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Caldecott Medal and Honor Books to 1970
Best picture books chosen by the American Library Association. complete list back to 1938 |
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Aardema, Verna Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears : a West African Tale West African legend of why the mosquito has a guilty conscience for all the trouble she caused by telling a lie. 1975 Children's Nonfiction Book 398.20966 A |
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2013 Klassen, J. This is Not My Hat A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene. Easy Picture Book |
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2012 Raschka, Christopher A Ball for Daisy A wordless picture book about all the fun a dog can have with her ball. Easy Picture Book |
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2011 Stead, Philip Christian A Sick Day for Amos McGee Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests. Easy Picture Book STEAD |
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2010 Pinkney, Jerry The Lion and the Mouse In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle. Easy Nonfiction Book |
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2009 Swanson, Susan Marie The House in the Night Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light. Easy Picture Book |
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2008 Selznick, Brian The Invention of Hugo Cabret Twelve-year-old Hugo is an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931. When he meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. Children's Fiction Book SELZNIC |
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2007 Wiesner, David Flotsam What happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam? It's a fascinating journey for the eye! Easy Picture Book WIESNER |
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2006 Juster, Norton The Hello Goodbye Window The kitchen window at Nanna and Poppy's house is, for one little girl, a magic gateway. Everything important happens near it, or beyond it. Told in her voice, her story is both a voyage of discovery and a celebration of the commonplace wonders that define childhood. It is also a love song devoted to that special relationship between grandparents and grandchild--Front flap. Easy Picture Book |
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2005 Henkes, Kevin Kitten's First Full Moon When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it. Easy Picture Book HENKES |
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2004 Gerstein, Mordicai The Man Who Walked Between the Towers A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. Easy Nonfiction Book 791.34 G |
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2003 Rohmann, Eric My Friend Rabbit Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend. Easy Picture Book ROHMANN |
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2002 Wiesner, David The Three Pigs The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon. Easy Picture Book WIESNER |
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2001 St. George, Judith So You Want to be President? Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton. Children's Nonfiction Book 973.099 S |
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2000 Taback, Simms Joseph Had a Little Overcoat A Jewish man, Joseph, living in Poland, has a very old overcoat which he recycles several times into a variety of garments, until there is nothing left of it. But even then Joseph finds a use for it, showing that you can always make something out of nothing. Easy Picture Book TABACK |
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1999 Martin, Jacqueline Briggs Snowflake Bentley A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations. Easy Nonfiction Book 921 B4428 |
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1998 Zelinsky, Paul O. Rapunzel A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Children's Nonfiction Book 398.20943 Z |
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1997 Wisniewski, David Golem When the Jews of the 16th-century Prague ghetto are accused of the blood libel, and their lives are at risk from a mob, Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel fashions a Golem from clay to protect them. Children's Nonfiction Book 398.21 W |
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1996 Rathmann, Peggy Officer Buckle and Gloria The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches. Easy Picture Book RATHMANN |
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1995 Bunting, Eve Smoky Night When the Los Angeles rebellion breaks out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality. Children's Fiction Book BUNTING |
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1994 Say, Allen Grandfather's Journey A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries. Easy Picture Book SAY |
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