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Nancy's picks for the best picture books &
poetry of Winter
2000-2001. Compiled by Nancy Polette © 2001.
| Last updated:
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 |
- Beeke, Jemma. THE RICKETY BARN
SHOW. Illustrated. by Lynne Chapman.
Doubleday, 2001. Gr K-3
- The farm animals are having a great time putting on the Rickety Barn Show, the hens dance, the cows juggle and the sheep do acrobatics. All the animals get into the act but who will be left to
watch?
- Brown, Margaret Wise. MOUSE OF MY HEART.
Illustrated. by Loretta Krupinski. Hyperion, 2001. Gr. K-3
- From the archives of Margaret Wise Brown comes a collection of fifty six stories and poems, many previously
unpublished.
- Coxe, Molly. BUNNY AND THE
BEAST. Illustrated. by Pamela Silin-Palmer. Random House, 2001.
- Here is the classic fairy tale illustrated with rabbit fairies, froggy troubadours, nose-twitching sisters and a well meaning papa as well as Bunny, the heroine and a well meaning bull terrier
beast.
- dePaola Tomie. STREGA NONA TAKES A
VACATION. Putnam, 2000 Gr K-3
- Can Big Anthony and Bambolona be left alone for one week while Strega Nona takes a vacation? If anything can go wrong, it
will!
- Santore, Charles. A STOWAWAY ON NOAH'S
ARK. Random House, 2000.Gr: 2-4
- When the great storm comes Noah takes only two of every kind of animal on the ark. Ashbar, the mouse, does not want to be left behind so he stows
away.
- Say, Alan. THE SIGN
PAINTER. Houghton-Mifflin, 2001. Gr. 2-6
- A boy and a sign painter create a series of billboards in the desert leading to a dream..but is it real? A thoughtful book about choices and following personal
dreams
- Tafuri, Nancy. SILLY LITTLE GOOSE. Scholastic, 2001. Gr PreK-2
- Goose is searching for a place to make her nest but the other animals object to her
choices.
- Thompson, Lauren. ONE RIDDLE, ONE
ANSWER. Illustrated. by Linda S. WingerterScholastic, 2001.Gr.
2-4
- When it is time to marry, Princess Aziza devises a clever number riddle for her suitors to
solve.
- Washington, Donna. A BIG SPOOKY
HOUSE. Illustrated. by Jacqueline Rogers. Hyperion, 2000. Gr 1-3
- The big strong man isn't afraid of anything until he decides to spend a night in the big spooky house.
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