From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:00:00 -600

Thanks, Janice Del Negro, for information about the Honor Book selection. Regarding the question about the text of any book under consideration for the Caldecott Award -
     According to Criteria for the Caldecott Award when I served on that committee: "Each book is to be considered as a picture book. The committee is to make its decision primarily on the illustrations, but other components of a book are to be considered especially when they make a book less effective as a children's picture book. Such other components might include the written text, the overall design of the book, etc." I've always read this to mean that the text must not detract, but rather it must enhance, expand, be worthy of, etc., the visual elements of the book. Anyone else with a later version of the official criteria or with an additional interpretation? ...Ginny
***************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison

I would be very interested to have the following question answered. When deciding on the Caldecott award winner and honor books, what if any consideration is given to the text of the book, either in terms of the writing itself or the relationship of illustrations to text?

Joyce Rich Tiber The Book Bay, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Received on Tue 25 Feb 1997 05:00:00 PM CST