A children's picture book of poems by Nancy Willard, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen and published by Harcourt Brace in 1981. It won the 1982 Newbery Medal and was named a Caldecott Honor Book — the first Newbery winner to also be a Caldecott Honor.
Why we picked it
Sam
A book of poems good enough to take the Newbery and a Caldecott in the same year, which had never happened before. The Provensens' illustrations are the kind a kid grows up inside.