Behind the scenes, creative teams were managing a dreamed-of design challenge: where to put the award stickers. Two inches in diameter in all its golden glory, the Caldecott Medal seal signifies ...

Book store browsers, library users and schoolchildren are all familiar with the gold and silver stickers that signify Caldecott (and ... you see the gold or silver medal on the cover of the ...

Doug Salati's "Hot Dog," about the summertime wanderings of an urban pet, was given the Randolph Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustrations. The Newbery and Caldecott are two of the oldest and ...

Over a 60-year career, he illustrated some 100 books of fairy tales, poetry and memoirs, and won a Caldecott Medal and two Caldecott Honors. By Clay Risen Ed Young, whose illustrations in some 100 ...

Then they won the 2025 Caldecott Medal for... In Cherokee, the word for boy or son is "atsutsa," often shortened to "chooch." In the children's book Chooch Helped, Chooch is a little boy who is ...

The Randolph Caldecott Medal for best picture story went to “Chooch Helped,” a tale of Cherokee siblings illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz and written by Andrea L. Rogers. Chanel Miller’s ...

On Monday, Kunz was named winner of the 2025 Caldecott Medal — one of the nation's biggest honors within children's literature — with illustrations in her first book project, Chooch Helped.

Artist Rebecca Lee Kunz illustrated Chooch Helped. Not only was it her first-ever children's book, it also won the 2025 Caldecott Medal. "It is wild and incredibly unusual and atypical," says Kunz.