GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1969
Edward Lear, author
Helen Oxenbury, illustrator
Essex: Springbourne Press, 1969, 1985
30 pp
Ages: 2 +
Interests: poetry, nonsense, animals
Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
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in movies 4+ Tags: action, adventure, boats, pirates
Rated: G
Length: 99 min.
Age: 4 and up. Commonsense Media sez: 6 +
Scary Factor: usual pirate fight scenes, though no blood; pirate attack on tavern a little alarming (though interjected with funny business)
Also: human character dies at beginning of heart attack, after drinking excessively (no drunken muppets though)
Interests: pirates, ships, muppets, adventure
Next: The Muppet Show TV series, or movies: The Muppet Movie, The Muppet Christmas Carol, etc.
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The Iron Man
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in Books, books 7+ Tags: dragons, robots, sci fi, space
aka: The Iron Giant
by Ted Hughes
London: Faber and Faber, 1968
62 pp, 5 chapters
Ages: 7 and up (could be read to younger children, though space creature is pretty scary)
Interests: sci fi, robots, space, dragons
The Magic Pudding
03 May 2011 2 Comments
in Books, books 5+, Classics Tags: Australia, fighting, food
also known as: The Magic Pudding: being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff
Norman Lindsay, author and illustrator
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1918
reprinted by Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006
137 pp; 4 chapters (or ‘slices’)
Ages: 5 and up, though vocabulary is a little difficult (chapter book)
Interests: animals, Australia, magic, food, fighting
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Treasure Island (1950)
03 May 2011 1 Comment
in Movies, movies 5+, Old Movies Tags: action, adventure, boats, British history, pirates
(Disney live-action)
Rated: PG (US & video rating in Canada)
Length: 96 min.
Age: 5 and up. Commonsense Media sez: 7 +
Scary Factor: lots of adventure, threatening situations too numerous to count; sword battles, shooting, mutiny; Jim fights a pirate and is wounded before he shoots the pirate in the face
Also: much drinking of rum (only by adults)
Interests: pirates, action, adventure, ships, islands, treasure, British history
Next: other pirate films Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk; books Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe
Yellow Submarine (1968)
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in Movies, movies 5+ Tags: adventure, art, music, war
Rated: G
Length: 90 min.
Age: 5 and up. Commonsense Media sez: 7 +
Scary Factor: Blue Meanies and Ruler are threatening and freaky; machine guns carried by the baddies, but no one is shot; flying Glove is scary (mostly the sound of its laugh); one brief moment with Frankenstein monster is a little scary but he soon transforms into John
Also: general freakiness of visuals!
Bad Behavior: one exploding cigar smoked by an undersea monster; no booze, no drugs
Interests: rock music, the Beatles, psychedelia, art, fantasy
Next: Beatles music, movies: A Hard Day’s Night, Help!
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: action, crime, romance, theatre
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 2007
Mini Grey
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
30 pp
Ages:5 +
Interests: nursery rhymes updated, crime and punishment, love stories
Gorilla
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: gorillas, monkeys, single parent
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1983
Anthony Browne
London: Julia MacRae, 1983
29 pp
Age: 4 +
Interests: gorillas, single parent families
Also by this author: Zoo
Pumpkin Soup
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in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, cooking
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1998
Helen Cooper
New York: Doubleday, 1998
29 pp
Age: 3 +
Interests: animals, cooking
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