Locomotive

Award: 
Randolph Caldecott Medal
Year this Award was Won: 
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Award Win Active Date: 
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 20:39
Winner Rank: 
WIN
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Locomotive
Winner Description: 
illustrated and written by Brian Floca and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Winner Blurb: 

All aboard! Accompany a family on an unforgettable weeklong train trip from Omaha to Sacramento in 1869. Brian Floca’s dramatic watercolor, ink, acrylic and gouache illustrations incorporate meticulously-researched portraits of the train, the travelers and the crew as they traverse the American landscape on the new transcontinental railroad.

“The committee was impressed with Floca’s ability to creatively capture the immensity and inner workings of the early locomotive and combine it with a family’s adventurous journey west,” said Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Marion Hanes Rutsch.

 

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Locomotive
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Locomotive
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Book
Winner Detail Create Date: 
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 20:39
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 20:39
Winner Type: 
PTMD