18 | March | 2011 | Rarest Kind of Best

The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles

CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1946

Maude and Miska Petersham

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945

62 pp.

age: infants on up

Interests: poetry

CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK

William Steig

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976

28 pp

5 and up

Nadine Bernard Westcott, ed. and illustrator

New York: Orchard Books, 1994

63 pp., 56 poems

age 4 and up

Interests: food, poetry, eating, gross stuff