# Tomfoolery!

**Author:** Michelle Markel
**Grade range:** Grades K–5
**First published:** 2023
**Page count:** 43
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9781797227955`
**ISBN-10:** `1797227955`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/tomfoolery-randolph-caldecott-and-the-rambunctious-coming-of-age-of-childrens-bo
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

FIVE STARRED REVIEWS! "Exuberant."―Horn Book Magazine, starred review "Excellent."—Booklist, starred review "Storytelling at its best."—Kirkus, starred review "Enduringly appealing."—School Library Journal, starred review "[A] lively portrait."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Meet Randolph Caldecott, the artist who revolutionized picture book illustration and for whom the prestigious Caldecott medal is named! From acclaimed picture book creators Michelle Markel and Barbara McClintock comes a lively, humorous, and energetically informative biography that celebrates the spirit of storytelling in art. Quick! If you don’t move fast, you’ll miss him—there he goes—Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly: wild weather, frisky animals, and people so s

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- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2024 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2024 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)

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