The Real Committee gathers this weekend to choose the 2024 Caldecott Award Medalist and honor book(s)! But first, Calling Caldecott recognizes our contributors.
Librarians Patrick Gall and Jonathan Hunt engage in a free-wheeling conversation about early readers and the Caldecott Award (spoiler alert: there s not much overlap) and offer some candidates from the crop of 2022 beginning readers for Caldecott consideration.
Tis the season to think about holiday picture books! These haven t won many Caldecott awards in the past but that doesn t mean excellent, Caldecott-worthy holiday books don t exist. Martha Parravano looks at three such eligible 2022 titles.