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Summer Reading
Select a picture book deemed by the experts to be the best within its genre. These books are the Caldecott
Medal winners. Each year in January the Association for Library Service to Children, a division
of the American Library Association, awards the medal to the artist of the
most distinguished American picture book for children.
The
Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
The medal has been awarded every year since 1938.
Purchasing a Caldecott Medal-winner for your child insures
you are giving a book with outstanding illustrations. In most cases these books
have become classics and are the treasures of American literature for children. Browse through the selection of
Caldecott-winning books at this site.
Choose a picture book that focuses on your child's interest. If your young reader is interested in the arts, We can help you find
just the right picturebook. Visit Music and Arts books for children. There
are many music, dance, visual art, and creative writing books geared to the young reader.
Find wonderful, exciting do-it-yourself projects to accomplish
in the out-of-doors in Kids Camp. Add a new book to your Nature books
collection.
Find an educational book to engage the mind or encourage creativity. Several excellent
titles are available on this site.
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Vintage and Collectable -
To personalize the gift of a book, match up your child's birth date with
that of an author, artist, dancer, or playwright. Search the calendar below to discover a matching birthday.
Another suggestion is to give the recipient a Caldecott or Newbery Medal winner which
was published on the year of your child's birth. Nana's Books for Kids has a large inventory
of Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners. Click on
Newbery or on
Caldecott
for fast access to a listing of Caldecott and Newbery Medal Winners by date.
Would you like to include a child's birthday on the birthday calendar?
Click here for further information. Each November one
name will be selected from the calendar to receive
a complimentary book from Nana's Books for Kids.
Birthdays to Know
Roll your mouse over a month indicator to see a list of author/artist birthdays.
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| June |
| Author/artist | Day | Year |
| Dairy Month | |
| Sir Edward Elgar | 2 | 1857 |
| Paul Gauguin | 7 | 1848 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | 8 | 1867 |
| Cole Porter | 9 | 1891 |
| William Butler Yeats | 13 | 1865 |
| Flag Day | 14 | |
| Father's Day | 15 | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 16 | 1938 |
| M. C. Escher | 17 | 1898 |
| Igor Stravinsky | 17 | 1882 |
| Chris Van Allsburg | 18 | 1949 |
| 1st day of summer | 21 | |
| Bob Fosse | 23 | 1927 |
| Pearl S. Buck | 26 | 1892 |
| Richard Rodgers | 28 | 1902 |
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| September |
| Author/artist | Day | Year |
| Labor Day | 1 | |
| Paul Fleischman | 5 | 1952 |
| John Cage | 5 | 1912 |
| Grandma Moses | 7 | 1860 |
| Jack Prelutsky | 8 | 1940 |
| D. H. Lawrence | 11 | 1885 |
| O. Henry | 11 | 1862 |
| Roald Dahl | 13 | 1916 |
| Robt. McCloskey | 14 | 1914 |
| Tomie dePaola | 15 | 1934 |
| Stephen King | /td>21 | 1947 |
| H. G. Wells | 21 | 1866 |
| First day of fall | 23 | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 25 | 1896 |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | 25 | 1906 |
| William Faulkner | 25 | 1897 |
| George Gershwin | 26 | 1898 |
| T.S. Eliot | 26 | 1888 |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 29 | 1547 |
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| October |
| Author/artist | Day | Year |
| Vladimir Horowitz | 1 | 1903 |
| Yo Yo Ma | 7 | 1955 |
| Fire Prevention Week | 7-13 | |
| Columbus Day holiday | 13 | |
| John Lennon | 9 | 1940 |
| Guiseppe Verdi | 10 | 1813 |
| ee cummings | 14 | 1894 |
| Eugene O Neill | 16 | 1888 |
| Oscar Wilde | 16 | 1854 |
| Charles Ives | 20 | 1874 |
| Christopher Wren | 20 | 1632 |
| National Chemistry Week | 19-25 | |
| Franz Liszt | 22 | 1811 |
| Pablo Picasso | 25 | 1881 |
| Georges Bizet | 25 | 1838 |
| Ezra Pound | 30 | 1885 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | 30 | 1821 |
| John Keats | 31 | 1795 |
| Halloween | 31 | |
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