Awards – Page 2 – Philip Nel

Mock Caldecott 2010: Manhattan, Kansas Edition

With thanks to the Children’s and Adolescent Literature Community (ChALC) for organizing the event, we held a Mock Caldecott at the Manhattan Public Library this afternoon. And, yes, of course, we weren’t able to get all of the books we wanted to look at – so, there are quite likely candidates we didn’t get to

Kadir Nelson Is the Best; or, When the Caldecott Committee Strikes Out

September 9, 2010Philip NelAwards, Children's Literature, Kadir Nelson, ReviewsAwards, Children's Literature, Kadir Nelson, Reviews9 Comments

What makes an award-winner? Â One of the best picture books of 2008, Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (2008) won neither the Caldecott Medal nor a Caldecott Honor.Â The following year, Jerry Pinkney became the first African American to win the Caldecott Medal –Â “given to the artist of the