Talk:Caldecott Medal

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Why this page is blanked? --NAHID 08:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

• The material's been retrieved. NAHID 08:55, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Newbery and Caldecott

Hey, I'm not very good at wikipedia yet, but I was wondering why the Newbery and Caldecott prizes are in a different order. :) Could someone please fix it? Kimuchi 09:36, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand your question.... What page are you referring to? --Knulclunk 18:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh! I see. One is chronological, the other reverse chronological. It seems someone decided to reverse it at Newbery first. We should do a quick poll here. --Knulclunk 18:58, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry everyone for not reading the talk page first, but, I converted the bulleted list into a table, and, while doing so, made it (reverse, I guess?) chronological (i.e. 2007, 2006, 2005, etc.). I'm not that great with WP code, but I know it's possible to add a "sort" feature to the table (see the table here). --Rockymountains 00:01, 16 September 2007 (UTC)Rockymountains

A sortable table would be fine, with reverse chronological as the default. I think then we would want to be able to sort by author's last names.--Knulclunk 01:37, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Done! All I had to change was in the class declarer (sp?) from "wikitable" to "sortable wikitable." Coding just doesn't get any easier :P. Nevertheless, I'm not sure it would be possible to sort by last names; I don't think MediaWiki is powerful enough to recognize that sort of stuff --Rockymountains 21:49, 18 September 2007 (UTC)Rockymountains

[edit] Authors and illustrators

Isn't the Caldecott Medal awarded to the author and to the illustrator if applicable that particular year? For example, 1988: Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen. Maybe we need a column for illustrators as well as authors. Actually it is an award for illustrations, we need to make sure that point is made clear. - Epousesquecido (talk) 22:52, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

You're right that the "Author" column heading makes no sense. I think the names listed all correspond to the book's illustrator, and thus the award recipient, but in many cases that person isn't also the author of the book. I'm going to go ahead and change the heading to "Illustrator"; I'm fairly indifferent on whether an Author column should be added. Perhaps simply a column with the heading "Illustrator also author?" or something like that, with Y's or asterisks in the rows where this is true. Users can always click on the book title to find out the author of the book. Propaniac (talk) 16:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, now the columns make more sense. - Epousesquecido (talk) 16:10, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

But, shouldn't the list be sortable by LAST name? We don't need to change it, just discuss.--Knulclunk (talk) 21:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I think it is important to keep it in chronological order, but it would be nice to be able to sort by last name. - Epousesquecido (talk) 21:49, 10 February 2008 (UTC)