GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1956
Edward Ardizzone, author and illustrator
London: Oxford University Press, 1956
46 pp
3 +
Interests: adventure, ships, ocean, storms, travel
Tim All Alone
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in Books, books 3+ Tags: adventure, boats, ocean, storms, travel, weather
They Were Strong and Good
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: American history, family, family history, history, pioneer life, war
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1941
Robert Lawson, author and illustrator
New York: Viking Press, 1940
62 pp
age: 5+
Interests: American history, family, family history, pioneer life, war
A study of Violence in G-rated Animated Feature Films!
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Maybe I’m a total geek but I found this very exciting, even though it’s over 10 years old. First I found a reference to the study in this book:
The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television Work for Your Kids, by Dimitri A. Christakis and Frederick J. Zimmerman (New York: Rodale, 2006),
and then I found the actual study online:
Yokota, F. & Thompson, K. M. “Violence in G-rated Animated Films” in the Journal of the American Medical Association 283 (May 24-31, 2000): 2716-2720. (see the full study here)
It covers animated films of feature length (at least 60 min.) that were rated G, released theatrically in the U.S. and which were “available for review on videocassette” by September of 1999, including 74 titles.
My Friend Rabbit
14 Apr 2011 1 Comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, toys
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2003
Eric Rohmann, author and illustrator
USA: Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press, 2002
30 pp
ages 3 +
Interests: animal stories, friendship stories
Black and White
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: art, cows, mystery, puzzles, trains
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1991
David Macaulay, author and illustrator
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990
30 pp
ages 5 +
Interests: picture puzzles, mysteries, trains, cows
By the same author: Cathedral: The Story of its Construction, City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction, The Way Things Work
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
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in Books, books 4+ Tags: animals, China, Fairy Tale, family, folktales, strong girls, wolves
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1990
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
Ed Young, author and illustrator
New York: Philomel, 1989
28 pp
Ages: 4 +
Interests: fairy tales, folktales
WALL-E (2008)
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in Movies, movies 4+ Tags: action, chase, environment, robots, romance, sci fi, space, spaceships
Rated: G
Length: 98 min
Age: 4 + … watchable at 4, better understood by 5 or 6 Commonsense Media sez: 5 +
Scary factor: our main characters are chased about, but nothing very threatening; Eve has a gun in her arm that she shoots at inanimate objects; in one scene she accidentally sets some huge oil tankers ablaze – no danger to characters, but it’s big and fiery, so may be alarming; a bad robot falls a great distance and breaks apart
Intense: some sad moments near the end when Wall-E seems broken-down/dead, but Eve is looking after him and it’s easy to allay concerns (“He’ll get better!”) because he does!
Language: one ‘heck’
Interests: space, robots, spaceships, environment
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Grandfather’s Journey
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: family, grandparents, history, immigration, Japan, travel, war
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1994
Allen Say, author and illustrator
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993
29 pp
ages 5 +
Interests: history, travel, immigration, Japan, family history, grandparents
The Hello, Goodbye Window
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in Books, books 2+ Tags: babysitters, family, grandparents
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2006
Chris Raschka, illustrator
Norton Juster, author
New York: Michael di Capua/Hyperion, 2005
29 pp
ages 2 +
Interests: grandparents, babysitters
Sequel to this book: Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie
Also by this author: The Phantom Tollbooth
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