Showing 1–6 of 6 titles

• Format: Book
• Award year: 1943

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  Adam of the Road

  By Elizabeth Janet Gray

  Adam, his minstrel father, their horse, and Adam's trained dog, Nick, are traveling in thirteenth-century England, singing and telling stories for food and a place to sleep. When Nick is stolen, father and son try desperately to find him and become separated from each other.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1943 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780670104352
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  Dash and Dart

  By Mary Buff, Conrad Buff

  In simple, poetic text and mood-capturing sepia paintings, the first year in the life of two fawns is described. A great reverence for nature is felt throughout the book.

  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1943 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780670257300
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  Have You Seen Tom Thumb?

  By Mabel Leigh Hunt

  From the age of five, Charles Sherwood Stratton, only twenty-five inches tall and weighing fifteen pounds, is presented to the world by P. T. Barnum as General Tom Thumb. A charming, humorous person, he travels all over the world with Barnum.

  • Nonfiction, Biography
  • John Newbery Medal 1943 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9789998894297
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  The Little House

  By Virginia Lee Burton

  Built long ago far out in the country, the Little House is now surrounded by the city. Circular shapes abound in the illustrations and the lines of type. Bright, happy colors give way to dark, moody ones as progress overtakes the house. Light colors return when the house is moved to a new countryside.

  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1943 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780547790442
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  Marshmallow

  By Clare Turlay Newberry

  Oliver the cat lives a blissful life of eating and sleeping until the lady who takes care of him brings home a bundle of live, soft fur. Suddenly Oliver is terrified when he is confronted with a bunny named Marshmallow. The pictures show how their relationship grows until they both curl up together.

  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1943 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780060244606
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  The Middle Moffat

  By Eleanor Estes

  Janey is the “middle Moffat,” trying hard to be serious and to do everything well. Things do not seem to work out quite as she plans (her organ recital turns into an escape for thousands of moths), but the little girl is undeterred. She continues to make bold plans with outrageously funny results.

  • Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1943 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780152025236