===== Caldecott Medal & Honor Books (1938-Present) ===== [[welcome|Home]] >> [[readers_advisory|Readers Advisory]] >> [[bibliographies_for_children_and_young_adults|Bibliographies for Children and Young Adults]] >> [[:caldecott_medal|Caldecott Medal & Honor Books]] I know that the NLS avoids childrens books that are too visual, but I still wanted to see which Caldecott winners and honors have made it in to the collection. Please feel free to add to or edit the list. REFERENCES: * [[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal|ALA's ALSC Caldecott Medal & Honor Books Listing]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Medal#Recipients|Wikipedia's Caldecott Medal Winners list]] --- //[[dan.malosh@state.mn.us|Dan Malosh @ MN1A Regional]] 2013/05/29 17:56// ===== 2015 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend === **Illustrator/Author:** Dan Santat\\ **Annotation:** An imaginary friend waits a long time to be imagined by a child and given a special name, and finally he does the unimaginable--he sets out on a quest to find his perfect match in the real world. For grades K-3. 2014.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 21022]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ==== Honor Books ==== === The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus === **Author:** Jen Bryant\\ **Illustrator** Melissa Sweet\\ **Annotation:** Biography of Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), the creator of the thesaurus. Describes how books were young Peter's companions, and how from within their pages came the inspiration for his treasure house of words--starting with many, many lists. Sibert Award. For grades 2-4. 2014.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/80620|DB 80620]] - Read by Laura Giannarelli. Reading time 1 hour, 34 minutes. ---- === Nana in the City === **Illustrator/Author:** Lauren Castillo\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art === **Author:** Barb Rosenstock\\ **Illustrator** Mary GrandPré\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Sam & Dave Dig a Hole === **Author:** Mac Barnett\\ **Illustrator** Jon Klassen\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === This One Summer === **Author:** Mariko Tamaki\\ **Illustrator** Jillian Tamaki\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Viva Frida === **Illustrator/Author:** Yuyi Morales\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2014 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Locomotive === **Illustrator/Author:** Brian Floca\\ **Annotation:**\\ Illustrates what it was like to ride from Omaha to Sacramento on the new cross-country railroad in the mid-1800s. Describes the sounds of the engine, the work of the crew, and the changing scenery. Caldecott Medal. For grades 2-4 and older readers. 2013.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/77766|DB 77766]] - Read by Andy Pyle. Reading time: 55 minutes. * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/20611|BR 20611]] - 1 volume. ---- ==== Honors ==== === Flora and the Flamingo === **Illustrator/Author:** Molly Idle\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Journey === **Illustrator/Author:** Aaron Becker\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Mr. Wuffles! === **Illustrator/Author:** David Wiesner\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2013 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === This Is Not My Hat === **Illustrator/Author:** Jon Klassen\\ **Annotation:**\\ A little fish steals a big fish's hat and hopes he will get away with it. For grades K-3.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 21001]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Creepy Carrots! === **Illustrator:** Peter Brown\\ **Author:** Aaron Reynolds\\ **Annotation:**\\ The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around, and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist snacking on some each time he passes by. But then Jasper begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes!\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 20028]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Extra Yarn === **Illustrator:** Jon Klassen\\ **Author:** Mac Barnett\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 20047]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Sleep Like a Tiger === **Illustrator:** Pamela Zagarenski\\ **Author:** Mary Logue\\ **Annotation:**\\ A not-so-sleepy little girl asks her parents if all creatures sleep. They tell her about the dog happily snoozing on the couch, grizzly bears that slumber in cozy dens, and more. For preschool-grade 2.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 20038]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Green === **Illustrator/Author:** Laura Vaccaro Seeger\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === One Cool Friend === **Illustrator:** David Small\\ **Author:** Toni Buzzeo\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2012 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === A Ball for Daisy === **Illustrator/Author:** Chris Raschka\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Blackout === **Illustrator/Author:** John Rocco\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Grandpa Green === **Illustrator/Author:** Lane Smith\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Me...Jane === **Illustrator/Author:** Patrick McDonnell\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2011 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === A Sick Day for Amos McGee === **Illustrator:** Erin E. Stead\\ **Author:** Philip C. Stead\\ **Annotation:**\\ Zookeeper Amos McGee always takes time to visit his good friends the elephant, tortoise, penguin, rhinoceros, and owl. But one day, Amos stays home because he is sick--and receives an unexpected visit. For preschool-grade 2.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 20037]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Dave the Potter === **Illustrator:** Bryan Collier\\ **Author:** Laban Carrick Hill\\ **Annotation:**\\ Discusses the creative work of South Carolina slave Dave (1834-1864), who made large clay pots and jars - some of which he inscribed with poems.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 20003]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Interrupting Chicken === **Illustrator/Author:** David Ezra Stein\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2010 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Lion & the Mouse === **Illustrator/Author:** Jerry Pinkney\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === All the World === **Illustrator:** Marla Frazee\\ **Author:** Liz Garton Scanlon\\ **Annotation:**\\ Poetic celebration of a family's day from enjoying a sunny morning at the beach and a trip to a garden to taking refuge from a thunderstorm. The day ends with sharing music at home. Explores themes of connectivity and comfort.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 19013]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors === **Illustrator:** Pamela Zagarenski\\ **Author:** Joyce Sidman\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2009 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The House in the Night === **Illustrator:** Beth Krommes\\ **Author:** Susan Marie Swanson\\ **Annotation:**\\ A soothing story about a child who reads a book before being tucked in for the night in a house full of moonlight.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 18041]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever === **Illustrator/Author:** Marla Frazee\\ **Annotation:**\\ Nature Day Camp is the official reason that James and Eamon stay with Eamon's grandparents. But the real fun is hanging out together--blowing up the air mattress, eating banana waffles, playing video games, and making penguins.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 19037]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams === **Illustrator:** Melissa Sweet\\ **Author:** Jen Bryant\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === How I Learned Geography === **Illustrator/Author:** Uri Shulevitz\\ **Annotation:**\\ A boy and his family are poor and hungry wartime refugees in a strange country. After the boy's father goes to the bazaar to buy bread but returns instead with a map, the boy spends hours studying it and appreciating his father's gift.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 18014]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 2008 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Invention of Hugo Cabret === **Illustrator/Author:** Brian Selznick\\ **Annotation:**\\ Paris, 1931. Orphaned Hugo survives inside a train station's walls, keeping the clocks running and stealing food and toys. His secrets--including a notebook of drawings and a mechanical man--are jeopardized when he becomes ensnared with a toy seller and his goddaughter Isabelle.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/66423|DB 66423]] - Read by Jeff Woodman. Reading time: 2 hours, 53 minutes. ---- ==== Honors ==== === First the Egg === **Illustrator/Author:** Laura Vaccaro Seeger\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad === **Illustrator:** Kadir Nelson\\ **Author:** Ellen Levine\\ **Annotation:**\\ 1849. Henry Brown, a slave in Virginia, is so upset when his wife and children are sold away without even a good-bye that he plans a desperate escape. He has friends put him in a wooden box and send him to Philadelphia - and freedom.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 17047]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity === **Illustrator/Author:** Mo Willems\\ **Annotation:**\\ Her daddy in tow, Trixie hurries to school to show off her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny. But an awful surprise awaits her: someone else has the exact same bunny!\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 18015]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain === **Illustrator/Author:** Peter Sís\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2007 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Flotsam === **Illustrator/Author:** David Wiesner\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet === **Illustrator/Author:** David McLimans\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom === **Illustrator:** Kadir Nelson\\ **Author:** Carole Boston Weatherford\\ **Annotation:**\\ Portrays the bravery and faith of Harriet Tubman, who fled slavery before the Civil War. Describes how she risked her new safety to return to the South many times and led slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 17014]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 2006 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Hello, Goodbye Window === **Illustrator:** Chris Raschka\\ **Author:** Norton Juster\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride === **Illustrator/Author:** Marjorie Priceman\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Rosa === **Illustrator:** Bryan Collier\\ **Author:** Nikki Giovanni\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems === **Illustrator:** Beckie Prange\\ **Author:** Joyce Sidman\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Zen Shorts === **Illustrator/Author:** Jon J. Muth\\ **Annotation:**\\ Three siblings, Addy, Michael, and Karl, separately visit Stillwater, the giant panda who has moved into their neighborhood. He tells a relevant Zen Buddhist story to each one, inspiring a new outlook on the world and one another.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 16355]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 2005 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Kitten's First Full Moon === **Illustrator/Author:** Kevin Henkes\\ **Annotation:**\\ When Kitten sees her first full moon, she thinks it is a bowl of milk in the sky. She ends up tired, wet, and hungry from trying to reach it and finally goes home, where a pleasant surprise awaits her.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 16023]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Coming on Home Soon === **Illustrator:** E. B. Lewis\\ **Author:** Jacqueline Woodson\\ **Annotation:**\\ Ada Ruth is lonely and misses her mother, who has gone to Chicago to look for work. It's wartime and there isn't much food, but even Ada Ruth's grandmother can't say no to the little surprise they find one snowy day.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 17009]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale === **Illustrator/Author:** Mo Willems\\ **Annotation:**\\ A trip to the laundromat becomes a momentous occasion when Trixie, too young to speak words, realizes that her favorite stuffed animal is missing and struggles to explain the problem to her father.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 16029]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Red Book === **Illustrator/Author:** Barbara Lehman\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2004 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Man Who Walked Between the Towers === **Illustrator/Author:** Mordicai Gerstein\\ **Annotation:**\\ Tells of Frenchman Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the unfinished World Trade Center Towers in New York City. Discusses the sentence he received for this illegal act.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 15045]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! === **Illustrator/Author:** Mo Willems\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Ella Sarah Gets Dressed === **Illustrator/Author:** Margaret Chodos-Irvine\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? === **Illustrator/Author:** Steve Jenkins and Robin Page\\ **Annotation:**\\ Explains how a lot of animals use their noses, ears, tails, eyes, mouths, and feet in very different ways. A glossary provides more information about these animals.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 15017]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 2003 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === My Friend Rabbit === **Illustrator/Author:** Eric Rohmann\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Hondo & Fabian === **Illustrator/Author:** Peter McCarty\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Noah's Ark === **Illustrator/Author:** Jerry Pinkney\\ **Annotation:**\\ Noah follows God's command to build an ark to hold his family and two of every animal, in preparation for the great flood. A retelling of the biblical story.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 15014]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Spider and the Fly === **Illustrator:** Tony DiTerlizzi\\ **Author:** Mary Howitt\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2002 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Three Pigs === **Illustrator/Author:** David Wiesner\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. === **Illustrator:** Bryan Collier\\ **Author:** Doreen Rappaport\\ **Annotation:**\\ An introductory biography of the American civil rights leader using his own words to portray his ideals and message to United States citizens and people all over the world.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 14023]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins === **Illustrator:** Brian Selznick\\ **Author:** Barbara Kerley\\ **Annotation:**\\ The true story of the British artist who built the first life-size models of dinosaurs for exhibit in England in 1854. During his lifetime, Hawkins dedicated his skills to educating people on both sides of the Atlantic about these awe-inspiring creatures.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 14022]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Stray Dog === **Illustrator/Author:** Marc Simont\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 2001 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === So You Want to Be President? === **Illustrator:** David Small\\ **Author:** Judith St. George\\ **Annotation:**\\ Revised edition offers unusual and interesting facts about the forty-three men who served as presidents of the United States. Points out the variety of personalities, backgrounds, and interests of these individuals, as well as their similarities.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/75382|DB 75382]] - Read by Jason Griffith. Reading time: 37 minutes. * [[BR 13090]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Casey at the Bat === **Illustrator:** Christopher Bing\\ **Author:** Ernest Thayer\\ **Annotation:**\\ In this classic verse, every eye is on the mighty Casey as he comes to bat for the Mudville Nine in the last inning of a losing game.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 33552]] ---- === Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type === **Illustrator:** Betsy Lewin\\ **Author:** Doreen Cronin\\ **Annotation:**\\ When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn, they write the farmer notes making silly demands. When he refuses to give them what they want, they go on strike. Then the hens strike too.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 13089]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Olivia === **Illustrator/Author:** Ian Falconer\\ **Annotation:**\\ Olivia, a preschooler pig, lives with her mother, father, and younger brother Ian (who is always copying her). Olivia is good at lots of things--dressing up, singing songs, building sand castles, dancing, and painting on walls. And she is very good at wearing people out.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 13074]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ===== 2000 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Joseph Had a Little Overcoat === **Illustrator/Author:** Simms Taback\\ **Annotation:**\\ Joseph starts with an overcoat. When it is old and worn, he makes it into a jacket. The original material becomes smaller and smaller until he arrives at the moral of the tale. Adapted from a Yiddish folk song.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 13008]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === A Child's Calendar === **Illustrator:** Trina Schart Hyman\\ **Author:** John Updike\\ **Annotation:**\\ A poem for each month of the year, beginning with January. Describes special features--activities, holidays, weather--of the month as experienced someplace like New England.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 12048]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Sector 7 === **Illustrator/Author:** David Wiesner\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Ugly Duckling === **Illustrator:** Jerry Pinkney\\ **Author:** Hans Christian Andersen\\ **Annotation:**\\ A mother duck is disappointed when the extra-large egg she has been sitting on opens, and a big, awkward chick tumbles out. The poor bird gets teased by everyone because he looks so different. But the next spring, he gets a surprise when he sees himself in the water.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/48266|DB 48266]] - Read by Celeste Lawson. Reading time: 14 minutes. ---- === When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry === **Illustrator/Author:** Molly Bang\\ **Annotation:**\\ When Sophie loses her temper and becomes angry with the whole world, she runs outside to climb her favorite tree. Then she calms down and returns home relaxed.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 13017]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1999 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Snowflake Bentley === **Illustrator:** Mary Azarian\\ **Author:** Jacqueline Briggs Martin\\ **Annotation:**\\ The biography of Wilson Bentley, who loved the beauty of nature and wanted to share that loveliness with others. Especially intrigued by snowflakes, he taught himself how to photograph them, and that became his lifelong project.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 12032]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra === **Illustrator:** Brian Pinkney\\ **Author:** Andrea Davis Pinkney\\ **Annotation:**\\ Recounts the life of Edward Kennedy Ellington, who became known as "Duke" while growing up in Washington, D.C. The author tells how Ellington's parents encouraged him to play the piano although he didn't think the "umpy-dump" noise was headed anywhere. But years later, she says, he turned the sound into his own ragtime rhythm.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 47297]] ---- === No, David! === **Illustrator/Author:** David Shannon\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Snow === **Illustrator/Author:** Uri Shulevitz\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Tibet Through the Red Box === **Illustrator/Author:** Peter Sís\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1998 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Rapunzel === **Illustrator/Author:** Paul O. Zelinsky\\ **Annotation:**\\ Rapunzel is twelve, with beautiful, long red-gold hair, when a sorceress places her in a high tower in a lonely forest. A handsome prince secretly visits Rapunzel until the sorceress finds out and punishes them, keeping them apart. But their love for each other promises to restore their happiness.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 11018]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Gardener === **Illustrator:** David Small\\ **Author:** Sarah Stewart\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Harlem === **Illustrator:** Christopher Myers\\ **Author:** Walter Dean Myers\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly === **Illustrator/Author:** Simms Taback\\ **Annotation:**\\ Recounts the tale of an old lady who swallows a fly and then goes on to swallow numerous other animals until she swallows a horse - and dies, of course.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 12003]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1997 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Golem === **Illustrator/Author:** David Wisniewski\\ **Annotation:**\\ A retelling of how a chief rabbi of Prague creates a giant golem of clay in 1580. The golem's task is to seek out those spreading false rumors about Jews and to turn them over to the authorities unharmed. When his job is done, the golem is to return to clay.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 12017]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Graphic Alphabet === **Illustrator/Author:** David Pelletier\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Hush! A Thai Lullaby === **Illustrator:** Holly Meade\\ **Author:** Minfong Ho\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Paperboy === **Illustrator/Author:** Dav Pilkey\\ **Annotation:**\\ Early in the mornings, before the sun is up, a young paperboy leaves his warm bed, gets dressed, takes his dog, and goes out to deliver newspapers. When he has finished, he comes back home just as everyone else is getting up.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 10002]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Starry Messenger === **Illustrator/Author:** Peter Sís\\ **Annotation:**\\ Account of Galileo, born in 1564, who studied the stars in the sky through a telescope and began to believe that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 11012]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1996 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Officer Buckle and Gloria === **Illustrator/Author:** Peggy Rathmann\\ **Annotation:**\\ Officer Buckle knows lots of safety tips, and he loves to share them with the students at Napville School. But nobody seems to listen to him. Then one day, the Napville police department gets a police dog--Gloria. Office Buckle takes her along the next time he goes to Napville School, and this time the children listen. But why?\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 10015]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Alphabet City === **Illustrator/Author:** Stephen T. Johnson\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Faithful Friend === **Illustrator:** Brian Pinkney\\ **Author:** Robert D. San Souci\\ **Annotation:**\\ Retelling of a tale from the French West Indies, in which a native boy falls in love and sets off with his best friend, a boy of French descent, to bring home his intended bride. But along the way, they encounter several weird obstacles set in place by the girl's uncle, who does not approve of the marriage.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 44324]] ---- === Tops & Bottoms === **Illustrator/Author:** Janet Stevens\\ **Annotation:**\\ Mr. Bear, who is quite lazy, and Mr. Hare, who is quite clever, are neighbors. But Mr. Hare and his family have a problem--they have no food, and they have sold their land to Mr. Bear to pay a debt, so they have no land on which to grow food. Then Mr. and Mrs. Hare have a wonderful idea. They will plant a crop on Mr. Bear's land and share it with Mr. Bear. All he has to do is decide if he wants the tops or the bottoms.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 10010]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin === **Illustrator:** Marjorie Priceman\\ **Author:** Lloyd Moss\\ **Annotation:**\\ Musical instruments take their place, one by one, on the stage until there is a chamber group of ten.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 11001]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1995 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Smoky Night === **Illustrator:** David Diaz\\ **Author:** Eve Bunting\\ **Annotation:**\\ Daniel holds his cat, Jasmine, and watches with his mother at their window as riots take place in the street below. Soon Daniel and his mother are forced to leave their home and take refuge at a shelter. But where is Jasmine?\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 09937]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === John Henry === **Illustrator:** Jerry Pinkney\\ **Author:** Julius Lester\\ **Annotation:**\\ John Henry was a beautiful, strong African American boy. As a man, John Henry met mean Ferret-Faced Freddy and beat him in a race. Then he tackled a huge boulder that was blocking a road, and a rainbow smiled on his work. Next he tried to beat a drill that was cutting into a mountain to let the train pass through. This was his last contest, but you might still hear him singing, "I got a rainbow."\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 09934]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Swamp Angel === **Illustrator:** Paul O. Zelinsky\\ **Author:** Anne Issacs\\ **Annotation:**\\ When Angelica Longrider was born on August 1, 1815, she was "scarcely taller than her mother." By the age of two, she had built her own log cabin, and when she was twelve, she rescued a whole wagon train from Dejection Swamp and got the name Swamp Angel. But Angelica was best known for her fight with Thundering Tarnation, the biggest and meanest bear anyone had ever known.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 40499]] * [[BR 09936]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Time Flies === **Illustrator/Author:** Eric Rohmann\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1994 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Grandfather's Journey === **Illustrator:** Allen Say\\ **Author:** Walter Lorraine\\ **Annotation:**\\ A Japanese American tells of his grandfather's journey to America. Grandfather loves California, but he also loves Japan and later returns there to live. In Japan, however, he is homesick for America. The narrator, born in Japan, moves to California as a young man. Yet he often returns to visit his birthplace. When in one country, he feels homesick for the other--just like his grandfather.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 09907]] ---- ==== Honors ==== === In the Small, Small Pond === **Illustrator/Author:** Denise Fleming\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Owen === **Illustrator/Author:** Kevin Henkes\\ **Annotation:**\\ Owen has a blanket, Fuzzy, that he's had since he was a baby and loves with all his heart. Owen takes Fuzzy everywhere with him. Mrs. Tweezers, the neighbor, thinks Owen is getting too old to carry around a blanket. She tells his parents about the Blanket Fairy, and the vinegar trick, and saying "no," but nothing can pry Owen from Fuzzy. But when Owen starts school, his mother knows just what to do.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 09913]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Peppe the Lamplighter === **Illustrator:** Ted Lewin\\ **Author:** Elisa Bartone\\ **Annotation:**\\ Peppe, though just a boy, has to go to work to help support his eight sisters. So he takes a job lighting the streetlamps in Little Italy in New York City. Peppe's father is ashamed of Peppe's job until one night when Peppe does not light the lamps and his sister Assunta cannot find her way home.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 09924]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest === **Illustrator/Author:** Gerald McDermott\\ **Annotation:**\\ Along the Pacific Northwest coast, Raven is the central character in the myths and legends of Native Americans. In this tale, Raven, feeling sad for the men and women living in the dark and cold, devises a clever plan to steal the sun from the Sky Chief to bring light and warmth to the people.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 38685]] ---- === Yo! Yes? === **Illustrator:** Chris Raschka\\ **Author:** Richard Jackson\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1993 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Mirette on the High Wire === **Illustrator/Author:** Emily Arnold McCully\\ **Annotation:**\\ The Great Bellini, who crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope and stopped in the middle to cook an omelet; who crossed the Alps with baskets on his feet; and walked a flaming wire in Naples, is the gentle stranger staying at the widow Gateau's boardinghouse. Mirette, the widow's daughter, has befriended Bellini, and he has taught her to walk the wire. Now, she must teach him to overcome his fear.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/36482|DB 36482]] - Read by Madelyn Buzzard. Reading time 9 minutes. * [[BR 08962]] ---- ==== Honors ==== === Seven Blind Mice === **Illustrator/Author:** Ed Young\\ **Annotation:**\\ In this version of the familiar Indian folktale, seven blind mice approach Something, ask what it is, and proceed to investigate. On Monday, Red Mouse feels the leg and proclaims it a pillar. On Tuesday, Green Mouse jumps on the trunk and declares it a snake. Each succeeding day brings a different conclusion from a different mouse--until the seventh mouse scampers all over the creature and puts the clues together!\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 08960]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales === **Illustrator:** Lane Smith\\ **Author:** Jon Scieszka\\ **Annotation:**\\ The author calls these tales "not quite" fairy tales, or, fairly stupid tales. Included are "The Princess and the Bowling Ball," "The Other Frog Prince," "Cinderumpelstiltskin," and "The Stinky Cheese Man."\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 38039]] ---- === Working Cotton === **Illustrator:** Carole Byard\\ **Author:** Sherley Anne Williams\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1992 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Tuesday === **Illustrator/Author:** David Wiesner\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honor ==== === Tar Beach === **Illustrator/Author:** Faith Ringgold\\ **Annotation:**\\ The author draws upon her childhood in Harlem in this tale of a young black girl who dreams of flying above New York City. "Tar Beach" is the rooftop of her apartment building, and neighbors often gather there on hot summer nights to talk, eat, and play. "Tar Beach" was first presented as a story quilt, and is part of the Guggenheim Museum collection in New York City.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 08940]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1991 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Black and White === **Illustrator/Author:** David Macaulay\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === "More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories === **Illustrator/Author:** Vera B. Williams\\ **Annotation:**\\ Three delightful vignettes show a trio of toddlers - Little Guy, Little Pumpkin, and Little Bird - being cuddled, and held, and loved by their grownups.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 08914]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Puss in Boots === **Illustrator:** Fred Marcellino\\ **Author:** Charles Perrault (translated by Malcolm Arthur)\\ **Annotation:**\\ A poor miller's son gains a fortune and marries a beautiful princess with the help of his cat, the clever Puss.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 08910]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1990 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China === **Illustrator/Author:** Ed Young\\ **Annotation:**\\ Once there was a good mother who lived in the countryside with her three children, Shang, Tao, and Paotze. One day she had to leave to visit their grandmother. She cautioned, "Remember to close the door tight...and latch it well." Soon, a wolf disguised as an old woman knocked on the door saying, ...this is your grandmother, your Po Po."\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 07926]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Bill Peet: An Autobiography === **Illustrator/Author:** Bill Peet\\ **Annotation:**\\ Bill Peet has always loved to draw. Every day he secretly drew in his school books during classes. When he grew up he became the top writer-illustrator for such Walt Disney films as "Dumbo," "The Sword in the Stone," and "One Hundred and One Dalmations." And he has written more than thirty books for children. In this book he relates the story of his life and work.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 31287]] ---- === Color Zoo === **Illustrator/Author:** Lois Ehlert\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins === **Illustrator:** Trina Schart Hyman\\ **Author:** Eric Kimmel\\ **Annotation:**\\ It is the first night of Hanukkah and although Hershel is tired and hungry he steps lightly. Soon he will reach the village where bright candles, merry songs, and platters of tasty potato latkes await him. But when he reaches the village, he does not see a single candle. The villagers explain that wicked goblins who hate Hanukkah haunt the synagogue. Hershel decides that he must help the villagers.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/31281|DB 31281]] - Read by Ray Hagen. Reading time: 19 minutes. ---- === The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South === **Illustrator:** Jerry Pinkney\\ **Author:** Robert D. San Souci\\ **Annotation:**\\ Creole folktale about a poor widow and her two daughters, Rose and Blanche. Rose is cross and mean, while Blanche is sweet and kind. When Blanche treats an old witch kindly, she is rewarded. When Rose tries, she is not so lucky.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 51584]] * [[BR 08909]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1989 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Song and Dance Man === **Illustrator:** Stephen Gammell\\ **Author:** Karen Ackerman\\ **Annotation:**\\ Grandpa used to be a song and dance man on the vaudeville stage. When his grandchildren come to visit, he tells them about the good old days before TV. They go to the attic, pull out Grandpa's old tap shoes, hat, and cane, and enjoy a show better than any on TV. For grades K-3 to share with older readers.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 07544]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Boy of the Three-Year Nap === **Illustrator:** Allen Say\\ **Author:** Diane Snyder\\ **Annotation:**\\ Taro, the son of a poor widow, is the laziest person in the village. All Taro does is eat and sleep, and sleep and eat. When a rich merchant builds a mansion next door, Taro hatches a plan to marry the merchant's daughter. But Taro's mother has plans of her own, and Taro gets more than he bargained for.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 07542]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Free Fall === **Illustrator/Author:** David Wiesner\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Goldilocks and the Three Bears === **Illustrator/Author:** James Marshall\\ **Annotation:**\\ An irreverent retelling of an old, familiar tale. When Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear return from a bicycle ride, to their charming home deep in the forest, the place is a mess, and the culprit is asleep in Baby Bear's bed!\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 07928]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Mirandy and Brother Wind === **Illustrator:** Jerry Pinkney\\ **Author:** Patricia C. McKissack\\ **Annotation:**\\ First introduced in America by African slaves, the cake walk is a dance rooted in black American culture. Couples strut and prance around a large square, accompanied by fiddle or banjo music. Judged by a panel of elders, the winning couple takes home a cake. Young Mirandy is determined to catch Brother Wind so that she can win the junior cake walk.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 07545]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1988 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Owl Moon === **Illustrator:** John Schoenherr\\ **Author:** Jane Yolen\\ **Annotation:**\\ On a cold winter's night, under a bright full moon, a young girl and her father trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/42932|DB 42932]] - Read by Mary Kane. Reading time: 8 minutes. * [[BR 07903]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honor ==== === Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale === **Illustrator/Author:** John Steptoe\\ **Annotation:**\\ Mufaro, an African villager, has two beautiful daughters, ill-tempered Manyara and kind Nyasha. Behind Mufaro's back Manyara often teases Nyasha, who retreats to her garden and sings. When the king sends out a call to find a wife, Mufaro prepares to present both his daughters.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 26453]] ---- ===== 1987 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Hey, Al === **Illustrator:** Richard Egielski\\ **Author:** Arthur Yorinks\\ **Annotation:**\\ Al, a janitor, and his dog, Eddie, grow tired of living in one room on the East Side, always working and struggling. One morning, a beautiful, gigantic bird appears at the window and offers to take them to paradise. They leave the next day for a magnificent island in the sky. They soon learn, however, that there is no place like home.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 07117]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Alphabatics === **Illustrator/Author:** Suse MacDonald\\ **Annotation:**\\ An imaginative alphabet book in which each letter changes step-by-step into a bold illustration representing that letter. The letter "Q" becomes a quail, "M" becomes a mustache, and "T" becomes a tree.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 07141]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Rumpelstiltskin === **Illustrator/Author:** Paul O. Zelinsky\\ **Annotation:**\\ A lively retelling of how the miller's daughter and her faithful servant outwit Rumpelstiltskin.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 25470]] * [[BR 07108]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Village of Round and Square Houses === **Illustrator/Author:** Ann Grifalconi\\ **Annotation:**\\ In a real village in Cameroon, Central Africa, the men live in square houses and the women in round houses. A grandmother of the village shares with us the drama of how this came to be.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/26440|DB 26440]] - Read by Carolyn Byrd. Reading time: 11 minutes. ---- ===== 1986 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Polar Express === **Illustrator/Author:** Chris Van Allsburg\\ **Annotation:**\\ On a dark Christmas Eve, a boy who believes in Santa Claus boards a mysterious train, the Polar Express. He and the other children, still in their nightclothes, drink hot chocolate and sing carols as the train races through snowy landscapes carrying them to a huge city at the North Pole to visit Santa Claus.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/23625|DB 23625]] - Read by John Borrowman. Reading time: 8 minutes. * [[BR 12001]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === King Bidgood's in the Bathtub === **Illustrator:** Don Wood\\ **Author:** Audrey Wood\\ **Annotation:**\\ Fun-loving King Bidgood is having a wonderful time in his bathtub. Despite the pleas of his queen and all his court, he refuses to leave his bath for a battle, the Masquerade Ball, or even for lunch!\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 24651]] ---- === The Relatives Came === **Illustrator:** Stephen Gammell\\ **Author:** Cynthia Rylant\\ **Annotation:**\\ A happy visit by relatives from Virginia who come in an old station wagon. They bring with them lots of hugs, laughs, and quiet talk.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 06124]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1985 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Saint George and the Dragon === **Illustrator:** Trina Schart Hyman\\ **Author:** Margaret Hodges\\ **Annotation:**\\ A dramatic retelling of the classic tale recounts the battle between brave Saint George, the Red Cross Knight, and the deadly dragon that has terrorized the countryside for years.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 22236]] ---- ==== Honors ==== === Hansel and Gretel === **Illustrator:** Paul O. Zelinsky\\ **Author:** Rika Lesser\\ **Annotation:**\\ A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a witch's house made of bread, pancakes, and candy. They soon discover the wicked witch likes to have children for dinner.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 22393]] ---- === Have You Seen My Duckling? === **Illustrator/Author:** Nancy Tafuri\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend === **Illustrator/Author:** John Steptoe\\ **Annotation:**\\ A young mouse sets off to follow his dream - to find the "far-off land" on the other side of the desert. He gives away his eyesight and sense of smell to two helpless creatures, but is well-rewarded at his journey's end.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 23246]] ---- ===== 1984 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot === **Illustrator/Author:** Alice and Martin Provensen\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Little Red Riding Hood === **Illustrator/Author:** Trina Schart Hyman\\ **Annotation:**\\ When Little Red Riding Hood is walking through the forest to take a basket of food to her sick grandmother, she meets a hungry wolf.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 11014]] ---- === Ten, Nine, Eight === **Illustrator/Author:** Molly Bang\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1983 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Shadow === **Illustrator:** Marcia Brown\\ **Author:** Blaise Cendrars\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === A Chair for My Mother === **Illustrator/Author:** Vera B. Williams\\ **Annotation:**\\ Rosa, who lives with her loving mother and grandmother, describes how they save all their coins to buy a "wonderful, beautiful, fat, soft armchair" to replace the one that burned up in the fire in their old apartment.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 22879]] * [[BR 17331]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === When I Was Young in the Mountains === **Illustrator:** Diane Goode\\ **Author:** Cynthia Rylant\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1982 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Jumanji === **Illustrator/Author:** Chris Van Allsburg\\ **Annotation:**\\ Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and thrilling jungle adventure board game.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/50700|DB 50700]] - Read by Laura Giannarelli. Reading time: 14 minutes. * [[BR 05317]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers === **Illustrator:** Alice and Martin Provensen\\ **Author:** Nancy Willard\\ **Annotation:**\\ A collection of magical poems about life at an imaginary inn staffed by two dragons, two angels, and a rabbit who shows to their rooms many curious visitors, including a man in a marmalade hat and the king of cats.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/58664|DB 58664]] - Read by Jill Fox. Reading time: 23 minutes. * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/15718|BR 15718]] - 1 volume. * [[BR 05501]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === On Market Street === **Illustrator:** Anita Lobel\\ **Author:** Arnold Lobel\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Outside Over There === **Illustrator/Author:** Maurice Sendak\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Where the Buffaloes Begin === **Illustrator:** Stephen Gammell\\ **Author:** Olaf Baker\\ **Annotation:**\\ The legend of a brave little Indian boy who ventures out alone one night to find a mightly buffalo herd. His adventure ends with a wild and unforgettable ride through the dark to save his people.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/18900|DB 18900]] - Read by Knox Godfrey. Reading time: 20 minutes. ---- ===== 1981 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Fables === **Illustrator/Author:** Arnold Lobel\\ **Annotation:**\\ Twenty original fables featuring an array of animal characters from kangaroos to crocodiles.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 05081]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** * [[BR 09914]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Bremen-Town Musicians === **Illustrator:** Ilse Plume\\ **Author:** Brothers Grimm\\ **Annotation:**\\ Six folktales about furry and feathered creatures. The title piece tells of older, unwanted animals who travel toward the city, planning to be musicians. On the way they trick a house full of robbers. Includes a biographical note on the Brothers Grimm.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/59870|DB 59870]] - Read by Constnace Crawford. Reading time: 42 minutes. * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/15894|BR 15894]] - 1 volume. ---- === The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher === **Illustrator/Author:** Molly Bang\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Mice Twice === **Illustrator/Author:** Joseph Low\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Truck === **Illustrator/Author:** Donald Crews\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1980 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Ox-Cart Man === **Illustrator:** Barbara Cooney\\ **Author:** Donald Hall\\ **Annotation:**\\ A lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one nineteenth-century New Englander and his family.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 21584]] * [[BR 05914]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Ben's Trumpet === **Illustrator/Author:** Rachel Isadora\\ **Annotation:**\\ Ben enjoys listening to the music from his neighborhood jazz club and plays along on his imaginary trumpet. One day the club's trumpeter notices Ben and sees his dream.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/50752|DB 50752]] - Read by Chuck Young. Reading time: 4 minutes. ---- === The Garden of Abdul Gasazi === **Illustrator/Author:** Chris Van Allsburg\\ **Annotation:**\\ Miss Hester, off to visit her cousin Eunice, has left Alan Mitz in charge of her bad-mannered dog Fritz. Alan fears for the worst when he takes Fritz on his afternoon walk and the dog snaps out of his collar and leash and bolts for the garden of Abdul Gasazi, a retired magician who hates dogs.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/34174|DB 34174]] - Read by Robert Blumenfeld. Reading time: 8 minutes. ---- === The Treasure === **Illustrator/Author:** Uri Shulevitz\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1979 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses === **Illustrator/Author:** Paul Goble\\ **Annotation:**\\ A tale of a young Native American girl who loved horses in a very special way. The people in her village noticed how she understood the wild horses, and how she could speak softly and the horses would follow her. Although fond of her parents and her tribe, the girl would at last become one of the Horse People.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/38551|DB 38551]] - Read by John Horton. Reading time: 8 minutes. * [[BR 10014]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Freight Train === **Illustrator/Author:** Donald Crews\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Way to Start a Day === **Illustrator:** Peter Parnall\\ **Author:** Byrd Baylor\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1978 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Noah's Ark === **Illustrator/Author:** Peter Spier\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Castle === **Illustrator/Author:** David Macaulay\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === It Could Always Be Worse === **Illustrator/Author:** Margot Zemach\\ **Annotation:**\\ When a poor man living with his mother, wife, and six children in a tiny one-room hut complains about his crowded quaters, a wise rabbi shows him that "it could always be worse."\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 26910]] ---- ===== 1977 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions === **Illustrator:** Leo and Diane Dillon\\ **Author:** Margaret Musgrove\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Amazing Bone === **Illustrator/Author:** William Steig\\ **Annotation:**\\ While dawdling on her way home from school one wonderful afternoon in spring, Pearl Pig finds a small bone that has fallen out of a witch's basket.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/53092|DB 53092]] - Read by Colleen Delany. Reading time: 14 minutes. ---- === The Contest === **Illustrator/Author:** Nonny Hogrogian\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Fish for Supper === **Illustrator/Author:** M. B. Goffstein\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Golem: A Jewish Legend === **Illustrator/Author:** Beverly Brodsky McDermott\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Hawk, I'm Your Brother === **Illustrator:** Peter Parnall\\ **Author:** Byrd Baylor\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1976 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears === **Illustrator:** Leo and Diane Dillon\\ **Author:** Verna Aardema\\ **Annotation:**\\ An amusing, repetitive tale explains why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 22905]] * [[BR 05916]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Desert is Theirs === **Illustrator:** Peter Parnall\\ **Author:** Byrd Baylor\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Strega Nona === **Illustrator/Author:** Tomie dePaola\\ **Annotation:**\\ In the town of Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady known as Strega Nona, who owned a magic pot. One day, when Strega Nona went visiting, her helper, Big Anthony, almost destroyed the village by disobeying Strega Nona's warning not to touch the pot.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/44296|DB 44296]] - Read by Laura Giannarelli. Reading time: 10 minutes. * [[BR 17034]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1975 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Arrow to the Sun === **Illustrator/Author:** Gerald McDermott\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honor ==== === Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book === **Illustrator:** Tom Feelings\\ **Author:** Muriel Feelings\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1974 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Duffy and the Devil === **Illustrator:** Margot Zemach\\ **Author:** Harve Zemach\\ **Annotation:**\\ The devil does all of Duffy's spinning and knitting with the condition that he will take her away at the end of three years unless she can guess his name.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 06265]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE**? ---- ==== Honors ==== === Cathedral === **Illustrator/Author:** David Macaulay\\ **Annotation:**\\ Details how generations of dedicated churchmen and craftsmen, working for nearly a century, build a great cathedral in an imaginary town in thirteenth-century France.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/42501|DB 42501]] - Read by Lynn Schrichte. Reading time: 35 minutes. ---- === Three Jovial Huntsmen === **Illustrator/Author:** Susan Jeffers\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1973 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Funny Little Woman === **Illustrator:** Blair Lent\\ **Author:** Arlene Mosel\\ **Annotation:**\\ A lively retelling of a Japanese folk tale. A funny little woman who giggles all the time attempts to outsmart a horde of fearsome monsters who capture her and make her cook for them. In a surprise turn, the monsters have the last laugh and provide a humorous end to the story.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 22908]] * [[BR 05921]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti === **Illustrator/Author:** Gerald McDermott\\ **Annotation:**\\ Anansi, a spider in Ghana, is saved from big trouble by each of his six sons in different ways. Anansi can't decide which son to reward for his rescue with a ball of light, so it is carried into the sky - and becomes the moon.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 15041]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Hosie's Alphabet === **Illustrator:** Leonard Baskin\\ **Authors:** Hosea, Tobias & Lisa Baskin\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs === **Illustrator:** Nancy Ekholm Burkert\\ **Author:** Brothers Grimm (translated by Randall Jarrell)\\ **Annotation:**\\ When Snow White runs away from the jealous queen of the kingdom, she is protected by seven dwarfs until the disguised queen gives her a poisonous apple. A young prince, however, brings Snow White out of her deep sleep with a kiss.\\ A robust translation of the beloved fairy tale that is faithful to the original story set down by the Grimm Brothers.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 18633]] * [[BR 07536]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === When Clay Sings === **Illustrator:** Tom Bahti\\ **Author:** Byrd Baylor\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1972 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === One Fine Day === **Illustrator/Author:** Nonny Hogrogian\\ **Annotation:**\\ After a greedy fox laps up an old woman's pail of milk, the woman cuts off his tail and refuses to sew it back until the fox refills her pail with milk.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 05905]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Hildilid's Night === **Illustrator:** Arnold Lobel\\ **Author:** Cheli Durán Ryan\\ **Annotation:**\\ An old woman who hates owls, stars, shadows, and everything else about the night tries as hard as she can to chase it away.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 27808]] ---- === If All the Seas Were One Sea === **Illustrator/Author:** Janina Domanska\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book === **Illustrator:** Tom Feelings\\ **Author:** Muriel Feelings\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1971 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === A Story A Story === **Illustrator/Author:** Gail E. Haley\\ **Annotation:**\\ Once upon a time, the world had no stories. This is the tale of how Ananse the spider obtained the Sky God's chest of stories - and how he outwitted and captured three fantasy creatures in order to do so.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 41943]] * [[BR 06103]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Angry Moon === **Illustrator:** Blair Lent\\ **Author:** William Sleator\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** === Frog and Toad are Friends === **Illustrator/Author:** Arnold Lobel\\ **Annotation:**\\ Five stories about the adventures of two friends, a solemn green frog and a funny brown toad. When Frog is sick in bed looking green, Toad brings him some tea and tells him a story. And when Toad loses his button, Frog helps him find it.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/51143|DB 51143]] - Read by Bob Askey. Reading time: 18 minutes. * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/12336|BR 12336]] - 1 volume. * [[BR 16435]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === In the Night Kitchen === **Illustrator/Author:** Maurice Sendak\\ **Annotation:**\\ Mickey's dream tumbles him into the night kitchen, where three singing bakers mistake him for milk. Mickey sets them straight and flies to the Milky Way in an airplane made from dough to find milk for the bakers.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 43615]] * [[BR 10036]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1970 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Sylvester and the Magic Pebble === **Illustrator/Author:** William Steig\\ **Annotation:**\\ Frightened by an approaching lion, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock. But, then, Sylvester is unable to grasp the pebble and wish himself back to normal.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/50353|DB 50353]] - Read by Bob Askey. Reading time: 11 minutes. * [[BR 01267]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** * [[BR 15008]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse === **Illustrator/Author:** Leo Lionni\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Goggles! === **Illustrator/Author:** Ezra Jack Keats\\ **Annotation:**\\ Peter and his friend Archie are delighted when Peter finds an old pair of motorcycle goggles. They enjoy the new-found treasure only a little while before the neighborhood bullies try to take it from them.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/32330|DB 32330]] - Read by Gary Tipton. Reading time: 3 minutes. ---- === The Judge: An Untrue Tale === **Illustrator:** Margot Zemach\\ **Author:** Harve Zemach\\ **Annotation:**\\ When five frightened defendants attempt to warn a judge about a horrible creature creeping closer and closer every day, he dismisses the witnesses as liars and nincompoops. Only after jailing them does the judge learn the truth about the monster.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 01434]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE**? ---- === Pop Corn & Ma Goodness === **Illustrator:** Robert Andrew Parker\\ **Author:** Edna Mitchell Preston\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Thy Friend, Obadiah === **Illustrator/Author:** Brinton Turkle\\ **Annotation:**\\ Obadiah, a charming little Quaker boy of long-ago Nantucket, is plagued by a sea gull who follows him everywhere, even to Meeting. The boy is embarrassed by the gull's persistence until he fears that the bird is in distress.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 01433]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1969 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship === **Illustrator:** Uri Shulevitz\\ **Author:** Arthur Ransome\\ **Annotation:**\\ When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 16474]] * [[BR 00949]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honor ==== === Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky === **Illustrator:** Blair Lent\\ **Author:** Elphinstone Dayrell\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1968 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Drummer Hoff === **Illustrator:** Ed Emberley\\ **Author:** Barbara Emberley\\ **Annotation:**\\ A folk rhyme tells how soldiers work together to fire their cannon.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 00727]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** * [[BR 09915]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Emperor and the Kite === **Illustrator:** Ed Young\\ **Author:** Jane Yolen\\ **Annotation:**\\ When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, it is his smallest daughter, whom he had always ignored, who uses her kite to save him.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 00728]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Frederick === **Illustrator/Author:** Leo Lionni\\ **Annotation:**\\ When Frederick, the field mouse, is criticized by his friends for whiling away his time while they gather winter supplies, he explains that he is collecting words and colons for the long gray winter when they will run out of things to say.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 00760]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE**? ---- === Seashore Story === **Illustrator/Author:** Taro Yashima\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1967 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine === **Illustrator/Author:** Evaline Ness\\ **Annotation:**\\ Motherless Samantha spends her time daydreaming and making up stories which her father calls "moonshine". When her stories lead her cat and her friend to danger, she learns the difference between them and the truth.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 00507]] ---- ==== Honor ==== === One Wide River to Cross === **Illustrator:** Ed Emberley\\ **Author:** Barbara Emberley\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1966 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Always Room for One More === **Illustrator:** Illustrator: Nonny Hogrogian\\ **Author:** Sorche Nic Leodhas\\ **Annotation:**\\ A lilting story based on an old Scottish folk song about generous Lachie MacLachlan, who invites every traveler who passes on a dark, stormy night into his wee house in the heather.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 22447]] * [[BR 00216]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE**? ---- ==== Honors ==== === Hide and Seek Fog === **Illustrator:** Roger Duvoisin\\ **Author:** Alvin Tresselt\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Just Me === **Illustrator/Author:** Marie Hall Ets\\ **Annotation:**\\ A little boy enjoys imitating the walk of one animal after another, but runs only as he can to meet his father for a boat ride at the end of the venture.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 03798]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Tom Tit Tot === **Illustrator/Author:** Evaline Ness\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1965 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === May I Bring a Friend? === **Illustrator:** Beni Montresor\\ **Author:** Beatrice Schenk de Regniers\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === A Pocketful of Cricket === **Illustrator:** Evaline Ness\\ **Author:** Rebecca Caudill\\ **Annotation:**\\ When Jay goes to drive the cows home, he notices many intriguing things and brings back an assortment of treasures. Chief among them is a live cricket, which accompanies him on his first day at school.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 00024]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE**? ---- === Rain Makes Applesauce === **Illustrator:** Marvin Bileck\\ **Author:** Julian Scheer\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Wave === **Illustrator:** Blair Lent\\ **Author:** Margaret Hodges\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1964 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Where the Wild Things Are === **Illustrator/Author:** Maurice Sendak\\ **Annotation:**\\ After being sent to bed without supper for misbehaving, Max puts on his wolf suit and sails away 'through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year' to where the wild things are.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/22906|DB 22906]] - Read by Michael McCullough. Reading time: 4 minutes. * [[BR 16352]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === All in the Morning Early === **Illustrator:** Evaline Ness\\ **Author:** Sorche Nic Leodhas\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes === **Illustrator/Author:** Philip Reed\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Swimmy === **Illustrator/Author:** Leo Lionni\\ **Annotation:**\\ Swimmy is the only black fish in a school of little red fish who live in a corner of the sea. One day a big fish comes along and eats all the little red fish, but Swimmy, who can swim very fast, escapes. He is very sad, until he starts meeting all the other wonderful creatures in the sea. **Available Formats:** * [[BR 11004]] -**PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1963 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Snowy Day === **Illustrator/Author:** Ezra Jack Keats\\ **Annotation:**\\ Young Peter is thrilled to wake up to snow piled high. He spends the day crunching, sliding, building a snowman, making snow angels, and having a great time.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/43471|DB 43471]] - Read by Chuck Young. Reading time: 3 minutes. * [[BR 10045]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present === **Illustrator:** Maurice Sendak\\ **Author:** Charlotte Zolotow\\ **Annotation:**\\ An unusual rabbit helps a little girl come up with the perfect present for her mother's birthday.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 03387]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Sun is a Golden Earring === **Illustrator:** Bernarda Bryson\\ **Author:** Natalia M. Belting\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1962 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Once a Mouse === **Illustrator:** Marcia Brown\\ **Author:** Hitopadesa\\ **Annotation:**\\ A fable from India. A compassionate hermit changes a frightened mouse into successively larger animals to save him from his enemies until the mouse's arrogance brings about his downfall.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 22903]] * [[BR 05912]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE**? ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up === **Illustrator:** Adrienne Adams\\ **Author:** Alice E. Goudey\\ **Annotation:**\\ A brother and sister rise before dawn to see the sun come up for the first time in their lives. They follow the sun all day long, and after supper their mother explains what makes day and night.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 11370]] ---- === Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song === **Illustrator/Author:** Peter Spier\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Little Bear's Visit === **Illustrator:** Maurice Sendak\\ **Author:** Else H. Minarik\\ **Annotation:**\\ While visiting his grandparents, Little Bear hears stories about his mother when she was a girl.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/44914|DB 44914]] - Read by Suzanne Toren. Reading time: 12 minutes. * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/15233|BR 15233]] - 1 volume. ---- ===== 1961 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Baboushka and the Three Kings === **Illustrator:** Nicolas Sidjakov\\ **Author:** Ruth Robbins\\ **Annotation:**\\ A reverent retelling of the Christmas legend about an old woman who is too busy with her housework to accompany the three kings in their search for the Christ Child.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 23548]] ---- ==== Honor ==== === Inch by Inch === **Illustrator/Author:** Leo Lionni\\ **Annotation:**\\ A youngster takes his rake and hoe and, inch by inch and row by row, plans to make a garden grow.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 43794]] * [[BR 19019]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1960 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Nine Days to Christmas === **Illustrator/Author:** Marie Hall Ets\\ **Co-Author:** Aurora Labastida\\ **Annotation:**\\ Ceci, a little Mexican girl, is excited because she is finally old enough to buy a pinata for the village Christmas party.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/22909|DB 22909]] - Read by Janis Gray. Reading time: 21 minutes. * [[BR 05922]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Houses from the Sea === **Illustrator:** Adrienne Adams\\ **Author:** Alice E. Goudey\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Moon Jumpers === **Illustrator:** Maurice Sendak\\ **Author:** Janice May Udry\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1959 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Chanticleer and the Fox === **Illustrator:** Barbara Cooney\\ **Author:** Geoffrey Chaucer\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie === **Illustrator/Author:** Antonio Frasconi\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Umbrella === **Illustrator/Author:** Taro Yashima\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === What Do You Say, Dear? === **Illustrator:** Maurice Sendak\\ **Author:** Sesyle Joslin\\ **Annotation:**\\ A guide to good manners for all occasions for young ladies and gentlemen. Offers advice on how to cope correctly with a variety of common and uncommon social situations.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/55946|DB 55946]] - Read by Faith Potts. Reading time: 5 minutes. * [[BR 05068]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1958 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Time of Wonder === **Illustrator/Author:** Robert McCloskey\\ **Annotation:**\\ The author describes the enchanting beauty of a Maine island in rain, fog, sunshine, and hurricane.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 40409]] * [[BR 05624]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Anatole and the Cat === **Illustrator:** Paul Galdone\\ **Author:** Eve Titus\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Fly High, Fly Low === **Illustrator/Author:** Don Freeman\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1957 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === A Tree is Nice === **Illustrator:** Marc Simont\\ **Author:** Janice Udry\\ **Annotation:**\\ A simple text explains in childlike terms why trees are nice to have around and to be around.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 06122]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Anatole === **Illustrator:** Paul Galdone\\ **Author:** Eve Titus\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Gillespie and the Guards === **Illustrator:** James Daugherty\\ **Author:** Benjamin Elkin\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Lion === **Illustrator/Author:** William Pène du Bois\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Mr. Penny's Race Horse === **Illustrator/Author:** Marie Hall Ets\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === 1 is One === **Illustrator/Author:** Tasha Tudor\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1956 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Frog Went A-Courtin' === **Illustrator:** Feodor Rojankovsky\\ **Author:** John Langstaff\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Crow Boy === **Illustrator/Author:** Taro Yashima\\ **Annotation:**\\ Moving story about a shy little Japanese boy whose classmates ignore or make fun of him until a new teacher discovers that he has wonderful and unusual talents.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 03880]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Play With Me === **Illustrator/Author:** Marie Hall Ets\\ **Annotation:**\\ Little girl looking for playmate tries unsuccessfully to entice creatures in the meadow. When she sits down quietly, each one comes back to get acquainted.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 04681]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1955 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper === **Illustrator/Author:** Marcia Brown\\ **Annotation:**\\ Saved from the cruelty of her wicked stepmother, a poor girl goes to the king's ball with the help of her fairy godmother.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 06111]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes === **Illustrator/Author:** Marguerite de Angeli\\ **Annotation:**\\ This collection of nursery rhymes has been popular with children for almost 20 years. De Angeli offers more than 400 Mother Goose rhymes, including the old favorites and many less familiar ones.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 01316]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE**? ---- === The Thanksgiving Story === **Illustrator:** Helen Sewell\\ **Author:** Alice Dalgliesh\\ **Annotation:**\\ This story follows the Hopkins family from the time they leave England through their difficult voyage on the Mayflower to the first Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth, Massachusetts.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/26489|DB 26489]] - Read by Mary O'Neal. Reading time: 18 minutes. * [[BR 02187]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE**? ---- === Wheel On The Chimney === **Illustrator:** Tibor Gergely\\ **Author:** Margaret Wise Brown\\ **Annotation:**\\ A Hungarian farmer ties a big wheel to his chimney. He hopes that two storks will nest there and bring good luck to his family. And they do.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 23195]] * [[BR 03635]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1954 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Madeline's Rescue === **Illustrator/Author:** Ludwig Bemelmans\\ **Annotation:**\\ Another story about little Madeline in Paris, this time being rescued from the Seine by a dog named Genevieve. Madeline and her schoolmates fight over who gets to sleep with the beloved dog. Companion to Madeline ([[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/44292|DB 44292]]). For grades K-3.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/44293|DB 44293]] - Read by Laura Giannarelli. Reading time: 6 minutes. * [[BR 05901]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Green Eyes === **Illustrator/Author:** A. Birnbaum\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Journey Cake, Ho! === **Illustrator:** Robert McCloskey\\ **Author:** Ruth Sawyer\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Steadfast Tin Soldier === **Illustrator:** Marcia Brown\\ **Author:** Hans Christian Andersen (Translated by M. R. James)\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === A Very Special House === **Illustrator:** Maurice Sendak\\ **Author:** Ruth Krauss\\ **Annotation:**\\ A nonsensical story in verse about an imaginary house shared by a young boy and a turtle, a rabbit, a giant, and a lion who eats the stuffings from the chairs.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 07526]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === When Will the World Be Mine? === **Illustrator:** Jean Charlot\\ **Author:** Miriam Schlein\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1953 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Biggest Bear === **Illustrator/Author:** Lynd Ward\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals === **Illustrator/Author:** Fritz Eichenberg\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Five Little Monkeys === **Illustrator/Author:** Juliet Kepes\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === One Morning in Maine === **Illustrator/Author:** Robert McCloskey\\ **Annotation:**\\ One morning in Maine, Sal jumps out of bed and hurries to get dressed. Today she and her baby sister Jane are going with their father to Buck's Harbor. As Sal is brushing her teeth, she discovers a loose tooth. Before the morning is over her tooth has fallen out, but she can't find it. Now she won't be able to put it under her pillow and make a wish. She wonders if her wish will come true anyway.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 40408]] * [[BR 04300]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Puss in Boots === **Illustrator:** Marcia Brown\\ **Author:** Charles Perrault\\ **Annotation:**\\ A poor miller's son gains a fortune and marries a beautiful princess with the help of his cat, the clever Puss.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 08910]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Storm Book === **Illustrator:** Margaret Bloy Graham\\ **Author:** Charlotte Zolotow\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1952 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Finders Keepers === **Illustrator:** Nicholas Mordvinoff\\ **Author:** Will Lipkind\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === All Falling Down === **Illustrator:** Margaret Bloy Graham\\ **Author:** Gene Zion\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Bear Party === **Illustrator/Author:** William Pène du Bois\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Feather Mountain === **Illustrator/Author:** Elizabeth Olds\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo === **Illustrator/Author:** Marie Hall Ets\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Skipper John's Cook === **Illustrator/Author:** Marcia Brown\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1951 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Egg Tree === **Illustrator/Author:** Katherine Milhous\\ **Annotation:**\\ A houseful of Pennsylvania Dutch cousins enjoy an exciting Easter egg hunt. Katy's discovery of pretty eggs decorated by her grandmother long ago leads to a new family tradition.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/60891|DB 60891]] - Read by Kate Kiley. Reading time: 17 minutes. * [[BR 06109]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Dick Whittington and His Cat === **Illustrator/Author:** Marcia Brown\\ **Annotation:**\\ A simple retelling of the English legend about poor Dick Whittington, who achieved fame and fortune by selling his beloved cat to an eastern king plagued by rats.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 04673]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === If I Ran the Zoo === **Illustrator/Author:** Dr. Seuss\\ **Annotation:**\\ In rollicking rhymes young Gerald McGrew describes the fabulous, imaginary animals that he would scour the world for and put in his New Zoo, the McGrew Zoo.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/34725|DB 34725]] - Read by George Backman. Reading time: 11 minutes. * [[BR 04661]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === The Most Wonderful Doll in the World === **Illustrator:** Helen Stone\\ **Author:** Phyllis McGinley\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === T-Bone, the Baby Sitter === **Illustrator/Author:** Clare Turlay Newberry\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Two Reds === **Illustrator:** Nicholas Mordvinoff\\ **Author:** William Lipkind\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1950 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Song of the Swallows === **Illustrator/Author:** Leo Politi\\ **Annotation:**\\ California. Old gardener Julian and young schoolboy Juan watch the swallows that nest in the mission gardens fly away for the winter. When the swallows return in the spring, Juan and Julian ring the mission bells to welcome the birds back to Capistrano.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 19009]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === America's Ethan Allen === **Illustrator:** Lynd Ward\\ **Author:** Stewart Hall Holbrook\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Bartholomew and the Oobleck === **Illustrator/Author:** Dr. Seuss\\ **Annotation:**\\ Angry about the same four things always falling from the sky - rain, sunshine, snow, and fog - the king of the kingdom of Didd orders his royal magicians to create something new to fall from the sky.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/34054|DB 34054]] - Read by John Horton. Reading time: 22 minutes. * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/08721|BR 08721]] - 1 volume. ---- === The Happy Day === **Illustrator:** Marc Simont\\ **Author:** Ruth Krauss\\ **Annotation:**\\ An easy-to-read story about the delightful surprise that the animals find in the snow.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 07530]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- === Henry Fisherman === **Illustrator/Author:** Marcia Brown\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Wild Birthday Cake === **Illustrator:** Hildegard Woodward\\ **Author:** Lavinia R. Davis\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1949 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Big Snow === **Illustrator/Author:** Berta and Elmer Hader\\ **Annotation:**\\ A little old man and woman who live in the only house on the hillside keep all the birds and animals fed during the long, cold winter.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 29072]] ---- ==== Honors ==== === All Around the Town === **Illustrator:** Helen Stone\\ **Author:** Phyllis McGinley\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Blueberries for Sal === **Illustrator/Author:** Robert McCloskey\\ **Annotation:**\\ One day in Maine, Little Sal goes blueberry picking with her mother. Little Bear also comes with his mother to eat blueberries on the other side of the hill. There is quite a mix up when the little ones stray from their mothers.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/52440|DB 52440]] - Read by Kimberly Schraf. Reading time: 9 minutes. * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/13566|BR 13566]] - 1 volume. ---- === Fish in the Air === **Illustrator/Author:** Kurt Wiese\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Juanita === **Illustrator/Author:** Leo Politi\\ **Annotation:**\\ Juanita, a little Mexican girl who lives on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, celebrates both her fifth birthday and the blessing of the animals on the day before Easter.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 02657]] ---- ===== 1948 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === White Snow, Bright Snow === **Illustrator:** Roger Duvoisin\\ **Author:** Alvin Tresselt\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Bambino the Clown === **Illustrator/Author:** Georges Schreiber\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === McElligot's Pool === **Illustrator/Author:** Dr. Seuss\\ **Annotation:**\\ Young Marco has spent three hours with his fishing pole at tiny McElligot's Pool without one single bite. He's not discouraged because he imagines all the wonderful fish that might still be caught.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 34060]] * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/16216|BR 16216]] - 1 volume. ---- === Roger and the Fox === **Illustrator:** Hildegard Woodward\\ **Author:** Lavinia R. Davis\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Song of Robin Hood === **Illustrator:** Virginia Lee Burton\\ **Author:** Anne Malcolmson\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Stone Soup === **Illustrator/Author:** Marcia Brown\\ **Annotation:**\\ When three hungry soldiers in a strange land ask some villagers for food, they are told there is none. So the soldiers decide to show the townspeople how to make soup from water and three round stones.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/50548|DB 50548]] - Read by Chuck Young. Reading time: 8 minutes. ---- ===== 1947 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Little Island === **Illustrator:** Leonard Weisgard\\ **Author:** Margaret Wise Brown\\ **Annotation:**\\ The story of a small island, its weather, and the creatures who visit it, including a kitten.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/58520|DB 58520]] - Read by Erik Synnestvedt. Reading time: 6 minutes. * [[BR 16004]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Boats on the River === **Illustrator:** Jay Hyde Barnum\\ **Author:** Marjorie Flack\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street === **Illustrator/Author:** Leo Politi\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Rain Drop Splash === **Illustrator:** Leonard Weisgard\\ **Author:** Alvin Tresselt\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns === **Illustrator:** Marjorie Torrey\\ **Author:** Opal Wheeler\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Timothy Turtle === **Illustrator:** Tony Palazzo\\ **Author:** Al Graham\\ **Annotation:**\\ Irresistible nonsense verse about what happens when Timothy Turtle decides to become an adventurer.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 11664]] ---- ===== 1946 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Rooster Crows === **Illustrator/Author:** Maud and Miska Petersham\\ **Annotation:**\\ A classic collection of nursery rhymes, finger games, counting songs, skipping-rope rhymes, and other jingles loved by generations of American children.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 21585]] ---- ==== Honors ==== === Little Lost Lamb === **Illustrator/Author:** Leonard Weisgard\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World === **Illustrator:** Ruth Gannett\\ **Author:** Becky Reyher\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Sing Mother Goose === **Illustrator:** Marjorie Torrey\\ **Author:** Opal Wheeler\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === You Can Write Chinese === **Illustrator/Author:** Kurt Wiese\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1945 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Prayer for a Child === **Illustrator:** Elizabeth Orton Jones\\ **Author:** Rachel Field\\ **Annotation:**\\ Gentle verses and illustrations express a child's gratitude for her parents' love, her toys, the firelight, and all the other people and things she loves.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 01800]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Christmas Anna Angel === **Illustrator:** Kate Seredy\\ **Author:** Ruth Sawyer\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === In the Forest === **Illustrator/Author:** Marie Hall Ets\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Mother Goose === **Illustrator:** Tasha Tudor\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Yonie Wondernose === **Illustrator:** Marguerite de Angeli\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1944 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Many Moons === **Illustrator:** Louis Slobodkin\\ **Author:** James Thurber\\ **Annotation:**\\ Princess Lenore, who is 10 going on 11, falls ill from eating too many raspberry tarts. When her father, the King, promises her anything that will make her well, Princess Lenore asks for the moon.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/39639|DB 39639]] - Read by Bob Askey. Reading time: 20 minutes. ---- ==== Honors ==== === A Child's Good Night Book === **Illustrator:** Jean Charlot\\ **Author:** Margaret Wise Brown\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Good-Luck Horse === **Illustrator:** Plato Chan\\ **Author:** Chih-Yi Chan\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Mighty Hunter === **Illustrator/Author:** Berta and Elmer Hader\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Pierre Pidgeon === **Illustrator:** Arnold E. Bare\\ **Author:** Lee Kingman\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Small Rain: Verses From The Bible === **Illustrator:** Elizabeth Orton Jones\\ **Author:** Jessie Orton Jones\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1943 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === The Little House === **Illustrator/Author:** Virginia Lee Burton\\ **Annotation:**\\ The story of a pretty little house built for a family by a man who never wanted it to be sold. The seasons and the years pass, and gradually a city surrounds the little house until it is rescued in a wonderful way.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/50547|DB 50547]] - Read by Kimberly Schraf. Reading time: 10 minutes. * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/13455|BR 13455]] - 1 volume. ---- ==== Honors ==== === Dash and Dart === **Illustrator/Author:** Mary and Conrad Buff\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Marshmallow === **Illustrator/Author:** Clare Turlay Newberry\\ **Annotation:**\\ Oliver, a cat who wants peace and quiet, is upset when his owner Miss Tilly brings a frolicsome little bunny, Marshmallow, into the apartment. After some adjusting, Oliver adopts Marshmallow as his own kitten.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 18005]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ===== 1942 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Make Way for Ducklings === **Illustrator/Author:** Robert McCloskey\\ **Annotation:**\\ Five helpful Boston policemen stop busy city traffic so that Mrs. Mallard can move her family of eight ducklings from their island in the Charles River to their new home in the Public Garden.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/42913|DB 42913]] - Read by John Horton. Reading time: 8 minutes. ---- ==== Honors ==== === An American ABC === **Illustrator/Author:** Maud and Miska Petersham\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === In My Mother's House === **Illustrator:** Velino Herrera\\ **Author:** Ann Nolan Clark\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Nothing At All === **Illustrator/Author:** Wanda Gág\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1941 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === They Were Strong and Good === **Illustrator/Author:** Robert Lawson\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === April's Kittens === **Illustrator/Author:** Clare Turlay Newberry\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Paddle-to-the-Sea === **Illustrator/Author:** Holling C. Holling\\ **Annotation:**\\ A First Nations boy sets a foot-long canoe afloat on Ontario's Lake Nipigon. As the little dugout drifts through the Great Lakes to the ocean, strangers honor the message carved in the wood: "Please put me back in water. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea." **Available Formats:** * [[RC 22676]] * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/19406|BR 19406]] - 1 volume. ---- ===== 1940 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Abraham Lincoln === **Illustrator/Author:** Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire\\ **Annotation:**\\ The story of Abraham Lincoln from his birth in the Kentucky wilderness to his term as the president who led his country through the Civil War.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 21812]] * [[BR 05871]] ---- ==== Honors ==== === The Ageless Story === **Illustrator/Author:** Lauren Ford\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Cock-a-Doodle Doo === **Illustrator/Author:** Berta and Elmer Hader\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Madeline === **Illustrator/Author:** Ludwig Bemelmans\\ **Annotation:**\\ A story in rhyme about a little girl in a Paris boarding school who manages to have a lively time in spite of appendicitis.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/44292|DB 44292]] - Read by Laura Giannarelli. Reading time: 4 minutes. ---- ===== 1939 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Mei Li === **Illustrator/Author:** Thomas Handforth\\ **Annotation:**\\ Mei Li, a little Chinese girl, spends an exciting day at the New Year's fair and races home on camelback through darkness to greet the Kitchen God at midnight.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[RC 13619]] * [[BR 06104]] - **PRINT/BRAILLE** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Andy and the Lion === **Illustrator/Author:** James Daugherty\\ **Annotation:**\\ Andy meets a lion on the way to school and wins his friendship for life by removing a thorn from his paw. A retelling of "Androcles and the Lion."\\ **Available Formats:** * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/61829|DB 61829]] - Read by Alexander Strain. Reading time: 5 minutes. * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/16459|BR 16459]] - 1 volume. ---- === Barkis === **Illustrator/Author:** Clare Turlay Newberry\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === The Forest Pool === **Illustrator/Author:** Laura Adams Armer\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs === **Illustrator/Author:** Wanda Gág\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Wee Gillis === **Illustrator:** Robert Lawson\\ **Author:** Munro Leaf\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ===== 1938 ===== ==== Medal Winner ==== === Animals of the Bible === **Illustrator:** Dorothy P. Lathrop\\ **Author:** Helen Dean Fish\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- ==== Honors ==== === Four and Twenty Blackbirds === **Illustrator:** Robert Lawson\\ **Author:** Helen Dean Fish\\ **NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT** ---- === Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale === **Illustrator/Author:** Boris Artzybasheff\\ **Annotation:**\\ A folk tale in which seven brothers, each with a special talent, aid their king.\\ **Available Formats:** * [[BR 00681]] ----