Caldecott Medal Books

The Caldecott medal is awarded each year by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the best picture book for children published that year. The first award was given in 1938. The award is named for Randolph Caldecott, a nineteenth century English illustrator.

This year's award went to Beth Krommes for The House in the Night.

Connor has several Caldecott winners in his library:

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Snowy Day by Jack Ezra Keats
Finders Keepers by Nicholas Mordvinoff (this copy was mine from childhood - still a classic)

I think I've seen these around too:

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Uri Shulevitz
Many Moons by Louis Slobodkin
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

New Sandbox

On Saturday Connor's dad built him a sandbox. The first two pictures were taken before all the sand was added.

Here is the finished product:

Friends

At the Zoo