2024 Caldecott Winner and Honorees

Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.

"Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight, but that didn't stop her from observing how her father...

In a mix of Eastern and Western mythologies, a mother tells her child about two forests inhabited by different, but equally enchanting dragons that coexist within the child's heart.

"Apenas un hilo, los sueños de un hombre poderoso, el secreto que un niño planta entre las cañas, una mujer que lleva un solo guante ..., un hilo encontrado en la madeja del recuerdo, dice María Teresa Andruetto. Y con él teje estas historias, hondas y sugestivas, en las que encuentran su cauce la justicia, el amor, la belleza y la sabiduría"--Back cover. "Just a thread, the dreams of a powerful man, the secret that a child plants among...