Ed Young
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1000 Books Before Kindergarten: A Place to Start
2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #14 - Armchair Travel
Caldecott Medal Collection
Caldecott Medal Winners
2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #14 - Armchair Travel
Caldecott Medal Collection
Caldecott Medal Winners
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Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.
3) Hook
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A chick hatched by hens turns out to be an eaglet who must get help from a boy in learning how to fly.
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Siete ratones ciegos de siete colores tratan de identificar a un elefante. Cada uno toca una parte distinta del elefante. No pueden ponerse de acuerdo sobre la identidad del animal hasta que uno de ellos lo recorre de un lado a otro, de arriba a abajo y de una punta a la otra.
Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as...
8) My Mei Mei
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Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
11) Nighttime Ninja
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"Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure."--
15) Wabi Sabi
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Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
17) Tsunami!
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A wealthy man in a Japanese village, whom everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.
18) Moon tiger
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After getting in trouble because of her little brother Michael, Jessica Ellen imagines a visit from a wonderful giant tiger who can take her flying through the night or eat Michael.
19) Sadako
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Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
20) While I sleep
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Mama and Papa explain to their child at bedtime where all the other creatures go to sleep.