Younger Readers
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed, by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Harcourt) I Face the Wind, by Vicki Cobb; illustrated by Julia Gorton (HarperCollins) Surprising Sharks, by Nicola Davies; illustrated by James Croft (Candlewick) The Racecar Alphabet, by Brian Floca (Atheneum) Diary of a Wombat, by Jackie French; illustrated by Bruce Whatley (Clarion) Little One Step, by Simon James (Candlewick) What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin) How I Became a Pirate, by Melinda Long; illustrated by David Shannon (Harcount, Inc.) Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, by Yuyi Morales (Chronicle Books) My Name is Yoon, by Helen Recorvits; illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska (Farrar Straus and Giroux) One Is a Snail Ten is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book, by April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre; illustrated by Randy Cecil (Candlewick) Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Middle Readers
Silent Movie, by Avi; illustrated by C. B. Mordan (Anne Schwartz/Atheneum) Mack Made Movies, by Don Brown (Roaring Brook Press) The Shape Game, by Anthony Browne (Farrar Straus and Giroux) George Washington’s Teeth, by Deborah Chandra and Madeleine Comora; illustrated by Brock Cole (Farrar Straus and Giroux) Vote!, by Eileen Christelow (Clarion) Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, by Sharon Creech; illustrated by Chris Raschka (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins) Iqbal: A Novel, by Francesco D’Adamo; translated by Ann Leonori (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering (Candlewick) The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau (Random House) Snowed in with Grandmother Silk, by Carol Fenner; illustrated by Amanda Harvey (Dial) Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl, by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by James E. Ransome (Bluesky Press/Scholastic) Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet: Mexican Folktales, selected by Neil Philip; illustrated by Jacqueline Mair (Clarion) Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, by Kathleen Krull; illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Harcourt) The Man Who Made Time Travel, by Kathryn Lasky; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes (Melanie Kroupa/Farrar Straus and Giroux) Hana’s Suitcase: A True Story, by Karen Levine (Albert Whitman) The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins, by Bea Uusma Schyffert; translated by Emi Guner (Chronicle Books) Locomotion, by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)
Older Readers
Colibrí, by Ann Cameron (Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux) Jack: The Early Years of John F. Kennedy, by Ilene Cooper (Dutton Children’s Books) Ben Franklin’s Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman’s Life, by Candace Fleming (Anne Schwartz/Atheneum Books for Young Readers) In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America’s Bill of Rights, by Russell Freedman (Holiday House) Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke; translated by Anthea Bell (The Chicken House/Scholastic) Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books) Keeper of the Night, by Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow) Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit, by Betsy Harvey Kraft (Clarion) Mosque, by David Macaulay (Houghton Mifflin) Stop the Train!, by Geraldine McCaughrean (HarperCollins) An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, by Jim Murphy (Clarion) Ruby Electric, by Theresa Nelson (Atheneum) Run, Boy, Run, by Uri Orlev; translated by Hillel Halkin (Houghton Mifflin) Cuba 15, by Nancy Osa (Delacorte Press) East, by Edith Pattou (Harcourt) The River Between Us, by Richard Peck (Dial Books) The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins) Remember the Lusitania!, by Diana Preston (Walker & Company) Mortal Engines, by Philip Reeve (EOS/HarperCollins) Don’t Hold Me Back: My Life and Art, by Winfred Rembert (Cricket/Marcato Book) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic) The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist and Thinker, by Peter Sís (Frances Foster/Farrar Straus and Giroux) The Amulet of Samarkand, by Jonathan Stroud (Hyperion Books for Children)
All Ages
Tell Me a Picture, by Quentin Blake (Millbrook) Roller Coaster, by Marla Frazee (Harcourt) The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, by Mordicai Mordicai (Roaring Brook Press) There’s a Frog in my Throat! 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me, by Loreen Leedy and Pat Street (Holiday House) Kensuke’s Kingdom, by Michael Morpurgo (Scholastic) Blues Journey, by Walter Dean Myers (Holiday House) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Original Tale, by Robert Sabuda (Little, Simon) The Hidden Alphabet, by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (A Neal Porter/Roaring Brook Pres )
