Mock Caldecott List for 2010

African Acrostics: A Word in Edgeways

Avis Harley/Deborah Noyes

Kir * 6-15; SLJ * 6

Alex and Lulu

Lorena Siminovich

BL * 5-1

All God's Critters

Bill Stines/Kadir Nelson

Kir * 12-15; PW * 12-22

All In a Day

Cynthia Rylant/Nikki McClure

BL * 4-1; Kir * 2-15

All of Baby, Nose to Toes

Victoria Adler/Hiroe Nikata

Kir * 5-1; PW * 6-15;

Always

Alison McGhee/Pascal Lemaitre (illus divides time between Brussels and New York—eligible?)

Kir * 5-15

Anne Frank Case: Simon Wiesenthal's Search for the Truth, The

Susan Goldman Rubin/Bill Farnsworth

BL * 3-1

Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's Song

Ashley Bryan

BCCB R 1; BL * 12-15; PW * 1-12; SLJ * 2;

Barnyard Slam

Dian Curtis Regan

Kir * 6-15

Benny and Penny in the Big No-No!

Geoffrey Hayes

Kir * 5-15

Billy and Milly, Short and Silly

Eve B. Feldman/Tuesday Mourning

Kir * 5-1

Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem

Mac Barnett/Adam Rex

Kir * 5-1

Bird, Butterfly, Eel

James Prosek

PW * 2-16

Birds

Kevin Henkes/Laura Dronzek

BL * 1/1-15; HB * 3/4; SLJ * 2;

Boats: Speeding! Sailing! Cruising!

Patricia Hubbell/Megan Halsey and Sean Addy

BL * 3-15;

Book, A

Mordicai Gerstein

BL * 3-15; SLJ * 5;

Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story about Edna Lewis

Robin Gourley

PW * 12-1; SLJ* 2;

Button Up!

Alice Schertle/Petra Mathers

BL * 5-15; HB * 5/6; Kir * 3-15; SLJ * 5

Chair for Always, A

Vera B. Williams

Kir * 4-15; SLJ * 5

Carousel Tale, A

Elsa Kleven

Kir * 2-1;

Chicken Cheeks

Michael Ian Black/Kevin Hawkes

BCCB R 1; Kir * 12-1;

Chicken Little

Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley

BL * 5-1; Kir * 2-15; SLJ * 5;

City I Love

Lee Bennett Hopkins/Marcellus Hall

PW * 3-16; SLJ * 3

Composer is Dead, The

Lemony Snicket; music by Nathaniel Stookey/Carson Ellis

PW * 12-22

Coretta Scott

Ntozake Shange/Kadir Nelson

BL * 1/1-15; PW * 12-15; SLJ * 1

Cuckoo's Haiku: And Other Birding Poems, The

Michael J. Rosen/Stan Fellows

Kir * 2-15; PW * 2-9

Curious Garden, The

Peter Brown

BL * 5-15 (featured review); PW * 3-23;

Darwin

Alice B. McGinty/Mary Azarian

BL * 1/1-15; Kir * 3-15; SLJ * 3

Day-Glo Brothers, the

Chris Barton/Tony Persiani

Kir * 6-15; PW * 6-29

Diego: Bigger Than Life

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand/David Diaz

BL * 2-15

Dinosaur Woods

George McClements

Kir * 5-15

Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings

Douglas Florian

BL * 3-1; PW * 1-12; SLJ * 5;

Dinotrux

Chris Gall

Kir * 5-1; PW * 5-11; SLJ * 6

Dream Stealer

Sid Fleischman/Peter Sis

BL * 5-15;

Duck! Rabbit!

Amy Krouse Rosenthal/Tom Lichtenheld

BL * 4-1; PW * 3-23;

Duck Tents

Lynne Berry/Hiroe Nakata

SLJ * 4

El Barrio

Debbi Chocolate/David Diaz

Kir * 3-15

Eleanor, Quiet No More

Doreen Rappaport/Gary Kelley

PW * 2-16; SLJ * 2;

Fabulous Feud of Gilbert and Sullivan

Jonah Winter/Richard Egielski

BL * 4-1;

Faith

Maya Ajmera, Cynthia Pon, Magda Nakassis

Kir * 1-15

Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau, The

Dan Yaccarino

Kir * 2-1;

Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing, and Shout, A

Paul B. Janeczko, ed./Chris Raschka

BL * 2-15; PW * 1-5; SLJ * 3

Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude

Jonah Winter/Calef Brown

BCCB R* (Big Picture); Kir * 1-1; PW * 12-15

Girl Who Wanted to Dance, The

Amy Ehrlich/Rebecca Walsh

PW * 1-26

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Gennady Spirin

Kir * 2-15;

Good Dog, Aggie

Lori Ries/Frank W. Dormer

BCCB * 3;

Hello, Baby!

Mem Fox/Steve Jenkins (author lives in Australia)

Kir * 4-1; PW * 2-2

Henry's Night

D. B. Johnson and Linda Michelin/D. B. Johnson

Kir * 3-1

Higher! Higher!

Leslie Patricelli

BL * 2-15; HB * 3/4; SLJ * 2

Home on the Range: John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs

Deborah Hopkinson/S. D. Schindler

BCCB R 1; PW * 12-15; SLJ * 1

Honk, Honk, Goose! Canada Geese Start a Family

April Pulley Sayre/Huy Voun Lee

BL * 3-1; SLJ * 4;

Hook

Ed Young

BL * 6-1/15; HB * 5/6; Kir * 4-1; PW * 4-20

Hugging Hour

Aileen Leijten

BCCB R 1

I Want to Be Free

Joseph Slate/ E. B. Lewis

BL * 12-1;

Joe and Sparky Get New Wheels

Jamie Michalak/Frank Remkiewicz

Kir * 2-1

King's Taster, The

Kenneth Oppel/Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson (author lives in Toronto)

BL * 3-15;

Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy

David Soman/Jacky Davis

PW * 2-23;

Lincoln and His Boys

Rosemary Wells/P. J. Lynch

PW * 1-12;

Lion's Share: A Tale of Halving Cake and Eating It, Too, the

Matthew McElligott

Kir * 1-15; SLJ * 2

Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea

Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth/Susan L. Roth

BL * 1/1-15; SLJ * 2;

Little Chick

Amy Hest/Anita Jeram

BCCB PW SLJ * 5;

Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Light

Molly Bang and Penny Chrisholm/Molly Bang

BL * 12-1;

Luke on the Loose

Harry Bliss

SLJ * 5

Machines Go to Work

William Low

SLJ * 5

Mama Says: A Book of Love for Mothers and Sons

Rob D. Walker/Leo and Diane Dillon

PW * 2-2;

Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree, The

Anne Shelby/Cor Hazelaar (cannot verify illus residence 2.4.09)

BL * 6-1/15

Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story of Annette Kellerman who Swam Her Way to Fame, Fortune, & Swimsuit History!

Shana Corey

Kir * 3-1

Mirror to Nature: Poems About Reflection, A

Jane Yolen/Jason Stemple

PW * 4-20

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11

Brian Floca

BL * 2-15; Kir * 3-15; SLJ * 3

Most Loved in All the World: A Story of Freedom

Tonya Hemamin/Cozbi A. Cabrera

BCCB R 1; PW * 12-1;

Mouse Was Mad

Linda Urban/Henry Cole

Kir * 4-15

My Brother Bert

Ted Hughes/Tracey Campbell Pearson

BL * 2-1;

My Mom is Trying to Ruin My Life

Kate Feiffer/Diane Goode

PW * 12-1;

My People

Langston Hughes/Charles R. Smith, Jr.

Kir * 12-1; PW * 11-17; SLJ * 2;

My Uncle Emily

Jane Yolen/Nancy Carpenter

PW * 5-4; SLJ * 6

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed

Mo Willems

BCCB * 2; PW * 11-3;

Negro Speaks of Rivers, The

Langston Hughes/E. B. Lewis

BL * 11-15; PW * 11-17; SLJ * 2

Nic Bishop Butterflies and Moths

Nic Bishop

BL * 6-1/15; SLJ * 6

Nine Lives of Rotten Ralph, The

Jack Gantos/Nicole Rubel

PW * 4-20

OK Go

Carin Berger

SLJ * 4

One and Only Marigold, The

Florence Parry Heide/Jill McElmurry

BCCB R 1; Kir * 12-15;

One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin

Kathryn Lasky/Matthew Trueman

PW * 12-15; SLJ * 1

One World, One Day

Barbara Kerley

PW * 5-4

Open the Door to Liberty!: A Biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture

Anne Rockwell/R. Gregory Christie

SLJ * 3

Orangutan Tongs

Jon Agee

HB * ¾; Kir * 1-15; SLJ * 3;

Our Abe Lincoln: An Old Tune with New Lyrics

Jim Aylesworth/Barbara McClintock

BCCB R 1; PW * 1-12

Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change

Michelle Cook/Cozbi A. Cabrera, R. Gregory Christie, Bryan Collier, et al.

(Author lives in Canada—but all illustrators live in the U.S.)

BL * 4-15; PW * 4-6

Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day

Kate McMullan/R. W. Alley

SLJ * 3

Peep! A Little Book about Taking a Leap

Maria Van Lieshout

SLJ * 3

Penguin Story, A

Antoinette Portis

SLJ * 1

Pharaoh's Boat

David Weitzman

BL * 5-15; Kir * 4-15; SLJ * 4

Read It, Don't Eat It!

Ian Schoenherr

SLJ * 4

Red Sings from Treetops

Joyce Sidman/Pamela Zagarenski (illus divides time between CT and Prince Edward Island—eligible?)

BCCB * 3; BL * 5-1; HB * 3/4; Kir * 2-1

Redwoods

Jason Chin

BL * 4-1; HB * 5/6; PW * 3-9

Rhyming Dust Bunnies

Jan Thomas

BCCB R 1;

River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River

Hudson Talbott

PW * 1-5

Same Same

Marthe Jocelyn/Tom Slaughter (both divide their time between New York and Ontario)

PW * 1-12

Sleepsong

George Ella Lyon/Peter Catalanotto

Kir * 12-1;

Slither and Crawl: Eye to Eye with Reptiles

Jim Arnosky

SLJ * 6

Song of Francis, the

Tomie dePaola

Kir * 12-1;

Steady Hands: Poems about Work

Tracie Vaughn Zimmer/Megan Halwey and Sean Addy

PW * 1-5

Stories from the Billabong

James Vance Marshall—author lives in England/Francis Firebrace

SLJ * 5

Superhero School

Aaron Reynolds/Andy Rash

Kir * 6-15

Surprise Soup

Mary Ann Rodman/G. Brian Karas

BCCB * 6; BL * 3-15;

Tacky Goes to Camp

Helen Lester/Lynn Munsinger

HB * 5/6

Teedie: The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt

Don Brown

SLJ * 4

Thank You, God, for Everything

August Gold/Wendy Anderson Halperin

BL * 12-15;

Tillie Lays an Egg

Terry Golson/Ben Fink

BCCB R 1; PW * 11-10;

Tricking the Tallyman

Jacqueline Davies/S. D. Schindler

SLJ * 3

Tsunami!

Evelyn Clarke Mott and Kimiko Kajikawa/Ed Young

BCCB R 1; Kir * 12;1; PW * 12-8; SLJ * 1

We're All in the Same Boat

Zachary Shapiro/Jack E. Davis

SLJ * 1

What Bluebirds Do

Pamela F. Kirby

SLJ * 5

When Royals Wore Ruffles: A Funny & Fashionable Alphabet!

Chesley McLaren and Pamela Jaber/Chesley McLaren (cannot verify residence of either 11.20.08)

PW * 11-10;

Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World

Wendell Berry/Davis Te Selle

PW * 12-8

Willoughby and the Lion

Greg Foley

PW * 1-5

Wink: The Ninja Who Wanted to Be Noticed

J. C. Phillipps

SLJ * 2

Wombat Walkabout

Carol Diggory Shields/Sophie Blackall

SLJ * 2

Yankee at the Seder

Elka Weber/Adam Gustavson

PW * 1-12

You Are the First Kid on Mars

Patrick O'Brien

BL * 5-1