Sure, we may be mired in the dark days of winter, but you wouldn't know it by the splash of color that saturated the American Library Association's annual award presentation Monday — from the pastels ...

Sophie Blackall was literally half a world away from Seattle when she heard from the Caldecott committee that her picture book Hello Lighthouse (Little, Brown) had been selected as the winner of this ...

This year in young people's literature, Meg Medina's Merci Suárez Changes Gears won the Newbery Medal and Sophie Blackall's Hello Lighthouse took home the Caldecott Medal. This morning, at its annual ...

You have won the prestigious Caldecott Medal twice — for your books Hello Lighthouse and Finding Winnie. What does the medal represent to those who are on the lookout for good books for children? The ...