CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1953
by Lynd Ward
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1952
85 pp.
Age: 5+
Interests: nature, farms, hunting, bears
The Biggest Bear
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: American history, animals, bears, country life, hunting, nature
Flotsam
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: beach, Magic, mystery, nature, ocean, photography, sea creatures
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2007
by David Wiesner
New York: Clarion Books, 2006
Age: 5+
Interests: ocean, ocean creatures, nature, beaches, photography, magic
Also by this author: Free Fall, Tuesday, Sector 7, The Three Pigs
Grasshopper On the Road
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: insects, philosophy, travel
by Arnold Lobel
New York: Harper & Row, 1978
57 pp. – 6 stories
Age: 5+
Interests: insects, differing viewpoints, philosophy
Also by this author: Frog and Toad books, Fables
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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in Books, books 5+, Classics Tags: adventure, castle, Magic, storms, strong girls, travel, witches, wizard
The Wizard of Oz (aka The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
by L. Frank Baum
original illustrator W. W. Denslow
first published 1900
158 pp. (in New York: Sterling, 1999) – 24 chapters
Age: 5 +
Interests: magic, witches, adventure, travel, tornadoes
Also by this author: 14 Oz sequels, of varying quality
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: fairies, Magic, skipping
Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep
by Eleanor Farjeon
illustrated by Charlotte Voake
first published in 1937
this edition: Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 1997
61 pp.
Age: 5 +
Interests: fairies, magic, skipping
The Serpent Slayer; and Other Stories of Strong Women
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in Books, books 5+, Gender Differences Tags: adventure, Fairy Tale, folktales, pirates, Princess, strong girls
retold by Katrin Tchana
illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000
109 pp. – each individual story averages about 6 pages
Age: 5 + (some stories suitable for 4)
Interests: folk tales, princesses, pirates, fairy tales, magic, other cultures
Other books by this illustrator: St. George and the Dragon, Rapunzel
Ramona the Pest
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: bad behavior, kindergarten, strong girls
by Beverly Cleary
original illustrator: Louis Darling
Age: 5 and up (good too for older, beginning readers)
Interests: kindergarten, school, siblings
Eloise
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: bad behavior, cities, New York, strong girls
subtitle: A Book for Precocious Grown Ups
Kay Thompson, author
Hilary Knight, illustrator
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955
65 pp.
Age: 5 and up (read full review: some may find content alarming!)
Interests: New York, hotels, room service, strong girls, bad behavior
The Magic Pudding
03 May 2011 2 Comments
in Books, books 5+, Classics Tags: Australia, fighting, food
also known as: The Magic Pudding: being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff
Norman Lindsay, author and illustrator
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1918
reprinted by Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006
137 pp; 4 chapters (or ‘slices’)
Ages: 5 and up, though vocabulary is a little difficult (chapter book)
Interests: animals, Australia, magic, food, fighting
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The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: action, crime, romance, theatre
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 2007
Mini Grey
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
30 pp
Ages:5 +
Interests: nursery rhymes updated, crime and punishment, love stories
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