Showing 1–11 of 11 titles

• Format: Book
• Award year: 1970

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  Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

  By Leo Lionni

  Alexander, an unappreciated house mouse, envies Willy the windup mouse because everyone loves and coddles him. After asking the wizard lizard to change him into a windup mouse, Alexander has a change of heart. Large, bold collages enhance the simply told story.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780394829111
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  Goggles!

  By Ezra Jack Keats

  While showing off the motorcycle goggles he has found, Peter is accosted by neighborhood bullies. Proving that smart moves are more powerful than brute strength, Peter and his friends outwit the older boys. Rich, dark, brooding colors of paint and collage are lightened with vibrant colors in illustrations that reflect the urban setting.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780670880621
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  Journey Outside

  By Mary Q. Steele

  In a story filled with allegory and symbolism, Dilar's people endlessly travel an underground river, headed for the “better place.” But Dilar, suspecting that they are merely going around in circles, jumps from his raft and accidentally makes his way into the outside world. There, nearly blinded by the light, he tries to learn more about his people and to find a way to bring them aboveground.

  • Fiction, Science Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780670409532
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  The Judge: An Untrue Tale

  By Harve Zemach, Margot Zemach (Illustrator)

  Prisoner after prisoner excitedly tells the Judge about the horrible thing that is on its way. The no-nonsense Judge throws them all in jail. When the horrible thing comes, poetic justice is done. Illustrated in watercolors and line drawings, the robust, pinkish characters tell their cumulative rhyming tale.

  • Fiction, Poetry
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780374339609
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  The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art

  By Jane Gaylord Moore

  Moore, of the Cleveland Museum of Art, encourages readers to try a new way of approaching art: to see art reflecting the world and nature, and the world in turn reflecting art. Paintings (reproduced in color), poems, and quotations are arranged to lead to the discovery of new comparisons between modern, traditional, or ancient art and the imagery of word and picture.

  • Nonfiction, Arts, Poetry
  • John Newbery Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780529040176
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  Our Eddie

  By Sulamith Ish-Kishor

  Eddie's father is a stern, insensitive zealot who refuses, until it is too late, to see that his son is gradually succumbing to a debilitating disease. Set in London and New York in the 1920s, most of this story of a warm Jewish immigrant family is told by Eddie's insightful sister.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780394814551
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  Pop Corn & Ma Goodness

  By Edna Mitchell Preston, Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator)

  With all the gaiety and drama of a folk song, this original story is told in nonsense verse. Ma Goodness and Pop Corn meet, fall in love, marry, build a house and a farm, have children, and enjoy the good life on their “prippitty proppetty.” Watercolor pictures have a haphazard look that adds to the rollicking fun.

  • Fiction, Poetry
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780670564996
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  Sounder

  By William H. Armstrong

  Sounder, the family dog, valiantly defends the father when the sheriff and his deputies come to arrest him for stealing food for his starving family. Years later, the dog, shot and maimed by the deputies, is the only one to recognize the father when he returns, paralyzed and deformed.

  • John Newbery Medal 1970 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780060201432
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  Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

  By William Steig

  A collector of pebbles, Sylvester the donkey finds a magic one that grants wishes. Caught by a lion, Sylvester panics and wishes himself to be a rock. Full-color pictures show the seasonal changes and colorful characters of the story and extend its concern and gentle humor.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1970 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780141374680
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  Thy Friend, Obadiah

  By Brinton Turkle

  His large Quaker family teases young Obadiah because a sea gull has taken a liking to him and follows him everywhere. The drawings are warm and gentle and vary greatly in perspective. When the sea gull fails to be seen for several days, Obadiah finds that what he thought was a nuisance is really a friend.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9781893103696
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  Wildcat Under Glass

  By Aliki Zei, Edward Fenton (Translator)

  Set in Greece just prior to World War II, this novel effectively portrays a child's view of the Fascist government.

  • Fiction
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1970 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780030895128