As part of the 75th anniversary of the Caldecott Medal, the Association for Library Service to Children (a division of ALA) is offering a free webinar entitled “Caldecott Uncovered: What You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the Caldecott Medal.” Participation is limited to 95 people. The discussion will cover all aspects of the Caldecott including how award committee members are chosen, how a book is chosen, and how members decide if a book is a picture book or not. Get your questions answered! For more information, please visit the American Library Association’s website.

Author-illustrator Marc Brown, creator of the internationally successful Arthur series, will be speaking at the Dallas Museum of Art’s BooksmART program on Sunday, April 15 at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $16 ($10 for students). For more information, please visit the BooksmART site.

For those of you in the Texas DFW area, check out the free literary events sponsored by the Texas Rangers. The authors and illustrators featured are:

Thursday, January 12: C.F. Payne (The Remarkable Farkle McBride & Micawbe)

Thursday, February 9: Richard Michelson (As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom)

Thursday, March 8: Grace Lin (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon & Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!)

Thursday, April 12: Jarrett Krosoczka (Lunch Lady series)

Thursday, May 10: Chris Soentpiet (Coolies & Saturdays and Teacakes)

For more information, please visit the website.