Newbery Award & Honor Winners: 1948 Winner & Honorees

Fanciful adventures of Professor Sherman, who leaves on a vacation in a balloon, and lands on a volcanic island in the Pacific. Grades 5-9.

A young boy in postwar Paris is unsure of what to do with a box of pancake flour he receives as a gift.

Because of his fear of the sea, a young Chinese boy is sent to a distant mountain where he proves his bravery. Banished to a mountaintop to learn to grow rice, Li Lun proves his courage as he fights the elements and his own loneliness to make his rice seedling flourish where no one else has for generations.

Contains seventeen stories gathered from the Ashantis of West Africa.

Two youngsters' determination to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.