Choose the one book that you feel is your “winner” from those you have read and explain how and why it is your favorite. Make sure the book, illustrator, publication date, and genre are all clear in the post. Then discuss the content and illustration style, techniques, etc., which make this an impressive and important book.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág (Coward)
Mother Goose, illustrated by Tasha Tudor (Oxford University Press)
Little Lost Lamb, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown]
Five Little Monkeys by Juliet Kepes (Houghton)
Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida (Viking)
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Philip Reed (Atheneum)
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Little Red Riding Hood, retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Holiday) Winner
Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney (SeaStar Books, a division of North-South Books Inc.)
2002 Medal Winner: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion Books/Houghton)
