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A Knot Is Not a Tangle
As with an intricately knotted Persian rug, each square inch of this book is maximized to include as much detailed beauty as possible. The case cover resembles the old frayed rug we soon learn will be replaced when the protagonists weave a new one, while the illustrations on the CIP...
Night Light
Night Light, written and illustrated by Michael Emberley, functions as an early reader, from its trim size, paperboard covers, and "I Like to Read tag" that also labels it a "COMIC" in red. And yet, this gem of a book exhibits a discerning integration of art and text in the most Caldecott-worthy...
Dear Acorn (Love, Oak)
In Joyce Sidman's Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends, Melissa Sweet's illustrations carry much of the book’s expressive and structural weight, shaping how relationship, scale, and connection are understood across the poems. Sidman organizes the text as eight paired letter-poem exchanges between "big” and "little” voices, such as oak and acorn, sky and bubble, and button...
Aggie and the Ghost
When I was in the fifth grade, our teacher, Mrs. Maleski, had the class keep journals, which she periodically collected and graded. I still have my journal, a classic black-and-white marbled Mead composition book. My personality is fully-formed in its pages—my preoccupation with my pets and what I was having for lunch, my intolerance of wet socks, my focus on...
Imogen
The refrain “something was missing” drives Elizabeth Partridge’s narrative about her grandmother, photographer Imogen Cunningham, until Imogen discovers photography, specifically the ability to develop her own film — and then, “Nothing was missing.” The Caldecott criteria that first comes to mind for Imogen is Yuko Shimizu’s “appropriateness of style of illustration to the story, theme, or concept.”...
Moon Song
Moon Song is a beautifully told and illustrated book honoring the Tlingit understanding of the relationship between darkness and light reflected in the deep winter. Michaela Goade explains in her author’s note that in winter the darkness and light cannot exist without each other, that this relationship is found in the Lingit language—and this is what...
A Place for Us
In this wordless picture book, James Ransome depicts a few hours in the lives of a mother and her son through colorfully detailed illustrations. The mother picks her son up at school at the end of the day. The pair then have dinner at a food court and go to the local public library so the boy can complete his...
Second-round nomination results!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our second round of nominations, with comments here and on Facebook! Eighteen books were nominated; four titles tied for first place with just two nominations each. Three of the four — Every Monday Mabel, Fireworks, and Our Lake— were nominated in the first round. The fourth book, Night Light by Michael Emberley, makes...
Cat Nap
I love an ambitious picture book, and Brian Lies's Cat Nap is that and then some. When I wrote The Horn Book Magazine review for this book, I knew it then that it would be a Calling Caldecott candidate. The illustrations stand out in terms of the diverse media used and the technical skill necessary to work in these many different...
Call for second-round nominations
December already? It’s beginning to look a lot like...time for Calling Caldecott’s second round of nominations! (Also, January and the YMA announcements are edging ever closer.) Last month we asked readers for four titles that they’d nominate if they were members of The Committee. Twenty-three books were nominated; Cat Nap...
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