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STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS Contributed by Carla Perkins, BPL, Avondale Branch The Three Pigs by David 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. Winner of the 2002 Caldecott Award. The Land by Mildred D. Taylor. After the Civil War, Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own. Winner of the 2002 Coretta Scott King Author Award. Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack. In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African-American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town, the public library. Winner of the 2002 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park. Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potter’s village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. Winner of the 2002 Newbery Award. |
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