The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
By: Alice and Martin Provensen
Medal Winner
NOT REVIEWED
Mr. Louis Bleriot is out for a drive with his family on a morning like any other morning in France in the year 1901. Suddenly he sees a machine flying through the air, and immediately he knows, even before he drives into a wagon full of pumpkins, that he too must fly. So begins Bleriot's obsession with flying, marked by efforts both humorous and dangerous and culminating in a daring flight across the English Channel in 1909. The astonished world applauds Louis Bleriot, whose flight is the first of its kind, eighteen years before Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Alice and Martin Provensen's richly detailed paintings convey this exciting and historic event with wonderful authenticity. Exquisite color tones and shifting perspectives created a convincing sense of air and space, allowing every reader to experience the wonder of flight.
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Little Red Riding Hood
By: Trina Schart Hyman
Honor
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Everybody loves the little girl who wears a red-hooded cloak, but no one more than her grandmother.
One day, Grandmother gets sick, and Little Red Riding Hood sets out to visit her, carrying a basket of food as a present.
In this faithful retelling of the Grimms' version, Trina Schart Hyman magnificently illustrates the child's journey through a forest and her scary encounter afterwards with a sly, hungry wolf.
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Ten, Nine, Eight
By: Molly Bang
Honor
NOT REVIEWED
Bedtime!
A happy game to lure the most persistent sleep evader. A warm and reassuring countdown to the land of dreams.
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