Geisel Medal Winners

Charlie and Mouse, two young brothers, enjoy a day out together, attending an imaginary party and collecting rocks.

"[A] little boy out for a walk with his family stops to show a building doorman his new 'bot': 'I have a bot!' Only he doesn't have it for long, because it floats up out of his hands like an escaped balloon. 'Stop! Bot!' Springing to action, the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it--along with the help of each floor's resident. But while everything looks normal at first, every floor (and resident) is a little more...

"Two fuzzy creatures can't agree on who is small and who is big, until a couple of surprise guests show up, settling it once and for all!"--Jacket flap.

Two mice meet their new neighbor and discover that she is not as scary as they feared.

Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.

Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.

Move over, Spot. . . . Spoofing classic primers, Max the Dog talks back to the book in a twist that will have fans of funny early readers howling. See Max. Max is not a cat-Max is a dog. But much to Max's dismay, the book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a DOG? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly...

"Walt is not the tallest or the curliest or the pointiest or even the crunchiest. A confounded blade of grass searches for his 'est' in this hilarious story about growing up"--

In his next I Can Read adventure, Fox-the hilarious trickster character featured in Geisel Award-winning Fox the Tiger-overcomes his fear of monsters when he meets real nocturnal animals. Fox is up late in the night. There are shadows and noises everywhere. Fox is sure the night is full of monsters! Then he meets the real creatures of the night and realizes they are not so scary after all. Carefully crafted using basic language, word repetition, sight...