Children’s Literature Choice List 2003
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 3 AND UNDER
Book Title Author
Animal Train...... Jane Yolen
Benny and Binky...... Barbro Lindgren
Get to Work Trucks!...... Don Carter
Gossie/Gossie and Gertie...... Oliver Dunrea
Kitten and Friends...... St. Martin’s Press
Olivia Counts/Olivia’s Opposites...... Ian Falconer
Owen’s Marshmallow Chick...... Kevin Henkes
Where Are My Chicks?...... Sally Grindley
PICTURE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AGES 4 TO 8
Book Title Author
All About Frogs...... Jim Arnosky
Alphabet Under Construction...... Denise Fleming
Atlantic...... G. Brian Karas
Barkus, Sly and the Golden Egg...... Angela McAllister
Billywise...... Judith Nicholls
Bubba and Beau: Best Friends...... Kathi Appelt
Dahlia...... Barbara McClintock
Dog Eared...... Amanda Harvey
Duck on a Bike...... David Shannon
Epossumondas...... Coleen Salley
Farfallina & Marcel...... Holly Keller
Frog Hunt...... Sandra Jordan
Giggle, Giggle, Quack...... Doreen Cronin
Goose’s Story...... Cari Best
Head, Body, Legs: A Story From Liberia...Retold by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert
Hondo and Fabian...... Peter McCarty
I Stink!...... Kate & Jim McMullan
Jack Outwitts the Giants...... Paul Brett Johnson
Jazzy in the Jungle...... Lucy Cousins
Little Pig is Capable...... Denis Roche
My Friend Rabbit...... Eric Rohmann
No More Kissing!...... Emma Chichester Clark
Noah’s Ark...... Jerry Pinkney
Pearls Passover: A family Celebration
Through Stories, Recipes, Crafts & Songs..Jane Breskin Zalben
Picture a Letter...... Brad Sneed
Rap-A-Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles –
Think of That...... Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
The Saturday Escape...... Daniel J. Mahoney
Snow...... Manya Stojic
The Spider and The Fly...... Tony DiTerlizzi
Tanya and the Red Shoes...... Patricia Lee Gauch
That Pesky Rat...... Lauren child
This is the House That Jack Built...... Simms Taback
The Three Silly Girls Grubb...... John & Ann Hassett
Tom Mouse...... Ursula K Le Gin
What About Me?...... Ed Young
SHORT BOOKS OR PICTURE BOOKS WITH MORE TEXT AGES 5-10
Book Title Author
7x9 = Trouble...... Claudia Mills
Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark.Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Berta: A Remarkable Dog...... Celia Barker Lottridge
The Bug Scientist...... Donna M. Jackson
Butterflies in the Garden...... Carol Lerner
The Declaration of Independence...... Sam Fink
Earth From Above; For Young Readers....Robert Burleigh
Fireboat; The Heroic Adventures of the
John J. Harvey...... Maira Kalman
Get Well, Good Night...... Shelley Moore Thomas
Gooney Bird Greene...... Lois Lowry
Gus and Grandpa and the Halloween
Costume...... Claudia Mills
I pledge allegiance: The Pledge of
Allegiance with Commentary...... Bill Martin Jr. & Michael Sampson
Ice Cream...... Elisha Cooper
If the Shoe Fits...... Gary Soto
Iris and Walter: The Sleep Over...... Elissa Hadan Guest
Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child...... Bob Graham
King Midas: The Golden Touch...... Demi
Lapin Plays Possum...... Sharon Arms Doucet
Mole and the Baby Bird...... Marjorie Newman
Moonbeams. Dumplings, & Dragon Boats..Nina Simonds, Lesley Swartz & The
Children’s Museum
New York’s Bravest...... Mary Pope Osborne
The Paisano Roadrunner...... Jennifer Owings Dewey
Penguin Chick...... Betty Tatham
Pond...... Gordon Morrison
The Post The Juan Built...... Nancy Andrews-Goebel
Puss in Cowboy Boots...... Jan & Phil Huling
Robert and the Weird & Wacky Facts.....Barbara Seuling
Salmon Creek...... Annette LeBox & Karen Reczuch
Seymour Simon’s Book of Trains...... Seymour Simon
Slim Jim...... Richard Egielski
Talkin’ About Bessie...... Nikki Grimes
Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids...Gail Gibbons
Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who
Saved Thanksgiving...... Laurie Halse Anderson
The Three Questions...... Jon J. Muth
To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers..Wendie Old
When Marian Sang...... Pam Munoz Ryan
World Team...... Tim Vyner
LONGER BOOKS WITH MORE SOPHISTICATED THEMES AGES 8-12
Book Title Author
Action Jackson...... Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan
Blizzard’s Wake...... Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Bury The Dead...... Christopher Sloan
Confucius: The Golden Rule...... Russell Freedman
Coraline...... Neil Gaiman
Crispin: The Cross of Lead...... Avi
Darby...... Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Dillon Dillon...... Kate Banks
Feed the Children First: Irish
Memories of the Great Hunger...... Mary E. Lyons
Flood...... James Heneghan
Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering
The Coelacanth...... Sally M. Walker
Girl in a Cage...... Jane Yolen
If the World Were A Village: A
Book About the World’s People...... David J. Smith
The Kite Rider...... Geraldine McCaughrean
Laura Secord: A Story of Courage...... Janet Lunn
Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution.....Steve Jenkins
Loser...... Jerry Spinelli
No More! Stories and Songs of
Slave Resistance...... Doreen Rappaport
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True
Story About Brain Science...... John Fleishman
Pictures of Hollis Woods...... Patricia Reilly Giff
Ruby Holler...... Sharon Creech
Saffy’s Angel...... Hilary McKay
Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam...... Diane Stanley
The Same Stuff as Stars...... Katherine Paterson
Sammy Keyes and the Search for
Snake Eyes...... Wendelin Van Draanen
A Stone in My Hand...... Cathryn Clinton
Straydog...... Kathe Koja
Surviving the Applewhites...... Stephanie S. Tolan
Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories
And Mementos of Being Young and Black
In America...... Tonya Bolden
The Thief Lord...... Cornelia Junke
The Thieves of Ostia A Roman Mystery...Caroline Lawerence
Time Stops For No Mouse...... Michael Hoeye
What Would Joey Do?...... Jack Gantos
When My Name Was Keoko...... Linda Sue Park
The Winter People...... Joseph Bruchac
Zulu Dog...... Anton Ferreira
YOUNG ADULT CHILDREN AGES 12 AND UP
Book Title Author
Ashes of Roses...... Mary Jane Auch
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl...... Joyce Carol Oates
Born Confused...... Tanuja Desai Hidier
Bronx Masquerade...... Nikki Grimes
Catalyst...... Laurie Halse Anderson
A Corner of the Universe...... Ann M. Martin
David Livingstone...... Frances Freedom
Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster...... Albert Marrin
Gingerbread...... Rachel Cohn
Hole in My Life...... Jack Gantos
The House of the Scorpion...... Nancy Farmer
Hush...... Jacqueline Woodson
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas:
Further, Further Confessions of Georgia
Nicolson...... Louise Rennison
The Life and Death of Adolf Hilter...... James Cross Giblin
Looking for Life in the Universe: The
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.....Ellen Jackson
Looking for Red...... Angela Johnson
Mississippi Trial, 1955...... Chris Crowe
My Heartbeat...... GarretFreymann-Weyr
Patrol...... Walter Dean Myers
Postcards from No Man’s Land...... Aidan Chambers
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story
Of the Whaleship Essex...... Nathaniel Philbrick
Shattering Glass...... Gail Giles
Six Days in October...... Karen Blumenthal
Sonny’s War...... Valerie Hobbs
Stoner & Spaz...... Ron Koertge
This Land was Made for You and Me.....Elizabeth Partridge
Thursday’s Child...... Sonya Hartnett
Wild man Island...... Will Hobbs
POETRY
Book Title Author
The Body Eclectic...... Patrice Vecchione
Love to Landston...... Tony Medina
Peacock and Other Poems...... Valerie Worth
Scranimals...... Jack prelutsky
Summersaults...... Douglas Florian
Wild Wings: Poems for Young People.....Jane Yolen
Wings on the Wind: Bird Poems...... Kate Kiesler
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the
Middle East...... Naomi Shihab Nye
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