Annal:2005 Kate Greenaway Medal

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Results of the Kate Greenaway Medal in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

Wolves

Emily Gravett

What do wolves really like to eat? It isn’t little girls in red hoods. Rabbits shouldn’t believe what they read in fairy tales, but this book has the facts. (This book follows the National Carroticulum.)

 

Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You

Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi

A Field Guide to the fantastical creatures featured in The Spiderwick Chronicles.

 

Traction Man Is Here!

Mini Grey

Traction Man — wearing combat boots, battle pants, and his warfare shirt — comes in a box, but very quickly finds the way into the imagination of his lucky boy owner.

 

Lost and Found

Oliver Jeffers

There once was a boy! And one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row boat on a journey to the South Pole. But when they get there, the boy discovers that maybe home wasn't what the penguin was looking for after all!

 

Mirrormask

Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

While most kids long to run away and join the circus, Helena dreams of running away to join the real world. Until the day she wakes up to find herself in a strange new place populated by mysterious creatures a dreamworld where she is about to embark on an amazing journey.

 

Jinnie Ghost

Berlie Doherty, Jane Ray

Introducing Jinnie Ghost, thin as the wind, with hair as white as the feathers of owls and eyes like water. Jinnie whispers dreams to children as they sleep. She brings Charlotte's dolls to life, makes Amy's carpet bubble with frogs and toads and conjures up a giant to carry Joe away shoulder-high to his castle in the sky.

 

Little Red: A Fizzingly Good Yarn

Lynn Roberts, David Roberts

Little Red is on his way to visit his grandmother on the other side of the wood when, ignoring all warnings, he strays from the path. Stealing the little boy's red coat, the greedy wolf hatches an evil plan and hurries to the cottage to gobble up shortsighted grandmother. Little Red is next on the menu, but can a keg of delicious sparkling ginger beer save him from a gruesome end?

 

Russell the Sheep

Rob Scotton

A quirky bedtime story, introducing endearing insomniac, Russell the Sheep. Sometimes Russell the Sheep is just a little bit out of step with the rest of flock. All the sheep are falling asleep - except Russell. He's tried everything...but he's still wide awake. What's a sheep to do?

 
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