2009 List of Books Nominated for the E. B. White Read Aloud Award

http://theabfc.wordpress.com/the-eb-white-read-aloud-awards/

Websites of Awards for Childrens Books

Here are websites where you will find complete lists of:

The Caldecott titles

The Newbery titles

The Golden Kite Award titles

The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award titles

The Kate Greenaway Award titles

The Carnegie Award Winning Titles

The Book Sense Best Children's Book Award titles

The Scott O’Dell Award For Historical Fiction

The E. B White Read Aloud Award

Through the Looking Glass Reviews of Award-winning Books

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEW
An Online Children's Book Review Journal
This link is for Award Winners
http://www.lookingglassreview.com/html/award_winners.html

April Calendar Events from SurfNetKids

Leonardo da Vinci's Birthday
Apr 15, 1452
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Titanic Disaster
Apr 15, 1912
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Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
Apr 18, 1775
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San Francisco Earthquake
Apr 18, 1906
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National Park Week
Apr 18-26, 2009
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Revolutionary War Begins with Shot Heard 'Round the World
Apr 19, 1775
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Apr 19-25, 2009
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Apr 21, 2009
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Apr 22, 2009
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Endangered Species for Earth Day
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Apr 23, 1564
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Apr 24, 2009
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Knight and Castles Unit, Museums

BOOKS
Castle by David Macauley
Castle at War by Andrew Langley
Castles by Philip Steele
Knights and Castles by Avery Hart and Paul Manatell
A Medieval Castle by Fiona MacDonald and Mark Bergin
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle by Richard Platt
What Were Castles For? by Phil Roxbee Cox
The World of the Medieval Knight by Christopher Gravett

The BayeuxTapestry by Wolfgang Grape. Te Neues Pub Co, 1994.
Cathedral by David Macaulay. Houghton Mifflin, 1973
Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by Frances and Joseph Gies. Harperperennial Library, 1995 Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor. Harperperennial Library, 1994.
Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society by Bridget Ann Henisch. Pennsylvainia State University Press, 1986.
Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony by Madeleine Pelner Cosman. George Brazillier, 1978.
Health, Disease, and Healing in Medieval Culture, Sheila Campbell, Bert Hall, David Klausner, eds. St. Martins, 1991.
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances and Joseph Gies. Harperperennial Library, 1991.
Medieval Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Adolfo Salvatore Cavallo. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993

Museums
Knight Search Results: Art Institute of Chicago
Castles Search Results: Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art
Detroit Institute of Art
Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester MA
The Higgins Armory Museum, with 5,000 objects on 4 floors, is the only institution in the Northeast dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of arms and armor. A visit to the Higgins will spark your imagination with the fact behind the fairytale!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Philadelphia Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Videos
Castle from Dorset Video
(based on the book by David Macaulay)
Knights and Armor from the History Channel
Times Medieval
from Discovery Communications (The Discovery Channel)

CD-ROMs
Castle Explorer from DK Multimedia
Destination: Castle from Edmark
Nikolai's Knights from H+a
Une fete medievale/A Medieval Celebration from Micro-Intel

The Internet
http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/index.html
http://www.castlesontheweb.com/
Film: Harry Potter (2001) filmed at
Castle: Alnwick found at
http://www.castles-of-britain.com/

Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Medieval Europe Homepage
http://eawc.evansville.edu/mepage.htm
This site covers ancient near eastern history to the middle ages. It includes a thorough chronology of major events of medieval times and allows users to look into what was happening across cultures during various points in history.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
The place to go for primary source material related to the middle ages.

The Labyrinth Compendium of Medieval Resources
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
Based at Georgetown University this site provides links to many medieval resources available on the Internet.

The Online Medieval and Classical Literature Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
This site provides links to texts which are considered major literary works of the middle ages.

ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
http://www.the-orb.net/index.html
Articles and links on the Middle Ages.

Jen Robinson's Book Page

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My Book Lists

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• Index of My Reviews
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• My Review Policy
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• Recommended Children's Books by Age Range

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The Arts

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This site has information on
Visual Elements and Principles
Videos of Artists in Action
Encyclopedias of Examples of the
Velsual Elements and Principles

• Getty Museum

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• Smithsonian Museum

• Tate Museum

• WebMuseum, Paris

SOURCED FROM THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY

Suitable for HOMEWORK or EXPLORATION

Children's Podcasts LAPL

Children's Podcasts

LAPL Children's Podcasts - Stories

Los Angeles Public Library

http://www.lapl.org/kidspath/events/podcasts.php

Click 'play' to listen to the podcast

I Must Go Down to the Beach Again and Other Poems By:Karen Jo Shapiro PLAY

The Terrible Hodag and the Animal Catchers By:Caroline Arnold PLAY

Princess Justina Albertina By:Ellen Dee Davidson PLAY

The Spider and the Fly By:Ilene Abramson PLAY

Stories for You By:Irene Smalls PLAY

A Mothers Journey By:Sandra Markel PLAY

Animal Families, Animal Friends By:Gretchen Woelfle PLAY

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The Grand Old Tree | The Nutcracker Doll | The Strange Egg By:Mary Newell DePalma PLAY

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Author	Arthur Ransome
Illustrator	Uri Shulevitz
Country	United States
Genre(s)	Children's picture book
Publisher	Farrar
Publication date	1968
ISBN	ISBN 0374424381

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
 is a retelling of a Russian fairy tale illustrated
by Uri Shulevitz. It is based on Arthur Ransome's
version of the story in Old Peter's Russian Tales.
 The book was released in 1968 by Farrar
and won a Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1969. ^[1]

References

1. American Library Association: 
2. Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present.
   
3. URL accessed 10 May 2007.

His mother couldn't take time to see him on his way,
but the Fool of the World found the flying ship and the
companions whose powers would gain him the Czar's daughter.
 Made visible in the rather raw colors of peasant decoration and
with an air of good-humored raffishness, this boasts
Brueghel-like panoramas of old Russia from the flying ship,
laconic closeups of the Swift-goer, the Eater, the Drinker, etc.
 doing his thing. There's no show-off about Uri Shulevitz's illustrations;
 they serve the story and serve it up in character. Altogether
one of the most pungent of Old Peter's Russian Tales done to a turn.

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Butterfly Eyes

Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow by: Joyce Sidman; Beth Krommes (Illustrated by) ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618563135; $16.00 ISBN-10: 061856313X Hardcover, Reinforced Binding; 48 pages Publication Date: 09/15/2006 Illustrations: full color Trim Size: 9.00 x 10.50 Carton Quantity: 26 Age Range: 7-10 years Grade Range: Grades 3-5

Subject(s): JUVENILE NONFICTION: Nature / General

Description: Discover the hidden world of the meadow in this unique combination of poetry riddles and science wisdom. Beginning with the rising sun and ending with twilight, this book takes us on a tour through the fields, encouraging us to watch for a nest of rabbits, a foamy spittlebug, a leaping grasshopper, bright milkweed, a quick fox, and a cruising hawk.

Reviews: From Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Combining striking illustrations, evocative poems that do double duty as riddles and lucid prose commentary, this venture into the natural world stands out for both its beauty and its unusual approach."