From: Hunt, Jonathan <Hunt.Jo>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:19:02 -0800

  Wendy wrote--

"I'd agree that the art in WE ARE THE SHIP is the most accomplished and distinguished that we saw this year, but I wasn't surprised when it wasn't honored for the Caldecott. After I read the Caldecott criteria, I didn't think it met this one: "Excellence of pictorial interpretation of 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."

"The pictures are gorgeous, but they don't tell a story in the same way some of the others do."

But I don't think what you quote above says that the pictures need to tell a story. The way I read it is that the pictures can interpret a story OR a theme OR a concept. I don't think the illustrations in WE ARE THE SHIP interpret story, but I do think they interpret theme and concept.

Jonathan
Received on Thu 05 Feb 2009 01:19:02 PM CST