A BALL FOR DAISY, by Chris Raschka

A recent Caldecott winner - A Ball for Daisy is a story of loss — a little dog loses her favorite red ball to a much larger dog — but now it's also a story about winning:  Chris Raschka's book won the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Medal for best illustrated story.  Here is the NPR interview - http://www.npr.org/2012/01/23/145656652/caldecott-winner-chris-raschka-discusses-his-book

The author's biography - http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/chris-raschka

Other books by this author - http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Chris-Raschka/1786251/books