Showing 1–8 of 8 titles

• Format: Book
• Award year: 1958

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  Anatole and the Cat

  By Eve Titus, Paul Galdone (Illustrator)

  Mouse Anatole, a loving husband and caring father, bicycles through the streets of Paris each night on his way to work. When a cat arrives on the scene, Anatole succeeds where thousands of other mice have failed. Gray drawings with accents of red, white, and blue and a smattering of French words reinforce the setting of the story.

  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780375855474
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  Fly High, Fly Low

  By Don Freeman

  In a story of love, loyalty, and suspense, the pigeon Sid faces perils while searching for the missing Midge, their nest, and the big letter B where their nest is housed. Colorful illustrations reveal scenes of San Francisco.

  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780142408179
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  Gone-Away Lake

  By Elizabeth Enright

  All summer Julian and his ten-year-old cousin Portia explore the houses they discover around Gone-Away Lake. They tell no one about the place or the two old people living in one of the houses until a near tragedy exposes their secret.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780152316488
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  The Great Wheel

  By Robert Lawson

  Aunt Honoria predicts that Conn will leave Ireland and head west. Now he is in Chicago working on a construction project for a man named Ferris. His aunt has also made the wild prediction that he will ride the world's biggest wheel. Conn does as soon as Mr. Ferris's daring project is completed for the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780670351022
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  The Horsecatcher

  By Mari Sandoz

  Unlike the other Cheyenne boys, Young Elk refuses to kill. He wants to capture and tame the wild horses of the prairie. When his father insists he join in their war, he runs away, returning months later with fifteen horses and the start of what becomes a nearly legendary way with wild horses.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780664300630
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  Rifles for Watie

  By Harold Keith

  Sixteen-year-old Jeff, already a combat veteran in the Union Army and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, is captured by the rebel troops of General Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian, and forced to become one of his scouts.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1958 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780064470308
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  Time of Wonder

  By Robert McCloskey

  McCloskey celebrates in prose and painting the island where he lives. The alternately quiet and boisterous moods of nature are peacefully or dramatically recounted. The children of the island explore and enjoy the changing moods as the intensity of the blue and green watercolors shifts with the changes in the weather.

  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1958 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780140502015
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  Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle

  By Leo Gurko

  With hardly any education or money and only Ben Franklin's letter of introduction, Tom Paine goes to America and writes Common Sense, the first of his revolutionary pamphlets. The power and vision of Paine's writings and the violent feelings they aroused throughout his life are evident in this biography.

  • Nonfiction, History, American History
  • John Newbery Medal 1958 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780690828900