Red Clover Books

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2008-2009 Red Clover Books
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This is a table of the ten new Red Clover Nominees

Sky Sweeper Glass Slipper, Glass Sandal
Wind Flyers Fred Stays With Me
When Dinosaurs came With Everything Dadblamed Union Army Cow
White Owl, Barn Owl Henrys Freedom Box
Scaredy Squirrel Makes A Friend The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County
2008 2009 Red Clover Nominees
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Sky Sweeper by Phillis Gershator
As a boy, Takeboki becomes a "Flower Keeper" at a
Zen temple, and his work shaping the monks'
garden becomes a lifelong occupation. His family
objects shouldn't he find a more lucrative,
prestigious job? Even the monks withhold praise.
But Takeboki listens only to the profound joy his
work brings. When he grows too old to rake, the
monks finally realize his contribution. They rush
to thank him, but they find that he has already
passed on to heaven, where he joyfully sweeps a
celestial garden of clouds and stars
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Dadblamed Union Army Cow
by Susan Fletcher
"THAT DADBLAMED COW!" She follows her owner into
the Union army and then straight on south to
fight in the war. She needs unstomped grass to
eat, she gets stuck in the mud, and shes just
plain DANGEROUS in battle. But this peculiar cow
also gives the weary soldiers some surprising
comforts. Based on stories and newspaper reports
from the Civil War and full of lively
illustrations, this is a heartwarming tale of one
wonderfully dadblamed PERSISTENT cow.
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Fred Stays With Meby Nancy Coffelt

• A young girl moves back and forth between
  her divorced parents' homes along with her dog
  Fred, who has several bad habits that neither
  parent appreciates. The girl is adamant that she
  will never let him go and helps to work out
  solutions for his naughty behavior. Shown from
  the girl's viewpoint, the pictures do not include
  the grown-ups.

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Glass Slipper Gold Sandalby Paul Fleischman
Seventeen distinct cultural variations of the
classic tale of Cinderella are cleverly conveyed
with the essential sameness of the story left
intact.
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Henrys Freedom Boxby Ellen Levine
Levine recounts the true story of Henry Brown, a
slave who mailed himself to freedom. His journey
took just over one full day, during which he was
often sideways or upside down in a wooden crate
large enough to hold him, but small enough not to
betray its contents. He is delivered to the
friends of an abolitionist doctor in Philadelphia
on March 30, 1849
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Scaredy Squirrel Makes Friendsby Melanie Watt
Scaredy Squirrel is lonely, but he thinks that
the pleasure of making a friend would be
outweighed by the greater risk of potential
danger. After all, there are a lot of things that
bite out in the big world. The life lessons of
the importance of overcoming one's fears and not
judging outward appearance are wrapped up in a
witty package of deceptively simple cartoonlike
illustrations and lively text.
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The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by
Janice N. Harrington
An African-American youngster is determined to
become the best chicken chaser ever, although Big
Mama repeatedly asks her to leave the animals
alone. Despite the girl's best efforts her
favorite chicken, Miss Hen, always manages to
escape. One summer day finally she catches up
with Miss Hen. She discovers her prize surrounded
by chicks, and the girl instantly reforms
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White Owl, Barn Owl
by Nicola Davies
A young girl and her grandfather look for a barn
owl night after night. Will a distinctive
heart-shaped face appear at the window?
Click to Barn Owlsview barn owls
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When Dinosaurs Came With Everythingby Broach,
Elise
In a playful take on the stickers and lollipops
that bored kids sweep up at businesses as parents
do errands, Broach imagines what would happen if
a dinosaur were the giveaway of the day. A boy's
increasing delight at the freebies he collects
from the bakery, the doctor, and barber contrast
with his mother's increasing panic and dismay as
the lumbering beasts start to accumulate.
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Wind Flyersby Angela Johnson
A child recounts his great-great uncle's lifelong
passion for flying which began at age five with a
leap from the roof of a chicken coop and climaxed
with wartime flights as one of the Tuskegee
Airmen
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Past Red Clover Award Winners

• Knuffle Bunny
• Dont Let the Pigeon Ride the Bus
• Flotsam
• I Stink!
• The Great Fuzz Frenzy

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Types of Red Clover Books
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Bibliography

• Mother Goose Program. Google. June 24 2008.
• http//mothergooseprograms.org
• Barnes Noble. Google. June 24 2008.
• http//www.barnesandnoble.com/

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