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book nook: Caldecott Medal
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Ages 4-8)
When Joseph’s overcoat gets old and worn-out, he makes it into a jacket. When the jacket gets old and worn-out, he makes it into something else. So it goes until Joseph is left with nothing…and then proves that you can always make something out of nothing. Caldecott Award 2000.
Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty (Ages 4-8)
Going their separate ways for the day, Hondo the dog and Fabian the cat make their own fun in different ways. Caldecott Honor 2003.
Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges (Ages 4-8)
When a princess is threatened by a dragon, she takes it upon herself to find a knight who will go to battle for her. Together she and the knight, along with some friends, will travel back to her home and fight off the dragon. Will the knight be victorious? Caldecott Award 1985.
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Ages 4-8)
Max is so mischievious that he gets sent to his room without supper. When he is forced to stay in his room, the boy uses his imagination to go on a great and wild adventure. Caldecott Award 1964.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Ages 9-12)
When a bitter old man running a toy booth and a bookish girl enter the orphan Hugo’s life, his world is turned upside down. With his undercover life as thief and clock keeper of a busy Paris train station threatened, Hugo has little time left to solve the mystery behind the mechanical man. Caldecott Award 2008.
Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi (Ages 9-12)
Juan produces a garden to convince at least one family of swallows to nest there when they return to the mission in San Juan Capistrano, California. Caldecott Award 1950.
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