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A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off. (1968 Winner)
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Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a pi~nata for it. (1960 Winner)
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Winner of the Caldecott Medal and in print since 1941, this is a prayer for boys and girls all over the world. It is full of the intimate gentleness for familiar things, the love of friends and family, and the kindly protection of God. (1945 Winner)
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Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. (2014 Winner)
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Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. (1979 Winner)
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Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow. (1949 Winner)
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Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories." (1971 Winner)
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Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family. (1980 Winner)
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After spending an eventful day at the fair held on New Year's Eve, Mei Li arrives home just in time to greet the Kitchen God. (1939 Winner) Out of Print
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When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.
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Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.
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After the old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, the fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again. (1972 Winner)
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Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye.(2006 Winner)
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The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
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A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene. (2013 Winner)