The Caldecott Award

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The Caldecott Award

• The 2005 Winner and Honor Books
• A Comparative Analysis

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What Is the Caldecott Award

• The Association for Library Service to Children
  gives this award to the most distinguished
  picture book for children.
• It was named after Randoplh Caldecott who was a
  nineteenth-century Illustrator. The award itself
  displays an illustration of his from The
  diverting story of John Gilpin.

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Terms

• The Medal shall be awarded annually to the artist
  of the most distinguished American picture book
  for children published in English in the United
  States during the preceding year. There are no
  limitations as to the character of the picture
  book except that the illustrations be original
  work. Honor Books may be named. These shall be
  books that are also truly distinguished.
• The Award is restricted to artists who are
  citizens or residents of the United States.
• The committee in its deliberations is to consider
  only the books eligible for the award as
  specified in terms.

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Some Definitions(as defined by the ALA)

• Picture Book for Children it is distinguished
  from other books with illustrations because it
  provides the child with a visual experience while
  displaying respect for childrens understandings
  abilities and appreciations. A childrens book is
  suitable for children age fourteen and under. The
  illustrations develop the story-line theme and
  or concept.
• Distinguished Noted for significant
  achievement marked be excellence in quality
  marked by conspicuous excellence or eminence and
  is individually distinct.
• Artist is the illustrator or co-illustrator and
  the artist can be awarded the medal posthumously

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• 4. Original Work Must not be reprinted or
  compiled from other sources.
• 5. American Picture Book in the United States
  Must be published in the United States.

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Criteria

• Excellence of execution in the artistic
  technique employed
• Excellence of pictorial interpretation of the
  story theme or concept of appropriateness of
  style of illustration to the story theme or
  concept of delineation of plot theme
  characters setting mood or information through
  the pictures.

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2005 Honor Books

• The Red Book by Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin
  Company)
• Coming on Home Soon illustrated by E.B. Lewis
  written by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnams
  Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group)
• Knuffle Bunny A Cautionary Tale illustrated and
  written by Mo Willems (Hyperion books for
  Children)

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The Red Book

• A wordless book that tells the story of a city
  girl and a boy that lives on an island. They both
  find a red book and view each other threw them.

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The Artistic Technique

• Water Color gouache and ink.
• Heavy black outlines
• Large white frames
• Gives sense of looking through something

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Interesting technique

• The girl is looking out the window of her class
  room
• The adjacent page shows images of her location in
  the city in a sequential order zooming in. But
  it also gives the reader a feeling of looking
  through a paneled window just as the girl is
  doing.
• The illustrations tell the story without needed
  words
• Illustrations show power of maps books discovery
• Last illustrations provides reader with a feeling
  of mystery and wonder

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My Analyzes

• The style used could be expressionistic or
  cartoon style.
• The illustrations are simple colorful and
  outlined in black they are a pleasant comparison
  to the mystery present in the book.
• Double page spread helps reader with sense of
  motion
• The white frame give reader a sense of looking
  through at something more distant
• The Books overall design is almost identical to
  the book in the story thus providing the reader
  their own sense of mystery and power
• Because of the design of the book it needs no
  title it would be redundant

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Coming On Home Soon

• A story of a girl longing for her mother to
  return. While anticipating the return the
  Grandmother reassures and cares for the young
  girl.

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The Artistic Technique

• Watercolor on Arches paper
• Full page images and smaller simpler images
  aiding text on other-wise blank page.
• Special attention to light sources

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Interesting Technique

• Images of the mother reassure the reader that she
  is okay
• The light shows hope and also helps to show the
  setting and mood of the story
• Daughters emotions are readable and relatable
• The artist style displays the time period well
• Hazy illustrations and poetic style writing
  complement each other
• Last illustration satisfies the reader without
  the use of words

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My Analyzes

• Impressionistic style-light sources
• Style conveys the setting and the of the story
• The light shows hope
• The pictures of the mother are reassuring

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Knuffle Bunny A Cautionary Tale

• A story of a young girl who helps her dad with a
  chore. Ends up losing then finding and gaining
  something important.

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The Artistic Technique

• Ink sketches over photography
• Olive green background
• Comic style narration

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Interesting Technique

• Combination of different mediums-clean clear
  photos and rough cartoon sketches
• Almost jagged edges of cartoon-like drawings
• Heavy black outlines
• Combination of dialog use in text and in the
  media
• Misunderstanding is clearly shown through
  Trixies change and actions.
• The story could be told without the text.
• The use of the illustrations in relation to
  backdrop and page.

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My Analyzes

• Background photos show the adult world while the
  cartoons display the chaos and energy of a young
  child
• The way the characters walk of picture gives the
  reader a sense of movement
• The jagged edges of the characters displays the
  energy of the story

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The 2005 Caldecott Winner
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Kittens First Full Moon

• Illustrated and written by
• Kevin Henkes
• (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollinsPublishers)

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The Artistic Technique

• Gouache and colored pencil
• boldly outlined organic shapes and shades of
  black white and gray with rose undertones on a
  creamy paper (ALA)

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Interesting Technique

• Circle Motif
• Bold outlines
• Combination of full page illustrations single
  illustrations and comic book style

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My Analyzes

• Illustrations display the full moon setting and
  the way the light falls during a full moon
• Circle motif connecting the kittens eyes and the
  full moon
• The un-crossable distance between the kitten and
  the moon
• Simplicity of art represents the simplicity of
  the mistake

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What Kevin Henkes had to say

• From the very beginning I pictured the book with
  black-and-white illustrations bold sans serif
  type a square trim size and soft creamy paper
  I thought that by keeping everything as
  simple and spare as possible a better a
  tighter more complete book result. I like the
  idea of having a white moon a white cat and a
  white bowl of milk surrounded by the black
  night.
• I drew with a brush- a technique Id never used
  before in any of my books.

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Taking a closer Look at Kittens First Full Moon

• Kittens emotions are recognizable
• The moon waits on the next page
• Aiding illustration stripes with text
• Simple illustrations to aid the simple text
  storyline and misunderstanding
• Displays the light of the moon
• Inside cover pages set up circle motif