Due to an unexpected death in the family, our production schedule has been delayed. This episode will now drop on Monday, 17 August. Thanks for understanding and enjoy this teaser in the meantime! Robert Lawson played a role in some great children’s literature: The Story of Ferdinand, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, the Newbery Award winning Rabbit Hill. His…
Happy 250th Birthday, USA! Shall we try for a few more, do you think? What do Abe Lincoln and Hobbits have in common? How do biographers decide what information to include in biographies? Just as importantly, how do they decide what to exclude? And what has our walk down Caldecott Lane started to tell us…
The second entry in our fortnightly Caldecott series focuses on Thomas Handforth’s 1938 Mei Li. Books naturally fall in and out of the publication cycle: some get found and republished, others remain dead. Despite having won one of the most prestigious awards in children’s literature, Thomas Handforth’s stunningly illustrated picture book debut is today out…
\ Every other week, we’ll be reviewing Caldecott winners–so we decided to start in the beginning, a very good place to start! The internet is replete with blogs, podcasts, and social media projects undertaking precisely this challenge. ANIMALS OF THE BIBLE, the first “children’s book” to win the Caldecott, marks the beginning and end for…