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Calico Bush
In 1743, twelve-year-old Marguerite is bound out to a family in Maine. Discriminated against by the parents because she is French, she finds happiness with the children as they all face hardships and the rigors of life in the Maine wilderness.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1932 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780027346206
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Hitty. Her First Hundred Years
Carved from a block of mountain ash a hundred years before, the six-and-a-halfinch doll now sits secure in the antique shop window and writes her memoirs. She recounts the adventures she had with many different people in places around the world. Illustrations show Hitty in many styles of clothing in her life thus far.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1930 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780027348408
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Prayer for a Child
A child's bedtime prayer asks for blessings on things that are familiar to small children with such lines as, “Bless other children, far and near, And keep them safe and free from fear.” Brief lines of the prayer are illustrated with full-page, reverent golden- toned drawings.- Randolph Caldecott Medal 1945 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780027351903