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Book Pick for the week of 01/26/2010

The Name Jar

Written & Illustrated by Yangsook Choi

This is a beautiful story about a little girls named Unhei.  She is very afraid her name is going to be ridiculed by other children.  Unhei has just come with her family from Korea and is starting school. Her name is pronounced Yoon-hye, which means grace, but she feels awkward about it after some teasing on the school bus.

On the way to her first day of school, Unhei is teased by the children on the bus for her Korean name. When she reaches her classroom and is asked her name, she tells her classmates that she has not yet decided on one.

To be helpful the children put their suggestions into a “name jar.”   She decides to choose an American name, and her classmates oblige her by filling a glass jar with their suggestions. Her mother reminds her that she and her grandmother went to a name master for Unhei’s name, and Unhei practices stamping her name with the beautiful name stamp her grandmother gave her.   Finally, Unhei decides to keep her own name, and one of her classmates even has a stamp made for himself with the Korean characters for friend.  Her classmate takes pride in the new Korean nickname he has chosen, Chinku, meaning “friend.”

Pre-reading

1. What can you tell from looking at the cover?

2. Who is the Author?

3. Who is the Illustrator?

4. What is a name???

5. Would you like to have a different name? Why? Why not?

6. What is special about you and your name?”

Book Discussion:

1. Who is the main character of this story?

2. Is the name Unhei a good name??

3. Should Unhei be shy to say what her name is?

4. Was the teacher very helpful in solving Unhei’s problem?

5. What is special about you and your name?”

6. What did you learn from this story?

7. Do you think everyon’s name is special??

Caldecott Medal and Honor: 1938 -2010

Caldecott Award: was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. An important requirement of the award is that the recipient has to be a US citizen or resident.
Association for Library Service to Children says “The Medal shall be awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in English in the United States during the preceding year. There are no limitations as to the character of the picture book except that the illustrations be original work. Honor Books may be named. These shall be books that are also truly distinguished.”
The Caldecott Honor is an award awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA). It is given to worthy runners-up for the Caldecott Medal. The Caldecott Honor was initiated in 1971 and the specially cited runners-up for the Caldecott Medal from previous years were retroactively named Caldecott Honor books.

Medal and Honor List:

Book	Author	Award
The Lion & the Mouse	Jerry Pinkney	Caldecott Medal 2010
All the World,	Liz Garton Scanlon	Caldecott Honor 2010
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors	Joyce Sidman	Caldecott Honor 2010
A House in the Night	Susan Swanson	Caldecott Medal 2009
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever	Marla Frazee	Caldecott Honor 2009
How I Learned Geography,	Uri Shulevitz	Caldecott Honor 2009
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams,	Melissa Sweet, Jen Bryant	Caldecott Honor 2009
The Invention of Hugo Cabret	Kadir Nelson	Caldecott Medal 2008
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad	Kadir Nelson & Ellen Levine	Caldecott Honor 2008
First the Egg	Laura Vaccaro Seeger	Caldecott Honor 2008
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain	Peter Sis	Caldecott Honor 2008
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity	Mo Willems	Caldecott Honor 2008
Flotsam	David Wiesner	Caldecott Medal 2007
Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet	David McLimans	Caldecott Honor 2007
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom	Kadir Nelson & Carole Boston Weatherford	Caldecott Honor 2007
The Hello, Goodbye Window	Chris Raschka & Norton Juster	Caldecott Medal 2006
Rosa	Nikki Giovanni	Caldecott Honor 2006
Zen Shorts	Jon J. Muth	Caldecott Honor 2006
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride	Marjorie Priceman	Caldecott Honor 2006
the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems	Joyce Sidman	Caldecott Honor 2006
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems	Beckie Prange & Joyce Sidman	Caldecott Honor 2006
Kitten’s First Full Moon	Kevin Henkes	Caldecott Medal 2005
The Red Book	Barbara Lehman	Caldecott Honor 2005
Coming on Home Soon	E.B. Lewis & Jacqueline Woodson	Caldecott Honor 2005
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale	Mo Willems	Caldecott Honor 2005
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers	Mordicai Gerstein	Caldecott Medal 2004
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed	Margaret Chodos	Caldecott Honor 2004
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?	Steve Jenkins and Robin Page	Caldecott Honor 2004
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus	Mo Willems.	Caldecott Honor 2004
My Friend Rabbit	Eric Rohmann	Caldecott Medal 2003
The Spider and the Fly	Tony DiTerlizzi & Mary Howitt	Caldecott Honor 2003
Hondo & Fabian	Peter McCarty	Caldecott Honor 2003
Noah’s Ark	Jerry Pinkney	Caldecott Honor 2003
The Three Pigs	David Wiesner	Caldecott Medal 2002
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins	Barbara Kerley	Caldecott Honor 2002
Martin’s Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Bryan Collier & Doreen Rappaport	Caldecott Honor 2002
The Stray Dog	Marc Simont	Caldecott Honor 2002
So You Want to Be President	Judith St. George	Caldecott Medal 2001
Casey at the Bat	Christopher Bing & Ernest Thayer	Caldecott Honor 2001
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type	Betsy Lewin & Doreen Cronin	Caldecott Honor 2001
Olivia	Ian Falconer	Caldecott Honor 2001
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	Simms Taback	Caldecott Medal 2000
A Child’s Calendar	John Updike	Caldecott Honor 2000
Sector 7	David Wiesner	Caldecott Honor 2000
When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry	Molly Bang	Caldecott Honor 2000
The Ugly Duckling	Jerry Pinkney, Hans Christian Andersen & Jerry Pinkney	Caldecott Honor 2000
Snowflake Bentley	Mary Azarian & Jacqueline Briggs Martin	Caldecott Medal 1999
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra	Andrea Davis Pinkney	Caldecott Honor 1999
No, David!	David Shannon	Caldecott Honor 1999
Snow	Uri Shulevitz	Caldecott Honor 1999
Tibet Through the Red Box	Peter Sís	Caldecott Honor 1999
Rapunzel	Paul O. Zelinsky	Caldecott Medal 1998
The Gardener	Sarah Stewart	Caldecott Honor 1998
Harlem	Walter Dean Myers	Caldecott Honor 1998
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly	Simms Taback	Caldecott Honor 1998
Golem	David Wisniewski	Caldecott Medal 1997
Hush! A Thai Lullaby	Holly Meade & Minfong Ho	Caldecott Honor 1997
The Graphic Alphabet	David Pelletier	Caldecott Honor 1997
The Paperboy	Dav Pilkey	Caldecott Honor 1997
Starry Messenger	Peter Sís	Caldecott Honor 1997
Officer Buckle and Gloria	Peggy Rathmann	Caldecott Medal 1996
Alphabet City	Stephen T. Johnson	Caldecott honor 1996
Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin,	Marjorie Priceman & Lloyd Moss	Caldecott honor 1996
The Faithful Friend,	Brian Pinkney & Robert D. San Souci	Caldecott honor 1996
Tops & Bottoms	Janet Stevens	Caldecott honor 1996
Smoky Night,	David Diaz & Eve Bunting	Caldecott Medal 1995
John Henry	Jerry Pinkney & Julius Lester	Caldecott Honor 1995
Swamp Angel	Paul O. Zelinsky & Anne Issacs	Caldecott Honor 1995
Time Flies	Eric Rohmann	Caldecott Honor 1995
Grandfather’s Journey	Allen Say & Walter Lorraine	Caldecott Medal 1994
Peppe the Lamplighter	Elisa Bartone	Caldecott honor 1994
In the Small, Small Pond	Denise Fleming	Caldecott honor 1994
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest	Gerald McDermott	Caldecott honor 1994
Owen	Kevin Henkes	Caldecott honor 1994
Yo! Yes?	Richard Jackson	Caldecott honor 1994
Mirette on the High Wire	Emily Arnold McCully	Caldecott Medal 1993
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales	Lane Smith & Jon Scieszka	Caldecott Honor 1993
Seven Blind Mice	Ed Young	Caldecott Honor 1993
Working Cotton,	Carole Byard & Sherley Anne Williams	Caldecott Honor 1993
Tuesday	David Wiesner	Caldecott Medal 1992
Tar Beach	Faith Ringgold	Caldecott Honor 1992
Black and White	David Macaulay	Caldecott Medal 1991
Puss in Boots	Charles Perrault, Fred Marcellino, & Malcolm Arthur	Caldecott Honor 1991
“More More More,” Said the Baby: Three Love Stories	Vera B. Williams	Caldecott Honor 1991
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China	Ed Young	Caldecott Medal 1990
Bill Peet: An Autobiography	Bill Peet	Caldecott Honor 1990
Color Zoo	Lois Ehlert	Caldecott Honor 1990
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South	Jerry Pinkney & Robert D. San Souci	Caldecott Honor 1990
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins	Trina Schart Hyman & Eric Kimme	Caldecott Honor 1990
Song and Dance Man	Stephen Gammell & Karen Ackerman	Caldecott Medal 1989
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap,	Allen Say & Diane Snyder	Caldecott Honor 1989
Free Fall	David Wiesner	Caldecott Honor 1989
Goldilocks and the Three Bears	James Marshall	Caldecott Honor 1989
Mirandy and Brother Wind	Jerry Pinkney & Patricia C. McKissack	Caldecott Honor 1989
Owl Moon	John Schoenherr & Jane Yolen	Caldecott Medal 1988
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale	John Steptoe	Caldecott Honor 1988
Hey, Al	Richard Egielski & Arthur Yorinks	Caldecott Medal 1987
The Village of Round and Square Houses	Ann Grifalconi	Caldecott Honor 1987
Rumpelstiltskin	Paul O. Zelinsky	Caldecott Honor1987
The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg	Caldecott Medal 1986
The Relatives Came	Stephen Gammell & Cynthia Rylant	Caldecott Honor 1986
King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub	Don Wood & Audrey Wood	Caldecott Honor 1986
Saint George and the Dragon	Trina Schart Hyman & Margaret Hodges	Caldecott Medal 1985
Hansel and Gretel	Paul O. Zelinsky; & Rika Lesser	Caldecott Honor 1985
Have You Seen My Duckling?	Nancy Tafuri	Caldecott Honor 1985
The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend	John Steptoe	Caldecott Honor 1985
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot	Alice & Martin Provensen	Caldecott Medal 1984
Little Red Riding Hood	Trina Schart Hyman	Caldecott Honor 1984
Ten, Nine, Eight	Molly Bang	Caldecott Honor 1984
Shadow	Marcia Brown	Caldecott Medal1983
A Chair for My Mother	Vera B. Williams	Caldecott Honor 1983
When I Was Young in the Mountains	Diane Goode & Cynthia Rylant	Caldecott Honor1983
Jumanji	Chris Van Allsburg	Caldecott Medal 1982
Where the Buffaloes Begin	Stephen Gammell & Olaf Baker	Caldecott Honor1982
On Market Street	Arnold Lobel	Caldecott Honor 1982
Outside Over There	Maurice Sendak	Caldecott Honor 1982
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers	Alice & Martin Provensen & Nancy Willard	Caldecott Honor 1982
Fables	Arnold Lobel	Caldecott Medal 1981
The Bremen-Town Musicians	Ilse Plume	Caldecott Honor 1981
The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher	Molly Bang	Caldecott Honor 1981
Mice Twice	Joseph Low	Caldecott Honor 1981
Truck	Donald Crews	Caldecott Honor 1981
Ox-Cart Man	Barbara Cooney & Donald Hall	Caldecott Medal 1980
Ben’s Trumpet	Rachel Isadora	Caldecott Honor 1980
The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi	Chris Van Allsburg	Caldecott Honor 1980
The Treasure	Uri Shulevitz	Caldecott Honor 1980
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses	Paul Goble	Caldecott Medal 1979
Freight Train	Donald Crews	Caldecott Honor 1979
The Way to Start a Day	Peter Parnall &  Byrd Baylor	Caldecott Honor 1979
Noah’s Ark	Peter Spier	Caldecott Medal 1978
Castle	David Macaulay	Caldecott Honor 1978
It Could Always Be Worse	Margot Zemach	Caldecott Honor 1978
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions	Leo & Diane Dillon & Margaret Musgrove	Caldecott Medal 1977
The Amazing Bone	William Steig	Caldecott Honor 1977
The Contest	Nonny Hogrogian	Caldecott Honor 1977
Fish for Supper	M. B. Goffstein	Caldecott Honor 1977
The Golem: A Jewish Legend	Beverly Brodsky McDermott	Caldecott Honor 1977
Hawk, I’m Your Brother	Peter Parnall & Byrd Baylor	Caldecott Honor 1977
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears	Leo & Diane Dillon & Verna Aardema	Caldecott Medal 1976
The Desert is Theirs	Peter Parnall & Byrd Baylor	Caldecott Honor 1976
Strega Nona	Tomie de Paola	Caldecott Honor 1976
Arrow to the Sun	Gerald McDermott	Caldecott Medal 1975
Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book	Tom Feelings & Muriel Feelings	Caldecott Honor 1975
Duffy and the Devil	Margot Zemach & Harve Zemach	Caldecott Medal 1974
Three Jovial Huntsmen
Cathedral	David Macaulay	Caldecott Honor 1974
The Funny Little Woman	Blair Lent & Arlene Mosel	Caldecott Medal 1973
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti	Gerald McDermott	Caldecott Honor 1973
Hosie’s Alphabet	Leonard Baskin, Hosea, Tobias & Lisa Baskin	Caldecott Honor 1973
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs	Nancy Ekholm Burkert & Randall Jarrell	Caldecott Honor 1973
When Clay Sings	Tom Bahti & Byrd Baylor	Caldecott Honor 1973
One Fine Day	Nonny Hogrogian	Caldecott Medal 1972
Hildilid’s Night	Arnold Lobel & Cheli Durán Ryan	Caldecott Honor 1972
If All the Seas Were One Sea	Janina Domanska	Caldecott Honor 1972
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book	Tom Feelings & Muriel Feelings	Caldecott Honor 1972
A Story A Story	Gail E. Haley	Caldecott Medal 1971
The Angry Moon	Blair Lent & by William Sleator	Caldecott Honor 1971
Frog and Toad are Friends	Arnold Lobel	Caldecott Honor 1971
In the Night Kitchen	Maurice Sendak	Caldecott Honor 1971
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble	William Steig	Caldecott Medal 1970
Goggles!	Ezra Jack Keats	Caldecott Honor 1970
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse	Leo Lionni	Caldecott Honor 1970
Pop Corn & Ma Goodness	Robert Andrew Parker & Edna Mitchell Preston	Caldecott Honor 1970
Thy Friend, Obadiah	Brinton Turkle	Caldecott Honor 1970
The Judge: An Untrue Tale	Margot Zemach & Harve Zemach	Caldecott Honor 1970
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship	Uri Shulevitz & Arthur Ransome	Caldecott Medal 1969
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky	Blair Lent & Elphinstone Dayrell	Caldecott Honor 1969
Drummer Hoff	Ed Emberley & Barbara Emberley	Caldecott Medal 1969
Frederick	Leo Lionni	Caldecott Honor 1968
Seashore Story	Taro Yashima	Caldecott Honor 1968
The Emperor and the Kite	Ed Young & Jane Yolen	Caldecott Honor 1968
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine	Evaline Ness	Caldecott Medal 1967
One Wide River to Cross	Ed Emberley &  Barbara Emberley	Caldecott Honor 1967
Always Room for One More	Nonny Hogrogian, Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud	Caldecott Medal 1966
Hide and Seek Fog	Roger Duvoisin & Alvin Tresselt	Caldecott Honor 1966
Just Me	Marie Hall Ets	Caldecott  Honor 1966
Tom Tit Tot	Evaline Ness	Caldecott  Honor 1966
May I Bring a Friend?	Beni Montresor & Beatrice Schenk de Regniers	Caldecott Medal 1965
Rain Makes Applesauce	Marvin Bileck & Julian Scheer	Caldecott  Honor 1965
The Wave	Blair Lent & Margaret Hodges	Caldecott  Honor 1965
A Pocketful of Cricket	Evaline Ness & Rebecca Caudill	Caldecott  Honor 1965
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	Caldecott Medal 1964
Swimmy	Leo Lionni	Caldecott  Honor 1964
All in the Morning Early	Evaline Ness, Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud	Caldecott  Honor 1964
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes	Philip Reed	Caldecott  Honor 1964
The Snowy Day	Ezra Jack Keats	Caldecott Medal 1963
The Sun is a Golden Earring	Bernarda Bryson, Natalia M. Belting	Caldecott  Honor 1963
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present	Maurice Sendak & Charlotte Zolotow	Caldecott  Honor 1963
Once a Mouse	Marcia Brown	Caldecott Medal 1962
Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song	Peter Spier	Caldecott  Honor 1962
Little Bear’s Visit	Maurice Sendak ,Else H. Minarik	Caldecott  Honor 1962
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up	Adrienne Adam & Alice E. Goudey	Caldecott  Honor 1962
Baboushka and the Three Kings	Nicolas Sidjakov & Ruth Robbins	Caldecott Medal 1961
Inch by Inch	Leo Lionni	Caldecott  Honor 1961
Nine Days to Christmas	Marie Hall Ets, Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida	Caldecott Medal 1960
The Moon Jumpers	Maurice Sendak & Janice May Udry	Caldecott  Honor 1960
Houses from the Sea	Adrienne Adams & Alice E. Goudey	Caldecott  Honor 1960
Chanticleer and the Fox	Barbara Cooney	Caldecott Medal 1959
The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie	Antonio Frasconi	Caldecott  Honor 1959
What Do You Say, Dear?	Maurice Sendak &Sesyle Joslin	Caldecott  Honor 1959
Umbrella	Taro Yashima	Caldecott  Honor 1959
Time of Wonder	Robert McCloskey	Caldecott Medal 1958
Fly High, Fly Low	Don Freeman	Caldecott  Honor 1958
Anatole and the Cat	Paul Galdone &Eve Titus	Caldecott  Honor 1958
A Tree is Nice	Marc Simont & Janice Udry	Caldecott Medal 1957
1 is One	Tasha Tudor	Caldecott  Honor 1957
Anatole	Paul Galdone & Eve Titus	Caldecott  Honor 1957
Gillespie and the Guards	James Daugherty & Benjamin Elkin	Caldecott  Honor 1957
Mr. Penny’s Race Horse	Marie Hall Ets	Caldecott  Honor 1957
Lion	William Pène du Bois	Caldecott  Honor 1957
Frog Went A-Courtin’	Feodor Rojankovsky & John Langstaff	Caldecott Medal 1956
Play With Me	Marie Hall Ets	Caldecott  Honor 1956
Crow Boy	Taro Yashima	Caldecott  Honor 1956
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper	Marcia Brown, Charles Perrault & Marcia Brown	Caldecott Medal 1955
Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes	Marguerite de Angeli	Caldecott  Honor 1955
Wheel On The Chimney	Tibor Gergely & Margaret Wise Brown	Caldecott  Honor 1955
The Thanksgiving Story	Helen Sewell &Alice Dalgliesh	Caldecott  Honor 1955
Madeline’s Rescue	Ludwig Bemelmans	Caldecott Medal 1954
Journey Cake, Ho!	Robert McCloskey & Ruth Sawyer	Caldecott  Honor 1954
When Will the World Be Mine?	Jean Charlot & Miriam Schlein	Caldecott  Honor 1954
The Steadfast Tin Soldier	Marcia Brown, Hans Christian Andersen &  M. R. James	Caldecott  Honor 1954
A Very Special House	Maurice Sendak & Ruth Krauss	Caldecott  Honor 1954
Green Eyes	A. Birnbaum	Caldecott  Honor 1954
The Biggest Bear	Lynd Ward	Caldecott Medal 1953
Puss in Boots	Marcia Brown, Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown	Caldecott  Honor 1953
One Morning in Maine	Robert McCloskey	Caldecott  Honor 1953
Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals	Fritz Eichenberg	Caldecott  Honor 1953
The Storm Book	Margaret Bloy Graham & Charlotte Zolotow	Caldecott  Honor 1953
Five Little Monkeys	Juliet Kepes	Caldecott  Honor 1953
Finders Keepers	Nicholas Mordvinoff & William Lipkind	Caldecott Medal 1952
Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo	by Marie Hall Ets	Caldecott  Honor 1952
Skipper John’s Cook	Marcia Brown	Caldecott  Honor 1952
All Falling Down	Margaret Bloy Graham & Gene Zion	Caldecott  Honor 1952
Bear Party	William Pène du Bois	Caldecott  Honor 1952
Feather Mountain	Elizabeth Olds	Caldecott  Honor 1952
The Egg Tree	Katherine Milhous	Caldecott Medal 1951
Dick Whittington and his Cat	Marcia Brown	Caldecott  Honor 1951
The Two Reds	Nicholas Mordvinoff & William Lipkind	Caldecott  Honor 1951
If I Ran the Zoo	Dr. Seuss	Caldecott  Honor 1951
The Most Wonderful Doll in the World	Helen Stone & Phyllis McGinley	Caldecott  Honor 1951
T-Bone, the Baby Sitter	Clare Turlay Newberry	Caldecott  Honor 1951
Song of the Swallows	Leo Politi	Caldecott Medal 1950
America’s Ethan Allen	Lynd Ward & Stewart Holbrook	Caldecott  Honor 1950
The Wild Birthday Cake	Hildegard Woodward & Lavinia R. Davis	Caldecott  Honor 1950
The Happy Day	Marc Simont & Ruth Krauss	Caldecott  Honor 1950
Bartholomew and the Oobleck	by Dr. Seuss	Caldecott  Honor 1950
Henry Fisherman	Marcia Brown	Caldecott  Honor 1950
The Big Snow	Berta & Elmer Hader	Caldecott Medal 1949
Blueberries for Sal	Robert McCloskey	Caldecott  Honor 1949
All Around the Town	Helen Stone & Phyllis McGinley	Caldecott  Honor 1949
Juanita	Leo Politi	Caldecott  Honor 1949
Fish in the Air	Kurt Wiese	Caldecott  Honor 1949
White Snow, Bright Snow	Roger Duvoisin & Alvin Tresselt	Caldecott Medal 1948
Stone Soup	Marcia Brown	Caldecott  Honor 1948
McElligot’s Pool	Dr. Seuss	Caldecott  Honor 1948
Bambino the Clown	Georges Schreiber	Caldecott  Honor 1948
Roger and the Fox	Hildegard Woodward & Lavinia R. Davis	Caldecott  Honor 1948
Song of Robin Hood	Virginia Lee Burton & Anne Malcolmson	Caldecott  Honor 1948
The Little Island	Leonard Weisgard & Golden MacDonald	Caldecott Medal 1947
Rain Drop Splash	Leonard Weisgard & Alvin Tresselt	Caldecott  Honor 1947
Boats on the River	Jay Hyde Barnum & Marjorie Flack	Caldecott  Honor 1947
Timothy Turtle	Tony Palazzo & Al Graham	Caldecott  Honor 1947
Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street	Leo Politi	Caldecott  Honor 1947
Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns	Marjorie Torrey & Opal Wheeler	Caldecott  Honor 1947
The Rooster Crows	Maud & Miska Petersham	Caldecott Medal 1946
Little Lost Lamb	Leonard Weisgard & Margaret Wise Brown	Caldecott  Honor 1946
Sing Mother Goose	Marjorie Torrey & Opal Wheeler	Caldecott  Honor 1946
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World	Ruth Gannett & Becky Reyher	Caldecott  Honor 1946
You Can Write Chinese	Kurt Wiese	Caldecott  Honor 1946
Prayer for a Child	Elizabeth Orton Jones & Rachel Field	Caldecott Medal 1945
Mother Goose	Tasha Tudor	Caldecott  Honor 1945
In the Forest	Marie Hall Ets	Caldecott  Honor 1945
Yonie Wondernose	Marguerite de Angeli	Caldecott  Honor 1945
The Christmas Anna Angel	Kate Seredy & Ruth Sawyer	Caldecott  Honor 1945
Many Moons	Louis Slobodkin & James Thurber	Caldecott Medal 1944
Small Rain: Verses From The Bible	Elizabeth Orton Jones & Jessie Orton Jones	Caldecott  Honor 1944
Pierre Pidgeon	Arnold E. Bare & Lee Kingman	Caldecott  Honor 1944
The Mighty Hunter	Berta & Elmer Hader	Caldecott  Honor 1944
A Child’s Good Night Book	Jean Charlot & Margaret Wise Brown	Caldecott  Honor 1944
Good-Luck Horse	Plato Chan & Chih-Yi Chan	Caldecott  Honor 1944
The Little House	Virginia Lee Burton	Caldecott Medal 1943
Dash and Dart	Mary & Conrad Buff	Caldecott  Honor 1943
Marshmallow	Clare Turlay Newberry	Caldecott  Honor 1943
Make Way for Ducklings	Robert McCloskey	Caldecott Medal 1942
An American ABC	Maud & Miska Petersham	Caldecott  Honor 1942
In My Mother’s House	Velino Herrera & Ann Nolan Clark	Caldecott  Honor 1942
Paddle-To-The-Sea	Holling C. Holling	Caldecott  Honor 1942
Nothing At All	Wanda Gág	Caldecott  Honor 1942
They Were Strong and Good	Robert Lawson	Caldecott Medal 1941
April’s Kittens	Clare Turlay Newberry	Caldecott  Honor 1941
Abraham Lincoln	Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire	Caldecott Medal 1940
Cock-a-Doodle Doo	Berta & Elmer Hader	Caldecott  Honor 1940
Madeline	Ludwig Bemelmans	Caldecott  Honor 1940
The Ageless Story	Lauren Ford	Caldecott  Honor 1940
Mei Li	Thomas Handforth	Caldecott Medal 1939
Andy and the Lion	James Daugherty	Caldecott  Honor 1939
Barkis	Clare Turlay Newberry	Caldecott  Honor 1939
The Forest Pool	Laura Adams Armer	Caldecott  Honor 1939
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Wanda Gág	Caldecott Medal 1939
Wee Gillis	Robert Lawson & Munro Leaf	Caldecott  Honor 1939
Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book	Dorothy P. Lathrop & Helen Dean Fish	Caldecott Medal 1938
Four and Twenty Blackbirds	Robert Lawson & Helen Dean Fish	Caldecott  Honor 1938
Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale	Boris Artzybasheff	Caldecott  Honor 1938

Book Pick for the Week of   01/19/2010

Beatrice Doesn’t Want To

by Laura Numeroff

illustrated by Lynn Munsinger

Pre Reading  Skills:

What do you think the book is about?

Do you like going to the library?

DO you like to read?

Do you have any favorite book/s

Book Review:

This story is about an expressive little girl who doesn’t like books, reading, or the library. Of all places, Beatrice has to go to the library with her older brother, who struggles to keep her busy while preparing a school report. In desperation, he leaves her in a library story time session. Although stubbornly determined not to like it, she ends up liking the story so much that she wants to look through the book again after the session. This time her response of “I don’t want to” is because she doesn’t want to leave the library!

Discussion Questions:

Who is Beatrice?

Why was she upset?

Why did she not like libraries?

Do you have a younger sister or brother whom you sometimes have to take along with you?

What does being bored mean?

Beatrice’s brother thought “This is it” what was he thinking about?

Who is Wanda?

What did the Librarian read to the kids?

In the end was she ready to go home?

Will anything change her mind?  What finally did?

What do you think of this story?  Would you recommend it to a friend?

Welcome: this website is still undercontruction however its well worth the wait as this blog is going to be a family friendly website which will suggest books for children of all age groups. Book Chaperones are 2 moms who love reading and run a bookclub for children in an elementary school

Newbery Award:

The John Newbery Medal called The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.  It is awarded annually for the most distinguished contribution to juvenile literature.

It takes its name from the eighteenth-century British bookseller who first conceived of publishing books for children. First presented in 1922 to Hendrick Willem Van Loon for The Story of Mankind, the medal is awarded each year to an author whose work was published during the preceding year and who is a United States citizen.

Authors of other countries are eligible only if their books are first published in the U.S. A bronze medal bearing the inscription “For the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children” is presented at the annual conference of the American Library Association. A committee of school and children’s librarians selects the winner. Please find a list of all Newbery Medal and Honor winners.  The list is in order by date.

Newbery Medal and Honor Books from 1922 to present (2009)

Book	Author	Grade	Award
The Graveyard book	Neil Gaiman		Newbery Medal 2009
The Underneath	Kathi Appelt		Newbery Honor 2009
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom	Margarita Engle		Newbery Honor 2009
Savvy	Ingrid Law		Newbery Honor 2009
After Tupac & D Foster	Jacqueline Woodson		Newbery Honor 2009
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village	Laura Amy Schlitz	5 – 8	NewBerry Medal 2008
Feathers	Jacqueline Woodson	4 – 7	Newberry Honor 2008
The Higher Power of Lucky	Susan Patron		Newberry Medal 2007
Penny from Heaven	Jennifer L. Holm	5 – 8	Newberry honor 2007
Hattie Big Sky	Kirby Larson	6 – 9	Newberry honor 2007
Rules	Cynthia Lord	5 – 8	Newberry honor 2007
Criss Cross	Lynne Rae Perkins	6 – 9	Newberry Medal 2006
Whittington	Alan Armstrong.	4 – 7	Newberry honor 2006
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow	Susan Campbell Bartoletti	6 – 9	Newberry honor 2006
Princess Academy	Shannon Hale.	5 – 8	Newberry honor 2006
Show Way	Jacqueline Woodson	2 – 4	Newberry honor 2006
Kira-Kira	Cynthia Kadohata	6 – 9	Newberry Medal 2005
Al Capone Does My Shirt	Gennifer Choldenko	6 – 9	Newberry honor 2005
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights	Russell Freedman	6 -  9	Newberry honor 2005
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy	Gary D. Schmidt	6 – 9	Newberry honor 2005
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread	Kate DiCamillo	3 – 6	Newbery Medal 2004
Olive’s Ocean	Kevin Henkes	5 – 8	Newbery honor 2004
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793	Jim Murphy	6 – 9	Newbery honor 2004
Crispin: The Cross of Lead	Avi	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 2003
The House of the Scorpion	Nancy Farmer		Newbery honor 2003
Pictures of Hollis Woods	Patricia Reilly Giff	5 – 8	Newbery honor 2003
Hoot	Carl Hiaasen	6 – 9	Newbery honor 2003
A Corner of The Universe	Ann M. Martin	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 2003
Surviving the Applewhites	Stephanie S. Tolan	5 – 8	Newbery honor 2003
A Single Shard	Linda Sue Park	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 2002
Everything on a Waffle	Polly Horvath	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 2002
Carver: A Life In Poems	Marilyn Nelson	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 2002
A Year Down Yonde	Richard Peck	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 2001
Hope Was Here	Joan Bauer		Newbery honor 2001
Because of Winn-Dixie	Kate DiCamillo	3 – 6	Newbery honor 2001
Joey Pigza Loses Control	Jack Gantos	5 – 8	Newbery honor 2001
The Wanderer	Sharon Creech	5 – 8	Newbery honor 2001
Bud, Not Buddy	Christopher Paul Curtis	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 2000
Getting Near to Baby	Audrey Couloumbis	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 2000
Our Only May Amelia	Jennifer L. Holm	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 2000
26 Fairmount Avenue	Tomie dePaola	2 – 4	Newbery Honor 2000
Holes	Louis Sachar	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1999
A Long Way from Chicago	Richard Peck	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1999
Out of the Dust	Karen Hesse	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1998
Ella Enchanted	Gail Carson Levine	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1998
Lily’s Crossing	Patricia Reilly Giff	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1998
Wringer	Jerry Spinelli	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1998
The View from Saturday	E.L. Konigsburg	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1997
A Girl Named Disaster	Nancy Farmer	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1997
Moorchild	Eloise McGraw	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1997
The Thief	Megan Whalen Turner	JH & SH	Newbery Honor 1997
Belle Prater’s Boy	Ruth White	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1997
The Midwife’s Apprentice	Karen Cushman	6 – 9	Newbery Medal  1996
What Jamie Saw	Carolyn Coman	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1996
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963	Christopher Paul Curtis	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1996
Yolonda’s Genius	Carol Fenner	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1996
The Great Fire	Jim Murphy	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1996
Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech	3 – 6	Newbery Medal 1995
Catherine, Called Birdy	Karen Cushman	6 – 9	Newbery Honor1995
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	Nancy Farmer	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1995
The Giver	Lois Lowry	6 – 9	Newbery medal 1994
Crazy Lady	Jane Leslie Conly	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1994
Dragon’s Gate	Laurence Yep	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1994
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery	Russell Freedman	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1994
Missing May	Cynthia Rylant	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1993
What Hearts	Bruce Brooks	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1993
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural	Patricia McKissack	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1993
Somewhere in the Darkness	Walter Dean Myers	JH & SH	Newbery Honor 1993
Shiloh	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1992
Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel	Avi	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1992
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane	Russell Freedman	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1992
Maniac Magee	Jerry Spinelli	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1991
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	Avi	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1991
Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	3 – 2	Newbery Medal 1990
Afternoon of the Elves	Janet Taylor Lisle	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1990
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind	Suzanne Fisher Staples	JH &  SH	Newbery Honor 1990
The Winter Room	Gary Paulse	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1990
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices	Paul Fleischman	3 – 6	Newbery Medal 1989
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World	Virginia Hamilton	JH  & SH	Newbery Honor 1989
Scorpions	Walter Dean Myers	JH & SH	Newbery Honor 1989
Lincoln: A Photobiography	Russell Freedman	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1988
After The Rain	Norma Fox Mazer	JH & SH	Newbery Honor 1988
Hatchet	Gary Paulsen	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1988
The Whipping Boy	Sid Fleischman	4 – 6	Newbery Medal 1987
A Fine White Dust	Cynthia Rylant	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1987
On My Honor	Marion Dane Bauer	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1987
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens	Patricia Lauber	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1987
Sarah, Plain and Tall	Patricia MacLachlan	3 – 6	Newbery Medal 1986
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun	Rhoda Blumberg	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1986
Dogsong	Gary Paulsen	JH & SH	Newbery Honor 1986
The Hero and the Crown	Robin McKinley	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1985
Like Jake and Me	Mavis Jukes	K – 3	Newbery Honor 1985
The Moves Make the Man	Bruce Brooks	JH & SH	Newbery Honor 1985
One-Eyed Cat	Paula Fox	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1985
Dear Mr. Henshaw	Beverly Cleary	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1984
The Sign of the Beaver	Elizabeth George Speare	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1984
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree	Bill Brittain	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1984
A Solitary Blue	Cynthia Voigt	HS & above	Newbery Honor 1984
Dicey’s Song	Cynthia Voigt	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1983
The Blue Sword	Robin McKinley	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1983
Doctor De Soto	William Steig	K -  3	Newbery Honor 1983
Graven Images	Paul Fleischman	6 – 9 & above	Newbery Honor 1983
Homesick: My Own Story	Jean Fritz	6 – 9 & above	Newbery Honor 1983
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush	Virginia Hamilton	JH  & SH	Newbery Honor 1983
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers	Nancy Willard	2 – 4	Newbery Medal 1982
Ramona Quimby, Age 8	Beverly Cleary	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1982
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944	Aranka Siegal	JH & SH	Newbery Honor 1982
Jacob Have I Loved	Katherine Paterson	JH & SH	Newbery Medal 1982
The Fledgling	Jane Langton	5 – 7	Newbery Honor 1981
A Ring of Endless Light	by Madeleine L’Engle	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1981
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832	Joan W. Blos	5 – 8	Newberry Medal 1980
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl	David Kherdian	JH & SH	Newbery Honor 1980
The Westing Game	Ellen Raskin	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1979
The Great Gilly Hopkins	Katherine Paterson	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1979
Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1978
Ramona and Her Father	Beverly Cleary	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1978
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey	Jamake Highwater	JH &  SH	Newbery Honor 1978
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred D. Taylor	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1977
Abel’s Island	William Steig	3 – 5	Newbery Honor 1977
A String in the Harp	Nancy Bond	JH & SH	Newbery Honor 1977
The Grey King	Susan Cooper	6 – 9	Newberry Medal 1976
The Hundred Penny Box	Sharon Bell Mathis	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1976
Dragonwings	Laurence Yep	6 – 9	Newberry Honor 1976
M. C. Higgins, the Great	Virginia Hamilton	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1975
Figgs & Phantoms	Ellen Raskin	5 – 8	Newberry Honor 1975
My Brother Sam is Dead	James Lincoln Collier	6 – 9	Newberry Honor 1975
The Perilous Gard	Elizabeth Marie Pope	5 – 8	Newberry Honor 1975
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe	Bette Greene	5 – 8	Newberry Honor 1975
The Slave Dancer	Paula Fox	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1974
The Dark Is Rising	Susan Cooper	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1974
Julie of the Wolves	Jean Craighead	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1973
Frog and Toad Together	Arnold Lobel	Pre-2	Newberry Honor 1973
The Upstairs Room	Johanna Reiss	6 – 9	Newberry Honor 1973
The Witches of Worm	Zilpha Keatley Snyder	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1973
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH	Robert C. O’Brien	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1972
Incident At Hawk’s Hill	Allan W. Eckert	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1972
The Planet of Junior Brown	Virginia Hamilton	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1972
The Tombs of Atuan	Ursula K. LeGuin	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1972
Annie and the Old One	Miska Mile	3 – 5	Newbery Honor 1972
The Headless Cupid	Zilpha Keatley Snyder	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1972
Summer of the Swans	Betsy Byars	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1971
Knee Knock Rise	Natalie Babbitt	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1971
Enchantress From the Stars	Sylvia Louise Engdahl	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1971
Sing Down the Moon	Scott O’Dell	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1971
Sounder	William H. Armstrong	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1970
The High King	Lloyd Alexander	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1969
To Be a Slave	Julius Lester	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1969
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories	Isaac Bashevis Singer	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1969
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	E. L. Konigsburg	4 – 6	Newbery Medal 1968
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth	E. L. Konigsburg	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1968
The Black Pearl	Scott O’Dell	JH & SH	Newberry Honor 1968
The Egypt Game	Zilpha Keatley Snyder	4 – 7	Newberry Honor 1968
Up a Road Slowly	Irene Hunt	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1967
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories	Isaac Bashevis Singer	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1967
The Jazz Man	Mary Hays Weik	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1967
I, Juan de Pareja	Elizabeth Borton de Treviño	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1966
The Black Cauldron	Lloyd Alexander	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1966
The Animal Family	Randall Jarrell	4 – 8	Newberry Honor 1966
The Noonday Friends	Mary Stolz	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1966
Shadow of a Bull	Maia Wojciechowska	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1965
Across Five Aprils	Irene Hunt	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1965
It’s Like This, Cat	Emily Neville	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1964
Rascal	Sterling North	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1964
The Loner	Ester Wier	5 – 9	Newbery Honor 1964
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L’Engle	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1963
Men of Athens	Olivia Coolidge	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1963
The Bronze Bow	Elizabeth George Speare	JH & SH	Newbery Medal 1962
The Golden Goblet	Eloise Jarvis McGraw	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1962
Belling The Tiger	Mary Stolz	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1962
The Island of the Blue Dolphins	Scott O Dell	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1961
The Cricket In Times Square	George Selden	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1961
Onion John	Joseph Krumgold	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1960
My Side of the Mountain	Jean Craighead George	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1960
The Witch of Blackbird Pond	Elizabeth George Speare	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1959
The Family Under The Bridge	Natalie Savage Carlson	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1959
Rifles for Watie	Harold Keith	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1958
Gone-Away Lake	Elizabeth Enright	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1958
Miracles on Maple Hill	Virginia Sorenson	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1957
Old Yeller	Fred Gipson	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1957
The House of Sixty Fathers	Meindert DeJong	5 – 8	Newbery  Honor 1957
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch	Jean Lee Latham	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1956
The Secret River	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	2 – 4	Newbery Honor 1956
The Wheel on the School	Meindert DeJong	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1955
Courage of Sarah Noble	Alice Dalgliesh	2 – 4	Newbery Honor 1955
Banner In The Sky	James Ullman	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1955
And Now Miguel	Joseph Krumgold	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1954
Secret of the Andes	Ann Nolan Clark	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1953
Charlotte’s Web	E. B. White	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1953
Moccasin Trail	Eloise Jarvis McGraw	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1953
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain	Alice Dalgliesh	2 – 4	Newbery Honor 1953
Ginger Pye	Eleanor Estes	3 – 6	Newbery  Medal 1952
Minn of the Mississippi	Holling C. Holling	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1952
The Apple and the Arrow	Mary & Conrad Buff	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1952
Amos Fortune, Free Man	Elizabeth Yates	4 – 6	Newbery Medal 1951
The Door in the Wall	Marguerite de Angeli	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1950
King of the Wind	Marguerite Henry	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1949
Seabird	Holling C. Holling	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1949
My Father’s Dragon	Ruth S. Gannett	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1949
The Twenty-One Balloons	William Pène du Bois	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1948
Li Lun, Lad of Courage	Carolyn Treffinger	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1948
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories	Harold Courlander	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1948
Misty of Chincoteague	Marguerite Henry	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1948
Miss Hickory	Carolyn Sherwin Bailey	3 – 6	Newbery Medal 1947
Strawberry Girl	Lois Lenski	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1946
Justin Morgan Had a Horse	Marguerite Henry	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1946
Rabbit Hill	Robert Lawson	3 – 6	Newbery Medal 1945
The Hundred Dresses	Eleanor Estes	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1945
Abraham Lincoln’s World	Genevieve Foster	6 – 9	Newbery honor 1945
Johnny Tremain	Esther Forbes	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1944
These Happy Golden Years	Laura Ingalls Wilder	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1944
Rufus M.	Eleanor Estes	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1944
Adam of the Road	Elizabeth Janet Gray	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1943
The Middle Moffat	Eleanor Estes	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1943
The Matchlock Gun	Walter Edmonds	3 – 6	Newbery Medal 1942
Little Town on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1942
George Washington’s World	Genevieve Foster	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1942
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison	Lois Lenski	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1942
Call It Courage	Armstrong Sperry	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1942
The Long Winter	Laura Ingalls Wilder	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1941
By the Shores of Silver Lake	Laura Ingalls Wilder	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1940
Thimble Summer	Elizabeth Enright	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1939
Mr. Popper’s Penguins	Richard & Florence Atwater	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1939
The White Stag	Kate Seredy	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1938
On the Banks of Plum Creek	Laura Ingalls Wilder	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1938
Roller Skates	Ruth Sawyer	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1937
Caddie Woodlawn	Carol Ryrie Brink	4 – 7	Newbery medal 1936
The Good Master	Kate Seredy	4 – 7	Newbery Honor 1936
Dobry	Monica Shannon	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1935
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women	Cornelia Meigs	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1934
ABC Bunny	Wanda Gág	Pre- 2	Newbery Honor 1934
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze	Elizabeth Lewis	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1933
Waterless Mountain	Laura Adams Armer	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1932
Calico Bush	Rachel Field	3 – 6	Newbery Honor 1932
The Cat Who Went to Heaven	Elizabeth Coatsworth	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1931
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years	Rachel Field	4 – 7	Newbery  Medal 1930
The Trumpeter of Krakow	Eric P. Kelly	6 – 9	Newbery Honor 1929
Millions of Cats	Wanda Gág	K – 3	Newbery Honor 1929
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon	Dhan Gopal Mukerji	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1928
Smoky, the Cowhorse	Will James	6 – 9	Newbery Medal 1927
Shen of the Sea	Arthur Bowie Chrisman	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1926
Tales from Silver Lands	Charles Finger	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1925
The Dark Frigate	Charles Hawes	5 – 8	Newbery Medal 1924
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle	Hugh Lofting	4 – 7	Newbery Medal 1923
The Story of Mankind	Hendrik Willem van Loon	JH & SH	Newbery Medal 1922
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles	Padraic Colum	5 – 8	Newbery Honor 1922