The Winners of Our 2018 Mock Caldecott Are . . .

The 2018 Mock Caldecott unit is all wrapped up at my K-4 elementary school. Click here to see our process and books.
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Here are the books that came out on top.
2018 Mock Caldecott Honor:

2018 Mock Caldecott Honor:

2018 Mock Caldecott Medal:

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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Darn tootin’.
Thanks for sharing these interesting (albeit pretty expected) choices! Do y’all end up having a postmortem discussion at all? This is such a small list, and while only a third of your original list was comprised of women illustrators, it’s especially noticeable to me that none of the women made the final cut for your community. I’d be interested to hear if these are things y’all talk about once voting is complete!
That jumped out to me too. Yes, definitely something we’ll discuss in our wrap up