All about UpCott!

You may have heard from your child about our "UpCott" lessons in library -- that's Upham's version of a Caldecott award (more about the Caldecott award here: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal).  For weeks, students from all grades listened to picture books that might win the "real" Caldecott award.

Here are the nominations I chose (in no particular order):

All the way to Havana

Mighty Moby

A Perfect Day

After the Fall

The Antlered Ship

Jabari Jumps

The book of mistakes

Windows

Wolf in the snow

Every grade voted... aaaaannnnnndddddd the winner is.......  After the fall by Dan Santat

Sadly, Upham's choice got no Caldecott-love, not even an honor.  The Caldecott winner was Wolf in the snow.  Each class learned about all of the youth media award winners (in addition to the Caldecott) and took time to discuss whether Wolf in the snow deserved the medal.  Results were mixed!

Related to UpCott, our third graders had the opportunity to design our UpCott medal (that will be affixed to the cover of our UpCott winner).  First grade and fourth grade voted and the winner was Caroline S.'s design from 3W:

Congratulations, Caroline!

If you're interested in exploring which books won a youth media award, visit: http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/02/american-library-association-announces-2018-youth-media-award-winners