Kids Books, Award Winning
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Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Newbery Honor 2013
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Creepy Carrots!
Caldecott Honor 2013
The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
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Extra Yarn
Caldecott Honor 2013
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
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Green
Caldecott Honor 2013
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green.
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One and Only Ivan
Newbery Winnrer 2013
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
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One Cool Friend
Caldecott Honor 2013
Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.
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Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover
Geisel Honor 2013
Rabbit is excited about the sleepover he has carefully planned for his friend Robot, but Robot has some different ideas about how things should go.
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Sleep Like a Tiger
Caldecott Honor 2013
At bedtime a young girl asks "Does everything in the world go to sleep?"
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Splendors and Glooms
Newbery Honor 2013
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
Also available as an ebook.
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This is Not My Hat
Caldecott Winner 2013
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.
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Three Times Lucky
Newbery Honor 2013
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
