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Christopher Bing
February 6, 2002 · Grades 3-6

This 2001 Caldecott Honor winner uses his artistic skills and vivid imagination to masterfully illustrate and retell Longfellow’s The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and Thayer’s Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888.

Bing talks about how he designed Casey at the Bat to look like a collection of baseball mementos and newspaper clippings. He also discusses how The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere is illustrated to look like a scrapbook with paintings, sepia-toned maps, folios, and folded letters.

Segments include a student explanation of baseball idioms, student questions, and a tour of the Newseum in Arlington, Virginia.