Listen to 2017 Caldecott and Newbery Winners on The Yarn!
As luck would have it, we’ve recorded episodes with the 2017 Caldecott AND Newbery Medal winners.
First up, author/illustrator Javaka Steptoe who takes us behind the scenes of his 2017 Caldecott Medal-winning book Radiant Child.
https://soundcloud.com/colby-sharp-3/34-javaka-steptoe-radiant-child-unraveled
Kelly Barnhill won the 2017 Newbery Medal for The Girl Who Drank the Moon. We interviewed Kelly about her previous book The Witch’s Boy.
https://soundcloud.com/colby-sharp-3/21-kelly-barnhill-the-witchs-boy-unraveled
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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