August Knowledgeable Miss Rumphius- By Barbara Cooney September Principled Horton Hatches the Egg- Dr. Suess October Balanced A Fine, Fine Schoolby Sharon Creech** November Caring The Giving Tree- Shel Silberstein December Open-Minded Blind Men and the Elephant by Karen Backstein January/February Reflective The Mixed up Chameleon by Eric Carl March Risk Takers Nightmare in my Closet- Mercer Mayer April Inquirers How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World- By Marjorie Priceman May Thinkers The thinks you Think- Dr. Suess June Communicators Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale. Marcus Pfister