Go Ma!
A book my mom designed won the Caldecott Medal today. It’s called The House in the Night. This is the 5th book she’s designed that has won the award, which honors the best Childen’s book illustrations each year. AFAIK, that’s pretty unprecedented. Congratulations!
Even though she didn’t illustrate the book, I’ll give her a measure of credit for the award. How a book is design most certainly mediates how readers experience it, and I believe her design contributed to how the judges and other readers enjoyed the book.
In other news, the ALA announced the awards as they were happening on Twitter on @ALAyma. This excited my mother, who has to suffer through my ramblings about tech services and has heard all about the wonders of Twitter. This morning, however, I got the following email from her:
I’ve never been so proud…This is so much fun! Just wanted to let you know though, that Twitter failed about 3/4 of the time into the announcements. Luckily I had the video feed going on another window. Here’s the link, it won’t refresh. I must say I was surprised, I think of Twitter as low-tech and foolproof in a way.
I am about to join Facebook, one of my colleagues just put me up on her page!
Love,Mom
