Laura’s Comments (group member since Jun 30, 2008)

Laura’s comments from the Caldecott Books group.

These are the books that won this year. Feel free to share your thoughts.

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I didn't fall in love with any of these books, that was surprising. I liked The House in the Night's illustrations, I thought they were innovative, as well as A River of Word's illustrations were pleasing too.

Yay! I was looking around the internet to see where this was posted...they had the Newbery's up, but not the Caldecotts.

Haha, that's what I did. I joined goodreads and went crazy. I tried to add every book that I could remember that I had read, just because I thought it would be interesting to see how many it actually was. Also I thought it might be kind of cool to have a (if not somewhat reliable) record.

Personally, I had no qualms with adding picture books to goodreads. Haha!
They were such a vivid part of my childhood, and my mother loved books, so we had quite a collection. I think picture books instilled in me a love of reading and as I got older, I went on to harder and harder books. I don't think that it is possible to out-grow picture books. I am especially fond of Mo Willem's picture books.

It felt so great, I didn't even notice! I had just gotten a nice little stack of Caldecott books from the library and didn't even realize that it contained my last Caldecott Medal book. It wasn't until I had returned them and was fiddling around on goodreads that I went, "I wonder how many more do I need to read?" and I checked my list and I had just read all of them. I am quite pleased though. Now all I have to do is keep up with them every year.

I really enjoyed the pictures in Hugo Cabret - they were super cool, and made the story so much more interesting. The illustrations fascinated me.

As an aside, I have finally finished reading ALL the Caldecott Medal winners....it only took me 5 months and multiple trips to the library, but I have read them all. Now I just need to work on finishing the Honors...unfortunately, my library doesn't own very many of the earliest Caldecott Honors.

Cool, I'm going to go vote now.

I'm pretty much in love with my library. I don't know how I'd live without them.....I read so many books, I don't bother buying any because I go through them to fast, plus book are expensive.
I usually (well, lately, since I've started this Caldecott phase) put a bunch of Caldecott's on hold at the library and pick them up while we're running errands, we live out in the middle of nowhere. I put them in a pile and get comfortable, keeping my Macbook close by so that I can write a short review of the book when I am done. The really good books I can't stand to not read them to someone, then I have to find one of my family members and read them a picture book....they put up with me. I'm starting school in a few weeks and I know I will be super busy then, so I'm trying to get a decent amount of books read before then.

Wow, you only have four left? Man, that's awesome.
Now I've read 22 Caldecott Medals....for the most part I'm interspersing them with the honors, depending on my mood. I am really glad though that my library carries All the Caldecott Medals, it makes life a lot easier.

I love YA land...it's one of my favorite places, and sometimes it is hard branching out...hhahaah...I'm going to see how many I can read this summer before I become bogged down with college...

I have read a whopping six Caldecott Medals....I have more on hold at the library. My goal is to read all of them, eventually. I'm going to try and read all the Caldecott Honors as well, we shall see how this goes.