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January 17, 2007

HCPL Children's Department holds Mock Caldecott Election

Harris County Public Library held it's first ever Mock Caldecott Election on Friday, January 12, 2007. The election was held at the monthly meeting of Children's Librarians and included Children's Staff from all 26 branch libraries. Twenty-four titles were presented for consideration. In addition to the winner there were four honor books chosen.

The Caldecott Medal is named in honor of nineteenth century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott and is awarded annually to the illustrator of the most distinguished picture book for children. It is sponsored by the Association of Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. The official Caldecott winner will be announced on January 22, 2007 by the American Library Association.

HCPL Mock Caldecott Winner
The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School
Illustrated by Stephen Gammell and written by Judy Sierra
A boy sends off for "Professor Swami's Super Slime" to use as his science fair project and then has to cope with the funny disaster that follows.

HCPL Mock Caldecott Honor Books
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Illustrated by Boris Kulikov and written by B. G. Hennessy
A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.

Library Lion
Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes and written by Michelle Knudsen
When a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. There are no rules about lions in the library. When something terrible happens%%, the lion quickly comes to the rescue in the only way he knows how.

Flotsam
Illustrated and written by David Wiesner
The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

Mommy?
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, scenario by Arthur Yorinks, and engineered by Matthew Reinhart
In this almost wordless story with only two words: mommy and baby, a very young child stumbles into a house to find his mother; he finds, instead, a collection of monsters, including a vampire, mummy, and werewolf before he finds her. A book with pop-ups on every spread.

Posted by Kathleen at January 17, 2007 10:06 AM

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