Peter Spier
The bee and the fox, the sheep and the ox--two of each kind trudged aboard Noah's famous vessel. Peter Spier uses his own translation of a seventeenth-century Dutch poem about this most famous menagerie. A Caldecott Medal Book, The American Book ... [... more]
Random House |
The Snowy Day...and More Ezra Jack Keats Stories
 From Amazon.com: A handful of enchanting stories by Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) are beautifully adapted as "moving storybooks" in this treasury of tales beginning with the Caldecott Medal winner, "The Snowy Day." When Peter discovers [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
Paul O. Zelinsky
Paul O. Zelinsky' s retelling of Rapunzel won the Caldecott Medal in 1997. He received Caldecott Honors for Rumpelstiltskin and for his illustrations in Hansel and Gretel, by Rika Lesser, and Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs. The artist collaborated ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Janice May Udry
Janice May Udry was born in 1928 in Jacksonville, Illinois and was graduated from Northwestern University in 1950. Her first book, A Tree is Nice, was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1956 for the illustrations by Marc Simont. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak received the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. He has also received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka is the illustrator of over forty books, including the 2006 Caldecott Medal winner The Hello, Goodbye Window. He is also the author and illustrator of Yo! Yes? (1993), a Caldecott Honor Book that was named by School Library Journal ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Tovah Feldshuh
Mordicai Gerstein's portrayal of Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the towers of the World Trade Center, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, won the 2004 Caldecott Medal and was among the most admired books of the year. Now comes a ... [... more]
Random House |
Mordicai Gerstein
Mordicai Gerstein's portrayal of Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the towers of the World Trade Center, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, won the 2004 Caldecott Medal and was among the most admired books of the year. Now comes a ... [... more]
Random House |
The Important Book
From Amazon.com: "The important thing about rain is/ that it is wet./ It falls out of the sky,/ and it sounds like rain,/ and makes things shiny,/ and it does not taste like anything,/ and is the color of air./ But the important thing about rain is [... more]
CDN$18.50
Amazon CA |
Mirette on the High Wire
From Amazon.com: Mirette and the "Great Bellini" traverse the Paris skyline on high wire in the climactic scene of this picture book about conquering fear. The two meet at Mirette's mother's boarding house, where Bellini is staying with a [... more]
CDN$17.61
Amazon CA |
The Race of the Birkebeiners
From Amazon.com: Imagine the bravest, fiercest Norwegian warriors that ever lived, carrying a baby prince across blizzard-wracked mountains to save his life. Picture the babe's mother undergoing a cruel, brutal test to prove her son is indeed the bona [... more]
CDN$7.95
Amazon CA |
The Story of Holly and Ivy
Christmas of the Heart: I would not think of letting a Christmas go by without reading this story to my grandchildren. I have read this story to my 3rd grade students for 12 years. Holly and Ivy are just right for each other, and good wins out in the end. [... more]
CDN$9.99
Amazon CA |
