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04 Mar 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: animals, castle, cats, country life, dogs, England, family history, Magic, morality, mystery, Princess, religion, romance, strong girls
WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL – 1946
by Elizabeth Goudge
University of London Press: 1946
238 pages – 12 chapters
Age: 7 (read to); 9 (independent reading)
Interests: magic, mystery, animals, castles, princesses, England, aristocracy, religion, family history, romance
NB: This book was adapted into a 1994 BBC series entitled Moonacre and a 2009 movie The Secret of Moonacre.
Next: The Secret Garden or A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Also by this author: Island Magic
13 Feb 2013 3 Comments
in Books, books 10+ Tags: desert, family history, friendship, jail, mystery
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER – 1999
by Louis Sachar
Random House: 1998
233 pp.
Age: 10 +
Interests: mystery, fate, jail, desert, survival, friendship
Also by this author: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Marvin Redpost series, and Small Steps – a sequel of sorts to Holes, following some of the other boys from Camp Green Lake
Next: the movie version Holes (2003) is very good, and quite faithful to the novel
30 Jan 2013 3 Comments
in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, bad behavior, bears, crime, mystery, rabbits
by Jon Klassen
Candlewick Press, 2011
33 pp.
Age: 3+
Interests: animals, mystery, crime and punishment, bears and rabbits
Also by this author: This is Not My Hat
21 May 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+ Tags: cats, cities, crime, detective, dogs, family, fashion, mystery, strong girls, travel
by Chris Riddell
Macmillan, 2007
171 pp.
Age: 6+
Reading Level: 8+
Interests: mysteries, adventure, travel, strong heroines, fashion, clever plans and maps
Next: Ottoline At Sea, Ottoline Goes to School
14 Mar 2012 3 Comments
in Books, books 4+ Tags: city life, mystery, travel, wordless books
by Barbara Lehman
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
32 pp.
Age: 4 +
Interests: wordless books, mystery, travel, books
Also by this author: Museum Trip, Rainstorm, Trainstop, The Secret Box
To Read Next: Flotsam, other puzzling books
03 Mar 2012 3 Comments
in Books, books 6+ Tags: animals, automobiles, balloons, birds, horses, mystery, pets, pigs, trains
by David Macaulay
Houghton Mifflin, 1995
64 pp.
Age: 6+
Interests: mystery, trains, animals, birds, pigs, horses, balloons, cars, boats
Also by this author: Black and White, Cathedral: The Story of its Construction, The Way Things Work
25 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 8+ Tags: clocks, history, inventions, magician, mystery, orphans, Paris, robots, silent movies
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2008
by Brian Selznick
New York: Scholastic Press, 2007
533 pp.
Ages: 8 +
Interests: mystery, Paris,history, clocks, magicians, automata (robots), silent movie history, stories about orphans, inventors
Also by this author: Wonderstruck, The Houdini Box, The Robot King, Boy of a Thousand Faces
Next: silent movies by Georges Méliès; official website of the book; movie adaptation Hugo (2011)
08 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+, Classics Tags: adventure, castle, Magic, mystery, romance, siblings, treasure
by E. Nesbit
originally published in 1907
New York: HarperCollins, 1992
288 pp, 12 chapters
Age: (read to) 6 + ; (read independently) 8 +
Interests: magic, castles, treasure, siblings, mystery, adventure
Also by this author: Five Children and It, The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Book of Dragons
28 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: beach, Magic, mystery, nature, ocean, photography, sea creatures
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2007
by David Wiesner
New York: Clarion Books, 2006
Age: 5+
Interests: ocean, ocean creatures, nature, beaches, photography, magic
Also by this author: Free Fall, Tuesday, Sector 7, The Three Pigs
14 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
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
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