Quality time is at a premium during the next two days. As of this morning, 57 of 150 students (38%)were finished with their portfolio projects, leaving a significant number to troupe their way through the resource center before six o'clock Friday afternoon. I estimate checking multiple assignments for twenty plus students today and know at least ten finished (45%). I have faith we will have close to a 90% completion rate and the remainder will take the course during another term. But during this time the pace is frantic and my brain is mush. I am less than brilliant, bordering on embarrassing myself. With that in mind, I am currently procrastinating with purpose. Enter the books added to the new book shelf yesterday afternoon.
I will accomplish things needed at the beginning of spring term. This is critical since I will be in Philadelphia at the midwinter meetings during the first two days of classes for spring 2008. Today I started pulling books and compiling a list of juvenile picture book titles for the spring semester Mock Caldecott panel. My current list/handout features thirteen books and I am hoping to add three or four additional titles from recently ordered picture books due to arrive in the next couple of weeks.
Here are the thirteen books I selected, list even includes non-fiction titles:
- Mars Needs Moms!, by Berkeley Breathed
- When Dinosaurs Came with Everything, illustrated by David Small
- The Boy Who Painted Dragons, by Demi
- Jazz on a Saturday Night, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon
- Henry, the Dog with No Tail, illustrated by Jules Feiffer
- How to Catch a Fish, illustrated by Peter Sylvada
- Scribble, by Deborah Freedman
- Four Legs Bad, Two Legs Good!, by D.B. Johnson
- At Gleason's Gym, by Ted Lewin
- The Crow: A Not So Scary Story, by Alison Paul
- The Lemonade Club, by Patricia Polacco
- Velma Gratch & The Way Cool Butterfly, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
- Cowboy and Octopus, illustrated by Lane Smith
Recent winners of the Caldecott award have been an eclectic group showcasing different artists and styles:
- Flotsam (part of last years spring mock Caldecott)
- The Hello Goodbye Window
- Kitten's First Full Moon
- The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
- My Friend Rabbit
- The Three Pigs (my personal favorite)
With this in mind, I selected a mix of new and well-known illustrators including previous award winners (Dillon's, Small, Demi, Lewin, Polacco, Hawkes), artists known for work in different media's (Breathed, Feiffer), a personal favorite (Smith), and an illustrator new to the children's book market (Paul). The next step was to find books featuring different mediums used to present the illustrations. The following information was garnered from individual books (some did not specify):
- Demi - "Paint and ink with Chinese silk brocade"
- Feiffer - "Charcoal pencil and watercolor"
- Freedman - "Pencil with watercolors, magic markers, and digital coloring"
- Johnson - "Hand lettered text and mixed media illustrations"
- Breathed - "Virtual acrylics and watercolor on 100% rag archival virtual illustration board"
- Small - "Watercolor and ink"
- Paul - "Collages of hand-dyed cut out and torn paper"
- Polacco - "Pencils and markers"
Lastly, even though this post is rife with lists I would be remiss not to include links to Caldecott medal information:
- 2008 Caldecott Committee
- Association for Library Services to Children - ALSC
- The Caldecott Medal
- About the Caldecott Medal
- Caldecott terms and criteria
- Caldecott winners 1938-present
- Caldecott medal and honor winners 1938 - present
Time will tell if I have made any pertinent selections; regardless, it is a class session the students enjoy and it gets them into the library again. Tomorrow is another busy day. In addition to the continuing mayhem in the resource center, it is the library open house.
On another note, I did get a chance to start reading Spanking Shakespeare today at lunch.
Tags: Mock Caldecott, Juvenile collection, Picture books, Picture book illustrators
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