Caldecott+Award

=The Caldecott Medal is given to the illustrator of a children's book. An illustrator is someone who draws or paints the pictures found in your favorite books. Winning the Caldecott Medal is a high honor.=

===We will also be talking about the award-winning books and reading some of them in class. Look at as many of the numbered links (buttons) as you can. You may not finish these all in one session. We will also be talking about some of these concepts in class. You will be also working on a project having to do with the Caldecott Medal in Art Class.===

=The 2008 Caldecott Award has been announced today, January 15th, 2008. Click [|here] to see which book has won this award!=

Click [|here] to learn more about the book!

 * 1) ===Click [|here] (on the blue "here") to learn about the Medal.===
 * 2) ===Click [|here] to find how how the committee decides which books get the Caldecott Medal.===
 * 3) ===Click [|here] to see a video about the book that won the Caldecott Medal in 2007.===
 * 4) ===Click [|here] to see if the Gillispie Library has a copy of the 2007 Caldecott winning book. Remember, the title is [|Flotsam] and the author is [|David Wiesner].===
 * 5) ===Click [|here] to see a list of all the winning books since 1938. Do you see any of your favorites?===
 * 6) ===To see the pictures of the covers of each of the Caldecott books, click on this [|link], then click on each individual book title. It will have a description of the book as well as the picture of the cover!===