Showing 1–4 of 4 titles

• List: Randolph Caldecott Medal
• Award year: 2009

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  A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever

  By Marla Frazee

  In lively, detailed, subtly retro cartoons, Frazee gently pokes fun at adult expectations and captures the unbounded joy of two friends experiencing a parent-free summer adventure.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 2009 (Honor Title)
  • Younger
  • ISBN: 9780152060206
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  The House in the Night

  By Susan Marie Swanson, Beth Krommes (Illustrator)

  Richly detailed black-and-white scratchboard illustrations expand this timeless bedtime verse, offering reassurance to young children that there is always light in the darkness.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 2009 (Medal Winner)
  • Younger
  • ISBN: 9780618862443
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  How I Learned Geography

  By Uri Shulevitz

  Recounting memories of his family's flight from the Warsaw blitz and his years as a refugee during World War II, Shulevitz employs watercolor and ink to depict a boy liberated from his dreary existence through flights of fancy.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 2009 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780374334994
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  A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams

  By Jen Bryant, Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)

  Sweet's mixed-media collage and primitive watercolors flow seamlessly with Bryant's prose to reveal the important bits and pieces of Williams's ordinary yet extraordinary life as a doctor and poet.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 2009 (Honor Title)
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780802853028