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82) Shadow
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Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.
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Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Honor books distinguished. It is a useful manual for librarians, teachers, and others who want to better understand picture book illustration. This book includes many useful components: short entries about fifty-six books, information on styles and media, artistic analysis of the illustrations, and artist...
86) The biggest bear
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Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
88) The little house
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A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.
90) One fine day
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After an old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, a fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again.
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In "Strega Nona" Big Anthony finds himself knee-deep in trouble - and pasta - when he uses Strega Nona's magic pasta pot without her permission. In "Silvestre y la piedrecita magica, " the Dunan family is beside itself when son Sylvester turns himself into a rock to escape the jaws of a hungry lion. In "Los patitos encuentran un hogar", Mrs. Mallard after raising her ducklings on an island in the Charles River in Boston, leads her brood to their permanent...
95) Golem
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A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.
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Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, Wonderstruck and The Marvels, which together with The Invention of Hugo Cabret, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy!
2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick!Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks--like...
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