by Bob Graham
Age: 4+
Interests: superheroes, babies, family, flying
Max
30 May 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: babies, family, flight, helping others, superheroes
Mrs. Easter and the Storks
22 May 2013 3 Comments
in Books, books 4+ Tags: adventure, birds, boats, chase, London, royalty, travel
Mrs Easter and the Storks
by V.H. Drummond
Age: 4+
Interests: birds, travel, London, adventure, chase, royalty
The Jolly Christmas Postman
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: Christmas, fairy tale updated, letters, mailman, nursery rhymes, wolves
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1991
text by Allan Ahlberg
illustrations by Janet Ahlberg
Little, Brown and Company: 1991
32 pages
Age: 4+
Interests: mail, Christmas, nursery rhymes
Also by these author/illustrators: The Jolly Postman (or Other People’s Letters), The Jolly Pocket Postman, Each Peach Pear Plum, Burglar Bill
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse
17 Jan 2013 3 Comments
in Books, books 4+, books 7+, Classics Tags: adventure, boats, circus, horses, ocean, pirates, royalty, toys, travel
Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse
by Ursula Moray Williams
originally published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1938
253 pp. – 19 chapters
Age: (read to) 4+ ; (independent reading) 7+
Interests: horses, toys come to life, travel, adventures, pirates, circus
by the same author: Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat, The Further Adventures of Gobbolino and the Little Wooden Horse
The Red Book
14 Mar 2012 3 Comments
in Books, books 4+ Tags: city life, mystery, travel, wordless books
by Barbara Lehman
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
32 pp.
Age: 4 +
Interests: wordless books, mystery, travel, books
Also by this author: Museum Trip, Rainstorm, Trainstop, The Secret Box
To Read Next: Flotsam, other puzzling books
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
07 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in Books, books 4+ Tags: First Nations, folktales, horses, nature
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1979
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
by Paul Goble
Simon & Schuster, 1978
32 pp.
Age: 4+
Interests: horses, First Nations legends, folktales
Also by this author: Mystic Horse, The Great Race of the Birds and Animals, Star Boy, Death of the Iron Horse, Buffalo Woman, The Gift of the Sacred Dog, Song of Creation, and many others
Rapunzel
07 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: Fairy Tale, Magic, Princess, romance, witches
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1998
by Paul O. Zelinsky
Dutton Children’s Books, 1997
32 pp.
Age: 4+
Interests: fairy tales, princesses, witches, magic, romance
Also by this author/illustrator: Rumplestiltskin, The Wheels on the Bus
Song and Dance Man
05 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: attic, dance, family, family history, grandparents, song and dance, theatre
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1989
Karen Ackerman, text
Stephen Gammell, illustrations
Alfred A. Knopf, 1988
30 pp.
Age: 4+
Interests: family history, grandparents, song and dance, theatre
Other books on family history: They Were Strong and Good, Grandfather’s Journey
Next: pull out the old family photos!
Ox-Cart Man
04 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: American history, country life, farming, history, seasons
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1980
Donald Hall, text
Barbara Cooney, illustrations
Viking Press, 1979
38 pp.
Age: 4+
Interests: history, farming, country life, self-sufficiency, seasons, American history, New England, folk art
Also by this illustrator: Miss Rumphius
The Woodcutter’s Duck
17 Jan 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: country life, ducks, folktales, Magic, Poland
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1972
by Krystyna Turska
Macmillan, 1972
32 pp.
Age: 4+
Interests: folktales, Poland, country life, ducks, kindness to animals, pets
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