Attention teachers, librarians and parents: The Bedford Library is conducting a very important election... on Caldecott worthy picture books. Come to the Branch and join us in a mock election nominating your favorite 2011 books as Caldecott award winners. We'll have lunch, choose top "candidates" and then vote to see which titles Monroe County thinks could be Caldecott winners.

January 21, 2012 - 10am-2pm Bedford Branch Library
Register for this event online!

Leading up to the Mock Election we'll be having online voting on our Facebook page. Look for two new polls every week!
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Check out some of the books that are on the list:

	All the Way to America:  The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel By:  Dan Yaccarino
	Bone Dog By:   Eric Rohmann
	A Butterfly is Patient By:  Dianna Hutts Aston Illustrated by Sylvia Long.
	Dream Something  Big:  The Story of the Watts Towers By: Dianna Hutts Aston Collages by Susan L. Roth.
	Emma dilemma : big sister poems By:   Kristine O'Connell George Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter.
	Grandpa Green By:   Lane Smith
	The great migration : journey to the north By:  Eloise Greenfield  Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
	Hooray for Amanda and her alligator! Words and pictures by Mo Willems.
	Jonathan and the big blue boat  By:  Philip Christian Stead.
	Ladder to the moon By:  Maya Soetoro-Ng I llustrated by Yuyi Morales
	Leap back home to me  By:  Lauren Thompson Illustrated by Matthew Cordell
	Little white rabbit By:  Kevin Henkes
	The mangrove tree : planting trees to feed families  By Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore Collages by Susan L. Roth.
	Me-- Jane By:   Patrick McDonnell.
	Meadowlands : a wetlands survival story By:  Thomas F. Yezerski.
	Mine! By:   Shutta Crum  Pictures by Patrice Barton
	Naamah and the ark at night  A lullaby by Susan Campbell Bartoletti  Illustrated by Holly Meade.

	A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend, Joe Louis By:  Matt de la Pena Illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
	Night flight : Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic By: Robert Burleigh Paintings by Wendell Minor.
	Peaceful pieces : poems and quilts about peace By:  Anna Grossnickle Hines.
	Perfect square  By:   Michael Hall.
	Queen of the Falls By:  Chris Van Allsburg.
	Rah, rah, radishes! : a vegetable chant By: April Pulley Sayre
	Say hello to Zorro!  By: Carter Goodrich
	The secret box By:Gayle Pearson.
	The secret river By: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings I llustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon.
	Ten little caterpillars      By:  Bill Martin Jr. [text by Michael Sampson] Illustrated by Lois Ehlert.
	This plus that : life's little equations  Amy + Krouse + Rosenthal = writer Jen + Corace = artist.
	Underground  By:  Shane W. Evans.
	The voyage of turtle Rex By:   Kurt Cyrus.
	The watcher : Jane Goodall's life with the chimps By:  Jeanette Winter.
	Where's Walrus? By:   Stephen Savage
	Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures By:  Brian Selznick.
	Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans By:   Kadir Nelson
	Levi Strauss gets a bright idea : a fairly fabricated story of a pair of pants By:   Tony Johnston Illustrated by Stacy Innerst.
	Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade      By:   Melissa Sweet
	Stars By Mary Lyn Ray  Illustrator:    Marla Frazee.
	A ball for Daisy By:   Chris Raschka.
	Never forgotten By:   Patricia C. McKissack  Artwork by Leo & Diane Dillon.

	The adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn with considerable help from Robert Burleigh    Illustrated by Barry Blitt
	All the water in the world  By:   George Ella Lyon Illustrated by:   Katherine Tillotson.
	Blackout By:   John Rocco
	Brother Sun, Sister Moon : Saint Francis of Assisi's canticle of the creatures Retold by Katherine Paterson Illustrated by Pamela Dalton.
	The Cazuela that the farm maiden stirred  By:  Samantha R. Vamos  Illustrations by Rafael López.
	Drawing from memory by:  Allen Say
	For the love of music : the remarkable story of Maria Anna Mozart  by Elizabeth Rusch  paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
	Goyangi means cat by:  Christine McDonnell pictures by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
	If I never forever endeavor by:  Holly Meade
	Irena Sendler and the children of the Warsaw Ghetto  By:  Susan Goldman Rubin  Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth
	Naamah and the ark at night : a lullaby By Susan Campbell Bartoletti llustrated by Holly Meade.
	Orani : my father's village By:  Claire A. Nivola
	Pig Kahuna By:   Jennifer Gordon Sattler
	Seven fathers  retold by Ashley Ramsden Illustrations by Ed Young
	A Storm called Katrina  By:   Myron Uhlberg  Illustrated:   by Colin Bootman.
	Substitute Creacher By:  Chris Gall.
	Levi Strauss gets a bright idea or : the positively true and unfabricated story of a pair of pants  by:   Tony Johnston  Illustrated by Stacy Innerst.
	Won-Ton : a cat tale told in haiku By:   Lee Wardlaw Illustrated by Eugene Yelchin.
	Swirl by swirl : spirals in nature  By: Joyce Sidman Illustrated by Beth Krommes.
	Neville By:  Norton Juster Illustrations by:   G. Brian Karas
	Ice By: Arthur Geisert.
	Red sled By:  Lita Judge.
	Mouse & lion / Aesop Retold by Rand Burkert Pictures by:   Nancy Ekholm Burkert
	Ten rules you absolutely must not break if you want to survive the school bus By John Grandits Illustrated by Michael Allen Austin.