{"id":7073,"date":"2012-01-24T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnnclc.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/24\/chris-raschka-wins-2012-caldecott-medal\/"},"modified":"2012-01-24T16:04:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:04:42","slug":"chris-raschka-wins-2012-caldecott-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/01\/24\/chris-raschka-wins-2012-caldecott-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Raschka wins 2012 Caldecott Medal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/files\/2012\/01\/raschka-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/files\/2012\/01\/raschka-image.jpg?w=490\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"308\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Chris Raschka for winning the 2012 <a title=\"ALSC Caldecott Medal Award page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/caldecottmedal\/caldecottmedal\" target=\"_blank\">Caldecott Medal <\/a>for <em>A Ball for Daisy,<\/em> a wordless book about a little dog whose favorite possession is accidentally destroyed.\u00a0 When interviewed on NPR, Raschka tells Robert Siegel of <a title=\"Raschka Interview with Robert Siegel, NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/01\/23\/145656652\/caldecott-winner-chris-raschka-discusses-his-book\" target=\"_blank\">All Things Considered<\/a> that creating the book was &#8220;certainly a challenge. It went through many, many variations.&#8221;\u00a0 This is Raschka&#8217;s second Caldecott Medal; his first was for <em>Hello, Goodbye Window<\/em> in 2006 and in 1994 he received a Caldecott Honor\u00a0 for his <em>Yo! Yes?<\/em>\u00a0 Raschka appeared at the 2008 Connecticut Children&#8217;s Book Fair and we hope to see him again soon.\u00a0 Congratulations, Chris!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Chris Raschka for winning the 2012 Caldecott Medal for A Ball for Daisy, a wordless book about a little dog whose favorite possession is accidentally destroyed.\u00a0 When interviewed on NPR, Raschka tells Robert Siegel of All Things Considered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/01\/24\/chris-raschka-wins-2012-caldecott-medal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,367,362,360,1],"tags":[24,30,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1Q5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}