27 | June | 2011 | Rarest Kind of Best

Chanticleer and the Fox

CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1959

by Barbara Cooney (adapted and illustrated by)

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1958

32 pp.

Age: 3+

Interests: folktales, farm animals, roosters

Also by this illustrator: Miss Rumphius

by Roald Dahl

illustrated by Quentin Blake

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988

240 pp. – 21 chapters

Age: 6+

Interests: kids who are bookworms, school, magic, psychic powers, revenge!

Also by this author: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches

by Oscar Wilde

originally published in 1887

64 pp. (1987, Oxford Univ. Press edition)

7 chapters

Age: 7 +

Interests: ghost stories, haunted houses, humour