If you haven't already, mark your calendars for Saturday, January 12th for CSD's Mock Caldecott Workshop. Registration will be open in December, but until then you can get a jump start by reading our first six selected titles (listed below) and see of our agenda piques your interest (also below). If you are interested in attending, we recommend reviewing the Caldecott terms and criteria available here.

The workshop will be held at the Springfield Public Library, in Springfield Oregon. Information about food options, parking, and all that good stuff will be available with registration in December. A full book list will be available closer to the workshop. 

(Note: book list and agenda is always subject to change.)

Working Book List: 

• Stone for Sascha by Aaron Becker
• Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
• Heartbeat by Evan Turk 
• The Stuff of Stars by and illustrated by written by Marion Dane Bauer and illustrated by Ekua Holmes
• Drawn Together written by Minh Le and illustrated by Dan Santat
• Blue by Lauren Vaccaro Seeger 

Agenda: 

• 9:00am - Welcome, Agenda
• 9:10am - Block 1 - Caldecott Criteria Overview and Q&A
• 9:30am - Block 2 - Talking about Art & Books - Terms, Concepts, and More Handy Tools
• 10:30am - Break
• 10:45am - Block 3a - Book Discussion Modeling & Panel
• 11:30am - Block 3b - Youth Media Awards Experiences
• 12:00pm - Lunch Break, Caldecott Quiz, Mingling 
• 12:45pm - Small Group Discussion 
• 2:00pm - Break
• 2:15pm - Full Group Questions, Insights, Q&A 
• 2:45pm - Small Group Discussion
• 3:30pm - Voting
• 3:40pm - Ballot Counting & Caldecott Quiz Answers
• 3:50pm - "Award" and "Honors" Announced
• 4:00pm - Wrap Up

Questions? Email Mock Workshop Coordinator, Taylor Worley.