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25 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 9+ Tags: action, adventure, American history, bad behavior, boats, British history, history, ocean, pirates, travel, violence
GREENAWAY AWARD WINNER – 2001
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter
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”
02 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: bad behavior, bedtime, night, toys
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1996
The Baby Who Wouldn’t Go to Bed
(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
28 Jun 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+ Tags: libraries, parties, pirates, robbers
The Great Piratical Rumbustification & The Librarian and the Robbers
Margaret Mahy, text
Quentin Blake, illustrations
J.M. Dent & Sons, 1978
2 stories: 41 and 18 pages
Age: 6 +
Reading Level: 8 +
Interests: pirates, parties, robbers, libraries, humour
Also by this author: The Dragon of an Ordinary Family, A Lion in the Meadow, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate
15 Jun 2012 1 Comment
in Books, books 6+ Tags: animals, zoo
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER -1992
by Anthony Browne
Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1992
24 pp.
Age: 6+
Interests: animals, zoos, animal welfare
Also by this author: Gorilla
05 Jun 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: adventure, castle, fairies, Fairy Tale, Magic, monsters, ogres, prince, Princess, royalty, violence
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1982
Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
Angela Carter, translation
Michael Foreman, illustrations
Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982
128 pp. – 12 stories
Age: 7 +
Interests: fairy tales, adventure, magic, princesses, princes, castles, ogres
22 May 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 9+ Tags: airplanes, autobiography, biography, British history, country life, England, history, nonfiction, war
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1989
by Michael Foreman
Pavilion Books, 1989
92 pp.
Age: 9+
Interests: history, war, World War II, autobiography, England, airplanes
Next (also by Foreman): War Games: Village Green to No Man’s Land, After the War Was Over
Related Movies: Hope and Glory
21 May 2012 1 Comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: animals, bears, bedtime, night, single parent
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1988
Martin Waddell, text
Barbara Firth, illustrations
Candlewick Press, 1988
30 pp.
Age: 2+
Interests: bears, night, bedtime, dark, fears, single parent
21 May 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+ Tags: cats, cities, crime, detective, dogs, family, fashion, mystery, strong girls, travel
by Chris Riddell
Macmillan, 2007
171 pp.
Age: 6+
Reading Level: 8+
Interests: mysteries, adventure, travel, strong heroines, fashion, clever plans and maps
Next: Ottoline At Sea, Ottoline Goes to School
18 May 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, grandparents, nature, ocean, whales
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1990
Dyan Sheldon, text
Gary Blythe, illustrations
Hutchinson Children’s Books, 1990
24 pp.
Age: 3 +
Interests: whales, ocean, grandparents, animals, nature
10 Apr 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 8+ Tags: difference, England, knights, Magic, medieval history
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1985
Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady
Selina Hastings, text
Juan Wijngaard, illustrations
Walker Books, 1985
24 pp.
Age: 8+
Interests: knights, King Arthur, medieval history, magic
Next: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by same author/illustrator
Also: Saint George and the Dragon, The Kitchen Knight: a Tale of King Arthur, and Merlin and the Making of the King, all by Margaret Hodges and Trina Schart Hyman
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