ENTERING
FIRST GRADE
A
Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever -
Marla
Frazee When
James and Eamon go to a week of Nature Camp and stay at Eamon's grandparents'
house, it turns out that their free time spent staying inside, eating waffles,
and playing video games is way more interesting than nature.
Caldecott
Honor Book
Froggy
Goes to Camp
- Jonathan London
Froggy
packs a lot into one week: hikes and archery lessons, K.P. and food fights,
scary stories and funny songs around the campfire. But only Froggy could also
manage to lose his trunks during swim class and overturn his kayak with the
camp director in it. Lovable, bumbling Froggy will keep his many fans laughing
with his latest antics.
Henry
Hikes to Fitchburg
- D. B. Johnson While
his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg,
a bear, modeled on a young Henry Thoreau, walks the thirty miles through woods
and fields, enjoying nature and the time to think great thoughts.
Max
Found Two Sticks
- Brian
Pinkney On
a day when Max doesn't feel like talking to anyone, a strong breeze shakes two
heavy twigs to the ground in front of his brownstone home. Picking them up,
the young African-American boy begins to beat out a rhythm that imitates the
sound of pigeons startled into flight.
Don't
Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus -
Mo Willems On
the title page the bus driver
addresses
the reader directly. He says that he has to be gone for a while and asks if the
reader
can watch things, but not to let the pigeon drive the bus. Caldecott Honor
Book
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? - Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
Children will learn that lizards can completely break off their tail as a
defense and that it will grow back. And, they'll find out that crickets' ears
are on their knees. Most fish have two eyes, but some have four, the better to
see above and below the water at the same time. Caldecott Honor Book.
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg - D. B. Johnson While his friend works hard to
earn the train fare to Fitchburg, a bear, modeled on a young Henry Thoreau,
walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, enjoying nature and the time
to think great thoughts.
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever - Marla Frazee When James and
Eamon go to a week of Nature Camp and stay at Eamon's grandparents' house, it
turns out that their free time spent staying inside, eating waffles, and
playing video games is way more interesting than nature. Caldecott Honor
Book
FIRST
GRADE ENTERING SECOND GRADE
Amanda
Bean's Amazing Dream -
Cindy
Neuschwander
The
advantages of multiplication are introduced in a simple story about an
African-American girl who loves to count things, both in and out of school,
but is unsure how multiplication will speed up the process. After counting the
tiles on the kitchen counter and the books on the library shelves, she falls
asleep and begins to dream of a calm bike ride in the country.
Duke
Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra -
Andrea
Davis Pinkney
A
brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along
with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
Caldecott
Medal Book
Grandfather's
Journey -
Allen Say Say explores familiar themes of cultural connection
and
disconnection. He focuses on his mother Masako, or May, as she prefers to be
called,
who,
after graduating from high school in California,
unwillingly moves with her parents
to
their native Japan.
Caldecott Medal Book
Henry
And Mudge First Book
-
Cynthia
Rylant Henry,
feeling lonely on a street without any other children, finds companionship and
love in a big dognamed Mudge..
Hot
Air: The (Mostly) True Story
of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride
-
Marjorie Priceman
The
first "manned" hot-air balloon is about to take off! But what are those noises
coming from the basket?
Caldecott
Medal Book
How
I Learned Geography - Uri
Shulevitz Having
fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in
poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father brings
home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious. But when
the map is hung on the wall, it floods their cheerless room with color.
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Honor
Book
Knuffle
Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity -
Mo
Willems Trixie
can't wait to bring her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny to school and show him off
to everyone. But when she gets there, she sees something awful: Sonja has the
same bunny. Suddenly, Knuffle Bunny doesn't seem so one-of-a-kind anymore.
Chaos ensues until the bunnies are taken away by Ms. Greengrove.
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Medal Book
The
Man Who Walked Between the Towers -
Mordicai Gerstein As
this story opens,
French
funambulist Philippe Petit is dancing across a tightrope tied between two
trees to
the
delight of the passersby in Lower
Manhattan.
Gerstein places him in the middle of a
balancing
act, framed by the two unfinished WorldTradeCenter
towers when the idea
hits:
"He looked not at the towers, but at the space between them and thought what a
wonderful
place to stretch a rope." Caldecott Medal Book
Measuring
Penny
- Loreen
Leedy Lisa
has a homework assignment to measure something in as many ways as she can,
using standard and nonstandard units. "Use your imagination!" is the last
instruction the teacher gives the students. Lisa chooses her Boston terrier
and the fun begins.
Moses:
When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom -
Carole
Boston Weatherford
Led
by her faith, Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in the mid-19th century,
then returns, first to free her family, and then 18 more times to help other
slaves escape by way of the Underground Railroad to freedom.
Caldecott
Honor Book