Annal:2007 Golden Kite Picture Book Text Award
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Results of the Golden Kite Picture Book Text Award in the year 2007. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Golden Kite Picture Book Text Award
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
Sara Pennypacker, Petra Mathers
- 2007 Golden Kite-picturebook text winner
- Score: 10.57
Poor Pierre wishes he could tell Catherine how he feels about her, but Catherine is a graceful ballet teacher, and Pierre is merely a poor fisherman.
By making a few silly mistakes and a few more brave decisions, Pierre soon learns that being a fisherman may not make him so hard to love after all.
Pennypacker weaves a sweet story about finding the courage to let someone special into your heart, while Mathers’ luscious illustrations draw readers into a colorful world full of hope and bravery.
David LaRochelle, Richard Egielski
- 2007 Golden Kite-picturebook text honor
- Score: 6.57
". . . And they lived happily ever after. "
So begins David LaRochelle and Richard Egielski's wacky original fairy tale THE END, which traces the courtship and marriage of a handsome knight and a beautiful princess . . . backwards!
Before we reach the beginning, we meet a temperamental giant, a beleaguered cook, a dragon who's scared of bunny rabbits, an oversized tomato, and an impish figure on a flying pig who just might be the cause of all the madness. It's a conventionally perfect and perfectly unconventional take on the fairy tale - guaranteed to convert the Grimmest reader to giggles.
