CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1953
by Lynd Ward
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1952
85 pp.
Age: 5+
Interests: nature, farms, hunting, bears
The Biggest Bear
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: American history, animals, bears, country life, hunting, nature
Chanticleer and the Fox
27 Jun 2011 1 Comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, country life, farm, folktales, fox, history, rooster
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1959
by Barbara Cooney (adapted and illustrated by)
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1958
32 pp.
Age: 3+
Interests: folktales, farm animals, roosters
Also by this illustrator: Miss Rumphius
Finders Keepers
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in Books, books 2+ Tags: animals, country life, dogs, farm
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1952
by Will (William Lipkind)
illustrated by Nicolas (Nicolas Mordvinoff)
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1951
30 pp.
Age: 2 +
Interests: dogs, farms
Mr. Gumpy’s Outing
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in Books, books 2+ Tags: animals, boats, country life, siblings
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1970
by John Burningham
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970
30 pp.
Age: 2+
Interests: animals, boats, river life, siblings
Also by this author: Avocado Baby, Borka, Come Away from the Water Shirley, Edwardo: The Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World
The Big Snow
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in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, birds, nature, seasons, snow, weather, winter
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNTER – 1949
Berta and Elmer Hader
New York: Macmillan, 1948
43 pp.
Ages: 3 +
Interests: animals, birds, seasons, nature, snow, winter
Pumpkin Soup
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in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, cooking
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1998
Helen Cooper
New York: Doubleday, 1998
29 pp
Age: 3 +
Interests: animals, cooking
Wolves
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in Books, books 5+ Tags: animals, rabbits, wolves
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 2005
Emily Gravett
London: MacMillan, 2005
32 pp
Ages: 5 +
Interests: animals, rabbits, wolves
Horton Hears a Who (2008)
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in Movies Tags: animals, elephants, jungle
Rated: G
Length: 86 min.
Age: 6 and up Commonsense Media sez: 4 +
Scary Factor: One scene of Horton trying to cross a rickety swinging bridge above a chasm had my daughter (4) climbing the walls and whimpering. Also the vulture Vlad is rather creepy – he is made goofy through his dialogue, but this will be lost on younger viewers who will just find him threatening. Mob descending on Horton at end is rather intense, caging him and tossing the speck into boiling oil! Situation milked for optimum suspense.
Violence: treated as humour: Mayor gets stapler stuck in his head… twice; one animal character is drop-kicked; much fall-down slapstick stuff
Language: very harsh and sarcastic; a lot of name-calling: ‘moron’, ‘idiot’, and ‘boob’ (repeated many times, the ultimate insult levelled by the town council against the mayor: my daughter was still giggling about it days later)
Interests: elephants, jungle, Dr. Seuss
Next: Dr. Seuss books
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ABC (Brian Wildsmith’s ABC)
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in Books, books - infant+ Tags: alphabet, animals
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1962
Brian Wildsmith, illustrator
London: Oxford University Press, 1962
Ages: infant +
Interests: animals, alphabet
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