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On Monday, Kunz was named winner of the 2025 Caldecott Medal — one of the nation's biggest honors within children's literature — with illustrations in her first book project, Chooch Helped.

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went to a middle-grade tale about a time traveler at the turn of the century.

At Little, Brown, Javaka Steptoe’s 2017 Caldecott and King Illustrator award-winning Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Dan Santat’s 2015 Caldecott-winning The ...

The American Library Association has announced its annual Youth Media Awards and Hot Dog, written and illustrated by Doug Salati (MFA 2014 Illustration as Visual Essay), a faculty member in the BFA ...

Doug Salati won the Caldecott Medal for his picture book, "Hot Dog." NPR's Elizabeth Blair has more. ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE: "Freewater" is Amina Luqman-Dawson's first children's book.

The Caldecott awards honor artists of the most distinguished American picture books for children. Another student, Elexcia Flowers, chose to make a ceramic piece of a frog in lake.

Murray says getting the Caldecott Medal is like earning an Academy Award for children’s books. They’re must-haves at libraries. “Having a local person is just thrilling,” Murray said.

Any children’s book may have a shot at the Newbery, and any picture book, at the Caldecott. Other ALA awards—also announced every January with great fanfare—are more narrowly gauged.

A book illustrated by the beloved artist Floyd Cooper, who died last year, was a finalist for the Caldecott prize and received Coretta Scott King awards for the year’s best book by a Black ...