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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Rated: Canada – PG (parental guidance?! probably because of Hallowe’en sequence) ; USA – Approved
Length: 113 min.
Age: 4 and up. (more for comprehension and attention span)
Scary Factor: Hallowe’en scene (see below)
Intense stuff: the Christmas Eve scene with the snowmen makes me cry, but I don’t think children will be such marshmallows over it!
Interests: history, family, musicals, song and dance, old movies
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