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Chooch Helped: is the 2025 Caldecott Medal (for illustration) winner, but this review is for the text. It's wonderful to see this Native American written and illustrated (both Andrea L. Rogers and Rébecca Kunz are Cherokee) picture book that isn't trauma-centered. My seven year old daughter loves this book because it's a story she can relate to (toddler brother messes up everything!), she can read it by herself, the Cherokee words on each page have pronunciation directly underneath, and this is the first time she's used a glossary, which she confidently does each time!

As for the illustrations, I don't feel that I have the background to fully assess art, so I suspect that the simplicity might hide some complicated/profound technique. However, I wished that there was an illustrator's note about the techniques used and process of creating the pictures. Certainly it's much more simple than the Caldecott Honorees and other projected contenders this year.

Ages 4-7