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unusual facts about Caldecott


Caldecott, Rutland

The A6003 runs through the village; the traffic flow over the bridge on the River Welland is controlled by traffic lights.


Allegra Kent

In 2012, Kent published her first book for children, Ballerina Swan, with Holiday House Books for Young People, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully.

Andrew Caldecott

In Singapore, Caldecott Hill, Caldecott Close, Caldecott MRT Station and Andrew Road are named after him, and Olive Road is named after his first wife.

Ben Caldecott

Caldecott read economics and specialised in development and China at the University of Cambridge, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Peking University.

Botanic Gardens MRT Station

As the Bukit Brown station will only be operational after the Bukit Brown area has been developed enough, the section of track between Botanic Gardens and Caldecott is the longest on the Circle Line.

Byrd Baylor

Baylor was awarded Caldecott Honors for her books When Clay Sings (1973) with illustrator Tom Bahti, and The Desert is Theirs (1976), Hawk, I'm Your Brother (1977), and The Way to Start a Day (1979) with illustrator Peter Parnall.

Caldecott MRT Station

As the Bukit Brown will only be operational after the Bukit Brown area has been developed enough, the section of track between Caldecott and Botanic Gardens is the longest on the Circle Line.

Caldecott Tunnel

Berkeley Hills TunnelBART rail transit tunnel, running approximately parallel to the Caldecott Tunnel

Caroline Herring

In 2011, Herring also released her first children’s album, The Little House Songs, based on the 1941 Caldecott-winning book The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton.

Jon Klassen

--> Unusually, that year Klassen was one of five recipients of a Caldecott Honor, as the illustrator of Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett.

Morton Schindel

In 1963, the studio released its first animated film, The Snowy Day, adapted from the 1962 Caldecott Medal book by Ezra Jack Keats, and the following year, it produced a documentary.

Randolph Caldecott

For Maurice Sendak "Caldecott's work heralds the beginning of the modern picture book. He devised an ingenious juxtaposition of picture and word, a counterpoint that never happened before. Words are left out—but the picture says it. Pictures are left out—but the word says it."

The Great Panjandrum Himself

The text for the book, well known during Caldecott's time, was written and published in 1775 by Samuel Foote.

The Three Pigs

The flying fish picture is a parody of Wiesner's first Caldecott Medal-winning picture book Tuesday.

Thomas E. Caldecott

That same year, Caldecott bought a pharmacy at Dwight Way and Shattuck Avenue, later moved to Ashby Avenue and Adeline Street in the Webb Block, a building which was designated a local landmark in 2004.


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