By Sally Lodge |
On Sunday afternoon, Michaela Goade, illustrator of
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, joined a Zoom meeting scheduled with Mekisha Telfer, her editor at Roaring Brook, and other Macmillan staffers, to discuss what
could happen when the winners of the ALA Youth Media Awards were announced the following day. Or so she thought. Instead, Goade was greeted by a screen filled with many more smiling faces than she expected some unfamiliar to her who were in fact the members of the Caldecott committee.
“They launched right into the news that I had won the Caldecott, and I kind of froze,” she recalled. “I felt a bit like a deer in the headlights and did not know what to say!”