by Roald Dahl
illustrator Quentin Blake
London: Puffin, 1964
63 pp.
Age: 4 +
Interests: animal welfare, birds, magic
Also by this author: James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, Charley and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and many, many more
Ella’s Big Chance
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: Fairy Tale, fashion, Magic, romance
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 2003
by Shirley Hughes
London: Bodley Head, 2003
44 pp.
Age: 4+
Interests: fairy tales, fashion, love stories, magic
Also by this author: Dogger
Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: birds, cities, London
Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1967
by Charles Keeping
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967
31 pp.
Age: 4 +
Interests: birds, cities, London
The Magic Fishbone
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in Books, books 4+, Classics Tags: fairies, Fairy Tale, Magic, Princess, siblings, strong girls
subtitle: “A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged Seven”
by Charles Dickens
originally published 1868
this edition: illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, Vanguard Press, New York, 1953
36 pp.
Age: 4 +
Interests: magic, fairies, princesses
Also by this author (for children): The Cricket on the Hearth, A Christmas Carol
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must be More to Life
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: adventure, dogs, theatre
by Maurice Sendak
New York: Harper Collins, 1967
69 pp.
Age: 4 +
Interests: dogs, adventure, theatre
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
Old Winkle and the Seagulls
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: birds, boats, ocean
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1960
Gerald Rose, author (with Elizabeth Rose) and illustrator
London: Faber and Faber, 1960
31 pp
4+
Interests: boats, ocean, birds
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: animals, China, Fairy Tale, family, folktales, strong girls, wolves
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1990
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
Ed Young, author and illustrator
New York: Philomel, 1989
28 pp
Ages: 4 +
Interests: fairy tales, folktales
Jumanji
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: adventure, animals, jungle, Magic, mystery, nature
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1982
Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981
28 pp.
ages 4 +
Interests: board games, jungle creatures, magic and mayhem
By the same author: The Polar Express, Zathura (another magical board game story)
Arrow to the Sun
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: art, Aztec, folktales, gods, Mexico, myths, single parent
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1975
Gerald McDermott, author and illustrator
New York: Viking Press, 1974
36 pp
ages 4+ (for the story, though artwork will interest even younger children)
Interests: Aztec folklore, art, indigenous art, Mexico/Central America, myths
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