EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER Clement C. Maxwell Library 10 Shaw Road Bridgewater MA 02324 AWARD WINNING BOOKS (508) 531-1304 http://www.bridgew.edu/library/ Revised: May 2013 cml Table of Contents Caldecott Medal Winners………………………. 1 Newbery Medal Winners……………………….. 5 Coretta Scott King Award Winners…………. 9 Mildred Batchelder Award Winners……….. 11 Phoenix Award Winners………………………… 13 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Winners…….. 14 CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNERS The Caldecott Medal was established in 1938 and named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the previous year. Location Call # Award Year Pic K634t This is Not My Hat. John Klassen. (Candlewick Press) Grades K-2. A little fish thinks he 2013 can get away with stealing a hat. Pic R223b A Ball for Daisy. Chris Raschka. (Random House Children’s Books) Grades preschool-2. A 2012 gray and white puppy and her red ball are constant companions until a poodle inadvertently deflates the toy. Pic S7992s A Sick Day for Amos McGee. Philip C. Stead. (Roaring Brook Press) Grades preschool-1. 2011 The best sick day ever and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book. Pic P655l The Lion and the Mouse. Jerry Pinkney. (Little, Brown and Company) Grades preschool- 2010 1. A wordless retelling of the Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti. Pic S9728h The House in the Night. Susan Marie Swanson. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades preschool-1. 2009 Illustrations and easy text explore what makes a house in the night a home filled with light. Child S464i The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Brian Selznick. (Scholastic) Grades 4-7. Twelve-year-old 2008 Fic Hugo is an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station. Pic W651f Flotsam. David Wiesner. (Clarion) Grades preschool-3. The story of what happens when 2007 a camera becomes a piece of flotsam. Child J96h The Hello, Goodbye Window. Chris Raschka. (Hyperion Books) Grades preschool-2. A 2006 Fic little girl describes the magic kitchen window in her grandparents’ home. Pic H513k Kitten’s First Full Moon. Kevin Henkes. (Greenwillow) Grades preschool-1. Kitten 2005 mistakes the moon for her bowl of milk, and ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it. 1 Child 791.3 The Man who Walked Between the Towers. Mordicai Gerstein. Grades K-6. (Roaring 2004 NonFic G383 Brook Press) Grades 1-6. A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. Pic R738m My Friend Rabbit. Eric Rohmann. (Roaring Brook Press) Grades K-3. Something always 2003 seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is a good friend. Pic W651t The Three Pigs. David Wiesner. Grades K-3. The three pigs escape the wolf by going into 2002 another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon. Child 973.099 So you Want to be President? David Small. (Philomel Books) Grades 4-8. Presents an 2001 NonFic S139 assortment of facts about qualifications and characteristics of U.S. Presidents. Child T112j Joseph had a Little Overcoat. Simms Taback. (Viking) Grades K-2. A very old overcoat is 2000 Fic recycled numerous times into a variety of garments. Child 551.57841 Snowflake Bentley. Jacqueline B. Martin. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades K-3. A biography of 1999 NonFic M381 a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes. Child 398.21 Rapunzel. Paul O. Zelinsky. (Dutton) Grades K-3. A retelling of the familiar German 1998 NonFic Z69 folktale. Child 398.21 Golem. David Wisniewski. (Clarion Books) Grades 1-5. A saintly Rabbi miraculously brings 1997 NonFic W815 to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague. Child R234o Officer Buckle and Gloria. Peggy Rathmann. (G.P. Putnam’s) Grades K-4. Children always 1996 Fic ignore Officer Buckle’s safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him. Child B942sn Smoky Night. Eve Bunting. (Harcourt Brace & Co.) Grades 1-4. When the Los Angeles 1995 Fic riots break out, a boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others. Child S274g Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say. (Houghton Mifflin). Grades preschool-3. A Japanese- 1994 Fic American man recounts his and his grandfather’s journey to America. Child M133m Mirette on the High Wire. Emily Arnold McCully. (G.P. Putnam) Grades K-3. Mirette 1993 Fic learns tightroping from Monsieur Bellini, not knowing he is a celebrated tightrope artist. Pic W6515t Tuesday. David Wiesner. (Clarion Books) Grades K & up. Frogs rise on their lillypads, 1992 float through the air, and explore nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep. Child M117b Black and White. David Macaulay. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades preschool-3. Four brief 1991 Fic stories about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? Child 398.2 Y71 Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China. Ed Young. (Philomel Books) Grades K-4. 1990 NonFic Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf. Child A182s Song and Dance Man. Karen Ackerman. (Knopf) Grades K-2. Grandpa demonstrates for 1989 Fic his visiting grandchildren some songs and dances from his vaudeville days. Child Y54o Owl Moon. Jane Yolen. (Philomel) Grades preschool-1. On a winter’s night under a full 1988 Fic moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl. Child Y595h Hey, Al. Arthur Yorinks. (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Grades K & up.A city janitor and his 1987 Fic treasured canine companion are transported to an island in the sky by a colorful bird. Child V217p The Polar Express. Chris Van Allsburg. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 2 & up. A magical train 1986 Fic ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa. Child 398.22 Saint George and the Dragon. Margaret Hodges. (Little Brown) Grades K-4. George, the 1985 NonFic H689 Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside. Child 629.13 The Glorious Flight. Alice Provensen. (Viking) Grades 3-5. A biography of the man whose 1984 NonFic P944 fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in the early 1900s. Child C397s Shadow. Blaise Cendrars. (Scribner) Grades 2 and up. The shifting images of Shadow 1983 Fic evoke ghosts of the past wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller. Child V217j Jumanji. Chris Van Allsburg. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 3 and up. Two bored and restless 1982 2 Fic children find more than they bargained for with an adventure board game. Child 398.2 Fables. Arnold Lobel. (Harper & Row) Grades 1-4. Twenty original fables about an array 1981 NonFic L797 of animal characters from a crocodile to an ostrich. Pic H175o The Ox-Cart Man. Donald Hall. (Viking) Grades K-3. Describes the day-to-day life 1980 throughout the changing seasons of a 19th century New England family. Child G575g The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Paul Goble. (Simon & Schuster) Grades K-3. Though 1979 Fic she is fond of people, a girl prefers living among wild horses where she is truly happy. Pic R454n Noah’s Ark. Peter Spier. (Doubleday) Grades K-3. Retells in pictures how a pair of every 1978 creature climbed aboard the ark. Pic M987a Ashanti to Zulu. Margaret Musgrove. (Dial) Grades K-4. Explains traditions and customs 1977 of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z. Child 398.2 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears. Verna Aardema. (Dial) Grades K-3. Reveals the 1976 NonFic A113 meaning of the mosquito’s buzz. Child 398.2 Arrow to the Sun. Gerald McDermott. (Viking) Grades 1 and up. An adaptation of the 1975 NonFic M134 Pueblo Indian myth of the Lord of the Sun’s spirit being brought to man. Child 398.2 Duffy and the Devil. Harve Zemach. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Grades K and up. The 1974 NonFic Z53d spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her wins a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil’s name. Child 398.232 The Funny Little Woman. Arlene Mosel. (Dutton) Grades K-4. While chasing a dumpling, 1973 NonFic M898 a little lady is captured by wicked creatures. Child H7167o One Fine Day. Nonny Hogrogian. (Macmillan) Grades K-3. An old woman cuts off a fox’s 1972 Fic tale after he steals her milk, and he must go through a long series of transactions before she’ll sew it back on. Child 398.2 A Story, A Story. Gail E. Haley. (Atheneum) Grades K-3. Recounts how most African folk 1971 NonFic H168 tales came to be called ‘Spider Stories.’ Pic S818 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. William Steig. (Windmill Books) Grades K-3. In a 1970 moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then cannot hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again. Child 398.21 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. Arthur Ransome. (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) 1969 NonFic R212f Grades K-3. When the Czar proclaims 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. Pic E53 Drummer Hoff. Barbara Emberley. (Prentice Hall) Grades K-4. A cumulative folk song in 1968 which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon but Drummer Hoff fires it off.