Newbery Award Winners

Picture Books That Have Won Other Awards

Picture of Book	Genre, Awards	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction/Picture Book	Amazing Grace	Mary Hoffman, Caroline Binch/1991	K-2, 3-4	Children can create a diamante poem about the class. ELA2W1F	Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
	Picture Book	Just Look	Tana Hoban/1996	Pre-S		The reader views photographs of familiar objects, first through cut-out holes, then in their entirety.
	Realistic Fiction/Picture Book	The Wheels on the Bus	Maryann Kovalski/1987	K-2	The class can sing the song the wheels on the bus.	While a grandmother and grandchildren wait for the bus, they sing the title song with such gusto they miss their bus.
	Picture Book	My Little Sister Ate One Hare	Bill Grossman/ Kevin Hawkes/ 1996	K-2	Children can draw a number out of a bag and draw that amount of their favorite item the sister ate.	Little sister has no problem eating one hare, two snakes, and three ants, but when she gets to ten peas, she throws up quite a mess.
	Picture Book	Pumpkin, Pumkin	Jeanne Titherington/1990	K-2	Students can draw the life cycle of a pumpkin. ELA2R4	Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it, and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.

ABC/Counting/Concept Books

Picture of Book	Genre, Awards	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book/Concept Book	My Very First Book of Shapes	Eric Carle/1974	Pre-S/K-2	Students can match shapes with objects in the classroom.	Match the shapes at the top of the book with pictures at the bottom of the book.
	Picture Book	Animal Alphabet	Bert Kitchen/1984	K-2	Students can draw a picture of their favorite animal in the book. ELAKR6B	The reader is invited to guess the identity of twenty-six unusual animals illustrating the letter of the alphabet.
	Modern Fantasy/ Picture Book	The Napping House	Audrey Wood/Don Wood/1984	Pre-S;K-2	Students can hold up each item in the story as it is mentioned.	Cumulative tale in which a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes commotion with just one bite.

Predictable Books

Picture of Book	Genre, Awards	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book/Predictable Book	Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?	Bill Martin Jr./Eric Carle/1970	K-2	Make a Brown Bear Mask	Brown Bear sees something, that something sees something else, and the cycle continues.
	Predictable Book/Modern Fantasy	If You Give A Mouse A Cookie	Laura Joffe Numeroff/Felecia Bond/1985	Pre-S; K-2	Students can color a picture of something else the mouse might request.	Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.

Traditional Literature Books

Picture of Book	Genre, Awards	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional  Fantasy	The Egyptian Cinderella	Shirley Climo/Ruth Heller/1989	K-2	Students can draw a picture of their favorite part of the story.	In this version of Cinderella set in Egypt in the sixth century B.C., Rhodopes, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen.
	Traditional Fantasy	Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears	Verna Aardema/Leo and Diane Dillon/1975	K-2	Students can draw a picture of another reason why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears.	A cumulative African folktale tells the humorous reason for mosquitoes' buzzing.
	Traditional Fantasy	This for That	Verna Aardema/Victoria Chess/1997	K-2; 3-4	Students can reencact the story as a play.	Rabbit tricks the other animals of the African plain into giving her food and other treats.
	Traditional Fantasy	The King's Equal	Katherine Paterson/Vladimir Vagin/1992	3-4;5-6	Students can write about what they would do if they were to become a king or queen.	In order to wear the crown of the kingdom, an arrogant young prince must find an equal in his bride. Instead, he finds someone far better than he.
	Traditional Fantasy	The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks	Katherine Paterson/Leo & Diane Dillon/1990	3-4	Students can write a letter to someone that they would like to thank for their kindness.	A couple is rewarded for their kindness to a pair of ducks.

Fantasy/Science Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre, Awards	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction	The White Mountains	John Christopher/1967	5-6	Students can write another chapter to the story. ELA4R1	Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey where they hope to escape the alien Tripods, who control the world population.
	Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction	Z for Zachariah	Robert C. OBrien/1975	5-6, 7+		Seemingly the only person left alive after the holocaust of a nuclear war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive in her valley, until she realizes that he is a tyrant.
	Modern Fantasy	Beyond the Door	Gary Blackwood/1991	5-6; 7+		Teenagers Scott and Tully find an unused study room in the library which is actually a doorway into an alternate world, where an outcast is pursuing dangerous experiments to increase his control over the emerging technology of his universe.
	Modern Fantasy	Space Case	Edward Marshall/James Marshall/1980	K-2		When the thing from outer space visits earth, it is taken first for a trick-or-treater and then for a robot.

Realistic Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre, Awards	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	Stargirl	Jerry Spinelli/ 2000	7+	Students can create a collage to represent the book.	In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
	Realistic Fiction	Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Patterson/Donna Diamond/1977	5-6	Students can write their own ending to the story.	Terabithia is the special kingdom of a boy who wishes to be an artist and a girl different from the rest of her classmates.
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Because of Winn-Dixie	Kate DiCamillo/2000	5-6; 7+	Students can bring in items mentioned in the story to show to the class.	10 year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls/1961	5-6; 7+	Students can  write a short essay on a time in their life when they wanted something really bad. ELA1W1	A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be hunters.

Historical Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre, Awards	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Biography/Historical Fiction	I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust	Livia Bitton-Jackson/1997	7+		The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
	Historical Fiction	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry/1989	5-6	Students can write a paper about what it would be like to live during that era. ELA4W4	In Copenhagen, a 10-year-old girl learns to be courageous when she helps to shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
	Historical Fiction	The Wall	Eve Bunting/1990	K-2; 3-4; 5-6	Students can make a collage of memorials and historical monuments in Washington.	A boy and his father visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.

Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book	Genre, Awards	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry/Picture Book	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Robert Frost/Susan Jeffers/1978	K-2	Students can write a poem about winter.	Illustrations of wintry scenes accompany each line of the well-known poem.
	Poetry/Picture Book	Birthday Poems	Myra Cohn Livingston/Margot Tomes/1989	3-4	Students can write a birthday poem.	A collection of poems celebrating the many aspects of birthdays.

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