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Award Winning Book Guide: Caldecott

2014 Recipient

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The 2014 winner of the Caldecott Medal is Locomotive by Brian Floca.

All aboard! Accompany a family on an unforgettable weeklong train trip from Omaha to Sacramento in 1869. Brian Floca’s dramatic watercolor, ink, acrylic and gouache illustrations incorporate meticulously-researched portraits of the train, the travelers and the crew as they traverse the American landscape on the new transcontinental railroad.(ALA)

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Find out more baout Brian Floca at his website.

2013 Recipient

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The 2013 winner of the Caldecott Medal was This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen.

What happens when a little fish steals a hat? You'll have to read to find out!

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