19 | June | 2011 | Rarest Kind of Best

A Tree is Nice

CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1957

Janice May Udry, author

Marc Simont, illustrator

New York: HarperCollins, 1956

30 pp.

Age: 2+

Interests: trees, nature, ecology

CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1973

Arlene Mosel, author

Blair Lent, illustrator

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972

36 pp.

Age: 3+

Interests: folktales, Japan, cooking, magic, caves