Annal:1983 Randolph Caldecott Medal
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Results of the Randolph Caldecott Medal in the year 1983. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1983 Caldecott winner
- Score: 10.33
Shadow lives in the forest…
It goes forth at night
to prowl around the fires.
It even likes to mingle
with the dancers…
Shadow…
It waves with the grasses,
curls up at the foot of trees…
But in the African experience Shadow is much more. The village storytellers and shamans of an Africa that is passing into memory called forth for the poet Blaise Cendrars an eerie image, shifting between the beliefs of the present and the spirits of the past.
