Annal:1996 Golden Kite Picture Book Illustration Award
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Results of the Golden Kite Picture Book Illustration Award in the year 1996. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Golden Kite Picture Book Illustration Award
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
- 1996 Golden Kite-picturebook illustration winner
- Score: 10.46
Market Day…is the best day of the month, if you ask Tess. There are pigs, chickens, and sheep to see, gob stoppers and cherry lips to eat, a lace-stealing goat to watch, and more. Baba-Ali is swallowing the swords, Nuts, the organ grinder’s monkey, is up to mischief, and Madame Savanna will predict the future—for only half a penny! Market Day is wonderful, but is it long enough?
Inspired by memories of her childhood, Eve Bunting’s text conveys all the charm of a very big day in a small Irish village. Holly Berry’s joyous illustrations are the perfect complement.Thursday is market day in Tess’ small village, and the excitement begins when Father gives her a Market day penny to spend.
Together with her best friend Wee Boy, Tess explores the wondrous rollicking grounds. Eve Bunting and Holly Berry have created a boisterous, exuberant tribute to an Irish marketplace: a blaze of colors and sights that will awaken all five senses.
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
- 1997 CS King-Illustrator winner
- 1996 Golden Kite-picturebook illustration honor
- Score: 16.47
This beautifully written book, illustrated by four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney, makes the story of Harriet Tubman's childhood accessible to very young readers. As a young slave, nicknamed "Minty," Harriet Tubman was a feisty and stubborn girl with a dream of escape, and whose rebellious spirit often got her into trouble. Pinkney's expressive illustrations bring every emotion to brilliant life-from troubled sorrow to spirited hope for freedom.
