Subject Tag: Caldecott Medal

Kids Corner: What Are Your Children Reading? 22 October

Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Picture Books, Reviews

Welcome to What Are Your Children Reading?, a weekly meme started by The Well-Read Child. I have the privilege of hosting it this week. If you participate on your blog, leave a link to your post in the comments.
For those who may not know, I have a son who turned two this month. Most of [...]

My son (almost age 23 months) insists on reading the same books every night, usually three or four or five times. I’m very glad he loves to read, but I’m getting a bit weary of picture books. I do think we’ve had some winners in our Library Loot the past two weeks, though, so I [...]

Baby’s Monday Salon: Dogs, Trains, and Simple Illustrations

Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Picture Books, Reviews

It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed what my son (age 21 months) is reading, so I thought I’d jump in and mention some highlights. It’s so much fun to see my son loving reading. He’s also definitely developing preferences and favorite things in his life, so now his reading is becoming focused on what [...]

Author Spotlight: Margaret Wise Brown + Giveaway Winner

Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Picture Books, Reviews

I’ve got a winner to my contest!
No one guessed the most popular book searched for on Rebecca Reads. The book that I get the most searches for is a children’s book. It is one that I think almost everybody has read at least once: Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. I wrote a post about [...]

Caldecott Corner Author Spotlight: Simms Taback

Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Picture Books, Reviews

Simms Taback has an illustration style all his own. His children’s picture book illustrations are often a blend of watercolor, gouache (an opaque watercolor painting), pencil, ink, collage, and I even observed some crayon illustrations. His colors are bright and his books have subtle jokes in the illustrations (for the parents to find). So far, [...]

Caldecott Corner: The House in the Night by Beth Krommes, 2009 Award Winner

Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Picture Books, Reviews

This year’s winner of the Caldecott Medal is The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson, illustrated by Beth Krommes. When I asked the librarian to help me locate it (it was misshelved), she told me she didn’t like it; its illustrations were too dark. I wasn’t sure, then, what I’d think of The [...]

Caldecott Corner: David Wiesner

Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Picture Books, Reviews

David Wiesner has been awarded the Caldecott Medal three times and the Caldecott Honor twice. While his award-winning picture books are a bit out of my comfort level (for they have very words), Wiesner is able to carry stories with only illustration.
In November, The Well-Read Child did a highlight of books like this: How to [...]

Caldecott Corner: Wintery Miscellany

Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Picture Books, Reviews

In honor of the snow Chicago is “enjoying,” I found some Winter-related Caldecott-winning books this month at my local library.

Caldecott Corner: Mo Willems

Filed under: Child/Young Adult, Picture Books, Reviews

While Mo Willems hasn’t been awarded the Caldecott Medal for his children’s picture books, he has been nominated a number of times. Do multiple Honors equal a Medal? I doubt he’d think so. Nevertheless, I think his simple illustrations are award-worthy and therefore worthy of my review.
Here’s a rundown of some of Willems’ books, along [...]

Baby’s Sunday Salon, November 9

Filed under: Picture Books, Reading Journal, Reviews

In addition to the board books I usually read my son, I’ve also been reading a number of picture books with him this month. Because he’s still only a year old, he doesn’t pay much attention past the first few pages, but I’m having fun revisiting some old classics. Now I know what he should [...]

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