From: Perry Nodelman <nodelman>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 11:04 -0600 (CST)

A question about the Caldecott: while it's for the best ilustrated book, it goes to the illustrator, no? So let's say Math Curse won--does the award go exclusively to Smith? Or would it also go to the book designer, who clearly, in this case, had a tremendous amount to do with its visual appearance, and who even actually gets a credit within the book? If I were this designer, I'd feel very ripped off if Smith alone won the award; and peronally I have to say, Smith's illustrations here aren't particuarly disitnguished. They look an awful lot like his illustrations for other Sciezska texts--not particularly innovative or startling wonderful--and they have a somewhat forbidding gloominess that creates interesting tensions with the vibrant graphic design and lighthearted text, but that on their own are rather uninteresting and perfunctory. I wonder how often Caledcott winners are books with texts we like, without much reference to the narrative or aesthetic vlaue of the whole.
    At 08:49 PM 01/12/95 00, Penny Peck wrote: Perry Nodelman University of Winnipeg nodelman at io.UWinnipeg.ca
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