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	The Caldecott Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		For this reason the Caldecott Medal inscription reads: "Awarded annually by the Children's and School Librarians Sections of the American Library Association." This is a combination and simplification of the actual names of the sections.
		The Caldecott Medal "shall be awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year.
		Each year, the winners of the Caldecott medal and honor books are announced by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, during the association's midwinter meeting.
	www.ils.unc.edu /award/chome.html (541 words)

	The Caldecott Medal
		The Caldecott Medal is an award that is given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a part of the American Library Association.
		Randolph Caldecott was born in England on March 22, 1846.
		The medal was named after Randolph Caldecott because his drawings served as a model of what children's illustrations should be.
	www.vickiblackwell.com /lit/caldecott.html (583 words)

	CALDECOTT AWARDS - BOOK HELP WEB
		The prestigious Caldecott Award is given each year to the artist of the best U.S. children’s picture book for children.
		The illustration on the Caldecott medal was taken from one of Caldecott’s illustrations in The Diverting Story of John Gilpin.
		To be eligible for a Caldecott Medal, a book must be a picture book with original illustrations, the artists must be citizens of the United States, and it must have been published in the year preceding the award year.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /awards/caldecott/caldecott.htm (152 words)

	The Randolph Caldecott Medal
		Each year the Newbery Medal is awarded by the American Library Association ;for the most distinguished American children's books published the previous year.
		This medal is to be given to the artist who had created the most distinguished picture book of the year and named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott.
		Such books were referred to as Newbery or Caldecott "runners-up." In 1971 the term "runners-up" was changed to "honor books." The new terminology was made retroactive so that all former runners-up are now referred to as Newbery or Caldecott Honor Books.
	web.aacpl.lib.md.us /bestsites/kids/caldecott_info.htm (389 words)

	R Caldecott's Afghan Medal design
		Two versions of the medal were produced: one bronze and the other silver.
		This has led to the allegation that the British were "racist" in awarding one type of medal to whites, and an inferior one to "natives".
		The medals awarded to British troops were engraved in upright or sloping capitals.
	www.randolphcaldecott.org.uk /afghan.htm (486 words)

	Children's Literature - Caldecott Medal Winners
		The Caldecott Medal was first introduced in 1937, sixteen years after the proposal of the Newbery Award.
		Frederic G. Melchior (1879-1963) suggested a second medal be established and given to the artist who had created the most distinguished picture book of the year.
		The medal would be called the Caldecott Medal in honor of Randolph J. Caldecott, the Nineteenth-Century English Illustrator.
	www.library.wwu.edu /ref/subjguides/ed/caldecottw.html (250 words)

	Caldecott Medal
		The 2002 Caldecott Medal was awarded to David Wiesner for Three Little Pigs.
		One of these Caldecott Honor Books for 2002 is The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, a historic biography of the 19th century British dinosaur artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
		This 2000 winner of the Caldecott Medal uses the mixed media of watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink, and collage to create a story that literally draws you into the pages of the book.
	www.valdosta.edu /~medallma/topic.html (898 words)

	CALDECOTT AWARD BOOKS; Information Sciences Library
		The award is named in honor of Randolph J. Caldecott, the nineteenth-century English illustrator.
		The medal is awarded to the artist who has created the most distinguished illustrations for a children's picture book published in the U.S. during the previous year.
		Caldecott Honor -- Belting, Natalia M. The Sun is a Golden Earring ; illus.
	www.library.pitt.edu /libraries/is/enroom/awards/caldecott.htm (1523 words)

	Powell's Books - Award Winners - The Caldecott Medal
		The Caldecott Medal is awarded each year to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
		The award is named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott, and was originally created as sort of the flip side of the Newbery Medal.
		While the Newbery is awarded to the "most distinguished American children's book" of the previous year, the Caldecott is awarded specifically to illustrators.
	www.powells.com /prizes/caldecott.html (599 words)

	Caldecott Award Medal Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In 1937 Rene Paul Chambellan designed the Caldecott Medal.
		When the Caldecott Medal was accepted in 1937, the Section for Library Work with Children invited the School Libraries Section to name five of its members to the awards committee each year.
		For this reason the Caldecott Medal inscription reads:"Awarded annually by the Children's and School Librarians Sections of the American Library Association." This is a combination and simplification of the actual names of the sections.
	ils.unc.edu /award/cmedal.html (89 words)

	BookSense.com
		The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
		The Caldecott medal honors the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the United States during the preceding year.
		The name of Randolph Caldecott, the famous English illustrator of books for children, was chosen for the medal because his work was deemed to best represent the joyousness and beauty of picture books.
	www.booksense.com /readup/awards/caldecott.jsp (159 words)

	NLS/BPH: Minibibliographies, Caldecott Medal Winners
		The Caldecott Medal is presented annually by the American Library Association for the best-illustrated American picture book for children.
		Many of the Caldecott Medal winners have delightful and imaginative narratives that complement their award-winning illustrations.
		Following is a list of the Caldecott Medal winners in the NLS collections.
	www.loc.gov /nls/bibliographies/minibibs/caldcot.html (1443 words)

	Caldecott Medal
		Folding a page of their own story into a paper airplane, the pigs fly off to visit other storybooks, rescuing about-to-be-slain dragons and luring the cat and the fiddle out of their nursery rhyme.
		Wiesner, Caldecott Medal recipient for Tuesday, and Caldecott Honor winner for both Sector 7 and Free Fall, prefers not to wait around until pigs fly.
		A trio of Bentley's ground-breaking fl-and-white photographs of snowflakes, along with a picture and quote from him about his love for his work, is the icing that tops off this attractive volume.
	www.virginiasol.com /bookstore/caldecott/caldecott.htm (1778 words)

	Caldecott Medal - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Caldecott Medal - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Caldecott Medal, in full the Randolph Caldecott Medal, annual award given to the artist of the book voted the most distinguished picture book for...
		Medals and Decorations : pictures of medals and decorations
	encarta.msn.com /Caldecott_Medal.html (83 words)

	UMD Library - Caldecott Medal Owned by the UMD Library with Abstract
		The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year.
		The artist must be a citizen or resident of the United States, whether or not the artist is the author of the text.
		The award information was retrieved from Caldecott Award website.
	www.d.umn.edu /~meberhar/cl/awards/caldecott/index.htm (1834 words)

	Acceptance Speach: 1986 Caldecott Medal: The Polar Express
		This award carries with it a kind of wisdom for someone like me. It suggests that the success of art is not dependent on its nearness to perfection but its power to communicate.
		Though this is the second Caldecott Medal I've received, believe me, it is no less meaningful than the first.
		Being awarded the Caldecott is an experience to which one cannot become jaded.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /authors/vanallsburg/calpolar.shtml (1743 words)

	Children's Corner: New books by Caldecott Medal winners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gerstein, winner of the 2004 Caldeott Medal for "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers," starts his story slowly, detailing how a giant falls in unrequited love with the moon and eventually falls asleep dreaming of her beauty.
		The story is narrated by a young girl named Wren, who, with her grandparents and neighbors, flees the flood by heading to a new house built by her grandfather on the highest land in the area.
		Taback, who won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for "Joseph Had a Little Overcoat," offers readers a series of short stories, each with a moral, such as "Just because you can talk, it doesn't mean you're making sense."
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05270/578180.stm (901 words)

	Caldecott Medal Books
		This lens lists books which have received the American Library Association's Caldecott Medal, which recognizes excellence in picture books for children. It was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
		Together with the Newbery Medal it is the most prestigious American children's book prize.
		Story of a kitten who sees her first full moon and thinks it's a bowl of milk in the sky.
	www.squidoo.com /CaldecottMedalBooks (372 words)

	caldecott
		Title: Caldecott Medal Books, 1938-1957 with the artists' acceptance papers and related material chiefly from the Horn book magazine.
		Summary: Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecott medal.
		Title: Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books, 1966-1975, with acceptance papers, biographies, and related material chiefly from the Horn book magazine.
	www.winona.edu /its/mediaservices/ccbooks/caldecott.html (1416 words)

	The Caldecott Medal Scavenger Hunt
		What is the difference between the Newbery and Caldecott Medals?
		Recipients of the Caldecott Medal must live in what country?
		In what year was the Caldecott Medal established?
	www.vickiblackwell.com /caldecottscavenger.html (84 words)

	Amazon.com: Golem (Caldecott Medal Book): Books: David Wisniewski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The novel medium - photographs of cut paper - and the success with which it is used do merit the Caldecott Medal.
		However, unlike most Caldecott books, this one is not for casual or entertainment reading, nor is it for children.
		As the 1997 Caldecott award winner, "Golem" had to be as visually interesting as it was well told.
	www.amazon.com /Golem-Caldecott-Medal-David-Wisniewski/dp/0395726182 (2226 words)

	Caldecott Medal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year.
		It was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
		In addition to the Caldecott Medal-winning book, the awards committees also cited other picture books for children each year as "worthy of attention." These books were initially referred to as "runners-up" for the Caldecott Medal, but in 1971 that term was retroactively changed to "Caldecott Honor Books."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caldecott_Medal (392 words)

	NPR : 2003 Caldecott, Newbery Book Medals Announced
		All Things Considered, January 27, 2003 ·; In top awards given annually to children's book writers and illustrators, Crispin: The Cross of Lead, by Avi, received the Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
		And My Friend Rabbit, illustrated and written by Eric Rohmann, received the Caldecott Medal, for the most distinguished American picture book for children.
		The Caldecott panel praises the book as "a lighthearted celebration of a friendship that will last," and singles out the book's illustrations as a "dramatic visual romp (in which) the characters tumble and spill from the page and back on again."
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=940841 (352 words)

	Caldecott Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Caldecott Medal is an award given to a "picture book for children" as distinguished from other books with illustrations.
		It is a book that provides the children with a visual expirence.
		The medal is awarded annually to the artist of the most outstanding American picture book for children published in the United States during the preceding year.
	www.tqnyc.org /NYC030438/awards.html (220 words)

	First Grade Caldecott Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Caldecott Medal is a special award given to an illustrator for the best illustrations in a children's book.
		Named after English illustrator, Randolph Caldecott, the medal is awarded to the illustrator by the American Library Association.
		When learning about the Caldecott Medal, children have an opportunity to look at a number of Caldecott Medal winning books in our library collection.
	www.horacemann.pvt.k12.ny.us /lower/LibraryWeb/1caldecottmedal.html (433 words)

	Internet Field Trip: Children’s Illustrators: Step into the Magic \| Scholastic.com
		The Caldecott Medal is awarded in his honor every year to the illustrator of the most outstanding children's picture book.
		Find out more about him and this distinguished award at the American Library Association's Caldecott Medal Home Page.
		Tomie dePaola knew what his life's work would be from the time he could hold a pencil.
	content.scholastic.com /browse/article.jsp?id=2806 (340 words)

	Amazon.com: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Caldecott Medal Book): Books: Simms Taback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		As in his Caldecott Honor book, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Taback's inventive use of die-cut pages shows off his signature artwork, here newly created for his 1977 adaptation of a Yiddish folk song.
		In 1977 Simms Taback wrote Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, but for many years after its initial publication he remained disappointed with the overall presentation of the story (Publishers Weekly 10/99) and in 1999 created a newly illustrated version which won the prestigious Caldecott Medal.
		The story is based on a favorite Yiddish folktale from the author's youth entitled, "I had a Little Overcoat".
	www.amazon.com /Joseph-Little-Overcoat-Caldecott-Medal/dp/0670878553 (2718 words)

	Caldecott Books - Illustrators' Biographies and Reviews at Embracing The Child
		CALDECOTT ON THE NET is a combination of award-winning children's literature and discovery learning via the World Wide Web.
		Eighteen "LearningQuests" are presented in the book, with each focusing on a different Caldecott award winning title.
		A CALDECOTT CELEBRATION: Six Artists and Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal by Leonard S. Marcus, noted children's book historian.
	www.embracingthechild.org /caldecott.html (625 words)

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