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Originally posted by justamom
SoProud2BeAnAlphaXi Your list reminded me of another by Richard Scarry-Where the Wild Things Are. Have you seen this one? It's a medalist-Caldocot or the other one ...been a LOOOOONG time. My son, more so than my daughter, LOVED that book! Again, the art work was so fantastic!
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Sorry to crash the board, but since I'm a children's librarian I just had to get in on the subject.
JAM:
Where the Wild Things Are is a wonderful book! However, it was written by Maurice Sendak, not Richard Scarry, who is another prolific picture-book author whose characters are often monsters. It won the Caldecott Medal in 1964. The other award you are thinking of is the Newbery Medal, which is given to a book for school-age children.
I started reading at 4, so I don't remember any favorite picture books. I loved Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary when I was growing up, as well as Jerry Spinelli, Astrid Lindgren, and many others. I never really grew out of my love for children's and teen literature
so I turned it into my profession.
Favorite pictur0e books of mine: ANYTHING by Chris Van Allsburg (
The Polar Express,
Jumanji),
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban, almost anything by Maurice Sendak (I think the movie "Labyrinth" is based in part on his
Outside Over There), and anything by Ellen Stoll Walsh. I'm better with books for school-age kids and teens than I am for the little ones, but if anyone needs or wants recs on picture books, you let me know!