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[dymphna79]

Bowing to public pressure, I've been concentrating on Caldecott and Printz possibles this week.  And I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that

MOST PICTURE BOOKS ARE TERRIBLE

as both literature and art.

Also,

DO NOT WRITE IN RHYME UNLESS YOU ARE DR. SEUSS.

That is all.

Am dying to post my ALA award predictions, and I'm almost there, but I can't in

Comments

[aethera]

If you haven't seen it before, I highly, highly recommend Shaun Tan's "The Arrival". "Picture book" seems like a weird label for a book with such complex themes.

[delphica]

I will confess that I mostly wanted you to do Caldecott this week so that I could just see what you thought instead of doing it myself.

[fox1013]

:(

Which picturebooks have you been looking at?

[dymphna79]

Too many to list, really. I'm getting them from Betsy Bird's list of mock Caldecott contenders and Goodreads.

I haven't kept detailed notes, but a couple of ones I hated were If Animals Kissed Goodnight and Will Sheila Share. Most I thought were sort of lackluster. So many of them were teaching a lesson. I was really disappointed in A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, which sounded great, but I thought it was boring.

[amojojo]

Look for books illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger. She's the best.

[satyridae]

I concur- Shaun Tan's The Arrival is not to be missed. Also, The Letter Home by Timothy Decker.