One Fine Day
By: Nonny Hogrogian
Medal Winner
NOT REVIEWED
A delightful telling makes this story of a greedy fox's adventure as catchy as a nursery rhyme. Crisp, happy pictures add to the fun. Inspired by an Armenian folktale, the rhythmic, cumulative text will have small listeners "reading along" and matching words to pictures well before the story is ended.
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Hildilid's Night
By: Cheli Durán Ryan
Illustrated by: Arnold Lobel
Honor
NOT REVIEWED
Hildilid hates the night above all things. "I do not know why nobody has thought of chasing away the night" she says and then proceeds to try to do so. But no matter what she does, whenever she looks out of the window, there it is—until, of course, the sun rises.
Hildilid cannot chase away the night, but bedtime listeners will find her efforts hilarious, and her decision to turn her back on it and go to sleep worth emulating.
Hildilid's activities are cleverly illustrated by Arnold Lobel, whose delightfully amusing black and white drawings end in a burst of sunshine.
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If All the Seas Were One Sea
By: Janina Domanska
Honor
NOT REVIEWED
What if all the seas were one sea? And what if a tree, made up of all the trees in the world, fell into that sea? Janina Domanska knows just exactly what would happen. Her boldly designed and exciting etchings add wonder, humor--and suspense--to this favorite nursery rhyme.
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Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
By: Muriel L. Feelings
Illustrated by: Tom Feelings
Honor
NOT REVIEWED
East African children know that mojo means one in Swahili. Now all children can learn basic Swahili numbers too. Muriel Feelings, who has lived and taught in East Africa, has written this books for two reasons: to familiarize American children with some basic aspects of East African life, and to teach them to count from one to ten in Swahili. Her husband, the well-known illustrator, Tom Feelings, has created a carefully detailed double-spread painting for each number, ranging from a fireside storytelling scene to the types of clothing East African men and women wear. And for each number the child will have the fun of counting objects within the picture, for example, three coffee trees, eight market stalls.
A map of Africa showing the countries where Swahili is spoken has been included to make this a counting book that will count.
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