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Our first post about an eligible 2025 book is coming up on Thursday, but before we focus on the 2026 awards, let’s take a moment to appreciate Rebecca Lee Kunz, winner of the 2025 Caldecott Award for Chooch Helped, written by Andrea L. Rogers, published by Levine Querido. This was...
Photo: Jeremy Charles. In the early days of expanding her art business, the Tree of Life Studio, into the online frontier, my friend Rebecca Lee Kunz, the 2025 Caldecott Medal winner, did what everyone did circa 2008: she started a blog. It was called An Artful Way, and its banner...
The last time I’d been to Philadelphia was for the American Library Association Midwinter Conference. It was January 2020, just-pre-pandemic crisis in the U.S., and turned out to be the last Midwinter conference in that form. This year’s ALA Annual Conference in Philly had its share of remembering and reminiscing but...
Under the white eyelet drapery of my canopy bed, I sat, naming my dolls: Annabelle, Clara, Elizabeth. My dolls and I traveled to worlds within worlds that stretched far beyond our peaceful cul-de-sac in Norman, Oklahoma. Cabbage Patch Kids and China dolls: the first characters in my paintings. Every night...
Special Issue: ALA Awards. Original cover art by 2025 Caldecott Medal winner Rebecca Lee Kunz. Carole Boston Weatherford’s Children's Literature Legacy Award acceptance speech. A profile of Carole Boston Weatherford by educator Dawnavyn James. Erin Entrada Kelly’s Newbery Medal acceptance speech. A profile of Erin Entrada Kelly by author Sharon...
Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers; illus. by Rebecca Lee Kunz Preschool, Primary Levine/Levine Querido 48 pp. 10/24 9781646144549 $18.99 Narrator Sissy’s little brother Chooch is two and wants to help. When Elisi (grandmother) paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Etsi (mother) sews pucker-toe moccasins, he helps. When Etlogi (aunt)...
The winner of the 2025 Caldecott Award is Chooch Helped, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz, written by Andrea L. Rogers, published by Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido. The Committee selected four 2025 Honor Books: Home in a Lunchbox, written and illustrated by Cherry Mo, published by Penguin Workshop, an...
Winner Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers; illus. by Rebecca Lee Kunz Preschool, Primary Levine/Levine Querido 48 pp. 10/24 9781646144549 $18.99 Narrator Sissy’s little brother Chooch is two and wants to help. When Elisi (grandmother) paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Etsi (mother) sews pucker-toe moccasins, he helps. When Etlogi...