First-round nomination results!

We asked readers to give us four titles that they thought were worthy of the Caldecott Award. Thank you to everyone who submitted comments.

We will have one more round of nominations in December. 

Here’s what the November results showed: 

  • Twenty-three titles were nominated.

  • Ten titles have more than one nomination. The leading title — nominated seven times — is Cat Nap written and illustrated by Caldecott Honor–recipient Brian Lies.

  • Fireworks received six nominations and Our Lake received five; How Sweet the Sound, A Gift of DustBroken, and Anything received three nominations each. Three titles were each nominated two times.

  • Thirteen titles — more than half — have a single nomination.

  • The top three nominees made a strong showing, but the real Committee must consider all titles — even those that receive one nomination, so everything is still in play. 

Here's the breakdown of this round of nominations. Stay tuned (and contribute!) in December when we make a final call for three nominations.

TITLE  

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR  

TOTAL  

Cat Nap 

Lies 

Fireworks 

Burgess/Chien 

Our Lake 

Kang 

How Sweet the Sound 

Alexander/Palmer 

A Gift of Dust  Brockenbrough/Martinez-Neal 3

Broken 

Fang 

Anything 

Stead/Zhang 

Hurricane 

Chin 

A Place for Us 

Ransome 

Song of a Blackbird 

van Lieshout 

Every Monday Mabel 

Awan 

1

To See an Owl 

Cordell 

Aggie and the Ghost 

Forsythe 

No More Chairs 

Gill/Gal 

Moon Song 

Goade 

A Forest Song 

Hall/Turk 

How Elegant the Elephant 

Hoberman/Frazee 

Your Farm 

Klassen 

Big Enough 

Linke 

Making Light Bloom 

Nickel/Paschkis 

Imogen 

Partridge/Shimizu 

Head Full of Clouds 

Schwartz/Sanei 

The History of We 

Smith 

 

Kitty Flynn

Kitty Flynn is reviews editor for The Horn Book, Inc.

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