First Edition Identification Guide: Caldecott Medals Black & White Edition Now Available For those with an interest, my black & white version of the ‘First Edition Identification Guide: Caldecott Medals’ is now available as hardcover on Amazon for $19.95. Purchase the First Edition Identification Guide: Caldecott Medals (B&W) on Amazon. Note: Clicking on the image … Read more
First Edition Identification Guide: Caldecott Medals Now Published! For those with an interest, my ‘First Edition Identification Guide: Caldecott Medals’ is available as hardcover POD on Amazon. The retail price is $59.95 – I apologize for the price, however the manufacturing cost is nearly $30 from KDP to color print 252 pages in hardcover format. … Read more
Search For The First Forty Caldecott Medal Books I recently performed a search for first editions of the first forty Caldecott Medal books (covering the award years 1938-thru-1978) to determine the number of books currently being offered for sale. The search was identical to an internet search I completed a couple of years ago, and … Read more
Caldecott Medal First Edition Identification The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers, written & illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein; Roaring Brook Press, 2003 2004 Caldecott Medal Winner Children’s Picturebook Price Guide Value: $70 Fine The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers In 1974 Philippe Petit walked across a high wire between the two World Trade Center … Read more
Every year at it's mid-Winter Conference the American Library Association presents the Caldecott Award "to the artist of the most distinguished American picturebook for children." In addition to the Medal award, several Honor awards are presented to the runner-ups in the category. The awards were announced this past Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. The day of … Read more
Searching For The First Forty Caldecott Medal Books I recently performed a search for first editions of the first forty Caldecott Medal books (covering the award years 1938-thru-1978) to determine the number of books currently being offered for sale. The search was identical to an internet search I completed a couple of years ago, and … Read more
Every year at it's mid-Winter Conference the American Library Association presents the Caldecott Award "to the artist of the most distinguished American picturebook for children." In addition to the Medal award, several Honor awards are presented to the runner-ups in the category. The awards were announced this past Monday, Jan. 26, 2014. The day of … Read more
2013 Caldecott Medal Winner The 2013 Caldecott Medal winner is This Is Not My Hat illustrated by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press). This Is Not My Hat is Raschka's second Caldecott Medal, having won the 2006 award for The Hello, Goodbye Window. This Is Not My Hat is a wordless picturebook. From the American Library Association's … Read more
Searching For The First Forty Caldecott Medal Books Last year I performed an internet search for the first editions of the first twenty Caldecott Medal books to determine the number of books currently being offered for sale, and similar to past searches, calculate the average selling price. I recently performed a similar search, this time … Read more
Searching For The Second Twenty Caldecott Medal Books A couple of months ago we performed an internet search for the first editions of the first twenty Caldecott Medal booksto determine the number of books currently being offered for sale, and similar to past searches, calculate the average selling price. This past week we performed a … Read more