Award Winning Children's Books at James Library

Medal - A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise.

Medal - Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's one wish.

Medal - A well-mannered little boy has permission to bring his animal friends to visit the king and queen.

Honor - Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.

Honor - Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife.

Medal - 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.

Honor - A young boy is frightened by how busy and noisy the city is when he goes there to visit his Nana, but she makes him a fancy red cape that keeps him from being scared as she shows him how wonderful a place it is.

Medal - Retells in pictures how a pair of every manner of creature climbed on board Noah's ark and thereby survived the Flood.

Medal - 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.

Medal - As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain.

Medal - After the old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, the fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again.

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

Medal - Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

Honor - Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.

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

Medal - Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.

Medal - A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.

Honor - A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

Medal - Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.

Medal - Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.

Medal - 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.

Medal - When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.

Medal - A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

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

Medal - Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.

Medal - Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton.

Medal - Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories."

Medal - 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.

Honor - Numbers from ten to one are part of this lullaby which observes the room of a little girl going to bed.

Honor - An ordinary housecat is seen from the different perspectives of a child and various animals.

Honor - Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summer getaway, her refuge. Her friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had, completing her summer family. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and Rose and Windy have gotten tangled up in a tragedy-in-the-making in the small town of Awago Beach. It's a summer of secrets and heartache, and it's a good thing Rose and Windy have each other.

Medal - 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.

Honor - A seagull befriends a Quaker boy, much to his embarrassment, and it is not until he has helped the bird that he can accept its friendship.

Honor - The author recreates a journey his father took through Tibet in the 1950s, describing the colorful people and places he saw.

Medal - Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.

Medal - Briefly describes the value of a tree.

Medal - Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes.

Honor - A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn. Also a Newbery Medal winner.

Medal and Newbery Honor- Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.

Medal- Issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.

Honor - Animals can do amazing things with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails. Some of the skills are highlighted in this interactive guessing book. What bird has blue feet and what does he do with them that's special?

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

Medal - Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.

Honor - Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.