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11 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
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
11 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: boats, nature, ocean, seasons, storms, weather
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1958
Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator
New York: Viking Press, 1957
63 pp
ages 4+
Interests: nature, ocean, storms, cottage life, boats
06 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books - infant+ Tags: animals, bedtime, cats, moon, night
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2005
Kevin Henkes, author and illustrator
New York: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2004
29 pp
infant +
interests: animals, cats, moon
06 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, donkeys, family, Magic
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1970
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
William Steig, author and illustrator
New York: Windmill Books/Simon and Schuster, 1969
30 pp.
ages 3+
Interests: magic, animal stories
06 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books - infant+ Tags: bedtime, god, night, poetry, prayer, religion
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1945
Rachel Field, author
Elizabeth Orton Jones, illustrator
New York: Macmillan, 1944
26 pp
Age: infant +
Interests: prayer, God, bedtime, night
19 Mar 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: bedtime, castle, Fairy Tale, moon, night, Princess
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1944
James Thurber, author
Louis Slobodkin, ill.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1943
45 pp
age 3+
Interests: fairy tales, princess, castles, moon
19 Mar 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: cars, cities, construction, country life, environment, history, machinery, nature, seasons
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1943
Virginia Lee Burton
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942
40 pp
ages 2 +
Interests: machinery, cars, construction, country living, the seasons, and what life was like long ago…
19 Mar 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: animals, birds, Boston, cities, ducks, nature
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1942
Robert McCloskey
New York: Viking Press, 1941
62 pp
ages 2 and up
Interests: birds, ducks, public parks, Boston
18 Mar 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books - infant+ Tags: American history, animals, country life, pioneer life, poetry
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1946
The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles
Maude and Miska Petersham
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945
62 pp.
age: infants on up
Interests: poetry
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