HMH Books for Young Readers
Frog Went A-Courtin'
John Langstaff, Feodor Rojankovsky
1956 Caldecott Medal winner. A folktale song about a frog courting a mouse.
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These Happy Golden Years: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Little House, 8)
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams
The novel follows Laura as she leaves home to teach school and gradually grows closer to Almanzo. Labor on the frontier, family support, and the beginning of romance accumulate into a quiet but steady coming-of-age story.
Clarion Books
The Borrowers
Mary Norton, Diana Stanley, Beth Krush, Joe Krush, Leonard S. Marcus
This is the classic story--read and loved by children all over the world--of Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty, who live under the kitchen floor in a quiet, half-empty house and get their livelihood by borrowing from the “human beans.” “Delectable fantasy.”-- Booklist
Viking Books for Young Readers
Madeline's Rescue
Ludwig Bemelmans
1954 Caldecott Medal winner. Madeline and a stray dog bond after a rescue in the Seine.
Chatto & Windus
Barabbas
Par Lagerkvist
Centered on Barabbas, the man released in place of Jesus, this historical and allegorical novel follows questions of faith, doubt, redemption, and loneliness. In short chapters, it keeps returning to the meaning of existence.
Clarion Books
The Biggest Bear: A Caldecott Award Winner
Lynd Ward
1953 Caldecott Medal winner. A boy’s strange adventure involving the biggest bear in the valley.
Gallimard
Voyage au bout de la nuit
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Told through Bardamu, the novel drifts from the First World War to colonial Africa, the American industrial world, and back to Paris. It confronts war, empire, and modern violence in a stark, highly colloquial voice.
Viking Juvenile
Tree of Freedom
Rebecca Caudill
Set against the American Revolutionary era, this historical novel follows a family that moves to Kentucky and the girl Stephanie, who tends the tree that comes to symbolize freedom. Amid the hardships of frontier life, devotion to family and land grows quietly.
Atheneum
George Washington
Genevieve Foster
A children's biography of George Washington that places his life alongside world events of the same era, tracing his character in plain language while opening out into a wider historical panorama.
Viking Juvenile
Pancakes-Paris
Claire Huchet Bishop
Set in postwar Paris, the story follows Charles as he tries to make crepes for his family using a box of pancake flour whose instructions are printed in English. In a city still marked by shortages, a small act of kindness grows into a warm celebration around the family table.
Viking Juvenile
Big Tree: 2
Mary Buff, Conrad Buff
A giant sequoia named Wawona tells the story of its own life, from seed to towering old age, before human threats enter the picture. By weaving in the history of the species, the book quietly contrasts the endurance of nature with human intervention.
Julian Messner
Wonderful Year
Nancy Barnes
Set over a year in which the Martin family leaves Kansas for a fruit ranch in Colorado, the novel follows Ellen as she adjusts to a new life and gradually grows up with the changing seasons.