KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS AWARDS 2012 K-2 MASTER LIST

Two roller-skating best friends— one tiny, one tall—share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.

When Bridget loses the beret that provides her with artistic inspiration like other great artists, she thinks she will never be able to draw again.

A wordless picture book about three children who go to a park on a rainy day, find some chalk, and draw pictures that come to life.

Not just for boys, this volume of haiku shows the fun you can have throughout the year with a sense of adventure and just 17 words.

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

Busy little peas introduce their favorite occupations, from astronaut to zoologist.

A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.

Presents photographs to fascinate young animal lovers, from the kangaroo's inability to walk backward to the aardvark's voracious appetite for termites.

The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away.

Retells eight classic stories, from "Little Red Riding Hood" to "The Musicians of Bremen," keeping all the emotion and humor from the original fairy tales.