CALDECOTT E AARDEMA

A West African folktale reveals the meaning of the mosquito’s buzz.

CALDECOTT E HENKES

When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

CALDECOTT E JUSTER

The kitchen window at her grandparents’ house is a magic gateway for one little girl. The story depicts the special relationship she has with her grandparents.

CALDECOTT E KEATS

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

CALDECOTT E KLASSEN

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.

OVERSIZE CALDECOTT E MCCLOSKEY

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.

CALDECOTT E PINKNEY

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.

CALDECOTT E RASCHKA

A wordless picture book about all the fun a dog can have with her ball.

CALDECOTT E RATHMANN

The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle’s safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches.

CALDECOTT E ROHMANN

Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.

CALDECOTT E SENDAK

A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.

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Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day—’Ah-choo!’—he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn’t make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests.

CALDECOTT E STEIG

In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.

CALDECOTT E SWANSON

Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light.

CALDECOTT E TABACK

A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.

CALDECOTT E VAN ALLSBURG

Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

CALDECOTT E VAN ALLSBURG

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

CALDECOTT E WIESNER

The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

CALDECOTT E WIESNER

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.

CALDECOTT E WIESNER

Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep.

CALDECOTT E YOLEN

On a winter’s night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.