{"id":2062,"date":"2011-01-10T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2011-01-10T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:04:19","slug":"yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"YES!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Hooray! My good friends are here!”<\/em>
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I can hardly contain my excitement, you all! The ALA Youth Media Awards were just announced, and I was particularly excited about the Caldecott. An Honor went to the mighty talented Bryan Collier<\/a><\/strong> for Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, written by Laban Carrick Hill<\/a><\/strong> (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, September 2010). I have this book in my to-be-read pile. Yes, that’s right. There is always one winner or Honor title chosen that I am clueless about or have yet to read, but how much do I love Collier’s work? A whole lot. <\/p>\n

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The other Honor? Interrupting Chicken<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Candlewick, August 2010)! YES!<\/font> I have been wishing for some kind of Caldecott nod for David Ezra Stein<\/a><\/strong> (here’s<\/a><\/strong> his 2008 7-Imp interview) for years now. He has been one-to-watch, and I suppose now he’s The Watched! Here’s<\/a><\/strong> the 7-Imp visit from June in which he shared early sketches and such. <\/p>\n

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One of David’s color studies for the book<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

And the winner (from Roaring Brook)?<\/p>\n

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How much do I want to hug every member of that committee right now? They’re smart people. <\/p>\n

Here’s<\/a><\/strong> the July 2009 post in which Erin<\/a><\/strong> first told me and 7-Imp readers about Amos, sharing early sketches and her Amos-makin’ tools. (Some, but not all, of those images are re-posted below.)<\/p>\n

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And here’s<\/a><\/strong> the June-2010 visit in which she and her author\/illustrator husband, Philip<\/a><\/strong>, visit and discuss the book a bit more. (Here<\/a><\/strong> is Philip’s June-2009 visit to 7-Imp.)<\/p>\n

Big congratulations to all the winners, particularly Erin and Phil!<\/p>\n

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All images posted with permission of illustrators and recycled from earlier posts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Hooray! My good friends are here!”(Click to enlarge.) YES! I can hardly contain my excitement, you all! The ALA Youth Media Awards were just announced, and I was particularly excited about the Caldecott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}