September | 2012 | Rarest Kind of Best

D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths

by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire

New York Review Children’s Collection, 1967

155 pp.

age: 7

interests: mythology, magic, Scandinavia, Norse myths, gods, monsters, dragons, creation myths, war

also by these author/illustrators: Foxy, d’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, d’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls, Abraham Lincoln

GREENAWAY AWARD WINNER – 2001

Richard Platt, text

Chris Riddell, illustrations

Candlewick Press: Cambridge, MA, 2001

112 pp.

Age: 9+

Interests: pirates, history, sailing, ships, adventure, ocean

Also by this author and illustrator: Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess

Also by this illustrator: Ottoline and the Yellow Cat, Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver”

GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1996

(aka The Boy Who Wouldn’t Go to Bed)

by Helen Cooper

London: Doubleday, 1996

30 pp.

Age: 2+

Interests: bedtime stories, night

Also by this author: Pumpkin Soup, The Bear Under the Stairs