MCL - Caldecott Medal | Bernards Township

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Series

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Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became the sixteenth president of the United States.

2) The adventures of Beekle: the unimaginary friend

Author

Santat, Dan

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, VOX Book

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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.

3) Always room for one more

Author

Leodhas, Sorche Nic

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In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by.

4) Animals of the Bible: a picture book

5) Arrow to the sun: a Pueblo Indian tale

Author

McDermott, Gerald

Series

Weston Woods read-along CD

Formats:

Book, CD + Book

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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.

6) Ashanti to Zulu: African traditions

Author

Musgrove, Margaret

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Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.

7) Baboushka and the three kings

Author

Robbins, Ruth

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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.

8) A ball for Daisy

Author

Raschka, Christopher

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A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost.

9) Big

Author

Harrison, Vashti

Formats:

Book, eBook

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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.

10) The big snow

Author

Hader, Berta

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD

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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.

11) The biggest bear

Author

Ward, Lynd

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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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.

12) Black and white

Author

Macaulay, David

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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.

13) Chanticleer and the fox

Author

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.

14) Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper

Author

Perrault, Charles

Formats:

Book, eBook

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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.

15) Drummer Hoff

Author

Emberley, Barbara

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

16) Duffy and the devil: a Cornish tale retold

Author

Zemach, Harve

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The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name.

17) The egg tree

Author

Milhous, Katherine

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Katy's Easter morning discovery renuews the tradition of the Easter egg tree.

18) Fables

Author

Lobel, Arnold

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.

19) Finders keepers

Author

Will

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Two dogs each claim a bone they have found and ask passersby for help in deciding ownership.

20) Finding Winnie: the true story of the world's most famous bear

Author

Mattick, Lindsay

Series

Recorded Books new reader

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, Playaway Wonderbook

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A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.