The Caldecott Medal is the highest honor given to a children's picture book. Awarded to illustrators each January by the American Library Association, the Caldecott Medal and the Honors are highly anticipated by illustrators, publishers, librarians, booksellers, and parents that know the awards to be the ultimate badge of excellence.Picture book lovers across Maine had a great leap of pride when they heard the news that Melissa Sweet of Rockport, ME was awarded a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations for the book, A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams.
Raising Reader families and medical practices will remember Melissa's wonderful illustrations in the book Welcome Baby: Baby Rhymes for Baby Times that was distributed in our birth bag in 2004. Melissa as a Maine author / illustrator has also appeared in two of our anthologies for 5-year-olds. In 2008 many five-year-olds were given an anthology with Sweet's Carmine: A Little More Red in it. Next year's five-year-old anthology will have Melissa's illustrations for the book Love and Kisses!
Three cheers for Melissa Sweet and for all the grand things she does for children's literature and for young readers in Maine!!
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