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book nook: Caldecott Medal
4-8 Years
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
When Joseph’s overcoat gets old and worn-out, he makes it into a jacket. When the jacket gets old and worn-out, he makes it into something else. So it goes until Joseph is left with nothing…and then proves that you can always make something out of nothing. Caldecott Award 2000.
Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty
Going their separate ways for the day, Hondo the dog and Fabian the cat make their own fun in different ways. Caldecott Honor 2003.
Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
When a princess is threatened by a dragon, she takes it upon herself to find a knight who will go to battle for her. Together she and the knight, along with some friends, will travel back to her home and fight off the dragon. Will the knight be victorious? Caldecott Award 1985.
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Max is so mischievous that he gets sent to his room without supper. When he is forced to stay in his room, the boy uses his imagination to go on a great and wild adventure. Caldecott Award 1964.
The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
The classic Aesop fable is retold in this wordless picture book. Cadecott Award 2010
The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka, written by Norton Juster
The kitchen window at Nanna and Poppy’s house provides the perfect stage for viewing a young, imaginative girl’s world. Caldecott Award 2006
The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson
Scratchboard illustrations expand on the story in which a young girl is given a golden key to a house. Caldecott Award 2009
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
A story depicted through oil and ink paintings that describes the tight rope walk that Philippe Petit took between the World Trade Center in 1974.
9-12 Years
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
When a bitter old man running a toy booth and a bookish girl enter the orphan Hugo’s life, his world is turned upside down. With his undercover life as thief and clock keeper of a busy Paris train station threatened, Hugo has little time left to solve the mystery behind the mechanical man. Caldecott Award 2008.
Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
Juan produces a garden to convince at least one family of swallows to nest there when they return to the mission in San Juan Capistrano, California. Caldecott Award 1950.
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