Award Winning Children's Books at James Library

Medal - An imaginary friend waits a long time to be imagined by a child and given a special name, and finally does the unimaginable--he sets out on a quest to find his perfect match in the real world.

Honor - On her way home from school, Pearl finds an unusual bone that has unexpected powers.

Honor - An assortment of animals introduce the letters of the alphabet.

Medal - Adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.

Medal - Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.

Medal - A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost.

Medal - Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.

Medal - Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.

Medal - Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.

Honor - When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.

Honor - Animals, people, and things become quiet and sleep when night comes.

Honor - The intolerance of a small boy's classmates is overcome when a strange talent of the boy wins for him the admiration of the community.

Honor - No matter how hard he pleads and begs, the pigeon is not supposed to drive the bus while the driver is away, but pigeon tries every persuasive trick a young child knows to get you to say, "Yes."

Medal - A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

Medal - The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name.

Medal - Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.

Medal - A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

Medal - When a young boy discovers a camera on the beach and develops the film, he finds with his microscope many layers of pictures within the photographs.

Medal - When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.

Medal - While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the means of becoming the richest woman in Japan.

Medal - Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.

Medal - A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900's.

Medal - A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.

Medal - A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

Medal - Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye.

Medal - Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper.

Medal - A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.

A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air.

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

Medal - A little boy's dream-fantasy in which he helps three fat bakers get milk for their cake batter.

Medal - When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

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

Medal - 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.

Honor - Despite pleas from his court, a fun-loving king refuses to get out of his bathtub to rule his kingdom.

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

Medal - In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.

Medal - A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

Honor - On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.

Medal - Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.

Medal - Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.