http://education.utsa.edu/news/article/ilts_miriam_martinez_appointed_to_serve_on_selection_committee_for_the_cald/
Quoted from the COEHD website:
Dr. Miriam Martinez, Professor in ILT, has recently been appointed to serve on the prestigious Caldecott Award Selection Committee 2013. The committee is comprised of 15 members, of which eight are elected by the entire ALSC. The ALSC President, however, appoints the remaining 7 members, including the committee’s chairperson.
The Association for the Library Service to Children, or ALSC, which is a division of the American Library Association, awards the Caldecott Medal annually to an artist who has produced the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Of the appointment, Martinez states, “I am personally delighted and honored to serve on the Caldecott Award Selection Committee for 2013. Every year I always look forward to seeing which book is selected for the award. So I welcome the opportunity to be part of this important decision-making process. On a professional level, I think this will be an opportunity to strengthen ties among the various facets of my professional work—my teaching (which includes teaching a graduate class on picture books), my service to the Children’s Literature Assembly as co-editor of the Journal of Children’s Literature, and my research which focuses, in part, on picture books for children.”
