
Daisy's joy and sorrow are shown magnified through her body language and by impressionistic splotches of watery color. Raschka, whose art and book concepts can sometimes be difficult to parse ( Waffle, Simple Gifts), is doggily direct here. I have no doubt this will be on the current committee's list for discussion.ĭo you all know this book? The plot is simple: dog loves ball, ball pops, dog gets new ball. In the past ten years, four winners were wordless or nearly wordless.

In my year, we gave an honor book award to The Red Book. The Caldecott Committee tends to like wordless books.
