Caldecott Medal / Honor Book
 
 

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	K-2	This book can be used to introduce  the use of imagination .  It can also be used to teach about wild animals.	A little boy with a vivid  imagination is sent to bed without supper.
	Multicultural, Folklore, Traditional Fantasy, Picture Book	Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears	Verna Aardema / Leo and Diane Dillon	K-2	This book could be used to teach children about different cultures.	A mosquito causes chaos in a forest ruled by a lion.
	Realistic Fiction	Madeline's Rescue	Ludwig Bemelmans	K-2	This book can be used to teach children about heroes  or being homeless.	Madeline falls into the river and is saved by a dog.  The dog is quickly adopted by the girls.
	Multicultural	Smoky Night	Eve Bunting/ David Daz	K-2	This book can be used to introduce different types of races and culture issues.	A little boy and his mother watch as a riot evolves in the streets below them.
	Multicultural	Anansi The Spider	Gerald McDermott	K-2	This book could be used  how families pull together to help one another.	A tale about a father spider and his six sons.  This family faces many problems, but pulls together to save each other.
	Historical Fiction	Snowflake Bentley	Jacqueline Briggs Martin / Mary Azarian	K-2	This book could be used to teach children about the different seasons.  It could also be used to teach the children what it was like to live in Vermont.	A touching story about a man who loved snow.  He grew up taking photographs and drawing them.  He continued to have a love for it until his death.
	Modern Fantasy	The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg	K-2	This book could be used to teach children to use their imagination.	A little boy who believes in Santa is taken to the North Pole by a train named the Polar Express.
	Picture Book	The Three Little Pigs	David Wiesner	K-2	This book can be used to show how different authors can change and add to traditional tales.	This books plot is like the rest of the Three Little Pig books, but in the end the pigs don't get eaten.
	Realistic Fiction	The Snowy Day	Ezra Jack Keats	K-2	This book could be used to show children the different seasons and how fun the snow can be.	A wonderful book about a little boy who gets to experience a snowy day by crunching in the snow and building snowmen.
	Traditional Literature	Once A Mouse	Marcia Brown	K-2	This book could be used to teach children about a different culture.  The book could also be used to teach children that taking things for granted is not always a good thing.	A hermit crab rescues a mouse and changes him into a cat, then a dog, and finally to a tiger.  The new tiger becomes arrogant and the hermit crab changes him back to a mouse.

Newberry Awards

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Multicultural	A Single Shard	Linda Sue Park	Grades: 5-7	This book could be used to show how important it is to be yourself and help others.	An Indian Tale about a young boy who is determined to prove himself to his people.
	Realistic Fiction	Dicey's Song	Cynthia Voigt	Grades: 6-8	This book could be used to show how important it is to have family no matter who it is.	A story about four abandoned children sent to live with their grandmother.
	Realistic Fiction	Shiloh	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	Grades: 4-6	This book could be used to show students how animals should be treated.	A story about a little dog rescued from an abusive owner by a young boy.
	Science Fiction	The Giver	Lois Lowry	Grades: 4-6	This book could be used to show students that everybody has a certain gift.	A great book about a not so perfect world.  A single boy is chosen to be the giver of  the good and bad.
	Realistic Fiction / Historical Fiction	The Whipping Boy	Sid Fleischman	Grades: 4-6	This book could be used to show the children the different types of social classes that were used in historical times.	An orphaned boy is chosen to be the prince's whipping boy.  The prince and the young whipping boy eventually become friends.

Multicultural

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Multicultural	Sounder	William Armstrong	Grades: 3-6	This book could be used to teach children about the hardships that growing up in a rural setting can bring.  It also can be used to  children to help understand how to grow up with out a parent.	A wonderfully written book about a young African American boy that has to grow up quickly.  The young boy's father is arrested and to make matters worse his coon dog is shot and disappears.  In the end the young boy grows into a man.
	Multicultural	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred Taylor	Grades: 4 to 7	This book could be used to teach children about racism and what it was like.	Three small children grow up in the clutches of racism.
	Multicultural/ Traditional Literature	Knock, Knock, Teremok	Katya Arnold	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to teach children about the different types of animals.  It could also be used to teach children about Russia.	This book is about different animals that range in size who live together in a tree trunk.
	Multicultural	Lon Po Po	Ed Young	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to show children that everything is not as it seems, that they need to be very careful when their parents are not home.	Three small Chinese girls that are left alone outsmart a wolf who is trying to pose as their grandmother.
	Multicultural	Grandfather's Journal	Allen Say	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to teach children about China and the true meaning of home.	This book is about a Chinese man who travels to America and starts a family, but soon gets homesick for China.  After he goes back to China he realizes that he doesn't really know where home is.

Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry	The New Kid on the Block	Jack Prelutsky/ James Stevenson	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to show children that all poetry is not boring.	A wonderful book that has many great poems like Homework, Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face, and Jellyfish Stew.
	Poetry	Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to show children that all poetry is not boring.	A great collection of poems that will leave you smiling.  This book has great illustrations.
	Poetry	Silver Seeds	Paul Paolilli and Dan Brewer/ Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to teach children the different words that are associated with weather, day, and night.	This book has many different short poems about words like moon, star, and rain.

Modern Fantasy/ Science Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	Tuck Everlasting	Natalie Babbitt	Grades: 4-6	This book could be used to show children the importance of making right decisions.	A young girl who by chance meets a boy who has drank from a spring that gives you everlasting life.  She has the decision of drinking and be stuck there forever or living a normal life.
	Modern Fantasy	Peter Pan	James Barrie	Grades: 4-6	This book could be used to the importance of sticking together.	Three small children fly of to Neverland.  They are caught in the middle of a fight between Peter Pan and Captain Hook.  The children and Peter Pan encounter many different obstacles during this adventure.
	Modern Fantasy	The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	Grades: 4-6	This book could be used to show children the pleasures and rewards of having a great group of friends.	This book is full of interesting adventures that include a boastful Toad, a bashful Mole, a practical Badger, and a smart Rat.
	Modern Fantasy	Charlotte's Web	E.B. White	Grades: 4-6	This book could be used to teach children about death and the importance of friendship.	This is a light-hearted book about a pig who is befriended by a spider.  The spider then saves the pigs life many times by spinning words into her web.
	Modern Fantasy	Mary Poppins	Pamela Travers	Grades: 4-6	This book could be used to show the importance of family.  It could also be used to help children deal with growing up with out a mother.	An off-the-wall nanny is sent to take care of some children.  This one of a kind nanny makes the medicine go down just right.

Historical Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical Fiction / Realistic Fiction	Edna	Robert Burleigh / Joanna Yardley	Grades: 2-5	This book could be used to show students the affects of the ever changing world through a woman's eyes.	Edna, the woman in the book, tells about her friends and things that they did during the 1920s and 1930s.
	Historical Fiction / Realistic Fiction	Sarah, Plain, and Tall	Patricia MacLachlan	Grades: 3-6	This book could be used to show the hardships faced dealing with death and growing up miles from the nearest town.	In this book an family losses their mother.  The father sends for a mail order bride.  The mail order bride is from the East Coast near the ocean.  The two children and their father make a family with the mail order bride.
	Historical Fiction	Ox-Cart Man	Donald Hall/ Barbara Cooney	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to show the hardships of growing up the the 19th century.	This book gives you an idea of what it was like to live in the 19th century.
	Historical Fiction/ Realistic Fiction	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	Grades: 4-8	This book could be used to teach children about the Holocaust and the way of life during the war.	A well written book about the Holocaust.  The book takes place in the 1940s.  The book is centered around two girls that are best friends.
	Historical Fiction/ Realistic Fiction	Train to Somewhere	Eve Bunting	Grades: 2-4	This book could be used to show children how common and what it is to be an orphan.	A small girl and several more orphans are sent on a train across the midwest to find homes.  The young girl is waiting for her mother but finds out that love is all you need to be happy.

Informational/ Biographies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational	The Flag We Love	Pam Munoz Ryan/ Ralph Masiello	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to teach children about the flag and other important facts about America.	This book highlights several different flags.  It also tells about the importance of the flag.
	Informational/ Biography	The Boys' War:  Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War	Jim Murphy	Grades: 3-6	This book could be used to teach children about the Civil War and the affects it had on America and its people.	A great book about the younger boys and what role they played during the civil war.
	Informational/ Biography	Lincoln: A Photobiography	Russell Freedman	Grades: 3-6	This book could be used to teach children about President Lincoln and his impact on America and the Civil War.	This is a great photographic book about a great President and his impact on the American people.
	Informational/ Biography	Woodsong	Gary Paulson	Grades: 4-8	This book could be used to show children how hard living in snow stricken Alaska is.	A great autobiography about Gary Paulson.  He tells how he gets his sled dogs ready and how grueling the winter is.
	Informational	The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs	Joanna Cole/ Bruce Degen	Grades: K-2	This book could be used to show children the importance of dinosaurs.  It could also be used to show children how they lived.	Ms. Frizzle, her students, and the Magic School Bus travel back to the time of the dinosaurs.  They see many different types of dinosaurs and learn about them.

Realistic Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	The Relatives Came	Cynthia Rylant/ Stephen Gammell	Grades: K-2	This can be used  to show the many variety in a family.	All the relatives piled in one car at 4 o'clock in the morning to drive to the other side of the mountain to see their family.  The relatives stayed for weeks and made themselves at home.  They then all of a sudden picked up and drove back home.
	Realistic Fiction	Fly Away Home	Eve Bunting/ Ronald Himler	Grades:  K-2	This book could be used to show  the affects of being homeless.	The book tells about a little boy and his father who are homeless and live in an airport.  They have to move from terminal ti terminal to keep from getting caught.
	Realistic Fiction / Historical Fiction	One Hundred Penny Box	Sharon Bell Mathis/ Leo and Diane Dillon	Grades:  1-3	This book could be used to teach the children a little bit about history or how to interact with the elderly.	This is the story about a little boy and his aunt that is 100 years old.  The old lady has a box with 100 pennies in it.  She has a penny for every year that she has been alive.
	Realistic Fiction	Maniac Magee	Jerry Spinelli	Grades:  3-6	This book can be used to teach about different racial issues.  It can also be used to show children that being different is  ok.	The boy runs away from home.  The town that ends up in doesn't really accept him either.  He does find friends in the town .
	Realistic Fiction	Love You, Forever	Sheila McGraw/ Robert Munch	Grades:  K-2	This book can be used to help children deal with death and getting old.	A mother sneaks in her sons room every night until she dies and tells him how much she loves him.

Traditional Literature

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Literature	Coyote	Gerald McDermott	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to tell about different cultures and some of their different practices in life	A great book about a big, bumbling coyote.  He is interfering and a rude copycat.  He has a nose for trouble and is constantly in it.
	Traditional Literature	Tikki Tikki Tembo	Arlene Mosel/  Blair Lent	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to tell about different cultures and some of their different practices in life.	A young boy is given a long name because he is a first born, but his mother soon comes to find out that having a long name is not always a blessing.  After he falls in a well and his younger brother has a hard time getting some on to help him.
	Traditional Literature	Strega Nona	Tommy de Poala	Grades:  K-3	This book could be used to show children how to be creative and use their imagination.	This is an engaging tale of an elderly woman everyone called Strega Nona. She helps everyone with their troubles.  She even helps the priest and the sisters in the convent. Strega Nona can even cure headaches, help girls get husbands, and get rid of warts.
	Traditional Literature	Raven	Gerald McDermott	Grades: K-3	This book could be used to show the importance of being careful.	This book is about a raven who wants to give the people the gift of light.  But first he has to outsmart Sky Chief and find out where he keeps it.  Then he must figure out how to get it with out being caught.
	Traditional Literature	Catkins	Antonia Barber/ P.J. Lynch	Grades: 2-4	This book could be used to show the importance of having friends.  It could also be used to show the importance of paying attention.	A small girl is given a young kitten.  The kitten is given to the girl to for protection by an old wise woman.  When the kitten fails to protect her,  he is sent to get her back.

Same Author

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Same Author	Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now!	Dr. Seuss	Grades: PreK - 2	This book could be used to teach children the different types of transportation.	Margin is asked to leave.  He has to try every conceivable type of transportation before he leaves.
	Same Author	The Cat in the Hat	Dr. Seuss	Grades: PreK - 2	This book could be used to teach beginning words.	The Cat in the Hat pays a visit to two small children who are stuck inside because of rain.
	Same Author	Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?	Dr. Seuss	Grades: PreK - 2	This book can be used to teach children sounds like buzz, moo, tick, tock, and boom.	Mr. Brown can do many things.  He can moo and buzz. He challenges the reader to do the same.
	Same Author	Please try to Remember the First of Octember	Dr. Seuss/ Art Cummings	Grades: PreK - 2	This book could be used to teach children how to be creative.	The first of Octember is when everybody's dreams come true.  They wait for things like Hock-Zocker Courts and Doodle Delights.
	Same Author	Yertle the Turtle	Dr. Seuss	Grades: PreK - 2	This book could be used to teach children that being greedy will get you no where.	Yertle the king turtle has his turtles pile under him so he can rule all that he sees.  When the turtle at the bottom decides that he has had enough chaos starts.