Hello, hello, hello!Members of the 2019 Caldecott committee, my agents, my family, fellow authors and illustrators, publishers, librarians, beacons of the community—As the 2019 Caldecott committee gathered around a phone, early on a cold January morning in Seattle, I was having dinner in sweltering Myanmar, trying not to picture them....

“What about a story?” said Christopher Robin.“What about a story?” I said.“Could you very sweetly tell Winnie-the-Pooh one?”“I suppose I could,” I said.“What sort of stories does he like?”“About himself. Because he’s that sort of Bear.”I am also that sort of bear and I’m going to tell you stories mostly...