal friends who live in an oak tree “at the edge of the meadow” are back for more lighthearted frolicking (Molly, Olive, and Dexter: The Guessing Game, rev. 7/24)....
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Review of An Anishinaabe Christmas
An Anishinaabe Christmas by Wab Kinew; illus. by Erin HillPreschool, Primary Tundra 48 pp.10/24 9781774883570 $18.99e-book ed. 9781774883587 $10.99During the car ride to celebrate Christmas on the Rez, Baby asks questions that Mommy and Daddy patiently answer, sharing Anishinaabe customs and beliefs. Once they arrive, Baby tells their grandparents, Kookum...
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Review of Lemming’s First Christmas
Lemming’s First Christmas by Jamesie Fournier; illus. by Tim MackPreschool Inhabit Media 32 pp.10/24 9781772275438 $12.95Avinngaq the lemming is excited to learn about Christmas and presents under the tree, but…“what is a tree?” There aren’t any in the Arctic (as a prefacing note states), so Avinngaq enlists her animal friends’...
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Review of Merry Christmas, Dear Mars
Merry Christmas, Dear Mars by Penny Parker Klostermann; illus. by Estrela LourençoPrimary Godwin/Holt 32 pp.9/24 9781250870308 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250399557 $11.99Santa’s sleigh crash lands on Mars, and technicians from the Outer Space Rescue Division are called in to diagnose the problem: “Malfunctions are due to our cosmic conditions!” Working together, Santa...
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Review of We Celebrate the Light
We Celebrate the Light by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple; illus. by Jieting ChenPreschool, Primary Rise/Penguin Workshop 32 pp.10/24 9780593752296 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593887493 $11.99A thoughtful main text reflects in general on commonalities among late fall/winter holidays: e.g., gathering with loved ones, decorating, sharing food—“When we honor traditions, /...
Review of Santa’s First Christmas
Santa’s First Christmas by Mac Barnett; illus. by Sydney SmithPrimary Viking 40 pp.10/24 9780593524978 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593524985 $10.99“Santa doesn’t do anything special” for Christmas?! The elves are embarrassed not to have thought about it before: after a night of delivering toys, Santa just sleeps in an extra half hour and...
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