Nadine Bernard Westcott, ed. and illustrator
New York: Orchard Books, 1994
63 pp., 56 poems
age 4 and up
Interests: food, poetry, eating, gross stuff
Never Take a Pig to Lunch: And Other Poems About the Fun of Eating
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: cooking, food, mealtime, poetry
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: animals, nature, penguins, pets, theatre
A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK
Richard & Florence Atwater, authors
Robert Lawson, illustrator
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1938
138 pp
ages 4 and up (chapter book to read aloud)
Interests: penguins, antarctic
My Father’s Dragon
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: adventure, animals, boats, dragons, jungle, maps, nature, ocean, travel
Ruth Stiles Gannett, author
Ruth Chrisman Gannett, illustrator
New York: Random House, 1948
87 p
ages 4+ (chapter book)
Interests: jungle animals, maps, travel adventure, dragons
Abraham Lincoln
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: American history, biography, country life, history, pioneer life, politics, war
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1940
Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
New York: Doubleday, 1939
56pp
ages 5+
Interests: American history, politics, pioneer life
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Mei Li
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in Books, books 3+ Tags: China, family, New Year's Eve, siblings, spirits, strong girls
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1939
Thomas Handforth
New York: Doubleday, 1938
46 pp
for ages 3 +
Interests: China, family life, sibling issues
Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book
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in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, Bible, god, nature, religion
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1938
Dorothy P. Lathrop, illustrator
Helen Dean Fish, editor
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1937
66p
Age: 3+ (give or take… see notes below)
Interests: bible, animals, religion
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