Caldecott At Fifty: Highlights Of The 1987 Alsc-Charlemae Rollins Program

Who said library people can't be entertaining? We'd rather watch this than Dallas or Knot's Landing any day of the week. In this lively history of the Caldecott Medal, the gossip flies fast and furious (with the kind of stuff that inquiring minds want to know like how does the selection process for the Caldecott really work?) The memory of Charlemae Rollins and Frederic Melcher are honored with wonderfully vivid stories by guest speakers Augusta Baker, Mildred Batchelder, Jane Botham, Lillian Gerhardt, Effie Lee Morris, and moderator Peggy Sullivan. Over the course of this revealing 3/4 of an hour, hard questions about selection criteria, the role of children's book publishers, and the POLITICS of the award are explored. Lillian Gerhardt, the Editor-in-Chief of School Library Journal, delivers some particularly astute tongue-in-cheek remarks about bureaucracy and ALA. Get out the popcorn...and enjoy. Recommended. (Available from: ALA Video, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.)