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Parents' Choice Award Winners: BOOKS
Here we have stories of dogs, cats, bugs and trucks. Add to that Shakespeare, the Harlem Renaissance and the Roman Empire. Neither sentimental nor dull, Parents' Choice Book Award winners deliver splendid tales of adventure, secrets, love and humor. Characters face heartbreak, desperation, despair -- but all survive with strong currents of hope and a delicious understanding of life. First books and sequels, Parents' Choice Book Award winners leave no page unturned.
Fall 2009
Parents' Choice Award Winners: Books
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The Lion & the Mouse
Ages: 3 - 6 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Jerry Pinkney
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Gold
All the World
Ages: 3 - 7 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $17.99
Gold
14 Cows for America
Ages: 6 - 10 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $17.95
Author: Carmen Agra Deedy
Contributions From: Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah
Illustrator: Thomas Gonzalez
Gold
Balarama: A Royal Elephant
Ages: 6 - 11 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $19.95
Author: Betsy Lewin
Author: Ted Lewin
Illustrator: Betsy Lewin
Illustrator: Ted Lewin
Silver
Ten Days and Nine Nights: An Adoption Story
Ages: 4 - 8 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Silver
All of Me! A Book of Thanks
Ages: 3 - 5 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Molly Bang
Illustrator: Molly Bang
Silver
The Fabulous Feud of Gilbert & Sullivan
Ages: 4 - 8 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Jonah Winter
Illustrator: Richard Egielski
Silver
How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?
Ages: Infant - 4 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Mark Teague
Silver
The Mitten
Ages: 3 - 6 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Jim Aylesworth
Illustrator: Barbara McClintock
Silver
Finn Throws a Fit
Ages: 2 - 4 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: David Elliot
Illustrator: Timothy Basil Ering
Silver
Tsunami!
Ages: 4 - 8 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Kimoko Kajikawa
Illustrator: Ed Young
Silver
Eidi: The Children of Crow Cove
Ages: 10 & Up
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Bodil Bredsdorff
Translator: Kathy Mahaffy
Silver
Grizzly Dad: Why Dads Are Great (Even the Grumpy Ones!)
Ages: 4 - 7 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Joanna Harrison
Recommended
In Her Hands
Ages: 6 - 11 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $19.95
Author: Alan Schroeder
Illustrator: Jaeme Bereal
Recommended
Nasreen's Secret School
Ages: 6 - 9 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Jeanette Winter
Recommended
The Goblin and the Empty Chair
Ages: 5 - 8 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $17.99
Recommended
Applesauce Season
Ages: 5 & Up
Hardcover Price: $17.99
Author: Eden Ross Lipson
Illustrator: Mordicai Gerstein
Recommended
The Nutcracker
Ages: 5 - 12 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $17.95
Illustrator: Eric Puybaret
Told By: John Cech
Recommended
Let's Do Nothing!
Ages: 4 - 7 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Tony Fucile
Illustrator: Tony Fucile
Recommended
Ocean's Child
Ages: 2 - 5 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $15.99
Author: Christine Ford
Author: Trish Holland
Illustrator: David Diaz
Approved
Testing the Ice
Ages: 7 - 10 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Sharon Robinson
Illustrator: Kadir Nelson
Approved
Bye-Bye Baby!
Ages: 2 - 5 yrs.
Hardcover Price: $16.99
Author: Richard Morris
Illustrator: Larry Day
Approved