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Caldecott Award Winners


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Book cover for "The adventures of Beekle"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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"An imaginary friend waits a long time to be imagined by a child and given a special name, and finally does the unimaginable--he sets out on a quest to find his perfect match in the real world."--
Book cover for "Animals of the Bible"
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Introduces children to the most memorable animals of the Old and New Testaments. This book and its illustrator won the very first Randolph Caldecott Medal as the most distinguished picture book for children.
Book cover for "Arrow to the sun"
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An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
Book cover for "Baboushka and the three kings"
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An old woman who was too busy to travel with the Wise Men to find the Child now searches endlessly for Him each Christmas season.
Book cover for "A ball for Daisy"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost. This story is about what it is like to lose something special, and find a friend.

6. Big

Book cover for "Big"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is. "Once there was a girl. She had a big heart and very big dreams. And it was good. Until it wasn't. The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning and bestselling creator Vashti Harrison traces a child's journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both...
Book cover for "The big snow"
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Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.
Book cover for "The biggest bear"
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Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
Book cover for "Black and white"
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Average Rating:
2 stars
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Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.
Book cover for "Can you see me?"
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Various rain forest animals show how their camouflage helps them blend into their environment.
Book cover for "Chanticleer and the fox"
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A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.
Book cover for "Chooch helped"
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"Sissy's younger brother, Chooch, isn't a baby anymore. They just celebrated his second birthday, after all. But no matter what Chooch does -- even if he's messing something up! Which is basically all the time! -- their parents say he's just "helping." Sissy feels that Chooch can get away with anything! When Elisi paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Edutsi makes grape dumplings, Chooch helps. When Oginalii gigs for crawdads, Chooch helps. When Sissy...
Book cover for "Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper"
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Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecott medal.
Book cover for "Creepy carrots!"
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Series:
Creepy tales! volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
Book cover for "Dave the potter"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave, and a potter, who went on to become an influential poet and artist.
Book cover for "Drummer Hoff"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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A picture book, from an old folk verse, which tells of the building of a cannon as each soldier brings a part.
Book cover for "The egg tree"
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Katy's Easter morning discovery renews the tradition of the Easter egg tree.

18. Fables

Book cover for "Fables"
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Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
Book cover for "Finding Winnie"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. Harry Colebourne's real-life great-graddaughter tells the true story of a remarkable frienship and an even more remarkable journey - from the fields of Canada to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England...And finally to the London...

20. Flotsam

Book cover for "Flotsam"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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When a young boy discovers a camera on the beach and develops the film, he finds with his microscope many layers of pictures within the photographs.