Drummer Hoff Fires Off - 1968 Caldecott Award Winner

I selected this book because it was written the year I was born, and I wanted to compare this Caldecott Award winner (a book written back when I was a child) to more recent winners. Though I can see how the illustrations may have won the award back in 1968, it is amazing how far children's illustrators have progressed and changed since then. Certainly, the story itself was less than exciting; but, I realize that the award was won for the illustrations and not the writing. Nonetheless, I must say that I would probably use this book strictly as a means to show prominent illustration styles from the decades of the 50's and 60's as compared to present day illustration styles.