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Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the "Most Promising New Author" distinction in Publishers Weekly's 1991 annual Cuffie
Awards. The new girl, Ruby, insists on copying everything Angela does until the
teacher helps her to learn to trust being herself.
Blue
Ribbon book by the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Rathmann,
Peggy. 1991. Ruby the copycat. New York: Scholastic. ISBN 059043747X
In 1992
she illustrated Bootsie Barker Bites for Barbara Bottner, her teacher at
Otis Parsons School of Design. Bootsie looks like sugar and spice and everything nice but she likes to play rough when her
mother’s friends get together.
School Library
Journal, starred review
Booklist, starred review
School Library Journal Best
Book of the Year
Bottner,
Barbara. 1992. Bootsie Barker bites. ill. Peggy Rathmann. New York:
Putnam. ISBN 0399221255
A homework
assignment produced an almost wordless story, Good Night, Gorilla, inspired
by a childhood memory. Two years and ten endings later, Good Night, Gorilla was published and recognized as an ALA Notable
Children's Book for 1994. An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals
he thinks he has left behind in the zoo.
Publisher’s Weekly
1994 Cuffie for "Most Likely to succeed in Years
Ahead” Author Award
ALA Notable Children's
Book for 1994
Bulletin Blue Ribbon 1994
Horn Book Fanfare 1995 selection
Parenting Magazine "Best Children's Books of 1994"
New York Public Library 1995 "Children's Books 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing"
Rathmann,
Peggy. 1994. Good night, gorilla. New York: Putnam. ISBN0399224459
Rathmann won
the 1996 Caldecott Medal for her book, Officer Buckle and Gloria, about a police officer who gives lectures about safety
to elementary students. He learns the dog, Gloria, is up staging him. Rathmann
got the idea for this book from her parents' dog Skippy.
1996 Caldecott Medal Winner
ALA Notable Children's Book
Ohio Teachers' & Pupils' Reading Circle 1996-97 selection
American
Bookseller "Pick of the Lists"
Book Links "A Few Good Books of 1995"
Booklist "Editors' Choice '95"
Child Magazine
"Best Books of 1995"
Horn Book Fanfare selection
Parenting Magazine "Best Books of 1995"
School Library Journal "Best
Books of 1995"
New York Public Library 1995 Children's Books: "100 Titles for Reading & Sharing"
Rathmann, Peggy.
1995. Officer Buckle and Gloria. New York: Putnam. ISBN 0399226168
Peggy Rathmann went through
countless revisions to create her book Ten Minutes Till Bedtime, from
the spark of an idea through to the finished product. It tells the tale, picturing the activities of a group of hamsters, whose "10-minute Bedtime Tour" coincides with the
countdown routine of a little boy getting ready for bed.
ALA Notable Children's Book for 1998
Winner of the Parenting Magazine Reading Magic Award
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Children's Literature Capital Choice
Rathmann, Peggy. 1998.
Ten minutes til bedtime. New York: Putnam. ISBN 039923103X
For her newest book, The Day the Babies Crawled Away, Peggy
Rathmann started with an idea from Dr. Seuss. “He said that a great way to start a picture is to divide the paper in
half, and make one side light and one side dark.” In
this rhyming tale about five babies who get away from their parents at a neighborhood fair, an alert boy in a fire hat notices
the runaways and chases after them.
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Rathmann, Peggy. 2003. The day the babies crawled away. New
York: Putnam. ISBN 039923196X
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