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19 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: activism, environment, First Nations, grandparents, indigenous peoples, nature, pollution, river, strong girls, water
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2021
text by Carole Lindstrom, illustrations by Michaela Goade
Age: 5+ (for full engagement)
Interests: environmentalism, nature, water, activism, pollution, indigenous people, first nations, strong girls
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07 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+, Uncategorized Tags: art, artists, biography, city life, New York
by Javaka Steptoe
Age: 5+
Interests: artists, art, biography, New York, city life
17 Oct 2017 4 Comments
in Books, books 5+, books 7+, Classics, Uncategorized Tags: animals, community, country life, farm, nature, rabbits
written and illustrated by Robert Lawson
Age: (read to) 5+, (independent reading) 7+
Interests: animals, rabbits, farms, country life, community
21 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+, books 7+ Tags: country life, family, farming, strong girls
written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright
Age: 5+ (read to); 7+ (independent reading)
Interests: farms, country life, family, strong girls
16 Nov 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+, Classics Tags: animals, comedy, fairy tale updated, folktales, Magic
by Carl Sandburg
illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham
Age: 5+
Interests: folk tales, history, poetry, language More
26 Sep 2013 2 Comments
in Books, books 5+, Canadian books Tags: artists, bad behavior, cats, comedy, mice, storytelling, writers
text and illustrations by Mélanie Watt
Age: 5+ (but older kids will find it funny too – 7,8)
Interests: cats, mice, artists, telling stories, bad behaviour, humour
18 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: fear, maps, mice
15 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: family, father, flight, inventions
by Grahame Baker-Smith
Age: 5+
Interests: flight, inventors, fathers, flying machines
30 Mar 2013 1 Comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: art, Christmas, religion
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1995
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
text by Susan Wojciechowski
illustrations by P. J. Lynch
Candlewick Press: 1995
34 pp.
Age: 5+
Interests: Christmas, art, wood carving, Christian religion
Also by this illustrator: When Jessie Came Across the Sea
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