![]() Nearly wordless, the pictures are left to tell the story. ![]() Right from the title page, where the mouse finds himself in paw prints larger than he is, readers will study the remarkable illustrations that reveal more details with each look. Readers will be able to move through the book quickly, but The Lion and the Mouse begs for an immediate reread. Artist appears eight times.Īnd from first glance onward, it is easily apparent that Jerry Pinkney is an artist by anyone’s definition. In fact, in the official Caldecott Terms and Criteria, the word author only appears once. The Caldecott Medal is awarded for a book’s illustrations. ![]() I generally don’t follow all the pre-Caldecott buzz, but apparently there has never been less suspense than in January of 2010, when everyone and their mother’s librarian expected Jerry Pinkney to take home the medal for The Lion and the Mouse. ![]()
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