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Adventure Books

Easy/Picture Books

  • Mr. Gumpy's Motorcar by John Burningham E BURNING
  • Left Behind by Carol Carrick E CARRICK
  • Sail Away by Donald Crews E CREWS
  • The Shepherd Boy by Kristine L. Franklin E FRANKLI
  • Jocasta Carr, Movie Star by Roy Gerrard E GERRARD
  • Lester's Dog by Karen Hesse E HESSE
  • Into the Jungle by Judy Hindley E HINDLEY
  • Birdie's Lighthouse by Deborah Hopkinson E HOPKINS
  • Four Dollars and Fifty Cents by Eric A. Kimmel E KIMMEL
  • Beaten by a Balloon by Margaret Mahy E MAHY
  • Swish! by Bill Martin E MARTIN
  • Grandpa was a Cowboy by Silky Sullivan E SULLIVA
  • Brave Irene by William Steig E STEIG
  • Feliciana Feydra LeRoux: A Cajun Tall Tale by Tynia Thomassie E THOMASS
  • Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe by Vera B. Williams E WILLIAM

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Chapter Books

  • The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken J AIKEN
  • Captain Grey by Avi J AVI
  • Adrift by Allan Baillie J BAILLIE
  • On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer J BAUER
  • A Boy of Tache by Ann Blades J BLADES
  • The Big Bazoohley by Peter Carey J CAREY
  • Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright J ENRIGHT
  • The Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman J FLEISCH
  • How Many Miles to Babylon? A Novel by Paula Fox J FOX
  • Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade by Jack Gantos J GANTOS
  • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George J GEORGE
  • The Treasure Bird by Peni R. Griffin J GRIFFIN
  • The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton J HAMILTO
  • The Hideout by Peg Kehret J KEHRET
  • Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry J SPERRY
  • Holes by Louis Sachar J SACHAR

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Young Adult Books

  • The Trial of Anna Cotman by Vivien Alcock Y ALCOCK
  • The Place of Lions by Eric Campbell Y CAMPBEL
  • The Shark Callers by Eric Campbell Y CAMPBEL
  • On the Edge by Gillian Cross Y CROSS
  • Lostman's River by Cynthia C. DeFelice Y DEFELIC
  • The Silent Storm by Sherry Garland Y GARLAND
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding Y GOLDING
  • Downriver by Will Hobbs Y HOBBS
  • The Maze by Will Hobbs Y HOBBS
  • Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman Y HOLMAN
  • Tomorrow, When the War Began by James Marsden Y MARSDEN
  • The Island Keeper by Harry Mazer Y MAZER
  • Thunder Cave by Roland Smith Y SMITH
  • Lucy the Giant by Sherri L. Smith Y SMITH
  • Fool's Gold by Zilpha Keatley Snyder Y SNYDER
  • The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian F. Thompson Y THOMPSO
  • The Weirdo by Theodore Taylor Y TAYLOR
  • Deathwatch by Rob White YPB WHITE

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Enchanting Fiction

Picture Books

  • The House Gobbalen by Lloyd Alexander E ALEXAND
  • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett E BARRETT
  • Too Many Monsters by Eve Bunting E BUNTING
  • Click, Clack, Moo!: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin E CRONIN
  • Sheep in Wolves' Clothing by Satoshi Kitamura E KITAMUR
  • How Humans Make Friends by Loreen Leedy E LEEDY
  • There's a Cow in the Road! by Reeve Lindbergh E LINDBER
  • Mud Puddle by Robert E. Munsch E MUNSCH
  • Wind Child by Shirley Rousseau Murphy E MURPHY
  • Pepi and the Secret Names by Jill Paton Walsh E PATON
  • I Can Hear the Sun by Patricia Polacco E POLACCO
  • Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak E SENDAK
  • Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig E STEIG
  • Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg E VAN ALL
  • The Mountains of Quilt by Nancy Willard E WILLARD
  • Child of Faerie, Child of Earth by Jane Yolen E YOLEN

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Chapter Books

  • The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander J ALEXAND
  • Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt J BABBITT
  • The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum J BAUM
  • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl JPB DAHL
  • Kokopelli's Flute by Will Hobbs J HOBBS
  • The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson J IBBOTSO
  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster J JUSTER
  • Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsberg J KONIGSB
  • Catwings by Ursula K. LeGuin J LEGUIN
  • The Chronicles of Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis J LEWIS
  • Dangerous Spaces by Margaret Mahy J MAHY
  • The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw JPB M
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien J OBRIEN
  • I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman J PULLMAN
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling J ROWLING
  • The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket J SNICKET
  • Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede J WREDE

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Young Adult Books

  • City of Light, City of Dark: A Comic Book Novel by Avi YC AVI
  • The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle YPB BEAGLE
  • Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Y COLFER
  • The Knight's Wyrd by Debra Doyle YPB DOYLE
  • Wishing Season by Esther M. Friesner Y FRIESNER
  • Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson Y DICKINS
  • Answer My Prayer by Sid Hite Y HITE
  • The Fool's War by Lee R. Kisling Y KISLING
  • Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee Y LEE
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle Y LENGLE
  • Riddlemaster: The Complete Trilogy by Patricia McKillip Y MCKILLI
  • The Blue Sword by Robin McKInley Y MCKINLE
  • Sabriel
    Lirael
    Abhorsen
    by Garth Nix Y NIX
  • Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce Y PIERCE
  • The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Y PULLMAN
  • Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss Y REISS
  • The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien YPB TOLKIEN

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Newbery

 

 

  • 2009 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
    • Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
    • The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
    • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
    • The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
  • 2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Amy Schlitz
    • Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
    • The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
    • Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
  • 2007 The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron
    • Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
    • Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
    • Rules by Cynthia Lord
  • 2006 Criss Cross, by Lynne Rae Perkins
    • Whittington by Alan Armstrong
    • Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    • Princess Academy by Shannon Hale 
    • Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
  • 2005 Kira-Kira,by Cynthia Kadohata
    • Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
    • The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
    • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
  • 2004 Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
    • Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
    • An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
  • 2003 Crispin by Avi
    • The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
    • Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
    • Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
    • A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
    • Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
  • 2002 A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
    • Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
    • Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson
  • 2001 A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
    • Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
    • Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
    • Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
    • The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
  • 2000 Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
    • Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis
    • Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
    • 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
  • 1999 Holes by Louis Sachar
    • A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
  • 1998 Out of The Dust by Karen Hesse
    • Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
    • Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
    • Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
  • 1997 The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
    • A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
    • Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
    • The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
    • Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
  • 1996 The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
    • What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
    • The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
    • Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
    • The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
  • 1995 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
    • Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
    • The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
  • 1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry
    • Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
    • Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
  • 1993 Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
    • What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
    • The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
    • Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
  • 1992 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
    • Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
    • The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
  • 1991 Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli
    • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
  • 1990 Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry
    • Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
    • Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
    • The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
  • 1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, by Paul Fleischman
    • In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
    • Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
  • 1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography, by Russell Freedman
    • After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
    • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
  • 1987 The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman
    • A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
    • On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
    • Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber
  • 1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
    • Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
    • Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
  • 1985 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
    • Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
    • The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
    • One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
  • 1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Beverly Cleary
    • The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
    • A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
    • Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
    • The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
  • 1983 Dicey's Song, by Cynthia Voigt
    • The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
    • Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
    • Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
    • Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
    • Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
  • 1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn, by Nancy Willard
    • Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
    • Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
  • 1981 Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
    • The Fledgling by Jane Langton
    • A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
  • 1980 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, by Joan W. Blos
    • The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
  • 1979 The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
    • The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
  • 1978 Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
    • Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
    • Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater
  • 1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
    • Abel's Island by William Steig
    • A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
  • 1976 The Grey King, by Susan Cooper
    • The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
    • Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
  • 1975 M. C. Higgins, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton
    • Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
    • My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
    • The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
    • Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene
  • 1974 The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox
    • The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
  • 1973 Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
    • Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
    • The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
    • The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • 1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O'Brien
    • Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
    • The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
    • The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
    • Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
    • The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • 1971 Summer of the Swans, by Betsy Byars
    • Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
    • Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
    • Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
  • 1970 Sounder, by William H. Armstrong
    • Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
    • The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
    • Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
  • 1969 The High King, by Lloyd Alexander
    • To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
    • When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • 1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
    • Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg
    • The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
    • The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
    • The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • 1967 Up a Road Slowly, by Irene Hunt
    • The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
    • Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
    • The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik
  • 1966 I, Juan de Pareja, by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
    • The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
    • The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
    • The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
  • 1965 Shadow of a Bull, by Maia Wojciechowska
    • Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
  • 1964 It's Like This, Cat, by Emily Neville
    • Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
    • The Loner by Ester Wier
  • 1963 A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
    • Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
    • Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge
  • 1962 The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare
    • Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
    • The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
    • Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz
  • 1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell
    • America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
    • Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
    • The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson)
  • 1960 Onion John, by Joseph Krumgold
    • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
    • America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
    • The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
  • 1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
    • The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
    • Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong
    • Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
    • The Perilous Road by William O. Steele
  • 1958 Rifles for Watie, by Harold Keith
    • The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
    • Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
    • The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
    • Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko
  • 1957 Miracles on Maple Hill, by Virginia Sorensen
    • Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
    • The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
    • Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
    • The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
    • Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
  • 1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham
    • The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    • The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
    • Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen
  • 1955 The Wheel on the School, by Meindert DeJong
    • Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
    • Banner In The Sky by James Ullman
  • 1954 ...And Now Miguel, by Joseph Krumgold
    • All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
    • Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
    • Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong
    • Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
    • Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff
  • 1953 Secret of the Andes, by Ann Nolan Clark
    • Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
    • Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
    • Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
    • The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
    • Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster
  • 1952 Ginger Pye, by Eleanor Estes
    • Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
    • Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
    • The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
    • The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
    • The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff
  • 1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man, by Elizabeth Yates
    • Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
    • Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
    • Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
    • The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish
  • 1950 The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite de Angeli
    • Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
    • The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
    • Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
    • George Washington by Genevieve Foster
    • Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst
  • 1949 King of the Wind, by Marguerite Henry
    • Seabird by Holling C. Holling
    • Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
    • My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
    • Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps
  • 1948 The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pène du Bois
    • Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
    • Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
    • The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
    • The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
    • Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
  • 1947 Miss Hickory, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
    • Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
    • Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
    • The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
    • The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
    • The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett
  • 1946 Strawberry Girl, by Lois Lenski
    • Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
    • The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
    • Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
    • New Found World by Katherine Shippen
  • 1945 Rabbit Hill, by Robert Lawson
    • The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
    • The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
    • Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
    • Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton
  • 1944 Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
    • These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
    • Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
    • Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
  • 1943 Adam of the Road, by Elizabeth Janet Gray
    • The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
    • Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt
  • 1942 The Matchlock Gun, by Walter Edmonds
    • Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
    • Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
    • Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin
  • 1941 Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry
    • Blue Willow by Doris Gates
    • Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
    • The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hal
  • 1940 Daniel Boone, by James Daugherty
    • The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
    • Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
    • By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader
  • 1939 Thimble Summer, by Elizabeth Enright
    • Nino by Valenti Angelo
    • Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
    • Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
    • Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
    • Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray
  • 1938 The White Stag, by Kate Seredy
    • Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
    • Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
    • On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • 1937 Roller Skates, by Ruth Sawyer
    • Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
    • Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
    • The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
    • Winterbound by Margery Bianco
    • The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
    • Audubon by Constance Rourke
  • 1936 Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink
    • Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
    • The Good Master by Kate Seredy
    • Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
    • All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry
  • 1935 Dobry, by Monica Shannon
    • Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
    • Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
    • Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum
  • 1934 Invincible Louisa, by Cornelia Meigs
    • The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
    • Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
    • ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
    • Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best)
    • New Land by Sarah Schmidt
    • Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
    • Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
    • Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle
  • 1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, by Elizabeth Lewis
    • Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
    • The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
    • Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon
  • 1932 Waterless Mountain, by Laura Adams Armer
    • The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
    • Calico Bush by Rachel Field
    • Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
    • Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
    • Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
    • Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis
  • 1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven, by Elizabeth Coatsworth
    • Floating Island by Anne Parrish
    • The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
    • Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
    • Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams
    • Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
    • Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
    • Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
    • Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen
  • 1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, by Rachel Field
    • A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
    • Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
    • Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
    • The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
    • Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
    • Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift
  • 1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow, by Eric P. Kelly
    • Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
    • Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
    • The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
    • Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
    • Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
    • Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney
  • 1928 Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
    • The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
    • Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker
  • 1927 Smoky, the Cowhorse, by Will James
    • [None recorded]
  • 1926 Shen of the Sea, by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
    • The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum
  • 1925 Tales from Silver Lands, by Charles Finger
    • Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
    • The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
  • 1924 The Dark Frigate, by Charles Hawes
    • [None recorded]
  • 1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting
    • [None recorded]
  • 1922 The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik Willem van Loon
    • The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
    • Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
    • The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
    • The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
    • The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs

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Caldecott

  • 2009 The Lion & the Mouse, illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney
    • All the World, illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon
    • Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman
  • 2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
    • Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine
    • First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
    • The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís
    • Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems
  • 2007 Flotsam by David Wiesner
    • Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans
    • Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford
  • 2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka and written by Norton Juster
    • Rosa illustrated by Bryan Collier and written by Nikki Giovanni
    • Zen Shorts illustrated and written by Jon J. Muth
    • Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride illustrated and written by Marjorie Priceman.
    • Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems illustrated by Beckie Prange, written by Joyce Sidman
  • 2005 Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
    • The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
    • Coming on Home Soon illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Jacqueline Woodson
    • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale illustrated and written by Mo Willems
  • 2004 The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
    • Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine
    • What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? illustrated and written by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
    • Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
  • 2003 My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
    • The Spider and the Fly illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi, written by Mary Howitt
      Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty
    • Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney
  • 2002 The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
    • The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins illustrated by Brian Selznick, written by Barbara Kerley
    • Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Doreen Rappaport
    • The Stray Dog by Marc Simont
  • 2001 So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small, written by Judith St. George
    • Casey at the Bat illustrated by Christopher Bing, written by Ernest Thayer
    • Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type illustrated by Betsy Lewin, written by Doreen Cronin
    • Olivia by Ian Falconer
  • 2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Simms Taback
    • A Child's Calendar illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman Text: John Updike
    • Sector 7 by David Wiesner
    • When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang
    • The Ugly Duckling illustrated by Jerry Pinkney Text: Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by Jerry Pinkney
  • 1999 Snowflake Bentley Illustrated by Mary Azarian, text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
    • Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra illustrated by Brian Pinkney Text: Andrea Davis Pinkney
    • No, David! by David Shannon
    • Snow by Uri Shulevitz
    • Tibet Through the Red Box by Peter Sís
  • 1998 Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
    • The Gardener illustrated by David Small Text: Sarah Stewart
    • Harlem illustrated by Christopher Myers Text: Walter Dean Myers
    • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
  • 1997 Golem by David Wisniewski
    • Hush! A Thai Lullaby illustrated by Holly Meade; text: Minfong Ho
    • The Graphic Alphabet by David Pelletier
    • The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey
    • Starry Messenger by Peter Sís
  • 1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
    • Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson
    • Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman; text: Lloyd Moss
    • The Faithful Friend, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text: Robert D. San Souci
    • Tops & Bottoms, adapted and illustrated by Janet Stevens
  • 1995 Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting
    • John Henry, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Julius Lester
    • Swamp Angel, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky; text: Anne Issacs
    • Time Flies by Eric Rohmann
  • 1994 Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine
    • Peppe the Lamplighter, illustrated by Ted Lewin; text: Elisa Bartone
    • In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
    • Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott
    • Owen by Kevin Henkes
    • Yo! Yes? illustrated by Chris Raschka; text: edited by Richard Jackson
  • 1993 Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
    • The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, illustrated by Lane Smith; text: Jon Scieszka
    • Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
    • Working Cotton, illustrated by Carole Byard; text: Sherley Anne Williams
  • 1992 Tuesday by David Wiesner
    • Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
  • 1991 Black and White by David Macaulay
    • Puss in Boots, illustrated by Fred Marcellino; text: Charles Perrault, trans. by Malcolm Arthur
    • "More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories by Vera B. Williams
  • 1990 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
    • Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
    • Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
    • The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Robert D. San Souci
    • Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: Eric Kimmel
  • 1989 Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman
    • The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, illustrated by Allen Say; text: Diane Snyder
    • Free Fall by David Wiesner
    • Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall
    • Mirandy and Brother Wind, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Patricia C. McKissack
  • 1988 Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen
    • Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
  • 1987 Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks
    • The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi
    • Alphabatics by Suse MacDonald
    • Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky
  • 1986 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
    • The Relatives Came, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Cynthia Rylant
    • King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, illustrated by Don Wood; text: Audrey Wood
  • 1985 Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges
    • Hansel and Gretel, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky; text: retold by Rika Lesser
    • Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri
    • The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend, retold and illustrated by John Steptoe
  • 1984 The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen
    • Little Red Riding Hood, retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
    • Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
  • 1983 Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown
    • A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
    • When I Was Young in the Mountains, illustrated by Diane Goode; text: Cynthia Rylant
  • 1982 Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
    • Where the Buffaloes Begin, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Olaf Baker
    • On Market Street, illustrated by Anita Lobel; text: Arnold Lobel
    • Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak
    • A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen; text: Nancy Willard
  • 1981 Fables by Arnold Lobel
    • The Bremen-Town Musicians, retold and illustrated by Ilse Plume
    • The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang
    • Mice Twice by Joseph Low
    • Truck by Donald Crews
  • 1980 Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall
    • Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora
    • The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg
    • The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz
  • 1979 The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
    • Freight Train by Donald Crews
    • The Way to Start a Day, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor
  • 1978 Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
    • Castle by David Macaulay
    • It Could Always Be Worse, retold and illustrated by Margot Zemach
  • 1977 Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove
    • The Amazing Bone by William Steig
    • The Contest, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian
    • Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein
    • The Golem: A Jewish Legend by Beverly Brodsky McDermott
    • Hawk, I'm Your Brother, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor
  • 1976 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema
    • The Desert is Theirs, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor
    • Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola
  • 1975 Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
    • Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text: Muriel Feelings
  • 1974 Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach
    • Three Jovial Huntsmen by Susan Jeffers
    • Cathedral by David Macaulay
  • 1973 The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel
    • Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti, adapted and illustrated by Gerald McDermott
    • Hosie's Alphabet, illustrated by Leonard Baskin; text: Hosea, Tobias & Lisa Baskin
    • Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert; text: translated by Randall Jarrell, retold from the Brothers Grimm
    • When Clay Sings, illustrated by Tom Bahti; text: Byrd Baylor
  • 1972 One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian
    • Hildilid's Night, illustrated by Arnold Lobel; text: Cheli Durán Ryan
    • If All the Seas Were One Sea by Janina Domanska
    • Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text: Muriel Feelings
  • 1971 A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley
    • The Angry Moon, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by William Sleator
    • Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
    • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
  • 1970 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
    • Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats
    • Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni
    • Pop Corn & Ma Goodness, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker; text: Edna Mitchell Preston
    • Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
    • The Judge: An Untrue Tale, illustrated by Margot Zemach; text: Harve Zemach
  • 1969 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome
    • Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: Elphinstone Dayrell
  • 1968 Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley
    • Frederick by Leo Lionni
    • Seashore Story by Taro Yashima
    • The Emperor and the Kite, illustrated by Ed Young; text: Jane Yolen
  • 1967 Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness
    • One Wide River to Cross, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley
  • 1966 Always Room for One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger]
    • Hide and Seek Fog, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt
    • Just Me by Marie Hall Ets
    • Tom Tit Tot, retold and illustrated by Evaline Ness
  • 1965 May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
    • Rain Makes Applesauce, illustrated by Marvin Bileck; text: Julian Scheer
    • The Wave, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: Margaret Hodges
    • A Pocketful of Cricket, illustrated by Evaline Ness; text: Rebecca Caudill
  • 1964 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
    • Swimmy by Leo Lionni
    • All in the Morning Early, illustrated by Evaline Ness; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclaire Alger]
    • Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Philip Reed
  • 1963 The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
    • The Sun is a Golden Earring, illustrated by Bernarda Bryson; text: Natalia M. Belting
    • Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Charlotte Zolotow
  • 1962 Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown
    • Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song by Peter Spier
    • Little Bear's Visit, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Else H. Minarik
    • The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up, illustrated by Adrienne Adams; text: Alice E. Goudey
  • 1961 Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins
    • Inch by Inch, by Leo Lionni
  • 1960 Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida
    • Houses from the Sea, illustrated by Adrienne Adams; text: Alice E. Goudey
    • The Moon Jumpers, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Janice May Udry
  • 1959 Chanticleer and the Fox, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney
    • The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie by Antonio Frasconi
    • What Do You Say, Dear? illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Sesyle Joslin
    • Umbrella by Taro Yashima
  • 1958 Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
    • Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman
    • Anatole and the Cat, illustrated by Paul Galdone; text: Eve Titus
  • 1957 A Tree is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry
    • Mr. Penny's Race Horse by Marie Hall Ets
    • 1 is One by Tasha Tudor
    • Anatole, illustrated by Paul Galdone; text: Eve Titus
    • Gillespie and the Guards, illustrated by James Daugherty; text: Benjamin Elkin
    • Lion by William Pène du Bois
  • 1956 Frog Went A-Courtin', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff
    • Play With Me, by Marie Hall Ets
    • Crow Boy by Taro Yashima
  • 1955 Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown
    • Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes, illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli
    • Wheel On The Chimney, illustrated by Tibor Gergely; text: Margaret Wise Brown
    • The Thanksgiving Story, illustrated by Helen Sewell; text: Alice Dalgliesh
  • 1954 Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
    • Journey Cake, Ho! illustrated by Robert McCloskey; text: Ruth Sawyer
    • When Will the World Be Mine? illustrated by Jean Charlot; text: Miriam Schlein
    • The Steadfast Tin Soldier, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: Hans Christian Andersen, translated by M. R. James
    • A Very Special House, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Ruth Krauss
    • Green Eyes by A. Birnbaum
  • 1953 The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
    • Puss in Boots, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown
    • One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
    • Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals by Fritz Eichenberg
    • The Storm Book, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham; text: Charlotte Zolotow
    • Five Little Monkeys by Juliet Kepes
  • 1952 Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind]
    • Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo by Marie Hall Ets
    • Skipper John's Cook by Marcia Brown
    • All Falling Down, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham; text: Gene Zion
    • Bear Party by William Pène du Bois
    • Feather Mountain by Elizabeth Olds
  • 1951 The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
    • Dick Whittington and his Cat by Marcia Brown
    • The Two Reds, ill. by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind]
    • If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel]
    • The Most Wonderful Doll in the World, illustrated by Helen Stone; text: Phyllis McGinley
    • T-Bone, the Baby Sitter by Clare Turlay Newberry
  • 1950 Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
    • America's Ethan Allen, illustrated by Lynd Ward; text: Stewart Holbrook
    • The Wild Birthday Cake, illustrated by Hildegard Woodward; text: Lavinia R. Davis
    • The Happy Day, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Ruth Krauss
    • Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel]
    • Henry Fisherman by Marcia Brown
  • 1949 The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader
    • Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
    • All Around the Town, illustrated by Helen Stone; text: Phyllis McGinley
    • Juanita by Leo Politi
    • Fish in the Air by Kurt Wiese
  • 1948 White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt
    • Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
    • McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel]
    • Bambino the Clown by Georges Schreiber
    • Roger and the Fox, illustrated by Hildegard Woodward; text: Lavinia R. Davis
    • Song of Robin Hood, illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton; text: edited by Anne Malcolmson
  • 1947 The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown]
    • Rain Drop Splash, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Alvin Tresselt
    • Boats on the River, illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum; text: Marjorie Flack
    • Timothy Turtle, illustrated by Tony Palazzo; text: Al Graham
    • Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street by Leo Politi
    • Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns, illustrated by Marjorie Torrey; text: selected by Opal Wheeler
  • 1946 The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska Petersham
    • Little Lost Lamb, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown]
    • Sing Mother Goose, illustrated by Marjorie Torrey; music: Opal Wheeler
    • My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, illustrated by Ruth Gannett; text: Becky Reyher
    • You Can Write Chinese by Kurt Wiese
  • 1945 Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field
    • Mother Goose, illustrated by Tasha Tudor
    • In the Forest by Marie Hall Ets
    • Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite de Angeli
    • The Christmas Anna Angel, illustrated by Kate Seredy; text: Ruth Sawyer
  • 1944 Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber
    • Small Rain: Verses From The Bible, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: selected by Jessie Orton Jones
    • Pierre Pidgeon, illustrated by Arnold E. Bare; text: Lee Kingman
    • The Mighty Hunter by Berta & Elmer Hader
    • A Child's Good Night Book, illustrated by Jean Charlot; text: Margaret Wise Brown
    • Good-Luck Horse, illustrated by Plato Chan; text: Chih-Yi Cha
  • 1943 The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
    • Dash and Dart by Mary & Conrad Buff
    • Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry
  • 1942 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
    • An American ABC by Maud & Miska Petersham
    • In My Mother's House, illustrating by Velino Herrera; text: Ann Nolan Clark
    • Paddle-To-The-Sea by Holling C. Holling
    • Nothing At All, by Wanda Gág
  • 1941 They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson
    • April's Kittens by Clare Turlay Newberry
  • 1940 Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
    • Cock-a-Doodle Doo by Berta & Elmer Hader
    • Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
    • The Ageless Story by Lauren Ford
  • 1939 Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
    • Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty
    • Barkis by Clare Turlay Newberry
    • The Forest Pool by Laura Adams Armer
    • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág
    • Wee Gillis, illustrated by Robert Lawson; text: Munro Leaf
  • 1938 Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish
    • Four and Twenty Blackbirds, illustrated by Robert Lawson; text: compiled by Helen Dean Fish
    • Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale, retold and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff

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Treasure State Nominees

2003

  1. Garland, Michael
    Icarus Swinebuckle
  2. O'Neill, Alexis
    The Recess Queen
  3. Reiss, Mike
    The Great Show-and-tell disaster
  4. Willey, Margaret
    Clever Beatrice
  5. Wilson, Gina
    Ignis

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2002

  1. San Souci, Robert D
    Callie Ann and Mistah Bear
  2. Cronin, Doreen
    Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
  3. Munson, Derek
    Enemy Pie
  4. Kimmel, Eric A.
    Robin Hook, Pirate Hunter!
  5. Lester, Helen
    Tacky and the Emperor

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2001

  1. Blake, Robert J.
    Akiak : A Tale From The Iditarod
  2. Eversole, Robyn Harbert
    Red Berry Wool
  3. Lasky, Kathryn
    The Emperor's Old Clothes
  4. Nolen, Jerdine
    Raising Dragons
  5. Wood, Audrey
    The Red Racer

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2000

  1. Wardlaw, Lee
    Punia And The King Of Sharks: A Hawaiian Folktale
  2. Ernst, Lisa Campbell
    Stella Louella's Runaway Book
  3. Howe, James
    Horace And Morris But Mostly Dolores
  4. Roddie, Shen
    Too Close Friends
  5. Tunnell, Michael O.
    Mailing May

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1999

  1. Shannon, David
    A Bad Case Of Stripes
  2. Lowell, Susan
    Little Red Cowboy Hat
  3. Hoberman, Mary Ann
    The Seven Silly Eaters
  4. Kurtz, Jane
    Trouble
  5. Ryder, Joanne
    Winter White

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Young Readers Choice Nominees

2003 Nominees

Senior Division, Grades 9-12
  1. Battle Dress
    by Amy Efaw
  2. Dreamland
    by Sarah Dressen
  3. Hope Was Here
    by Joan Bauer
  4. Men of Stone
    by Gayle Friesen
  5. Sterkarm Handshake
    by Susan Price

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Middle Division, Grades 7-8

  1. The Amber Spyglass
    by Phillip Pullman
  2. The Book of the Lion
    by Michael Cadnum
  3. Homeless Bird
    by Gloria Whelan
  4. Kit's Wilderness
    by David Almond
  5. No More Dead Dogs
    by Gordon Korman
  6. Stargirl
    by Jerry Spinelli
  7. Turnabout
    by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  8. The Wanderer
    by Sharon Creech

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Junior Division, Grades 4-6
  1. After Hamelin
    by Bill Richardson
  2. Austere Academy
    by Lemony Snicket
  3. Because of Winn-Dixie
    by Kate Dicamillo
  4. The Doll People
    by Ann M. Martin
  5. Don't Tell Anyone
    by Peg Kehret
  6. I Was a Rat
    by Phillip Pullman
  7. Joey Pigza Loses Control
    by Jack Gantos
  8. Nory Ryan's Song
    by Patricia Reilly Giff

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2002 Nominees

  1. Erdrich, Louise
    The Birchbark House
  2. Curtis, Christopher Paul
    Bud, not Buddy
  3. Howe, James
    Bunnicula Strikes Again!
  4. Holm, Jennifer L.
    Our Only May Amelia
  5. Cleary, Beverly
    Ramona's World
  6. Paulsen, Gary
    Tucket's Gold
  7. Lowry, Lois
    Zooman Sam
  8. Holubitsky, Katherine
    Alone at Ninety Foot
  9. Bauer, Joan
    Backwater
  10. Hobbs, Will
    Jason's Gold
  11. Meyer, Carolyn
    Mary, Bloody Mary
  12. Avi
    Midnight Magic
  13. Barron, T. A.
    The Mirror Of Merlin
  14. Almond, David
    Skellig
  15. Grimes, Martha
    Biting The Moon: A Mystery
  16. Jordan, Sherryl
    The Raging Quiet
  17. Sleator, William
    Rewind
  18. Namioka, Lensey
    Ties That Bind, Ties That Break

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2001 Nominees

  1. Yolen, Jane
    Armageddon Summer
  2. Sleator, William
    The Boxes
  3. Bauer, Joan
    Rules Of The Road
  4. Fleischman, Paul
    Whirligig
  5. Lawrence, Iain
    Wreckers
  6. Haddix, Margaret Peterson
    Among The Hidden
  7. Wolff, Virginia Euwer
    Bat 6
  8. Creech, Sharon
    Bloomability
  9. Yep, Laurence
    The Case Of The Lion Dance
  10. Karr, Kathleen
    The Great Turkey Walk
  11. Rowling, J. K.
    Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
  12. Sachar, Louis
    Holes
  13. Friesen, Gayle
    Janey's Girl
  14. Gantos, Jack
    Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key
  15. Peck, Richard
    A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel In Stories
  16. Scrimger, Richard
    Nose From Jupiter
  17. Smith, Roland
    Sasquatch

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2000 Nominees

  1. Gregory, Kristiana
    Across The Wide And Lonesome Prairie
  2. Creech, Sharon
    Chasing Redbird
  3. Levine, Gail Carson
    Ella Enchanted
  4. Alexander, Lloyd
    The Iron Ring
  5. King-Smith, Dick
    A Mouse Called Wolf
  6. Hesse, Karen
    Out Of The Dust
  7. Kehret, Peg
    Searching for Candlestick Park
  8. Coville, Bruce
    The Skull Of Truth
  9. Skurzynski, Gloria
    Virtual War
  10. Lottridge, Celia Barker
    Wings To Fly
  11. Spinelli, Jerry
    Wringer
  12. Thomas, Rob
    Doing Time: Notes From The Undergrad
  13. Nixon, Joan Lowery
    Murdered, My Sweet
  14. Deuker, Carl
    Painting The Black
  15. Nix, Garth
    Shade's Children
  16. Glenn, Mel
    The Taking Of Room 114: A Hostage
    Drama In Poems

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1999 Nominees

  1. DeFelice, Cynthia C.
    The Apprenticeship Of Lucas Whitaker
  2. Cushman, Karen
    The Ballad Of Lucy Whipple
  3. Pearson, Kit
    Awake And Dreaming
  4. White, Ruth
    Belle Prater's Boy
  5. Korman, Gordon
    The Chicken Doesn't Skate
  6. Spinelli, Jerry
    Crash
  7. Clements, Andrew
    Frindle
  8. Hahn, Mary Downing
    Gentleman Outlaw And Me--Eli
  9. Bawden, Nina
    Granny the Pag
  10. Paterson, Katherine
    Jip: His Story
  11. Hesse, Karen
    The Music Of Dolphins
  12. Konigsburg, E. L.
    The View From Saturday
  13. Klass, David
    Danger Zone
  14. Pullman, Philip
    The Golden Compass
  15. Thomas, Rob
    Rats Saw God
  16. Bunting, Eve
    SOS Titanic
  17. Trembath, Don
    Tuesday Cafe

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1998 Nominees

  1. Avi
    Poppy
  2. Curtis, Christopher Paul
    The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
  3. Haddix, Margaret Peterson
    Running Out Of Time
  4. Kehret, Peg
    Danger At The Fair
  5. Mikaelsen, Ben
    Stranded
  6. Park, Barbara
    Mick Harte Was Here
  7. Rubinstein, Gillian
    Galax-Arena
  8. Wynne-Jones, Tim
    Some Of The Kinder Planets
  9. Yep, Laurence
    Later, Gator
  10. Cormier, Robert
    In The Middle Of The Night
  11. Cushman, Karen
    The Midwife's Apprentice
  12. Lynch, Chris
    Slot Machine
  13. White, Ellen Emerson
    The Road Home

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1997 Nominees

  1. Bunting, Eve
    Nasty Stinky Sneakers
  2. Byars, Betsy Cromer
    The Dark Stairs: A Herculeah Jones Mystery
  3. Coville, Bruce
    Dragonslayers
  4. DeFelice, Cynthia C.
    Lostman's River
  5. Gantos, Jack
    Heads Or Tails: Stories From The Sixth Grade
  6. King-Smith, Dick
    Three Terrible Trins
  7. Myers, Walter Dean
    Darnell Rock Reporting
  8. Nelson, Theresa
    Earthshine
  9. Paterson, Katherine
    Flip-Flop Girl
  10. Reaver, Chap.
    Bill
  11. Salisbury, Graham
    Under The Blood-Red Sun
  12. Cooney, Caroline B.
    Driver's Ed
  13. Cushman, Karen
    Catherine, Called Birdy
  14. Farmer, Nancy
    Ear, The Eye, And The Arm
  15. Johnston, Julie
    Adam and Eve and Pinch-me
  16. Myers, Walter Dean
    The Glory Field

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1996 Nominees

  1. Bauer, Marion Dane
    A Taste Of Smoke
  2. Conly, Jane Leslie
    Crazy Lady!
  3. Cooper, Susan
    The Boggart
  4. Hill, Kirkpatrick
    Winter Camp
  5. Johnston, Julie
    Hero Of Lesser Causes
  6. Klause, Annette Curtis
    Alien Secrets
  7. Meyer, Carolyn
    White Lilacs
  8. Mikaelsen, Ben
    Sparrow Hawk Red
  9. Paulsen, Gary
    Harris And Me: A Summer Remembered
  10. Ross, Ramon Royal
    Harper & Moon
  11. Crutcher, Chris
    Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes
  12. Dickinson, Peter
    A Bone From A Dry Sea
  13. Lowry, Lois
    The Giver
  14. Mori, Kyoko
    Shizuko's Daughter
  15. Wolff, Virginia Euwer
    Make Lemonade

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1995 Nominees

  1. Avi
    "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"
  2. Barron, T. A.
    The Ancient One
  3. Dorris, Michael
    Morning Girl
  4. Ellis, Sarah
    Pick-Up Sticks
  5. Henkes, Kevin
    Words Of Stone
  6. Howe, James
    Return to Howliday Inn
  7. Kehret, Peg
    Terror At The Zoo
  8. Lowry, Lois
    Attaboy, Sam!
  9. Fleischman, Paul
    Borning Room
  10. Namioka, Lensey
    Yang The Youngest And His Terrible Ear
  11. Petersen, P. J.
    Liars
  12. Service, Pamela F.
    Weirdos Of The Universe, Unite!
  13. Skurzynski, Gloria
    Goodbye, Billy Radish
  14. Duncan, Lois
    Who Killed My Daughter?
  15. Gould, Steven
    Jumper
  16. Lipsyte, Robert
    Chemo Kid
  17. Temple, Frances
    Taste Of Salt: A Story Of Modern Haiti
  18. 18. Wallace, Bill
    Buffalo Gal

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Children's Historical Fiction Picture Books

 

  • Ringgold, Faith
    Aunt Harriet's underground railroad in the sky
    E RINGGOL
  • Say, Allen
    The bicycle man
    E SAY
  • Lydon, Kerry Raines
    A birthday for Blue
    E LYDON
  • Cox, David
    Bossyboots
    E COX
  • Kay, Verla
    Covered wagons, bumpy trails
    E KAY
  • Turner, Ann Warren
    Dakota dugout
    E TURNER
  • Goble, Paul
    Death of the iron horse
    E GOBLE
  • Monjo, F. N.
    The drinking gourd
    E BEG MONJO
  • McPhail, David M.
    Farm boy's year
    E MCPHAIL
  • Nixon, Joan Lowery
    Fat chance, Claude
    E NIXON
  • Van Leeuwen, Jean
    A Fourth of July on the plains
    E VAN LEE
  • Benchley, Nathaniel
    George, the drummer boy
    E BEG BENCHLE
  • Gammell, Stephen
    Git along, Old Scudder
    E GAMMELL
  • Byars, Betsy Cromer
    The Golly Sisters go West
    E BEG BYARS
  • Van Leeuwen, Jean
    Going West
    E VAN LEE
  • Waddell, Martin
    Going West
    E WADDELL
  • Sanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell)
    Here comes the mystery man
    E SANDERS
  • Lewis, Thomas P.
    Hill of fire
    E BEG LEWIS
  • Hendershot, Judith
    In coal country
    E HENDERS
  • Monjo, F. N.
    Indian summer
    E BEG MONJO
  • Cooney, Barbara
    Island boy: story and pictures
    E COONEY
  • Coerr, Eleanor
    The Josefina story quilt
    E BEG COERR
  • Karim, Roberta
    Kindle me a riddle
    E KARIM
  • Emberley, Ed
    Klippity klop
    E EMBERLE
  • Hazen, Barbara Shook
    The knight who was afraid of the dark
    E HAZEN
  • Sandin, Joan
    The long way to a new land
    E BEG SANDIN
  • Pryor, Bonnie
    Lottie's dream
    E PRYOR
  • Cooney, Barbara
    Miss Rumphius
    E COONEY
  • Harvey, Brett
    My prairie Christmas
    E HARVEY (holiday collection)
  • Turner, Ann Warren
    Nettie's trip South
    E TURNER
  • Monjo, F. N.
    The one bad thing about father
    E BEG MONJO
  • Hall, Donald
    Ox-cart man
    E HALL
  • Baker, Betty
    The pig war
    E BEG BAKER
  • Benchley, Nathaniel
    Running Owl the hunter
    E BEG BENCHLE
  • Benchley, Nathaniel
    Sam, the minuteman
    E BEG BENCHLE
  • Turner, Ann Warren
    Sewing quilts
    E TURNER
  • Gerrard, Roy
    Sir Cedric rides again
    E GERRARD
  • Benchley, Nathaniel
    Small Wolf
    E BEG BENCHLE
  • Lucas, Barbara M.
    Snowed in
    E LUCAS
  • Hoguet, Susan Ramsay
    Solomon Grundy
    E HOGUET
  • Hopkinson, Deborah
    Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt
    E HOPKINS
  • Levitin, Sonia
    Taking charge
    E LEVITIN
  • Spier, Peter
    Tin Lizzie
    E SPIER
  • Coleman, Evelyn
    To be a drum
    E COLEMAN
  • Wells, Rosemary
    Waiting for the evening star
    E WELLS
  • Sanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell)
    Warm as wool
    E SANDERS
  • Krensky, Stephen
    We just moved!
    E BEG KRENSKY
  • Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie
    Wilderness cat
    E KINSEY

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John Pierce/ Sigma Xi Science Book Collection

  • Author: Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw
    Garden of the Spirit Bear: Life in the Great Northern Rainforest
  • Call Number: 599.785 PATENT
  • Author: Simon, Seymour
    The Moon
  • Call Number: J 523.3 SIMON
  • Knight, Tim
    Dramatic Displays
    J 5591.4 KNIGHT
  • Knight, Tim
    Fantastic Feeders
    J 591.53 KNIGHT
  • Cobb, Vicki
    I Face the Wind
    J 551.518 COBB
  • Micucci, Charles
    Life and Times of the Ant
    J 595.796 MICUCCI
  • Schyffert, Bea
    Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins
    J B Collins
  • Tanaka, Shelley
    New Dinos: The Latest Finds! The Coolest Dinosaur Discoveries!
    J 567.9 TANAKA
  • Cerullo, Mary
    Sea Turtles: Ocean Nomads
    J 597.928 CERULLO
  • Sis, Peter
    Tree of Life: A book depicting the life of Charles Darwin, naturalist, geologist and thinker
    J B Darwin
  • Scheller, William
    Amazing archaeologists and their finds
    J 930.109 SCHELLE
  • Esbensen, Barbara Juster
    Baby whales drink milk
    J 599.51 ESBENSE
  • Lauber, Patricia
    Be a friend to trees
    J 582.16 LAUBER
  • Nye, Bill
    Bill Nye the science guy's big blast of science
    J 507.8 NYE
  • Silver, Donald M.
    Cave
    J 796.525 SILVER
  • Ruiz de Larramendi, Alberto
    Coral reefs
    J 574.5263 LARRAME
  • Thaler, Mike
    Earth mirth: the ecology riddle book
    J 398.6 THALER
  • Parker, Steve
    Frogs and toads
    J 597.8 PARKER
  • Clements, Gillian
    The picture history of great inventors
    J 609 CLEMENT
  • Wyatt, Valerie
    The science book for girls and other intelligent beings
    J 500 WYATT
  • Ride, Sally
    The third planet: exploring the Earth from space
    J 525 RIDE
  • Legg, Gerald
    The X-ray picture book of amazing animals
    J 591.4 LEGG
  • Vyner, Sue
    Arctic Spring
    E VYNER
  • Gardom, Tim
    The book of dinosaurs: the Natural History Museum guide
    J 567.91 GARDOM
  • Lindsay, William
    Corythosaurus
    J 567.97 LINDSAY
  • McMillan, Bruce
    Penguins at home: gentoos of Antarctica
    J 598.441 MCMILLA
  • Robbins, Ken
    Power machines
    J 621.8 ROBBINS
  • Mazer, Anne
    The salamander room
    E MAZER
  • Kraus, Scott D.
    The search for the right whale
    J 599.51 KRAUS
  • Vare, Ethlie Ann
    Women inventors & their discoveries
    J 609.2273 VARE
  • Schmid, Eleonore
    The air around us
    E SCHMID
  • Evans, David
    Make it change
    J 541.3 EVANS
  • Rotner, Shelley
    Nature spy
    E ROTNER
  • Schmid, Eleonore
    The water's journey
    E SCHMID
  • Laughlin, Robin Kittrell
    Backyard bugs
    J 595.2022 LAUGHLI
  • Arnold, Caroline
    Bat
    J 599.4 ARNOLD
  • Anderson, Margaret Jean
    Bizarre insects
    J 595.7 ANDERSO
  • Cole, Michael D.
    Columbia: first flight of the space shuttle
    J 629.454 COLE
  • Arnold, Caroline
    Fox
    J 599.7444 ARNOLD
  • Lesser, Carolyn
    Great crystal bear
    E LESSER
  • Philip, Neil
    The illustrated book of myths: tales & legends
    of the world
    J 291.13 PHILIP
  • Markle, Sandra
    Outside and inside sharks
    J 597.31 MARKLE
  • Challoner, Jack
    The visual dictionary of physics
    J 530.03 CHALLON
  • Paine, Stefani
    The world of the Arctic whales: belugas, bowheads,
    and narwhals
    J 599.5091 PAINE
  • Williams, Frances, Dr.
    Human body
    J 611.0022 WILLIAM
  • Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw
    Biodiversity
    J 333.9516 PATENT
  • Taylor, Barbara
    Incredible plants
    J 580 TAYLOR
  • Anderson, Margaret Jean
    Children of summer: Henri Fabre's insects
    J ANDERSO
  • Arnold, Caroline
    Hawk highway in the sky: watching raptor migration
    J 598.916 ARNOLD
  • Llewellyn, Claire
    Some bugs glow in the dark
    595.7 LLEWELL
  • Ever heard of an aardwolf?: a miscellany of uncommon animals
    J 599 EVER
  • Heifetz, Milton D.
    Walk through the heavens: a guide to stars and
    constellations and their legends
    J 523.8 HEIFETZ
  • Collard, Sneed B.
    Do they scare you? Creepy creatures
    J 591 COLLARD
  • The human mind explained: an owner's guide to the mysteries of the mind
    153 HUMAN
  • Brett-Surman, M. K.
    James Gurney: the world of dinosaurs
    J 566.9097 BRETT
  • Hickman, Pamela
    Animal senses: how animals see, hear, taste, smell and feel
    J 573.87 HICKMAN
  • Pascoe, Elaine
    Slime, molds, and fungi
    J 579.5 PASCOE
  • Barrett, Jalma
    Bobcat
    J 599.7536 BARRETT
  • Barrett, Jalma
    Cougar
    J 599.7524 BARRETT
  • Barrett, Jalma
    Feral cats
    J 636.8 BARRETT
  • Sheard, Bradley
    Lost voyages: two centuries of shipwrecks in the
    approaches to New York
    J 910.9163 SHEARD
  • Wright-Frierson, Virginia
    An island scrapbook: dawn to dusk on a barrier island
    J 508.7561 WRIGHT
  • Cole, Henry
    I took a walk
    E COLE
  • Gibbons, Gail
    Marshes & swamps
    J 551.41 GIBBONS
  • Redfern, Martin
    The Kingfisher young people's book of space
    J 520 REDFERN
  • Hawkes, Nigel
    The new book of Mars
    J 523.43 HAWKES
  • Wallace, Karen
    Gentle giant octopus
    E WALLACE
  • Mallory, Kenneth
    A home by the sea: protecting coastal wildlife
    J 333.9541 MALLORY
  • Rockwell, Anne
    One bean
    E ROCKWEL
  • Seibert, Patricia
    Discovering El Ni~no: how fable and fact together
    help explain the weather
    J 551.5246 SEIBERT
  • Dunphy, Madeleine
    Here is the African savanna
    J 577.4809 DUNPHY
  • London, Jonathan
    Baby whale's journey
    E LONDON
  • Lewin, Ted
    Gorilla walk
    J 599.884 LEWIN
  • Couper, Heather
    Space encyclopedia
    J 520 COUPER
  • Swinburne, Stephen R.
    Once a wolf: how wildlife biologists fought to bring
    back the gray wolf
    J 333.9597 SWINBUR
  • Gibbons, Gail
    Apples
    J 634.11 GIBBONS
  • Gibbons, Gail
    The pumpkin book
    J 635.62 GIBBONS
  • Wechsler, Doug
    Bizarre birds
    J 598 WECHSLE
  • Barfuss, Matto H.
    My cheetah family
    J 599.759 BARFUSS
  • Schuch, Steve
    A symphony of whales
    E SCHUCH
  • Wyatt, Valerie
    The math book for girls and other beings who count
    J 510.8342 WYATT
  • Cassie, Brian
    National Audubon Society first field guide. Trees
    J 582.1609 CASSIE
  • Locker, Thomas
    Cloud dance
    E LOCKER
  • Kitchen, Bert
    The rabbit
    J 599.32 KITCHEN
  • Thomas, Peggy
    Marine mammal preservation
    J 333.9595 THOMAS
  • Horowitz, Ruth
    Crab moon
    E HOROWIT
  • Bial, Raymond
    A handful of dirt
    J 577.5702 BIAL
  • Nagda, Ann Whitehead
    Tiger math: learning to graph from a baby tiger
    J 511.5 NAGDA
  • Ross, Michael Elsohn
    Pond watching with Ann Morgan
    J 590.92 ROSS
  • The Reader's Digest children's atlas of the universe
    J 523.2022 READERS
  • Atkins, Jeannine
    Girls who looked under rocks: the lives of six pioneering
    naturalists
    J 920.72 ATKINS
  • Sussman, Art
    Dr. Art's guide to planet Earth: for earthlings ages
    12 to 120
    J 577 SUSSMAN
  • Dewey, Jennifer Owings
    Antarctic Journal: four months at the bottom of the world
    J 919.8904 DEWEY
  • Vogel, Carole Garbuny
    Breast Cancer: questions & answers for young women
    Y 616.9944 VOGEL
  • Goodman, Susan E.
    Claws, coats, and camouflage
    J 591.4 GOODMAN
  • Pratt-Serafini, Kristin Joy
    Salamander Rain
    J 577.68 PRATT
  • Reed-Jones, Carol
    Salmon Stream
    E REED
  • Cerullo, Mary M.
    Sea Soup zooplankton
    J 592.1776 CERULLO
  • Pemberton, Delia
    Egyptian Mummies people from the past
    J 932 PEMBERT
  • Aulenbach, Nancy Holler
    Exploring Caves journeys into the earth
    J 796.525 AULENBA
  • Yolen, Jane
    Welcome to the River of Grass
    E YOLEN
  • Barrett, Paul
    National Geographic Dinosaurs
    J 567.9 BARRETT

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Books About Children With Disabilities

  • Calmenson, Stephanie
    Rosie, a visiting dog's story
    J 646.7 CALMENS
  • Fassler, Joan
    Howie helps himself
    E FASSLER
  • MacLachlan, Patricia
    Through Grandpa's eyes
    E MACLACH
  • Russo, Marisabina
    Alex is my friend
    E RUSSO
  • Yolen, Jane
    The mermaid's three wisdoms
    J YOLEN
  • Butler, Beverly
    Maggie by my side
    J 362.4183 BUTLER
  • Barrett, Mary Brigid
    Sing to the stars
    E BARRETT
  • Cowen-Fletcher, Jane
    Mama zooms
    E COWEN
  • Rickert, Janet Elizabeth
    Russ and the almost perfect day
    E RICKERT
  • Powers, Mary Ellen
    Our teacher's in a wheelchair
    J 372.11 POWERS
  • Millman, Isaac
    Moses goes to a concert
    E MILLMAN
  • Thomas, Pat
    Don't Call me Special: a first look at disability
    J 362.4 THOMAS
  • DeBear, Kirsten
    Be Quiet, Marina!
    E DEBEAR

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Corretta Scott King Awards

Author Award Books

  • Johnson, Angela
    The First Part Last
    Y JOHNSON
  • Grimes, Nikki
    Bronx Masquerade
    Y GRIMES
  • Taylor, Mildred D.
    The Land
    Y TAYLOR
  • Curtis, Christopher Paul
    Bud, not Buddy
    J CURTIS
  • Johnson, Angela
    Heaven
    YCAS JOHNSON
  • Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
    Forged By Fire
    Y DRAPER
  • Myers, Walter Dean
    Slam!
    Y MYERS
  • Hamilton, Virginia
    Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy
    Tales, And True Tales
    J 398.2082 HAMILTO
  • McKissack, Pat
    Christmas In The Big House, Christmas
    In The Quarters
    J 975.03 MCKISSA (holiday collection)
  • McKissack, Pat
    The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
    J MCKISSA
  • Myers, Walter Dean
    Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle
    For Freedom
    J MYERS
  • Taylor, Mildred D.
    The Road to Memphis
    J TAYLOR
  • McKissack, Pat
    A Long Hard Journey: The Story Of The Pullman
    Porter
    J 331.8811 MCKISSA
  • Myers, Walter Dean
    Fallen Angels
    Y MYERS
  • Taylor, Mildred D.
    The Friendship
    J TAYLOR
  • Walter, Mildred Pitts
    Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
    J WALTER
  • Hamilton, Virginia
    The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
    J 398.2089 HAMILTO
  • Myers, Walter Dean
    Motown And Didi: A Love Story
    Y MYERS
  • Clifton, Lucille
    Everett Anderson's Goodbye
    E CLIFTON
  • Hamilton, Virginia
    Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
    J HAMILTO
  • Taylor, Mildred D.
    Let the Circle Be Unbroken
    J TAYLOR
  • Poitier, Sidney
    This Life
    B POITIER
  • Davis, Ossie
    Escape To Freedom A Play About Young
    Frederick Douglass
    J 812.54 D
  • Greenfield, Eloise
    Africa Dream
    J GREENFI
  • Haskins, James
    The Story of Stevie Wonder
    JB WONDER
  • Mathis, Sharon Bell
    Ray Charles
  • Robinson, Jackie
    I Never Had It Made
    B ROBINSON
  • Patterson, Lillie
    Martin Luther King, Jr. Man of Peace
    JB KING

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Illustrator Award Books

  • Bryan, Ashley
    (writer and illustrator)
    Beautiful Blackbird
    J 398.2096 BRYAN
  • Grimes, Nikki
    illustrated by E.B. Lewis
    Talkin' About Bessie; The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
    JB COLEMAN
  • Dillon, Leo and Diane
    (writers and illustrators)
    Rap A Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles - Think of That
    E DILLON
  • Perdomo, Willie
    illustrated by Bryan Collier
    Visiting Langston
    E PERDOMO
  • McKissack, Pat
    illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
    Goin' Someplace Special
    JE MCKISSA
  • Siegelson, Kim L.
    illustrated by Pinkney, Brian
    In The Time Of The Drums
    E SIEGELS
  • Igus, Toyomi
    illustrated by Michele Wood
    I see the rhythm
    J 780.896 IGUS
  • illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
    In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall African Americans Celebrating Fathers
    J 811.008 IN
  • Schroeder, Alan
    illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
    Minty a story of young Harriet Tubman
    JB TUBMAN
  • illustrated by Feelings, Tom
    The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo
  • illustrated by James Ransome
    The Creation
    J 811.52 CREATIO
  • illustrated by Feelings, Tom
    Soul Looks Back In Wonder
    J 811.508 FEELING
  • Anderson, David A.
    illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson
    The Origin Of Life On Earth An African Creation Myth
    J 398.2108 ANDERSO
  • Ringgold, Faith
    (writer and illustrator)
    Tar Beach
    E RINGGOL
  • Greenfield, Eloise
    illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
    Nathaniel Talking
    J 811.54 GREENFI
  • McKissack, Pat
    illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
    Mirandy and Brother Wind
    E MCKISSA
  • Steptoe, John
    (writer and illustrator)
    Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters an African Tale
    E STEPTOE
  • Dragonwagon, Crescent
    illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
    Half A Moon and One Whole Star
    E DRAGONW
  • Flournoy, Valerie
    illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
    The Patchwork Quilt
    E FLOURNO
  • illustrated by Ashley Bryan
    Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum
    J 398.2 B
  • illustrated by Feelings, Tom
    Something on My Mind
    J 811.54 F
  • Greenfield, Eloise
    illustrated by Carol Byard
    Africa Dream
    E GREENFI
  • Mathis, Sharon Bell
    illustrated by George Ford
    Ray Charles

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Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

  • Johnson, Angela
    The First Part Last
  • Chambers, Aidan
    Postcards from No Man's Land
    Y CHAMBER
  • Myers, Walter Dean
    Monster
    Y MYERS
  • Almond, David
    Kit's wilderness
    Y ALMOND
  • Na, An
    A step from heaven
    Y NA

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Printz Honor Books

  • Donnelly, Jennifer
    A Northern Light
  • Going, K. L.
    Fat Kid Rules the World
  • Frost, Helen
    Keesha's House
  • Mackler, Carolyn
    The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things
  • Gantos, Jack
    Hole in My Life
  • Freymann-Weyr, Garret
    My Heartbeat
  • Farmer, Nancy
    House of the Scorpion
  • Almond, David
    Skellig
  • Anderson, Laurie Halse
    Speak
  • Wittlinger, Ellen
    Hard love
  • Coman, Carolyn
    Many stones
  • Rennison, Louise
    Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging
  • Trueman, Terry
    Stuck in neutral
  • Plum-Ucci, Carol
    The body of Christopher Creed
  • Heart to heart: new poems inspired by twentieth-century American art
  • Lynch, Chris
    Freewill
  • Dickinson, Peter
    The ropemaker
  • Wolff, Virginia Euwer
    True believer

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Books By and About Native Peoples

(these first two books are located in the
TOT book section)

  • Boozhoo, Come Play With Us
    TOT

    Our Journey
    TOT

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PICTURE BOOKS

  • Bateson-Hill, Margaret
    Shota and the star quilt
    E BATESON
  • Erdrich, Louise
    Grandmother's pigeon
    E ERDRICH
    Eyvindson, Peter
    Old enough
    E EYVINDS
  • Eyvindson, Peter
    Kyle's bath
    E EYVINDS
  • Harjo, Joy
    The good luck cat
    E HARJO
  • King, Thomas
    Coyote sings to the moon
    E KING
  • Kusugak, Michael
    Hide and sneak
    E KUSUGAK
  • Kusugak, Michael
    My Arctic 1,2,3
    E KUSUGAK
  • Lacapa, Michael
    The flute player: an Apache folktale
    E LACAPA
  • Silvey, Diane
    Little Bear's vision quest: First Nations publication
    E SILVEY
  • Smith, Cynthia Leitich
    Jingle dancer
    E SMITH
  • Swamp, Jake
    Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message
    E SWAMP
  • Waboose, Jan Bourdeau
    Morning on the lake
    E WABOOSE

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BEGINNING READERS

  • Clark, Karin
    Wait for me!
    E BEG CLARK

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PICTURE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE

  • King, Thomas
    A Coyote Columbus story
    JE KING

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CHAPTER BOOKS

  • Bruchac, Joseph
    The arrow over the door
    J BRUCHAC
  • Bruchac, Joseph
    Eagle song
    J BRUCHAC
  • Bruchac, Joseph
    The heart of a chief
    J BRUCHAC
  • Bruchac, Joseph
    Sacajawea: The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis
    and Clark Expedition
    J BRUCHAC
  • Erdrich, Louise
    The birchbark house
    J ERDRICH
  • Monture, Joel
    Cloudwalker: Contemporary Native American Stories
    J MONTURE
  • Smith, Cynthia Leitich
    Rain is not my Indian name
    J SMITH

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Non-Fiction

  • Rose, Lavera
    Grandchildren of the Lakota
    J 305.23 ROSE
  • Ancona, George
    Pablo remembers: the fiesta of the Day of the Dead
    J 393.909i7 ANCONA
  • Rendon, Marcie R.
    Powwow summer: a family celebrates the circle of life
    J 394 RENDON
  • White, Ellen
    Kwulasulwut: stories from the Coast Salish
    J 398.2089 WHITE
  • McLellan, Joseph
    Nanabosho dances
    J 398.2108 MCLELLA
  • McLellan, Joseph
    Nanabosho, How the turtle got its shell
    J 398.2108 MCLELLA
  • McLellan, Joseph
    Nanabosho, Soaring Eagle and the Great Sturgeon
    J 398.2108 MCLELLA
  • How the Robin got its Red Breast
    J 398.2452 HOW
  • McMillan, Bruce
    Salmon Summer
    J 639.2756 MCMILLA
  • We are all related: a celebration of our
    cultural heritage
    J 704.942 WE ARE
  • Left Hand Bull, Jacqueline
    Lakota hoop dancer
    J 793.3197 LEFT HA
  • Begay, Shonto
    Navajo: visions and voices across the Mesa
    J 811.54 BEGAY
  • Clark, Karin
    Grandma's special feeling: Grandma teaches
    us how First Nations people used plants
    J 970.0049 CLARK
  • King, Sandra
    Shannon: an Ojibway dancer
    J 970.3 KING
  • Ancona, George
    Mayeros: a Yucatec Maya family
    J 972.6 ANCONA
  • Tayac, Gabrielle
    Meet Naiche: A Native Boy from the Chesapeake Bay Area
    J 975.2004 TAYAC

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VIDEOS

  • Denver March pow wow
    970.0049 DENVER (video recording)
  • 1995 Crow Fair and Pow Wow
    970.0049 CROW (video recording)

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REFERENCE MATERIAL
(for use in-library only)

  • Through Indian eyes: the native experience
    in books for children
    J 970.004 THROUGH
  • U.X.L. Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes
    J 970.0049 U.X.L.

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Character Values

  • Spelman, Cornelia
    When I feel angry
    E SPELMAN
  • Scholes, Katherine
    Peace begins with you
    J 303.66 SCHOLES
  • Lucas, Eileen
    Peace on the playground: nonviolent ways
    of problem-solving
    J 303.69 LUCAS
  • Henkes, Kevin
    Sheila Rae's peppermint stick
    E HENKES
  • Keller, Holly
    That's mine, Horace
    E KELLER
  • Langreuter, Jutta
    Little Bear and the big fight
    E LANGREU
  • Munson, Derek
    Enemy pie
    E MUNSON
  • Polland, Barbara Kay
    We can work it out: conflict resolution for children
    J 303.69 POLLAND
  • Simon, Norma
    How do I feel?
    E SIMON
  • Scott, Elaine
    Friends!
    E SCOTT
  • Surat, Michele Maria
    Angel child, dragon child
    E SURAT
  • Mitchell, Lori
    Different just like me
    E MITCHEL
  • Weninger, Brigitte
    Why are you fighting, Davy?
    E WENINGE
  • Dobrin, Arthur
    Love your neighbor: stories of values and virtues
    E DOBRIN
  • Young peacemakers: a storytime kit
    372.6 PEACEMA (storytime kit)

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REFERENCE BOOKS
(for use in-library only)

  • Roberts, Patricia
    Family values through children's literature, grades K-3
    JR 028.55 ROBERTS (reference collection)

  • Hall, Susan K.
    Using picture storybooks to teach character education
    JR 370.114 HALL (reference collection)

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