Caldecott Honor Books

These are books that did not win the Caldecott Award, but were given Honor Awards as books of distinction.

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Book cover for "1 is one"
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5 stars
Description:
Rhyming verse and pictures introduce the numbers from one to twenty.

2. Green

Book cover for "Green"
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4 stars
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green.
Book cover for "If I ran the zoo"
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4.6 stars
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If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.
Book cover for "In the small, small pond"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Illustrations and rhyming text describe the activities of animals living in and near a small pond as spring progresses to autumn.
Book cover for "Madeline"
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4.3 stars
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Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.
Book cover for "McElligot's pool"
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3.7 stars
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A boy imagines the rare and wonderful fish he might catch in McElligot's Pool.
Book cover for "On Market Street"
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5 stars
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A child buys presents from A to Z in the shops along Market Street.
Book cover for "A place inside of me"
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text express a child's awareness of being filled with deep emotions, from joy to sorrow and anger to compassion, but above all, love.
Book cover for "Seven blind mice"
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Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.
Book cover for "Ten, nine, eight"
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Numbers from ten to one are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.
Book cover for "Zin! zin! zin!"
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5 stars
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Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance.