Newbery Honor 2013
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
Caldecott Honor 2013
The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
Coretta Scott King Honor 2013 (Author)
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
Coretta Scott King Honor 2013 (Illustrator)
Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.
Caldecott Honor 2013
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
Caldecott Honor 2013
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green.
Coretta Scott King Honor 2013 (Illustrator)
Two friends try to outdo each other on the basketball court in an out-of-this-world game of H.O.R.S.E.
Coretta Scott King Award 2013 (Author)
Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.
Coretta Scott King Honor 2013 (Illustrator)
An illustrated edition of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech.
Coretta Scott King Honor 2013 (Illustrator)
Presents the popular poem by one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance, highlighting the courage and dignity of the African American Pullman porters in the early twentieth century.
Theodor Suess Geisel Honor 2013
Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.
Caldecott Honor 2013
Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor 2013
Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor 2013
Rabbit is excited about the sleepover he has carefully planned for his friend Robot, but Robot has some different ideas about how things should go.
Caldecott Honor 2013
At bedtime a young girl asks "Does everything in the world go to sleep?"
Newbery Honor 2013
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
Newbery Medal 2013
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
Caldecott Medal 2013
A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.
Newbery Honor 2013
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Theodor Suess Geisel Award 2013
Through illustrations and simple text, birds demonstrate the meanings of the words up, tall, and high.