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The Caldecott Medal is given each year to the illustrator of the “best” illustrated book for children, and the first of these was awarded in 1938 to Dorothy Lathrop for her black and white illustrations for Animals of the Bible. “Best” is a subjective term, but since that first medal, many beloved Caldecott winners have featured animals, and have been winning over the readers who love them. Who can forget Jane Yolen’s quiet Owl Moon, or William Steig’s magical Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, or Boston’s own all-time favorite, Make Way for Ducklings? Here are some new picture books, both informative and fun, featuring animals
of all kinds.
What kind of animal would you be if your pupils were shaped like the letter W, or like an oval, or a rectangle? How about if you had eight eyes, or if your eyeballs were completely immoveable? In Eye by Eye: Comparing how Animals See, Sara Levine explores what it might be like to see the world through someone else’s eyes—in this case a variety of animals with different ...