South Carolina Picture Book Award

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South Carolina Picture Book Award
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17 Things Im Not Allowed To Do Anymore

• Here are a few of the 17 Things Im Not Allowed
  To Do Anymore. Staple my brother's hair to his
  pillow, walk backward across the pedestrian
  crossing, and show Joey Whipple my underpants
  when I do handstands in the schoolyard.

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An Egg is Quiet

• Describes many different kinds of eggs and how
  they support the lives growing inside of them.

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Big Chickens

• While trying to escape from a wolf, four
  frightened chickens keep getting themselves into
  the very predicaments they are trying to avoid.

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Chickens to the Rescue

• Six days a week the chickens help the Greenstalk
  family and their animals recover from mishaps
  that occur on the farm, but they need one day to
  rest.

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Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars Space Poems and
Paintings

• A trip through our solar system in paintings and
  prose.

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Dont Touch My Hat

• A sheriff in the Old West fights crime with the
  help of his lucky ten-gallon hat.

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Fancy Nancy

• A young girl who loves fancy things helps her
  family to be fancy for one special night.

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Henrys Freedom Box

• A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia
  slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by
  shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond
  to Philadelphia.

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Hero Cat

• A cat gives birth to a litter of kittens in an
  abandoned building that catches fire while she is
  out searching for food.

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I Lost My Tooth In Africa

• While visiting her father's family in Mali, a
  young girl loses a tooth, places it under a
  calabash, and receives a hen and a rooster from
  the African Tooth Fairy.

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I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track

• Jack, a railroad switchman, frantically tries to
  save an ant who is heading east on a westbound
  track, straight into the path of an oncoming
  freight train.

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Library Lion

• A lion starts visiting the local library but runs
  into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules
  and help his librarian friend.

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Mama, Ill Give You the World

• At Walter's World of Beauty, Luisa's secret plans
  are underway to create a very special birthday
  celebration for her hard-working, single mother
  who is employed there as a stylist.

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Not Afraid of Dogs

• Young Daniel must confront his fear of dogs when
  his mom agrees to dog-sit his aunt's pet.

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One Potato, Two Potato

• A very poor, humble couple live so simple a life
  they share everything, until the husband
  discovers a pot with magical powers buried under
  the very last potato in the garden.

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Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School

• A girl sends off for "Professor Swami's Super
  Slime" to use as her science fair project and
  then has to cope with the funny disaster that
  follows.

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Show and Tell Lion

• When Matthew has nothing for show-and-tell one
  day, he tells the class that he has a lion living
  at his house, but when his classmates want to
  come see it he must decide what to do.

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Superhero ABC

• Humorously-named superheroes such as Goo Girl and
  The Volcano represent the letters of the alphabet
  from A to Z.

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What a Day It Was at School

• A collection of poems on such facets of a day at
  school as heavy backpacks, spelling tests, art
  and music, the nurse's office, and the cafeteria.

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Winter is the Warmest Season

• A child describes pleasant ways to stay warm
  during the winter, from sipping hot chocolate and
  eating grilled cheese sandwiches to wearing wooly
  sweaters and sitting near a glowing fireplace.