There was much dancing of jigs by Curious City at the ALA Award news this week.
Illustrator, Beth Krommes took the Caldecott Medal for her (beyond) lovely picture book, The House in the Night. Curious City Lunch Box attendees will remember her meticulous illustration style of pulling a reverse image out of ink-saturated scratchboard. Where you there?
The dancing continued with much abandon when it was announced that Melissa Sweet took a Caldecott Honor for the illustrations for A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams. Melissa’s layering of colored pencil, bits of paper, old book jackets, hand-drawn fonts, and Williams poems surpasses all of her other brilliant work.
Curious City and the kids of Maine have much to thank Melissa for. We remember best making birds nests with her for a Lunch Box celebration of her illustrations in the book, The Boy That Drew Birds.
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