Jan Brett has NEVER won a Caldecott and, by this point, she probably never will. I would have been happy to lose either Bill Peet by Bill Peet or Lois Ehlert’s Color Zoo (really, judges?) in favor of THIS book getting an Honor instead. In fact most of the Honors were great and include books we’ve featured on the podcast ( Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins). The winner that year? Lon Po Po, and I can’t argue there. Rant Alert: We don’t bring this up, but after the recording I decided to look into what exactly won Caldecotts in 1990 (the year this could have gotten something). Listen to the whole show here on Soundcloud or download it through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, PlayerFM, or your preferred method of podcast selection. Brett? We consider the woman’s best-known book and how it has held up over all this time as well as the timeliness of doing a Ukrainian folktale in this day and age. and can you think of a single illustrator who has ever depicted the knitted stitch better than Ms. You see, our mother instilled in us an appreciation for fiber arts. That said, I have to admit that it’s possible that Kate and I are not the world’s most impartial critics. To my surprise, we’ve never tackled a Jan Brett book before. And since the last book I did was, at best, obscure and, at worst, completely forgotten, I figured today we should go all in and do something out-and-out famous. Since the entire premise of my podcast with my sister is to take well-known books and determine whether or not they continue to deserve their “classic” status, it probably behooves me to do a couple books everyone has actually heard of.
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