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A 1999 study on the reading levels of Caldecott recipients suggested that most winners were written at the elementary age level, with the average reading level having decreased over time. [15] A 2007 study of Caldecott recipients found that the prevalence and importance of female characters had risen and fallen several times over the history of ...
I Can Read! is a line of beginning reading books published by HarperCollins.The series is rated by level and is widely used to teach children to read English. The first book in the series was Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear, published in 1957, and subsequent notable titles have included Amelia Bedelia and Frog and Toad.
Frog and Toad are Friends was a Caldecott Honor Book, or runner-up for the annual American Library Association (ALA) Caldecott Medal, which recognizes children's picture book illustration. [10] In 2012, it was ranked number 15 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by School Library Journal .
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation created the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award in 1985, and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award was established in 2001. [31] The New York Public Library named The Snowy Day as one of its Books of the Century and included it in its exhibition on this subject which ran from May 1995 to July 1996. [33]
For biographies of winning illustrators see Category:Caldecott Medal winners. These books have won the Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children." The Medal was inaugurated in 1938 and there have been 76 Medals and winning works through 2013.
The award was inaugurated in 1938 and there have been 81 Medals and winning works through 2018; only 71 winning illustrators (or joint illustrators) because several of them have won more than once. Pages in category "Caldecott Medal winners"
Released by Harper & Row in 1980, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1981. [1] For each of the twenty fables, Lobel's text occupies one page, with his color illustration on the facing page. He gives a moral to each, but while the moral is genuine, the tone of the fables is cheerful and playful rather than moralistic.
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat is a 1999 children’s picture book by Simms Taback that won the 2000 Caldecott Medal. [1] [2] The book is a re-illustrated version of a book of the same name by Taback that was published in 1977. [3] The protagonist is Joseph, a Jewish farmer, who has a little striped overcoat.