Mock Caldecott Voting Results

The American Library Association awards the Caldecott Medal to the artist of "the most distinguished American picture book for children." This year, first- and second-graders chose a title for the Garden City Mock Caldecott by the same illustrator that won an 2013 ALA Honor: Peter Brown, who drew the pictures for Aaron Reynold's Creepy Pair of Underwear!

Here are some of the reasons why it won:

• It is creepy and funny.
• The bunny kept throwing away the underwear but it kept coming back.
• He was afraid at first but now he's not.
• Jasper cut the underwear but it came back.
• It's funny and fun to read.
• The kid was trying to get rid of the pair of underwear and it was funny.
• It is funny and it makes you face your fears.

Two other finalists got lots of votes, so they are our Honor Books:

Splat, written and illustrated by John Burgerman

• It's very funny and crazy.
• Because the birds put ice cream and there was a splat.
• Because every other page it says "Splat!"
• It has a lot of color..
• He looks like an ice cream.
• It is so funny when it says Splat! and Squish!

Bob, Not Bob!, written by Liz Garton Scanlon and Audrey Vernick and illustrated by official 2018 Caldecott winner Matthew Cordell (for his book Wolf in the Snow)

• The little boy kept saying, "Bob! Not Bob!" but he really wanted his mom. But his dog kept coming.
• He tries to yell, "MOM!" instead he said "BOB!"
• When a boy is sick in bed, he tries to call his mother, but because he is sick, he has a weird voice. He tries to call his mother, but he keeps calling his dog Bob. 
• Because Bob comes to lick him.
• Because the dog came when the boy tried to call for his mom.