Always Room for One More
By: Sorche Nic Leodhas
Illustrated by: Nonny Hogrogian
Medal Winner
Reviewed by: Sherry Early
In the story song, householder Lachie MacLachlan welcomes all of the travelers who pass by his door to come in and rest a while, saying “There’s room galore! There’s room for one more! There’s always room for one more!” He welcomes so many visitors that his house, already full with Lachie and his wife and ten bairns, is literally filled to bursting, and everyone who’s enjoying the hospitality must decide what to do next when the house “with its but and its ben and its walls and its roof DINGED DOWN!” (Tumbled down)
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Hide and Seek Fog
By: Alvin Tresselt
Illustrated by: Roger Duvoisin
Honor
NOT REVIEWED
The worst fog in twenty years temporarily disheartens the grownups, but, as always, the children take it in stride. They play hide-and-seek among the rocks, have fun getting lost in front of their own cottages, and toast marshmallows over a drift-wood fire, while the fog "tip-toes past the windows and across the porch."
Repeating the pattern of "White Snow Bright Snow" a Caldecott Medal Winner, this evocative picture-story captures the ready response of children to another mysterious and fascinating phenomena of nature—a fog that came and stayed three days in a little seaside village on Cape Cod.
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Just Me
By: Marie Hall Ets
Honor
Reviewed by: Lara Lleverino
Recommended age: 4-6 years of age
Also read and recommended by: Sherry Early
Such a sweet book to read to young children learning about and enjoying animals. Great for inspiring imaginative play.
Tom Tit Tot
Illustrated by: Evaline Ness
Honor
NOT REVIEWED
Deep in the country there once lived a woman and her dull-witted daughter. The mother took great pains to conceal the girl's addle-pated ways. And so one day when the king appeared at their cottage, she boasted and bragged. Words could hardly describe how well her daughter could spin.
News of this marvelous talent delighted the king. He vowed to make the girl his bride—on one condition. The last month of the year she must spin five skeins of flax a day. When it came time for the test, the girl was forced into a devilish bargain with a scheming small creature.
This English tale, a variation of Rumpelstiltskin, is filled with lusty good humor and life. Evaline Ness's handsome woodcuts perfectly capture and convey the rustic vigor of the story.
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