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Did you offer a Caldecott art program at your library?  As soon as the winner was announced, I started thinking about outreach art programs.  Yellow paper! Bears!  Zoo maps! Diamond shapes! So many possibilities.

Whether you have five minutes or 45 minutes, below are a few ideas and resources to get you started.

A pop-up school outreach Caldecott program with Finding Winnie. Place the book on display, create a huge bear picture on yellow poster paper or keep the yellow paper blank and have each child draw their own bear.  If you have 15-20 minutes, read Finding Winnie by Sophie Blackall and ask questions about the drawings.  For example: What kinds of materials did Sophie Blackall use in her illustrations?

Imagination time!  What if you had a pet bear?  What would you name your bear?  Favorite food? What would you teach your bear?  Favorite game to play with your bear?  Draw out each answer on yellow poster paper for display.  For a longer visit, 30-45 minutes, use the resources below to add history, black and white photographs, science, art and more!

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Supplies: photographs of bears, yellow, white and black paper, pencils, black markers, crayons (watercolor paints if available), bear puppet, tablet to share youtube and audio, one big piece of yellow poster paper.

Resources:

• Lindsay Mattick
  “Learn more about Lindsay’s new book, Finding Winnie, and view images of Harry & Winnie from the Colebourn family archive.” Remember the real Winnie through photos, videos, and exhibits.

• Sophie Blackall
  Discover the research Blackall did and how she made the illustrations for Finding Winnie from her blog “The Making of Finding Winnie-Part 1-4.”

• Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear
  A short video of Lindsay Mattick sharing how she created Finding Winnie. Created by Little Brown Books for Young Readers.

• Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast: One Picture-Book Roundtable Discussion Before Breakfast #4: Featuring the Women of Finding Women
  Julie Danielson’s post discusses the process of creating Finding Winnie, the research, the stories and more.

• Finding Winnie on NPR
  Listen to the true story of Winnie the Pooh and her pal, Christopher Robin.

• Educator’s Guide Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear
  Little Brown Books for Young Readers created an amazing and detailed teacher’s guide for sharing, learning and discovering more about Finding Winnie. Includes a biography and sections on Social Studies, Language Arts, Art, Science, and Math.

• The Guardian: The Story of How Winnie the Pooh was inspired by a real bear-in pictures
  Explore the diary, real photos and more that inspired Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick.

• The Horn Book: Calling Caldecott-A tale of two Winnies 
  Explore the Calling Caldecott posts including “A tale of two Winnies” and various other blogs about Finding Winnie by Lolly Robinson.

• Review of the Day: Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick
  A Fuse #8 Production writer, Elizabeth Bird reviews Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattock illustrator Sophie Blackall

“Some of the best stories are true stories.” Lindsay Mattick.

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What distinguished 2015 picture book is going to join the ranks of Beekle, Amos McGee, Mirette, and those mosquitoes that buzz in peoples in ears and win the 2016 Caldecott Medal? The committee is just anxious to find out as you are! Did you know you can make the suggestions to the Caldecott Selection Committee? Yep, and we take your suggestions seriously. So if you opened a 2015 picture book and gasped at the breathtaking beauty on the page, let us know. If you marveled at the brilliant subversiveness when art plays against the expectations of the text, please share. If you have delighted in an illustrator’s exceptional technique in the service of storytelling or sharing information in a compelling way, do tell.

The 2016 Caldecott Award Committee is asking the ALSC membership to submit titles for consideration. The Caldecott Medal, along with Honors selected by the commitee, is presented annually to the to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in 2015.

You can read the complete terms, definitions, and criteria here, but please make sure the picture books you suggest demonstrate:

• Excellence of execution in the artistic technique employed;
• Excellence of pictorial interpretation of story, theme, or concept;
• Appropriateness of style of illustration to the story, theme or concept;
• Delineation of plot, theme, characters, setting, mood or information through the pictures;
• Excellence of presentation in recognition of a child audience.

Please remember only books illustrated by an American from the 2015 publishing year are under consideration for the award. Also please note that publishers, authors, illustrators, or editors may not suggest their own titles.

And on One Fine Day in January, likely a Snowy Day, All the World will find out which book will shine on for Many Moons.

Please send suggestions to Rachel Payne (Caldecott Committee Chair) at [email protected]

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Today’s guest blogger is Rachel Payne, 2016 Caldecott Committee Chair.

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