December 4, 2011 – Philip Nel

Mock Caldecott 2011: Manhattan, Kansas Edition

December 4, 2011Philip NelArt, Awards, Children's Literature, Lane Smith, Picture BooksArt, Awards, Children's Literature, Lane Smith5 Comments

With thanks to the Children’s and Adolescent Literature Community (ChALC) for organizing the event and the Manhattan Public Library for hosting it, we held aMock Caldecott at this afternoon. Of course, we weren’t able to get all of the books we wanted to look at – so, there are certainly Caldecott candidates we didn’t get to review. Here are the top

Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss Biography: Final Cuts, Part 2. The Dog Problem.

Immersion in the thoroughly copy-edited manuscript has prevented me from getting more cuts up here, but there are plenty to share. Â As noted in the post from earlier in the week, the copy-editor was also charged with reducing the length ofÂ Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How An Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and