Betsy already loved all three of today's potential Caldecott Award winners down to the cold cockles of her shriveled little heart. The track record on this show hasn’t been too shabby either. In 2020 Kate and Betsy identified Going Down Home With Daddy as a winner (just don’t ask how they did in 2019). In the course of this recording the sisters discover that the most amusing way to talk about the information at the end of a book is to say “backmatterbackmatterbackmatterbackmatter”. Kate meanwhile falls hard for one of the contenders. Let’s see if you can guess which book made her cry, “In the beginning I didn’t want to see it and now I don’t WANNA LET IT GO!!!”

Show Notes:

- The ALA Youth Media Awards will stream live on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, at 8 a.m. CT right here: https://ala.unikron.com/

- Remember! Anytime you need to know how to pronounce someone's name and they work with children's books, go to TeachingBooks.net. The pronunciations of everything from Scieszka and Krosozka to Goade and Bird are there: https://www.teachingbooks.net/

- Here is the link to Betsy's interview with Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade. WELL worth your time. Those women are amazing: https://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2020/04/28/a-book-that-demands-respect-interviewing-the-creators-of-we-are-water-protectors/

-Here is the piece How Children's Books Grapple with the Native American Experience on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/03/953073970/how-children-s-books-grapple-with-the-native-american-experience

For the full Show Notes please visit us: https://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2021/01/11/fuse-8-n-kate-2021-caldecott-contenders/