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The ALA Youth Media Awards are less then a month away.

It's time to make our list!

Please post your favorite 2019 Caldecott contenders.

The top 15 books, that get mentioned the most, will be on our mock voting list!

Drawn Together and Dreamers are my top two!

These are my top 10 pics. In the order I hope they win:

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Blue by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Pies From Nowhere by Dee Romito
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer
A Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes
A House That Once Was by Julie Fogliano
What Do You Do With a Voice Like That by Chris Barton

The Stuff of Stars - Ekua Holmes
Imagine! - Raul Colon
Drawn Together - Dan Santat

My Top Ten:
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Drawn Together by Minh Lê
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
Quiet by Tomie dePaola
We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Ocean Meets Sky by Terry Fan
Islandborn by Junot Díaz

My top five:
Ocean Meets Sky by Terry Fan
Blue by Laura Seeger
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Balckall
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
A Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes

My top 3:
Dreamers
If I Had a Horse
The Stuff of Stars

My top ten:
The Rabbit Listened - Doerrfeld
Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse - Campbell
Julian is a Mermaid - Love
The Stuff of Stars - Bauer
Run Wild - Covell
The Day You Begin - Woodson
Blue - Seeger
Dreamers - Morales
Imagine - Herrera
Hello Lighthouse - Blackall

But the Bear Came Back - Dan Taylor
The Rabbit Listened - Cori Doerrfeld
Square - Jon Klassen
Giraffe Problems - Lane Smith
We Don't Eat Our Classmates - Ryan T Higgins
The Rough Patch - Brian Lies
The Remember Balloons - Dana Wulfekotte

Drawn Together by Minh Lê
Blue by Laura Seeger

In no particular order:

Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Drawn Together by Minh Le
Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went From the Football Field to the Art Gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace
Seeing Into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright
Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the World by Christy Hale
Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Ocean Meets Sky by the Fan Brothers

I have been reading and following along but haven't been organized to comment on time. Thanks for a fun group!

In no particular order:

Thank You, Omu by Oge Mora
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Drawn Together by Minh Lê
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
Blue by Laura Seeger
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
A Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes
What If by Samantha Berger
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary D. Schmidt

My favorites are
Thank You Omu
Dreamers
Drawn together

Hello, Hello by Wenzel
A Parade of Elephants by Henkes

I can't believe I forgot to add one of my most favorite picture books of 2018 to my original list!

The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee

Me too! I want to add the Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee to my list.

I have about 20 books in my “I hope they get a mention �� pile, but I’m not with my list or pile right now.

Absolute top choice: Dreamers by Morales

Outside shit, not talked about at all: The Field about a muddy soccer game on St. Lucia. Bilingual in Creole and English. Can’t remember the author, but the illustrator appears to live in the US.

Also, what about The Patchwork Bike? It originally came out in 2016 in Australia, but Candlewick released it here in the US in 2018. Again, I think the illustrator lives in the US.

Thanks so much for this group - keeping us up on releases throughout the year.

~Margaret

Oops, sorry - “Outside SHOT��

Margaret Boling wrote: "I have about 20 books in my “I hope they get a mention �� pile, but I’m not with my list or pile right now.

Absolute top choice: Dreamers by Morales

Outside shit, not talked about at all: The Fie..."

The Patchwork Bike is not eligible. It is a great book.

Laura, just for reference, can you tell me why Patchwork Bike isn't eligible...Is it because it was originally released in 2016. Shucks.

I'm still reading. I'd like to add
The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer and illustrated by Ekua Holmes

and

What if... by Samantha Berger and illustrated by Mike Curato.

Margaret Boling wrote: "Laura, just for reference, can you tell me why Patchwork Bike isn't eligible...Is it because it was originally released in 2016. Shucks."

Yes. The criteria for the Caldecott states that books first published in previous years in other countries are not eligible.

Some of my faves this year:

The Rabbit Listened- Doerrfeld
Ocean Meets Sky - Fan Brothers
Dreamers-morales
Big Mooncake for Little Star- Lin
Julian is a mermaid -Love
The Day you begin-Woodson



Longshots:
The Prince and the Dressmaker-Wang
Harriet Gets Carries Away-Sima

My top picks:

A House That Once Was (Fogliano/Smith)
Drawn Together (Le/Santat)
Hello Hello (Wenzel)
The Stuff of Stars (Bauer/Holmes)
Hello Lighthouse (Blackall)
Hawk Rising (Gianferrari/Floca)
The Brilliant Deep (Messner/Forsythe)
This Is the Nest That Robin Built (Fleming)
Blue (Seeger)
What Do You Do with a Voice like That? (Barton/Holmes)

We have our list!
(in no particular order)

Thank You, Omu!

Hello Lighthouse

Ocean Meets Sky

Drawn Together

Dreamers

The Rabbit Listened

Julián Is a Mermaid

Blue

The Day You Begin

The Stuff of Stars

A Parade of Elephants