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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2004 The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein Roaring Brook Press, 2003 34 pp. Age: 5+ Interests: history, biography, street performers, New York, circus...
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Scranimals
Scranimals Jack Prelutsky, poems Peter Sis, illustrator HarperCollins, 2002 40 pp. Age: 5 + Interests: poetry, animals, birds, word play, nonsense, maps, travel Next: Edward Lear’s The Quangle Wangle’s...
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Top 5: Pre- Harry Potter Reads
As I wrote yesterday, Harry Potter books (and movies) can be pretty scary and intense for younger children. If your child is intrigued by magic and fantasy, but you’re not certain she or he is quite...
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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1995 The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey text by Susan Wojciechowski illustrations by P. J. Lynch Candlewick Press: 1995 34 pp. Age: 5+ Interests: Christmas, art, wood...
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FArTHER
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 2009 FArTHER by Grahame Baker-Smith Age: 5+ Interests: flight, inventors, fathers, flying machines Templar Publishing: 2010 32 pp. Next: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel...
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Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 2008 Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett Age: 5+ Interests: mice, fears, phobias Macmillan Publishers: 2007 26 pp. Also by this author: Wolves, The Rabbit...
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The Dot
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds Age: 5+ Interests: art, artists, school, teachers Candlewick Press: 2003 28 pp. Also by this author: Ish Vashti can’t draw, at least that’s what she thinks, but her teacher...
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Chester
Chester text and illustrations by Mélanie Watt Age: 5+ (but older kids will find it funny too – 7,8) Interests: cats, mice, artists, telling stories, bad behaviour, humour Kids Can Press: 2007 30pp....
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Rootabaga Stories
Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham Age: 5+ Interests: folk tales, history, poetry, language Harcourt Inc.: 1922 176 pp – 25 stories Next: sequel Rootabaga...
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Thimble Summer
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER – 1939 Thimble Summer written and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright Age: 5+ (read to); 7+ (independent reading) Interests: farms, country life, family, strong girls Dell: 1938 136...
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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER – 1945 Rabbit Hill written and illustrated by Robert Lawson Age: (read to) 5+, (independent reading) 7+ Interests: animals, rabbits, farms, country life, community Also illustrated...
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CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 2017 Radiant Child; The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe Age: 5+ Interests: artists, art, biography, New York, city life Little, Brown and Company:...
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"We Are Water Protectors" is a picture book for young environmentalists, highlighting indigenous-led movements to protest the construction of oil and gas pipelines.
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