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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Hi gang,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Approximately 35 librarians, educators and children’s book enthusiasts from all over
<st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State> (and a handful of folks from <st1:place w:st="on">
<st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place>) met on Saturday January 5<sup>th</sup> to participate in the annual Oregon Library Association’s
<a href="http://www.olaweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=129">
Children’s Services Division</a> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Mock Caldecott Workshop</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">The event included an overview of the ALA Caldecott Committee experience from
<a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/2009caldecottmedalhonors">
2009 Caldecott</a> Chair Nell Colburn and a hands-on art workshop from Paige Bentley-Flannery of the
<a href="http://www.deschuteslibrary.org/celebrate75/">Deschutes Public Library</a> (we played with gouache, acrylic paint, water colors, cut paper, water soluble crayons, color pencils and toothpaste!).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">After meeting in groups to discuss a selection of picture books from 2012, everybody converged and voted on the 2013 CSD Mock Caldecott Award!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold">Mock Caldecott Medal:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11737306-one-cool-friend">One Cool Friend</a></span></font></i></b> by Toni Buzzeo
(illus. by David Small). Dial Books for Young Readers, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold">Honor Book:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16386801-more">More</a></span></font></i></b> by
<st1:place w:st="on">I.</st1:place> C. Springman (illus. by Brian Lies). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Now if we can just contain ourselves and wait out the next 3 weeks….<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">(I apologize for any cross-posting)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Best wishes,</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Rick Samuelson</span></font></st1:PersonName><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">, Youth Services Librarian<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">
County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Cooperative Library Services<br>
111 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">NE Lincoln</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">
MS</st1:State></st1:place> 58A<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Hillsboro</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">
OR</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">97124</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
(503) 648-9785 5#<br>
ricks@wccls.org <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-style:italic">"The clever men at
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oxford</st1:place></st1:City><br>
Know all that there is to be knowed.<br>
But they none of them know one half as much<br>
As intelligent Mr Toad!"<br>
</span></font></i><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-Kenneth Grahame,
<i><span style="font-style:italic">The Wind in the Willows</span></i></span></font><i><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic"><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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