Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books

A Guide to the Illustrations

Heidi K. Hammond, Gail D. Nordstrom

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781442239241
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Popular Culture in Art
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Honor books distinguished. It is a useful manual for librarians, teachers, and others who want to better understand picture book illustration. This book includes many useful components:

Short entries about fifty-six booksInformation on styles and mediaArtistic analysis of the illustrationsAppendixes on selected sources for further reading, Randolph Caldecott Medal terms and criteria, bibliography of entries, and a list of Caldecott winners Glossary of art terms Indexes of author-illustrator-title, media, and style
This book, used as a handbook in conjunction with Caldecott Award books, provides readers with ready-to-use information they can share with children and others, while helping to build confidence in one's ability to talk about art in all picture books.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• All the World
• A Ball for Daisy
• Blackout
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
• Creepy Carrots!
• Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
• Extra Yarn
• Flora a nd the Flamingo
• Freight Train
• Frog and Toad Are Friends
• Grandfather’s Journey
• Grandpa Green
• Green
• The Hello, Goodbye Window
• Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
• The House in the Night
• HUSH! A Thai Lullaby
• In the Small, Small Pond
• Interrupting Chicken
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
• Journey
• Jumanji
• King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
• Kitten’s First Full Moon
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
• The Lion & the Mouse
• Locomotive
• Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
• Madeline
• Make Way for Ducklings
• The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
• Me . . . Jane
• Mr. Wuffles!
• My Friend Rabbit
• No, David!
• Officer Buckle and Gloria
• Olivia
• One Cool Friend
• Owl Moon
• The Polar Express
• Rapunzel
• Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
• A Sick Day for Amos McGee
• Sleep Like a Tiger
• Snowflake Bentley
• The Snowy Day
• The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
• This Is Not My Hat
• The Three Pigs
• Tuesday
• What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Glossary
• Author-Illustrator-Title Index
• Media Index
• Style Index
• About the Authors