Ad
related to: caldecott award wikipedia
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
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"
Randolph Caldecott (/ ˈ k ɔː l d ə k ɒ t / KAWL-də-kot; [1] 22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honour. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognised by the Royal Academy ...
This page was last edited on 13 January 2023, at 17:56 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. [1] She won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, [2] and the ALA's Children's Literature Legacy Award in 1992 for her career ...
Kevin Henkes (born November 27, 1960) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. [2] As an illustrator he won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon (2004).
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.
Barbara Cooney (August 6, 1917 – March 10, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of 110 children's books, published for over sixty years.She received two Caldecott Medals for her work on Chanticleer and the Fox (1958) and Ox-Cart Man (1979), and a National Book Award for Miss Rumphius (1982).