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
Chanticleer and the Fox
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in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, country life, farm, folktales, fox, history, rooster
The Funny Little Woman
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in Books, books 3+ Tags: cave, cooking, folktales, Japan, Magic
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1973
Arlene Mosel, author
Blair Lent, illustrator
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972
36 pp.
Age: 3+
Interests: folktales, Japan, cooking, magic, caves
The Serpent Slayer; and Other Stories of Strong Women
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in Books, books 5+, Gender Differences Tags: adventure, Fairy Tale, folktales, pirates, Princess, strong girls
retold by Katrin Tchana
illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000
109 pp. – each individual story averages about 6 pages
Age: 5 + (some stories suitable for 4)
Interests: folk tales, princesses, pirates, fairy tales, magic, other cultures
Other books by this illustrator: St. George and the Dragon, Rapunzel
Caps For Sale
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in Books, books 2+ Tags: folktales, monkeys
subtitle: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
Esphyr Slobodkina, author and illustrator
New York: HarperCollins, 1968 – originally published 1940
40 pp
Age: 2 and up (also good for beginning readers: 6+)
Interests: monkeys, folktales
The Three Poor Tailors
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GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1965
Victor Ambrus
London: Oxford University Press, 1965
23 pp
Ages: 3+
Interests: folktales
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
Arrow to the Sun
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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
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