Product Type: Books
Age: Early Elementary School Years
Categories: Folk Tales
2009 Award
(retold by Lauren Child/ photos by Polly Borland/de, Hyperion $16.99 Score:
) This new telling of Goldilocks is a charmer with a beautiful golden haired doll and three bears that stepped out of a very special corner of toyland. It stays true to the story but with a vitality that is often lacking. Best of all, the over-sized picture book is graced with illustrations that give it a new life. Photographed in original miniature settings with curious details to discover, each double page spread invites young readers to linger and delight in a fantasy world that is not too scary, not too sweet, but just right!
Age: Preschool, Early School Years. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2003 Award
(by Coleen Salley/illus. by Janet Stevens, Harcourt $16 Score:
) A retelling of a classic noddlehead tale. Who says you can learn from your mistakes? Not Epossumondas! Preschoolers love being ever so much smarter by knowing what the "hero" of a story does not know. Stevens' oversized ladies and her cast of critters have just the over-the-top humor to match Salley's ear for making any reader into a gifted storyteller. 4–8 Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(by Barbara Helen Berger, Philomel $15.99 Score:
) A boy on a horse gallops on his way to Lhasa. But a wise women on the road says he will not get there before night. Soon another boy comes along taking one step after another. Who will get there first? Exquisite paintings match the beauty of this inspiring Tibetan folktale. 5 & up.
Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(by Mary Pope Osborne/illus. by Giselle Potter, Atheneum $16 Score:
) Based on the classic Brave Little Tailor, this delightful version features a feisty little seamstress who outsmarts giants, a unicorn, a wild boar, and even the king and his 99 men! Happily ever after is refreshingly turned around as the gutsy heroine chooses her mate. 7 & up.
Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(by Amy MacDonald/illus. by Emily Lisker, Farrar Straus $16 Score:
) Based on a trickster tale from Haiti, this is a cleverly crrafted story about a fellow who manages to outsmart his neighbors. But when they try to punish him he manages to trick them again. Great good fun! Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(by Theresa Bateman/illus. by Lynne Cravath, Albert Whitman $16 Score:
) Here's a retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses. But these young ladies are not dreaming of your typical ball. These ladies see hoops when they think of courts and balls! Told in sometimes uneven rhyme, it is a funny update for our time. Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(by Eileen Christelow, Clarion $15 Score:
) Detective Doggedley is on the trail of a strange looking sheep named Esmeralda who just happens to be hanging around every time the three little pigs' houses get huffed and puffed. A fun-filled fractured folktale. . Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(retold and illus. by Jerry Pinkney, Penguin $16.99 Score:) Instead of the usual Chinese setting, Jerry Pinkney transports this classic tale to Morocco with lush and beautiful watercolors. Instead of an Emperor, there is a King and the people of his court have different titles, as well. Pinkney's beautiful retelling has a musical quality that matches the rich and delicately detailed illustrations of the people, architecture and animals of Northwest Africa.6-10.
Age: Early School Years,Later School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(retold by Stephen Mitchell/illus. by Bagram Ibatou, Candlewick $17.99 Score:
) A beautiful retelling of the timeless tale by Hans Christian Andersen about an Emperor who learns almost too late that the novelty of a bejeweled mechanical bird is not as lasting or precious as the song and love of the real nightingale. Illustrated with the artistry of classic Chinese scroll paintings! 6–10. Age: Early School Years,Later School Years. Award Year: 2003.
Award
(by Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel, Harcourt $17 Score:
) Here's a lively version of that fabled critter of the old West, the Jackalope- a cross between a jack rabbit and an antelope. There's some corny word play, lots of action and even a big lesson built into the shenanigans here. This is a tall tale of a rabbit who wishes to be different and a fairy godmother who helps him discover that being himself is best. 4-8 Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: .
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