Caldecott Award Winners Assignment The Caldecott award was established to give recognition to artist of children literature. The award was given the name Caldecott Award in honor of Randolph Caldecott. He is widely known for this children book illustrations. The Caldecott award is given to children book artist who demonstrated distinguished artistic skills. The Caldecott medal can only be award to children book illustrators that are American citizens. A committee decides the Caldecott award winner from published books from the previous year. The committee is looking for a book whose illustrations will visually draw children into the story. If illustrated well, the pictures should flow with the story plot, support the books theme, and
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Bleekle’s mind was filled with thoughts about an imaginary friend he has yet to meet. The author illustrates Beekle’s thoughts in various ways. One way he illustrates Beekle’s thoughts is drawing them in the night sky full of stars. The illustrations of a big dark city where imagination cannot be found are dark and void of life. The illustrations full of color is where imagination abounds. The contrast between pictures with darkness and color stimulates a reader’s aesthetic appreciation for the innocence of imagination and …show more content…
He uses realistic representation of frontier characters to reflect the theme and time period he is writing about. The characters have realistic faces and outfits that reflect the time period he is writing about. Furthermore, Brain Folca uses realistic pictures of real historical sights to enhance the readers experience as they too are part of the train trip. The reader will see illustrations of historical locations such as Dale Creek Bridge, Devil’s Slide, Pulpit Rock, and Echo Cannon represented throughout the book to support the text. Brain Folca uses these realistic pictures to enhance his literary style. Finally, portions of the text are artistically illustrated to emphasize certain words. The illustrated words also enhance the literary style of the
Bleekle’s mind was filled with thoughts about an imaginary friend he has yet to meet. The author illustrates Beekle’s thoughts in various ways. One way he illustrates Beekle’s thoughts is drawing them in the night sky full of stars. The illustrations of a big dark city where imagination cannot be found are dark and void of life. The illustrations full of color is where imagination abounds. The contrast between pictures with darkness and color stimulates a reader’s aesthetic appreciation for the innocence of imagination and …show more content…
He uses realistic representation of frontier characters to reflect the theme and time period he is writing about. The characters have realistic faces and outfits that reflect the time period he is writing about. Furthermore, Brain Folca uses realistic pictures of real historical sights to enhance the readers experience as they too are part of the train trip. The reader will see illustrations of historical locations such as Dale Creek Bridge, Devil’s Slide, Pulpit Rock, and Echo Cannon represented throughout the book to support the text. Brain Folca uses these realistic pictures to enhance his literary style. Finally, portions of the text are artistically illustrated to emphasize certain words. The illustrated words also enhance the literary style of the