The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
By: Paul Goble
Medal Winner
NOT REVIEWED
In simple words and brilliant paintings that sweep and stampede across his pages, Paul Goble tells of a Native American girl's love of horses.
Her people saw that she understood the herd in a special way. The horses would follow her to drink at the river. And in the hot sun she would sleep contentedly beside them as they grazed among flowers near her village.
One day a thunderstorm drove the girl and the horses from home, and the people were frightened. The girl was lost beneath strange, moonlit cliffs; yet, next morning she was glad, for a beautiful stallion who was the leader of the wild horses welcomed her to live with them.
From the dust jacket of a later printing
Freight Train
By: Donald Crews
Honor
NOT REVIEWED
Red caboose at the back,
orange tank car,
green cattle car,
purple box car,
black tender and
a black steam engine . . .
freight train.
The powerful words evoke the essence of inexorably rolling wheels, so that even a child not lucky enough to have counted freight cars will feel he has watched a freight train passing. A book truly for the youngest child—and for every one of us who has been that child.
From the dust jacket of a later edition
The Way To Start A Day
By: Byrd Baylor
Illustrated by: Peter Parnall
Honor
NOT REVIEWED
Beautiful paintings highlight the ways various peoples from around the world welcome the sun and the start of a new day in this Caldecott Honor–winning picture book.
Some people say there is a new sun every day, and that it begins its life at dawn and lives for one day only. They say you have to welcome it.
From cavemen, to the Aztecs, to the ancient Egyptians, Baylor Bird describes the ways that people throughout history and the world celebrated the dawn. By the end you may be inspired to create your own song for the sunrise.
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