UpCott! Which one will win?!

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):

Saturday by One Mora

The Scarecrow by Beth Ferry and the Fan Brothers

Fly by Mark Teague

Truman by Jean Reidy

Why? by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

A stone sat still by Brendan Wenzel

Every grade voted... aaaaannnnnndddddd the winner is.......  Fly by Mark Teague

Upham's choice got no Caldecott-love, not even an honor.  The Caldecott winner was The Undefeated.  Each class learned about all of the youth media award winners (in addition to the Caldecott).

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 Rory's design from 3W:

Congratulations, Rory!

If you're interested in exploring which books won a youth media award, visit:http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/01/american-library-association-announces-2020-youth-media-award-winners