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...future holds, Macaulay said, “After doing this for six years, I don’t want to do another monster book. So I’m going to do the Earth.” Macaulay has been widely honored for his previous work, having won a Caldecott Medal and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In 2006, he was awarded the MacArthur Foundation’s prestigious “Genius Grant.” His appearance at the Brattle was hosted by Harvard Book Store...
...nearly 100 books were named to the Caldecott Honor list--a 1944 Mother Goose and 1 Is One, a learn-to-count book that charms even those who learned how long ago. Her simple couplets and light touch with watercolors compel readers to revel in nature's bounty and count the ducks, hummingbirds, apples and stars...
...struggle for Hall to support himself by freelancing, he says. He wrote articles and essay collections and even children’s books—one of which, “Ox-Cart Man,” won the Caldecott award for the most distinguished picture book of the year...
...Calaveras, San Gregorio and Rogers Creek faults, the Hayward forms part of what scientists refer to as the San Andreas system, and it runs for 60 miles along the hills of the East Bay, cutting through the University of California, Berkeley, football stadium and skimming uncomfortably close to the Caldecott Tunnel, through which 153,000 cars pass daily. Major highways, including Interstate 80, cross the Hayward Fault, as do the pipelines that bring water down from the snow-clad Sierra. There are hundreds of privately owned structures in the fault zone, virtually all built before the state passed a tough...
...storybook princess who enters the real world of modern Manhattan. Then there's Gnomeo & Juliet, a musical remake of Shakespeare's tragedy (it worked for West Side Story) featuring garden gnomes, with songs by executive producer Elton John. Disney is also developing a new Three Little Pigs, using Caldecott Award winner David Wiesner's postmodern take on the porkers. But animaniacs don't see most classic Disney characters getting a face-lift. As Edna says, "Never look back, darling. It distracts from...