Thank You, Omu! and Alma and How She Got Her Name, also named Caldecott Honor books today, were on our first mock ballot but didn't make it to the second round.Īnd Brian Lies's The Rough Patch?! We love surprises here at Calling Caldecott, and we got one! We didn't cover it here at all.

Our readers chose Grace Lin's A Big Mooncake for Little Star as an honor book, and it received a Caldecott Honor this morning. The big winner this morning, Sophie Blackall's Hello Lighthouse, was chosen by our readers as a mock honor book. Remember how we wrote in this post last Friday that our readers tend to have an impressive track record of picking as our mock award winners ones that, in the real world, go on to receive Caldecott honors? Well, that certainly wasn't the case this year.

Thank You, Omu!, written and illustrated by Oge MoraĪs you can see, the winner of the 2019 Calling Caldecott mock vote, Yuyi Morales's Dreamers, is nowhere to be seen on the actual Caldecott list. The Rough Patch, written and illustrated by Brian LiesĪ Big Mooncake for Little Star, written and illustrated by Grace Lin (This is her second Caldecott Medal - Finding Winnie won in 2016).Īlma and How She Got Her Name, written and illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal Hello Lighthouse, written and illustrated by Sophie Blackall. The day has come! The 2019 Caldecott Medal Selection Committee has made its choices.

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