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DISPLAY: GOLD MEDAL BOOKS


Written and Illustrated by: Robert McCloskey
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring. 

Written and Illustrated 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.

Written and Illustrated by: Matthew Cordell
When a wolf cub and little girl are lost in a snowstorm they must find their way home by helping each other.

Written by: Lindsay Mattick
Illustrated by: Sophie Blackall
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War l, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

Written and Illustrated by: Kevin Henkes
When kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

Written by: Philip Stead
Illustrated by: Erin Stead
Zookeeper Amos McGee always makes time to visit his friends who live at the zoo until the day he stays home because he is sick.

Written and Illustrated by: Eric Rohmann
Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.

Written and Illustrated by: Nonny Hogrogian
After the old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, the fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again.

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