Join us for the Mock Caldecott Book Awards! The Mock book discussions are a great way to read the best books of the year, selected by your peers. These discussions will help with collection development and reader's advisory.
It is requested that after reading the titles, participants return the books so another participant may read it. Do not keep the books for the discussion. Copies will be made available the day of the program. Participants will be notified by email about their group assignment. Books organized by group are below.
This is an in-person event, and will not be recorded. Participants will receive 2 CE credits. Click here to view the RCLS code of conduct.
| Blackall, Sophie | Farmhouse |
| Heder, Thyra | Sal Boat (A Boat by Sal) |
| David-Sax, Pauline | Everything in It's Place: A Story of Books and Belonging |
| Barnett, Mac | The Three Billy Goats Gruff |
| Hurston, Zona Neale | Magnolia Flower |
| Theule, Larissa | Concrete: From the Ground Up |
| Falconer, Ian | Two Dogs |
| LaCour, Nina | Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle |
| McCarthy, Cory | Hope is an Arrow: The Story of Levanese-American Poet Khalil Gibran |
| Dunlap, Julie | I Begin With Spring: The Life and Seasons of David Henry Thoreau |
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Group 2 |
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| Barnett, Mac | The Great Zapfino |
| Tokuda-Hall, Maggie | Love in the Library |
| Grant, Shauntay | My Fade is Fresh |
| Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua | Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky |
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual |
| Freedman, Deborah | Tiny Dino |
| Loney, Andrea | Curve and Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams |
| Price, Kathy | Mardi Gras Almost Didn't Come This Year |
| Lyall, Casey | A Spoonful of Frogs |
| Chen, Eva | I Am Golden |
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Group 3 |
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| Fleming, Candace | The Tide Pool Waits |
| Watson, Renee | Maya's Song |
| Johnson, Dinah | H is for Harlem |
| Partridge, Elizabeth | Seen and Unseen |
| Wong-Kalu, Hinaleimoana | Kapaemahu |
| Kelley, Tera | Listen to the Language of the Trees |
| Lyons, Kally Starling | My Hands Tell a Story |
| Sanderson, Ruth | A Storm of Horses: The Story of Artist Rosa Bonheur |
| Parra, John | Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son |
| Messner, Kate & Margaret Powell | Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe |
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Group 4 |
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| Goade, Michaela | Berry Song |
| Chin, Jason | The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | The Year We Learned to Fly |
| Goodale, E.B. | Also |
| Sorelli, Traci | Powwow Day |
| Bolden, Tonya | Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book |
| KraegeL, Kenneth | Mushroom Lullaby |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Snow Horses: A First Night Story |
| Brown, Tameka Fryer | Twelve Dinging Doorbells |
| Williams, Alicia D. | The Talk |
