Showing 1–7 of 7 titles

• Format: Book
• Award year: 1980

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  Ben's Trumpet

  By Rachel Isadora

  The mood, sounds, and rhythms of jazz pulsate through the illustrations as Ben sits on the fire escape and blows his imaginary trumpet to the jazz sounds emanating from the Zig Zig Jazz Club. Set in the twenties and illustrated with dynamic blackand-white drawings, this is the story of one boy's dream coming true.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1980 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780688801946
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  The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi

  By Chris Van Allsburg

  Illusion and reality become blurred when the unruly dog the boy has been tending runs away into the secret, foreboding garden of a retired magician. The visual perspectives and the play of light on the gray pencil drawings create an eerie, mysterious feeling.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1980 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780395278048
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  A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832

  By Joan W. Blos

  Catherine Cabot Hall sporadically writes in her journal, filling it with recipes, excerpts from her copy book, secrets, fears, confidences, details of her adjustment to her stepmother, and thoughts on the pain of a friend's death. Though fiction, the journal is believable, and Catherine is easy to like.

  • Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 1980 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780684163406
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  Ox-Cart Man

  By Donald Hall, Barbara Cooney (Illutsator)

  Clean, uncluttered paintings capture the flavor of nineteenth-century New England as a family's day-to-day life is mandated by the changing season. There is a strong sense of the passage of time and rhythm of life in this book.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1980 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780670533282
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  The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

  By David Kherdian

  After the Turks finish with their slaughter of nearly two million Armenians, Veron is the only survivor of her immediate family. When the Greeks attack Turkey, Veron and her aunt and cousin escape to Greece, and from there she travels to the United States, a mail-order bride and the future mother of the author.

  • Nonfiction, Biography
  • John Newbery Medal 1980 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780688802059
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  The Sound of the Dragon's Feet

  By Aliki Zei, Edward Fenton (Translator)

  The ten-year-old spoiled child of an intellectual family encounters hardships in prerevolutionary Russia.

  • Fiction
  • Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1980 (Medal Winner)
  • ISBN: 9780525397120
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  The Treasure

  By Uri Shulevitz

  A poor man dreams that he must go to the castle bridge and wait for something that will turn about his fortunes. Traveling far to get there, he learns that the treasure is under his own stove. Illustrations with softly glowing colors and a striking use of light depict traditional eastern European villages and countrysides.

  • Fiction, Folklore & Fairy Tales
  • Randolph Caldecott Medal 1980 (Honor Title)
  • ISBN: 9780374377403