After Baby Whale is born he swims with his mother and, surrounded with a protective pod, he begins to grow and learn. As he watches all around him, soon Baby Whale comes to know all the ways of the whales and of the sea.
2001-2002 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Chronicle
Copyright September 1, 1999
ISBN# 0-8118-2496-9 (PB, HB)
Quite often Phyllis Mae feels she gets too little attention while her baby brother gets way too much of it. Her nana and mamma decide to have a Daughter’s Day celebration similar to Mother’s Day. What could possibly go wrong on a day meant just for her?
2001-2002 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Dial Press
Copyright April 15, 2002
ISBN# 978-0140561876 (PB, HB)
With the author’s beautiful illustrations as background, he describes one of the greatest stories in the Bible: God sends Moses to lead His people out of Egypt and into the promised land of Canaan.
2001-2002 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Eerdmans
Copyright October 6, 1998
ISBN# 0-8028-5175-4 (HB)
Julie sometimes tires of having her brother Ian, who is autistic, go so many places with her because he has to be watched every minute. She realizes how much she loves him, though, when he gets lost in the park one day.
2001-2002 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by A. Whitman
Copyright March 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-8075-3480-3 (PB)
Celebrate the cycle of the day, as the earth turns to and then away from the sun, and meet a wide array of animals from America’s east coast to the west as they work and rest, eat and play, just as humans do. Wendell Minor’s paintings are stellar.
2001-2002 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright May 5, 1999
ISBN# 0-06-023628-0 (PB, HB)
This delightful book highlights a wide variety of weather conditions by taking a tour around the world and examining weather in different places on the same day in the month of March.
2001-2002 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright January 25, 2000
ISBN# 0-06-028187-1 (PB, HB)
Emily helps her parents with the arduous task of homesteading. For that, she gets to choose something she most wants. She chooses a tree which becomes a living symbol of the warmth, strength and history shared by one family.
2001-2002 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Stoddart Kids
Copyright September 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-7737-3067-2 (PB, HB)
Although Sebastian Bach was born into a family of musicians, he was exceptionally talented. He heard music in his head and wrote down what he heard, more than a thousand pieces in all. He lived two hundred years ago, but people all over the world still love, appreciate, and play his wonderful music.
2001-2002 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harcourt
Copyright February 28, 1999
ISBN# 0-15-200629-X (HB)