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NEW YORK – Illustrator Michaela Goade became the first Native American to win the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children’s picture story, cited for “We Are Water Protectors,” a celebration of nature and condemnation of the “black snake” Dakota Access Pipeline.
“I am really honored and proud,” the 30-year-old Goade told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “I think it’s really important for young people and aspiring book makers and other creative people to see this.”
Tae Keller’s chapter book “When You Trap a Tiger,” in which a young Korean-American explores her identity and her heritage through her grandmother’s stories, won the John Newbery Medal for the outstanding children’s work overall of 2020. Keller, who was raised in Hawaii and now lives in New York, drew upon Korean folklore and family history for “When You Trap a Tiger,”
Goade becomes first Native American to win Caldecott Medal
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Illustrator Michaela Goade becomes first Native American to win Caldecott Medal Hillel Italie, Associated Press © Associated Press This combination of cover images shows, from left, When You Trap a Tiger, winner of the John Newbery Medal for the outstanding children s book overall of 2020, We Are Water Protectors, written by Carol Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade, winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children s picture story and Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson, who won her third Coretta Scott King Award for best work by a Black author (Random House Books for Young Readers/Roaring Brook Press/Nancy Paulsen Books via AP)
Posted by Erin McKinstry, KCAW | Jan 28, 2021
“We are Water Protectors” urges activism to protect water and other natural resources. Author Carole Lindstrom was inspired by Indigenous led movements like the 2016 demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Cover illustration courtesy of Michaela Goade)
Sitka illustrator Michaela Goade was awarded one of the highest honors in children’s literature this week. Goade, who is Tlingit, is the first Indigenous person to win the Caldecott Medal for her work on “We are Water Protectors.”
Earlier this week, Michaela Goade thought she was signing on to an ordinary Zoom call with her small publishing team. Instead, she was met with a group of new faces congratulating her on her win.
We Are Water Protectors, illustrated by Michaela Goade.
NEW YORK – Illustrator Michaela Goade became the first Native American to win the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children’s picture story, cited for “We Are Water Protectors,” a celebration of nature and condemnation of the “black snake” Dakota Access Pipeline.
“I am really honored and proud,” the 30-year-old Goade told
The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “I think it’s really important for young people and aspiring book makers and other creative people to see this.”
“We Are Water Protectors,” written by Carole Lindstrom, was conceived in response to the planned construction of the Dakota pipeline through Standing Rock Sioux territory. Goade, a member of the Tlingit and Haida tribes in Southeast Alaska, was sent a copy of the manuscript through her agent in 2018 and responded immediately to its political message and message of water as a universal force.
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