Drummer Hoff - Barbara Emberley, Ed Emberley
This book was the 1968 Caldecott Medal winner....and it shows. The illustrations seemed very dated to me and, although there isn't much of an aesthetic correlation, I immediately thought of my dad's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album cover. It had nifty cutouts that I wanted desperately to play with. I wonder if he still has it.... But I digress. This is a cumulative poem about soldiers preparing to fire a cannon - complete with a 1960s hippie-style message on the the final page. Groovy!