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Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, written by Charlotte Zolotow and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, is a 1962 pictures book published by HarperCollins. It was a Caldecott Medal Honor Book for 1963 and was one of Sendak's Caldecott Honor Medal of a total of seven during his career. Sendak won the Caldecott Medal in 1964 for Where the Wild Things Are, which he both authored and illustrated. Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present was re-issued by HarperCollins in 1999 in hardcover format as part of a project to re-issue 22 Sendak works, including several authored by Zolotow.
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Little Lost Lamb is a 1945 picture book by Margaret Wise Brown writing as Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. The story is about a shepard who goes searching for a missing lamb. The book was a recipient of a 1946 Caldecott Honor for its illustrations.
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- ↑ "Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present". American Library Association. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
- 1 2 3 Something About the Author, volume 2. (Gale Research, 1971), pages 158-9
- ↑ "Sesyle Joslin".
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