Caldecott Medal

Dr. Seuss’s real name is “Theodor Seuss Geisel”. He is a famous writer of children’s books. His work includes some of the most popular children’s books. He is one of the most famous cartoonists in the U.S. He sold more than 600 million copies of his books, which is translated in more than 20 different languages around the world. Dr. Seuss is not really a doctor, he was perusing a Ph.D. In English. They said that he’s as crazy as a flying cow for wanting to be a professor. It was still…

embraced it. Sendak’s illustrations as well as words on the Wild Things became iconic. It finally told the true story of what it was like to be a young child. Nothing was sugar coated like most children’s stories. Sendak ended up winning the Caldecott Medal for being the most distinguished picture book. While there are not many words in this book, the illustrations do a great job…

Earl Bradley (E.B.) Lewis was born on December 16, 1956 in Philadelphia, PA. (EB Lewis Artistrator, n.d.). According to his biography he learned from an early age that he had artistic abilities as he watched and learned from his two uncles who were artists themselves. Beginning in late elementary, Lewis began studying at Saturday Morning Temple University School of Art League, then went on to study at Temple University Tyler School of Art where he majored in graphic design and illustration,…

realistic fiction book. The age range for this book is from 4-8 years old. The author wrote and illustrated the book with a folk-art inspired painting. The book was written in 1982 and was published by Harper Collins Publishers. This book won the Caldecott Medal. The author wrote about a young girl who tells a story how her mother received s new chair. The story starts with showing how the young girl’s mom is a hard worker at a diner and sometimes the young girl works at the diner and gets…

stories often are the first exposure young children have to society and gender roles. The stories children hear growing up and read in classrooms have a large impact on their views of male and female’s behavior and roles in society. In viewing, Caldecott Medal-winning picture books over the past seventy-three years it was found that these highly distinguished books lacked diverse gender representation (Crisp & Hiller, 2011) A majority of literature children being read by kids and being assigned…

to remember that ONLY books previously nominated or qualify as late publications and are suggested by committee members be considered at the Midwinter Selection Meeting. The single 1980 committee was already working on selecting the Newbery and Caldecott award for books published in 1979, the first…

Allen say is children’s book author and illustrator, who originally came from Japan. He was born in 1937 in Yokohama, Japan to a mother who was a Japanese American and his father who was full Japanese, but was adopted by two British parents who raised him in Shanghai, China (Allen Say pg. 1). His early life wasn’t very easy with his parents getting a divorce when he was 12 years old. About four years after the divorce he would go on to live with his grandmother (Allen Say pg. 1). About two years…

Flack, Marjorie, and Kurt Wiese. The Story about Ping. New York, NY: [Viking], 1933. Print. Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explore the…

What do you truly believe in? This time-honored question is essentially taken into account in the vintage children’s picture story book, The Polar Express. The Polar Express is a hardcover children’s picture (which has been awarded with the Caldecott Medal) written and illustrated by the American illustrator and children’s book writer, Chris Van Allsburg, circa 1985. This rather serene and classical Christmas tale tailgates the abridged story of a young boy (whose name remains unidentified) who…

Wordless Picture Book A Ball for Daisy by Schwartz & Wade. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, for wordless books anyone who picks them suddenly becomes an author in my opinion because you have to create a story with your Imaginations as you see the pictures from the book. My point of view of the story goes a little something with Daisy, who is in love with playing and chewing on her red ball. She rolls over on her back and holds the ball on her stomach. After Daisy takes her nap the…