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By DeeDee

Every year the American Library Association for Library Services to Children gives awards to outstanding examples of children’s literature.  One of the awards is the Caldecott medal, given to the most distinguished illustrations of a book written for children ages 0-14. In conjunction with that, every year the Provo City Library has its own “Mock Caldecott” event where public and school librarians look at some of the best picture books from the year and decide which we think should be the winners.   The Provo Library Mock Caldecott was Tuesday, Jan 5th and these were the books we chose as our winners.

Winner

 
By Pamela Zagarenski
Houghton Mifflin, 2015, Picture Book
Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.

 
Honor Books

by Daniel Miyares
Simon and Schuster, 2015. Picture Book
"Wordless picture book about a boy who loses his paper boat in the rain"


By Carter Goodrich
Simon and Schuster, 2015. Picture Book
Phillip and Brock are best friends, although everyone else thinks Brock is imaginary, so when Phillip gets tired out at the Big Fair while Brock is still having fun, they are separated and it will take a very special twosome to bring them back together again.





by Van Muon
illustrated by April Chu
Creston Books, 2015. Picture Book

The story of a fisherman a fisherman who longs to return to the woman and child in a hillside home.

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