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PICTURE A TREE

Picture a Tree
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Reid
Author's First Name: 
Barbara
Illustrator's First Name: 
Barbara
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Reid
Publisher: 
Albert Whitman
Publication Date: 
2013
2013 Nomination (not yet selected): 

Reid offers readers and listeners an open-ended invitation to looking at trees in a different way. This imaginative celebration of all kinds of trees in all kinds of weather is made even more appealing by her unique illustrations, done with plasticine, which include both astonishing detail and fuel for the imagination. Up to Seven. Kathy Isaacs

AND THEN IT'S SPRING

And Then It's Spring
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Fogliano
Author's First Name: 
Julie
Illustrator's First Name: 
Erin E.
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Stead
Publisher: 
Neal Porter
Publication Date: 
2012

Gentle poetic prose complements woodblock and pencil illustrations that show just how long three weeks can be for a young gardener and his companions—dog, rabbit, and turtle—waiting for green seeds to sprout out of a brown world.

HOW ROCKET LEARNED TO READ

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Hills
Author's First Name: 
Tad
Publisher: 
Schwartz & Wade
Publication Month: 
July
Publication Date: 
2010

Captivated by an unfinished story, Rocket the dog is introduced to the “wondrous, mighty, gorgeous alphabet” by a little yellow bird. Young children will identify with Rocket's initial reluctance to learn as well as his eventual love of books.

CITY DOG, COUNTRY FROG

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Willems
Author's First Name: 
Mo
Illustrator's First Name: 
Jon J.
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Muth
Publisher: 
Hyperion
Publication Date: 
2010

Dog and Frog meet in the golden-green days of spring and embark on an unlikely friendship. Spare, poignant text and lush, seasonal watercolors take the reader from the joyful exuberance of summer to the bleakest days of winter and then back to “spring again.”

OLD BEAR

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Henkes
Author's First Name: 
Kevin
Illustrator's First Name: 
Kevin
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Henkes
Publisher: 
Greenwillow
Publication Date: 
2008

Delicate ink and watercolor illustrations capture the colors of the changing seasons as an old bear dreams away the winter months in this gentle story about nature, hibernation, and the passage of time.

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