SVA Alumnus and Faculty Member Doug Salati Wins 2023 Caldecott
The American Library Association’s annual Youth Media Awards honored Salati’s ‘Hot Dog’ with its top picture book honor.
![An illustrated book cover: a red dog looking blissful at the beach.](https://media.sva.edu/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,dpr_auto,q_auto,w_768/heroImage/hot-dog-book-cover-1675878133-derivative.webp)
The cover of the 2023 Randolph Caldecott Award-winning picture book Hot Dog, written and illustrated by SVA faculty member Doug Salati (MFA 2014 Illustration as Visual Essay).
Credit: Doug Salati/Alfred A. Knopf