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January/February Cover Madness Winner!
Congratulations to Salley Mavor's 2012 January/February cover! Salley's book Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes won the 2011 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book, and as is tradition, the BGHB Picture Book Award winner creates an original piece of art for the January/February cover. Isn't it stunning? Read more about the...
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Review of The Thingamajig
The Thingamajig by Rilla Alexander; illus. by the authorPreschool Simon 48 pp.3/24 9781534493476 $18.99e-book ed. 9781534493483 $10.99There’s a lot happening in this clever picture book with an all-dialogue text that introduces the nonsense words used when we can’t remember the proper name for something. An adult elephant “can’t find the…I...
January/February Cover Madness, Round 2!
The votes are in for the first round of Cover Madness, and we move on to round 2! Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your choices in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here....
Horn Book Cover Madness
Hello from the Calling Caldecott off-season, and welcome to our version of college basketball's March Madness — a celebration of Horn Book cover art and artists! Calling Caldecott prides itself on being a place where lively discussion and celebration of children’s book illustration takes place. The Magazine has a spectacular array of cover art (see...
More BIG news
No, this isn't the Robin Smith Picture Book Prize announcement that we promised on Monday (that's coming on Friday). We wanted to follow up on our YMA announcement post to scream from the rooftops the fact that Vashti Harrison, illustrator of Caldecott Medal winner Big, is the first Black woman to win...
The 2024 Caldecott Announcement
What an exciting morning it was! Calling Caldecott was tuned into the livestream, with morning coffee and popcorn. The Real Committee selected one winner and four honor books. The winner of the 2024 Caldecott Medal is Big, written and illustrated by Vashti Harrison, published by Little, Brown and Company. The Caldecott honor...
Review of Don’t Blow Your Top!
Don’t Blow Your Top! by Ame Dyckman; illus. by Abhi AlwarPreschool, Primary Orchard/Scholastic 40 pp.10/23 9781338837841 $17.99Paper ed. 9781339036625 $7.99Two bright green volcanoes, one big and one little, live happily in a tropical paradise until: “Something unexpected happened.” A bird accidentally drops a coconut on Little Volcano. “Would Little Volcano…BLOW...
It's That Time Again!
We're almost there! This weekend the Real Caldecott Committee gathers in Baltimore to advocate, discuss, listen, compromise — and then do it all over again and again, until the winner and honor book(s) are chosen. Before we get caught up in the excitement of The Big Announcement, however, we want...
Results of the 2024 Calling Caldecott Mock Vote
The votes are in!! The results of the 2024 Calling Caldecott Mock Vote yielded a winner and two honor books. Big, written and illustrated by Vashti Harrison, is the winner. The two honor books are: There Was a Party for Langston, written by Jason Reynolds and illustrated by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey, and An...
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