The Snowy Day
By: Ezra Jack Keats
Medal Winner
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The quiet fun and sweetness of this small boy's small adventures in the deep, deep snow have the true quality of all childhood's delight in contented solitude. Beautiful spacious pictures and just the right number of the right words tell a story to love and remember.
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Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
By: Charlotte Zolotow
Illustrated by: Maurice Sendak
Honor
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The author of such classics as DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'LL DO?, BIG BROTHER, and OVER AND OVER needs no introduction. Neither does her collaborator Maurice Sendak, who has illustrated so many of today's best-loved, as well as most distinguished, books for children.
The heroine of their book has a problem. And at first it does not look as though Mr. Rabbit is going to be much help in solving it. For everyone knows you cannot give your mother a red roof, a yellow taxicab, a green caterpillar, or a blue lake for her birthday. But then all the little girl had said was that her mother liked red, yellow, green, and blue—and so Mr. Rabbit was trying.
How he and the little girl come up with the absolutely perfect present makes a story the youngest reader will love. And the wondrously bright full-color pictures will bring hours of pleasure to readers and lookers of all ages.
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The Sun is a Golden Earring
By: Natalia M. Belting
Illustrated by: Bernarda Bryson
Honor
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Some say the sun is a golden earring; others say the winds are made by great birds flapping their wings. Such were the thoughts of men when they first looked in Yonder at the heavens. Out of this wondering came rich and poetic images, collected here from around the world by an eminent folklorist, who has woven these sayings into a testament of man’s eternal fascination with the firmament.
Bernarda Bryson is a rare artist who has captured the spirit of this extraordinary collection with sensitivity. The sayings men dreamed around the stars, the lightning, the winds are subtly yet brilliantly reflected in her drawings.
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