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| *Author List - Martin, Bill | Mr. Martin uses rhyme and rhythm to entertain his audiences. |
| *Author List - Crews, Donald | Mr. Crews' use of vibrant colors and large text make his books very appealing. |
| *Author List - Carle, Eric | Mr. Carle deals with the theme of nature in his brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books. |
| *Author List - Suess, Dr. | Suess uses wonderful rhyme, outrageous illustrations and playful sounds to teach basic reading skills. |
| *Author List - Scarry, Richard | Mr. Scarry deals with topics of transportation, careers and wonderful rhymes and poems. He has created unforgettable characters, such as Lowly Worm and Mr. Frumble. |
| *Author List - Mayer, Mercer | Mr. Mayer uses the life experiences of Critter to illustrate family relationships and different emotions. |
| *Title - Freight Train | Each page has one car of a train with easy names. |
| *Title - Go Dog Go | This is a book about all the things a dog can do. |
| *Title - Goodnight Moon | This story follows a little rabbit at bedtime as he says goodnight. |
| *Title - Green Eggs and Ham | In verse, Sam I am tells of the virtues of green eggs and ham. |
| *Title - Hop on Pop | A rhyming book. |
| *Title - In the Small, Small Pond | A rhyming text describes the activities of animal living in and near a small pond. |
| *Title - In the Tall, Tall Grass | A rhyming book about different creatures found in the grass. |
| *Title - Jack and the Beanstalk | A boy climbs to the top of a beanstalk and uses his wits to outsmart a giant. |
| *Title - Millions of Cats | A repetitive story about cats. |
| *Title - Moon Bear | A bear helps to describe the phases of the moon. |
| *Title - Rosie's Walk | The adventures of the fox as he tries to capture the little hen out for her morning walk. |
| *Title - Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Donkey asks a magic pebble to turn him into a rock. |
| *Title - The Blanket That Had To Go | A book about giving up security blankets and handling fears. |
| *Title - The Gingerbread Man | A repetitive theme in this story about a little old lady, a little old man and a gingerbread boy. |
| *Title - The Lazy Bear | A bear learns how to have the most with the least amount of work. |
| *Title - The Runaway Bunny | The story tells about all that a mother would go through to find her bunny. |
| *Title - There's a Nightmare in My Closet | A brave little boy solves the problem of monsters in the dark. |
| *Title - Very Busy Spider | A spider spins her web despite the other farm animals. |
| *Title - Very Hungry Caterpillar | A caterpillar eats his way through a variety of food and forms a cocoon and goes to sleep. |
| *Title - Where the Wild Things Are | A naughty little boy goes to the land of the "wild things" where he becomes their king. |
| *Title - Whistle for Willie | A young boy tries to learn to whistle. |
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| *Author List - Crews, Donald | He writes simple and predictable short stories. |
| *Author List - Mayer, Mercer | Mayer writes funny, scary stories that children enjoy. |
| *Author List - Asch, Frank | Mr. Asch writes simple repetitive fiction stories. |
| *Author List - Hoban, Tana | This author writes non-fiction simple concept books using photographs of everyday items. |
| *Author List - Silverstein, Shel | Silverstein writes funny poetry books and fiction stories. |
| *Author List - Prelutsky, Jack | This author writes funny poetry books. |
| *Author List - Galdone, Paul | Galdone writes fables and fiction stories that are funny. |
| *Author List - Fox, Mem | This author writes a variety of fiction stories that use animals to teach ideas such as how to treat friends. |
| * Author List - Isadora, Rachel | This author writes simple concept books |
| *Author List - Zolotow, Charlotte | Zolotow writes fiction books about feelings and stories about children's lives that are easy to relate to. |
| *Author List - Lionni, Leo | He writes fables and fiction stories that teach lessons about life. |
| *Author List - Sendak, Maurice | Mr. Sendak writes humorous books with a scary note in the stories. |
| *Author List - Lobel, Arnold | Lobel writes fables, funny stories, and short chapter books that use animals to teach lessons. |
| *Author List - Hutchins, Pat | Hutchins writes funny, repetitive stories that allow children to problem solve. |
| *Author List - Seuss, Dr. | Dr. Seuss writes repetitive rhyming, nonsense books that are funny and good for learning word families. |
| *Author List - Scarry, Richard | He writes non-fiction books about "How Things Work" and uses detailed cartoon illustrations that children enjoy. |
| *Author List - Carle, Eric | This author writes theme related picture books using wonderful illustrations and designs. |
| *Author List - Brown, Marc | This author uses repetitive language in his picture books. Children enjoy being able to recognize the patterns of writing. |
| *Author List - Berenstain, Jan & Stan | This team of authors write a series of books about a family of bears and how they cope with all types of situations. |
| *Author List - Rey, Margret and H.A. | These authors write a series of books about a curious monkey that often gets in trouble during daily activities. |
| *Author List - Bridwell, Norman | This author writes a series of books about an oversized dog and all of his escapades. |
| *Author List - dePaola, Tomie | This author writes both fiction and non-fiction stories that usually draw upon his childhood as a source of inspiration. Many of his stories have a moral at the end. |
| *Author List - Brett, Jan | This author/illustrator retells stories and writes her own original stories. Many of the books include animals and gorgeous detailed pictures. Her illustrations often inspire young artists to create their own pictures. |
| *Title - The Mixed Up Chameleon | This is a story about a chameleon who tries to remain one color so that he can "fit in" with his friends. |
| *Title - Can I keep him? | A little boy desperately wants a pet and thinks of many that he could perhaps have. His mother consistently answers "No" to the question, "Can I keep him?" |
| *Title - Clifford, The Big Red Dog | This book is a funny story about a gigantic dog and his owner. Together they have several exciting adventures. |
| *Title - Color Zoo | A unique book that combines colors, shapes and shape cut-outs to make interesting animal faces. |
| *Title - Dandelion | This story uses animals to teach the lesson that we should love ourselves for who we are. |
| *Title - Imogene's Antlers | One Thursday morning Imogene wakes up with a pair of antlers growing out of her head and causes a sensation wherever she goes. |
| *Title - Henry & Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps | A tale about a boy named Henry and his dog Mudge. It is a fun chapter book. |
| *Title - Is Your Mama a Llama? | A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are different types of animals. |
| *Title - Amelia Bedelia | Amelia is eager to please but with silly results. Read any book in this series. |
| *Title - Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? | This book is a unique way for children to learn their colors and be tested on their ability to differentiate between colors. |
| *Title - The Foot Book | This is a repetitive book about all kinds of feet. |
| *Title - Curious George | A funny story about a monkey brought to live in the city. Read any book in this series. |
| *Title - My Very First Mother Goose | This book is a beautiful collection of Mother Goose rhymes. |
| *Title - On Market Street | This book uniquely introduces children to different types of stores as well as each letter of the alphabet. |
| *Title - Opposites | This book clearly explains opposites that most children have already had some experience with. |
| *Title - Peter's Chair | A story about the adjustments children have to make when a new baby brother or sister arrive. |
| *Title - Round and Round and Round | This book shows children photographs of many objects to illustrate two and three dimensional circular shapes. |
| *Title - Sandcake | This is a true summer story. A bear's adventures at the beach are enchanting for children to read about bugs. |
| *Title - One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish | A rhyming book with silly characters. |
| *Title - The Icky Bug Counting Book | This book uses different types of bugs to demonstrate counting numbers, number words, and facts about bugs. |
| *Title - William's Doll | A boy receives a doll as a gift and his family learns to deal with their feelings about the subject. |
| *Title - Franklin Goes to School | A story about how a turtle feels getting ready for school the first time. |
| *Title - What Mary Jo Shared | This book tells the story of one little girl's fear about sharing in class. |
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| *Title - Arroz Con Leche | Children's songs of Latin America in Spanish and English. |
| *Title - Baby Sitters Little Sister | Seven-year-old Karen tells of her adventures in school at home and at play in the series. |
| *Title - Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds | Cam helps the police catch a diamond thief by using her photographic memory. |
| *Title - Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Television Dog | When Poochie the TV Dog is dog napped, Cam uses her detective skills to track him down. |
| *Title - Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the UFO | Children read to find out if Cam's friend, Eric, will win a contest with his photograph of creatures from outer space. |
| *Title - Caps for Sale | A band of mischievous monkeys steal every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree. |
| *Title - Chato's Kitchen | Chato, the cat, has craftily invited his neighbors, the Mice Family, over for dinner. But the mice bring a surprise guest--Chorizo, the dog. |
| *Title - Coconut Kind of Day | A collection of poems depicting the sights and sounds of the Caribbean islands. |
| *Title - Corduroy | A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things but when a girl finally buys him, he finds what he wanted most of all. |
| *Title - Emily and the Enchanted Frog | A story of a girl named Emily and an enchanted frog. |
| *Title- Every Time I Climb a Tree | A collection of poems for young readers. |
| *Title - Franklin Books | Books from this series tell about the experiences Franklin has with his friends, family and his innerself. |
| *Title - Hattie and the Fox | Warned by the hen that something is in the bushes, the other farm animals remain undisturbed until they find out it is a fox. |
| *Title - Henry and Mudge | The story of a boy named Henry and his big dog named Mudge. |
| *Title - I know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly | The popular rhyme book in which the solution proves worse than the predicament. |
| *Title - Mama, Do You Love Me? | A young girl asks how much her mother loves her, even when she is naughty. |
| *Title - Picture Book of Harriet Tubman | A brief account of the life and accomplishments of Harriet Tubman. |
| *Title - Rumpelstiltskin | A strange little man helps the Miller's daughter spin straw into gold. |
| *Title - Striped Ice Cream | Becky, the youngest in a loving family, feels shut out of the family activities as a birthday approaches. |
| *Title - Ten Bears In My Bed | This is a counting book that is fun to read. There is one bed with two bears in it to begin with. As the book progresses, the bed gets fuller and fuller. |
| *Title - Ten, Nine, Eight | A counting book which is also a story of a young girl getting ready for bed. |
| *Title - The Bailey School Kids | The kids at the Bailey School are always letting their imaginations run wild. Whether they suspect their art teacher is an alien or the cafeteria lady is really Cupid, they are always finding another wacky mystery to solve. |
| *Title - The Day of the Bad Haircut | After weeks of protesting, Molly finally allows her mother to cut her hair. But by the time Mom is done snipping, Molly looks like a boy. |
| *Title - The Doorbell Rang | This is a story about two children who have twelve cookies to eat. It is a counting book. |
| *Title - The Little Red Hen | This funny tale shows how a little hard work pays off in the end. |
| *Title - The Napping House | This is a funny book of rhymes telling what happens in the house at night. |
| *Title - The Random House Book of Mother Goose | This book has 306 nursery rhymes which are all very entertaining. |
| *Title - The Very Hungry Caterpillar | This is a fun book about growth. |
| *Title - Wiley and the Hairy Man | This is an adventure book about a boy and a magical troll. |
| *Title - You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown | When Amber Brown sets off to visit her Aunt Pam in London, she has a big plan to reunite her recently separated parents. Things go away when she discovers she has chicken pox. |
| *Author - Allard, Harry | He writes humorous books. |
| *Author - Brett, Jan | Most of Jans books have something to share about animals and nature. She also uses old folktales from other countries in her books. |
| *Author - Lionni, Leo | He writes fables and fiction stories that reach lessons about life. |
| *Author - Lobel, Arnold | Lobel writes fables, funny stories, and short chapter books that use animals to teach lessons. |
| *Author - Mayer, Mercer | Mayer writes funny, scary stories that children enjoy. |
| *Author - Parish, Peggy | Ms. Parish writes humorous fiction books. |
| *Author - Rylant, Cynthia | Cynthia loved animals as a child and she put a lot of animals in her books. She loves writing because she is free and that means a lot to her. She is free to write whenever she wishes, and she may write whatever she wishes. She loves writing books that are illustrated. |
| *Author - Seuss, Dr. | Dr. Suess uses wonderful rhyme, outrageous illustrations and playful sounds to teach basic reading skills. |
| *Author - Silverstein, Shel | Silverstein writes funny poetry books. |
| *Author - Steig, William | He writes childrens literature, fables, and picture books. |
| *Author - Viorst, Judith | Judith began writing poetry when she was seven years old. Most of her books are about her own children. She says she never writtes about real life events exactly the way they happened. She always uses her imagination. |
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| *Author List - Williams, Vera | Growing up, Vera and her older sister, Naomi, were encouraged to express their creative talents. She started doing books for children by remembering her emotions and experiences as a child. Vera has written such books as A Chair for My Mother (Caldecott Honor Book) and More, More, More, Cried the Baby (Caldecott Honor Book). |
| *Author List - DePaola, Tomie | Tomie dePaola's books include nonfiction and fiction, he generally draws upon his childhood as a source for inspiration and guidance. He has written such books as Strega Nona: An Old Tale (Caldecott Honor Book) and The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush. |
| *Author List - Cameron, Ann | From the time Ann Cameron was in the third grade, she knew she wanted to be a writer. She says that her desire to be a writer came from her love of books. She says, "A book is something like a message in a bottle that an author throws out to sea; you never know whom it might reach, or how much it might mean to them." Ann Cameron believes that writers should write the stories they want to write: "Your story, if it's really the way you want to tell it, can never be wrong the way an arithmetic answer is wrong; and even if your mother, your father, your teacher, or your best friend doesn't understand it, it's still right for you. |
| *Author List - Young, Ed | A Caldecott Medal winning illustrator. Ed Young believes that the creation of art involves much more than technical skill. Drawing and writing, he says, "are expressions of the inner rather than the outer person." He has written such books as The Emperor and the Kite (Caldecott Honor Book) and Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding-Hood Story from China (Caldecott Medal). |
| *Author List - Viorst, Judith | Judith Viorst began writing poetry when she was seven years old. She says she wrote, "terrible poems about dead dogs, mostly." She did not become a successful writer until she was grown and began writing about her own family. Most of her books are for or about her own children. She says she never writes about real life events exactly the way they happened. She always uses her imagination. |
| *Author List - Ringgold, Faith | Faith wrote about flying people in her first two books for children (Tar Beach and Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky). She tells children that she tells real tales about real people's lives. She says they weren't folk tales. Faith comments, "the scene for the Tar Beach story quilt came from what I saw when I looked out our apartment window. It even had my bridge, the George Washington Bridge, in the background. The quilt depicts, both in words and art, what life was like on the tar beaches. |
| *Author List - Greenfield, Eloise | Some of her books include Under the Sunday Tree, Me and Nessie, and Day Dreamers. Eloise writes about Ethnic groups and foreign lands. |
| *Author List - Cleary, Beverly | Beverly Cleary feels she gets her ideas from experience, from imagination, and from the world around her. Her work is valued for its humorous, yet sincere portrayals of childhood, adolescence, and the early teen years. |
| *Author List - Adler, David | David Adler writes stories about animals. Some of his books include My Dog and the Birthday Mystery, My Dog and the Key Mystery, The Carsick Zebra and Other Riddles. |
| *Author List - Hurwitz, Johanna | Johanna Hurwitz is a writer and illustrator of books for young people. She is also a children's librarian. She says, "My parents met in a bookstore, and there has never been a moment when books were not important in my life. I loved the library so much that I made the firm decision by age ten that someday I would become a librarian." At the same time, she planned that she would write books, too. Johanna Hurwitz says she writes many letters to friends and relatives. "I am sure the letter writing that I do has been the best type of training for my writing books." |
| *Author List - Hyman, Trina | Trina grew up in a rural area north of Philadelphia. Her favorite books were fairy tale, folk tale, or mythology collections - any anything that could transport her, via her imagination, to a new world. She has written Little Red Riding Hood (Caldecott Honor Book), Saint George and the Dragon (Caldecott Medal) and Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins (Caldecott Honor Book). |
| *Author List - Bunting, Eve | Bunting has written something for every age group--everything from young adult novels to picture books, on subjects ranging from homelessness (Fly Away Home), a modern day look at Civil War battlefield (The Blue and the Gray), The Irish village of Maghera where she was born (Market Day). Plenty of Bunting's books are pure fun and joy, such as Sunflower House, Scary, Scary Halloween, Dog Detective, or the forthcoming Ducky, about a yellow plastic duck. Her first published books were retellings of Irish folk tales. |
| *Author List - McKissak, Patrick | Patricia's grandfather used to tell her stories. Her grandfather also let her read to him almost every evening. Many years later, she decided to write her grandfather's story. She tried to be true to the way he talked. He was southern, so he had a different language pattern. Sometimes he made up words like "disremember." The book she wrote is called Flossie and the Fox and she had to rewrite it more than ten times before it was just right. |
| *Author List - Lobel, Arnold | Arnold Lobel was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Schenectady, New York. Lobel believed that a writer or illustrator must draw upon the events in his or her own life. Books he said, "have to come out of the things that I, as an author, am passionately interested in. He wrote the Frog and Toad series (Caldecott Honor Books and Newbery Honor Books) |
| *Author List - Pinkney, Jerry | Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a successful illustrator of such books as Turtle in July, The Talking eggs (Caldecott Honor Book), Mirandy and Brother Wind (Caldecott Honor Book), and The Adventures of Spider: West African Folk Tales. |
| *Author List - Polacco, Patricia | Patricia's father's family were Irish while her mother's family were Russian Jews. Her heritage is reflected in her many books which celebrate life in many lands. She shares her family's love of storytelling and brings vivid storytelling skills to her writing. Her book Thundercake is a wonderful story of how a little girl's grandma helps her overcome the fear of thunderstorms during the Michigan summer. her book Rechenka's Eggs, is a heart warming story of Old Babushka, known throughout Moskva for her beautiful painted eggs for the Easter festival. |
| *Author List - Waber, Bernard | Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bernard Waber believes that the most important aspect of writing is thinking about writing. The story Ira Sleeps Over, began with a simple idea: a boy is torn between the comfort of his teddy bear and his desire to go to a sleep over. By writing and thinking about the idea, new dimensions of the story began to emerge. |
| *Author List - Prelutsky, Jack | Jack Prelutsky has written nearly one thousand poems for children, compiling then in thematic collections such as It's Christmas and larger anthologies such as the best-selling The New Kid on the Block. He ended up writing poetry because he drew a series of imaginary creatures in his spare time. One evening he looked at them and decided they needed poems to go with them. |
| *Author List - Cooney, Barbara | Barbara Cooney writes and illustrates her books for young people. She also illustrates books by other authors. She won the Caldecott Medal for Chanticleer and the Fox. This story was first told by Geoffrey Chaucer, and English poet who lived in the 1300s. Barbara Cooney retold Chaucer's story and illustrated it with beautiful drawings. She has illustrated more than 100 books for children. |
| *Author List - Rylant, Cynthia | Cynthia loved animals as a child and she put a lot of animals in her books. she loves writing because she is free and that means a lot to her. She is free to write whenever she wishes, and she may write whatever he wishes. She is free to be lazy and watch old cartoons on TV, and she is free to stay up all night writing a book of poetry. She loves writing books that are illustrated. They are beautiful to see and the paper is so nice and shiny, and the colors so beautiful and rich. She says that picture books glow in your hand, and they never get boring. They also last all your life. Cynthia says that playing is still the greatest training you can have for being a writer. Her books include The Relatives Came, and Henry and Mudge. |
| *Author List - Aardema, Verna | She began writing stories because her little girl liked to listen to a story while she was eating. "She could make a scrambled egg last all the way through "Little Red Riding Hood," so I began to make up little feeding stories. That way she didn't know how far off the end would be." Verna Aardema began writing and publishing the stories she told to her daughter. These "feeding" stories tended to be set in Ashantiland or the Kalahari because she often read about Africa. She would adapt and retell folktales from other lands for young American readers. Hall marks of Aardema's stories are expressive animal characters speaking in ideophones. |
| *Author List - Sendak, Maurice | Maurice Sendak loved to have his father read aloud to him at night before bedtime. He loved to read. He began his work as an illustrator while he was still in high school He helped in drawing the pictures from the comic strip, Mutt and Jeff . He is a man of many talents. He designed wooden toys with his brother. He did lyrics for an animated film for television called Really Rosie which is from his books, the Nutshell Library. He has written the words for an opera, Where the Wild Things Are, based on his classic children's book. |
| *Title - Red Ribbon Rosie | Rosie's decision to cheat in order to win a race has disastrous results. |
| *Title - Dog That Stole Home | When his telepathic dog Harry is grounded for nipping another dog, Mike wonders how he'll ever make it through the baseball game without his advice. |
| *Title - Tuesday's Child | Although Grace intends to become the first female in baseballs big leagues, Grace's mother insists she take ballet lessons on the very days her little league team practices and plays. |
| *Title - The Great McGoniggle's Key Play | While collecting money for charity in front of a supermarket, two boys become inadvertently involved in a jewel theft. |
| *Title - Jamaica's Find | A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home. |
| *Title - Keep the Lights Burning Abbie | In easy ready reader format, this fictionalized biographical sketch tell of one month in Abbie Burgess' life when a storm left her father on the mainland and Abbie to care for her sick mother and her siblings. |
| *Title - Knots on a Counting Rope | One dark night, a young Indian boy sits with his grandfather and persuades him to once again tell the story of his origin. |
| *Title - Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | The story of Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel that dig the biggest hole ever. |
| *Title - Moorchild | Moorchild becomes a changeling, half-human, half - Folk, an outcast in both worlds. It is an exploration of the growing up feeling of being different in the world. |
| *Title - Oxcart Man | This story describes the day to day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons. |
| *Title - Starry Messenger | A book depicting the life of the famous scientist, Galileo Galilei. |
| *Title - The Graphic Alphabet | The traditional from of the alphabet book is reinvented using computer imagery. |
| *Title - The Jolly Postman or Other people's Letters | A postman delivers letters to fairy tale and folk tale characters. |
| *Title - The Paperboy | The boy wakes in the darkness, bundles his newspapers and accompanied by his faithful dog, delivers the daily papers. |
| *Title - The View From Saturday | A special bond develops among four sixth graders along with their teacher to comprise a successful Academic Bowl team. |
| *Title - Red Ribbon Rosie | Rosie's decision to cheat in order to win a race has disastrous results. |
| *Title - The Dog that Stole Home | When his telepathic dog Harry is grounded for nipping another dog, Mike wonders how he'll ever make it through the baseball game without his advice. |
| *Title - Tuesday's Child | Although Grace intends to become the first female in baseballs big leagues, Grace's mother insists she take ballet lessons on the very days her little league team practices and plays. |
| *Title - The Great McGoniggle Switches Pitches | While collecting money for charity in front of a Supermarket, two boys become inadvertently involved in a jewel theft. |
| *Title - A Girl Named Disaster | An eleven-year-old girl flees her village in Mozambique and while searching for her father, she is lost on a vast lake. It is a story of survival. |
| *Title - A House is a House for Me | A story in rhyme that gallops across scenes of insects, animals, people and things with the theme of houses. |
| *Title - A Weed Is a Flower | In brief, easy reader format, Aliki captures simply the story of a man born a slave who became a great research scientist. |
| *Title - Belle Prater's Boy | A cousin comes to live next door bringing with him the mystery of his mother's curious disappearance. |
| *Title - Crow Boy | Chibi is too shy to participate in school in this Japanese village until a teacher helps him to bloom and change as symbolized by the book's and papers. |
| *Title - Dr. De Soto | A clever mouse dentist tricks a fox patient. |
| *Title - Galimoto | An African boy decided to make a "galimoto", a vehicle made of wires. |
| *Title - Golem | This book deals with the themes of power and redemption. |
| *Title - Hush! A Thai Lullaby | A mother warns a crying mosquito, a leaping frog, and a swinging monkey not to wake her sleeping child in the bedtime story. |
| *Title - I Want a Dog | May badgers her parents for a pet dog but they refuse. so May finds a substitute and eventually wins over her parents. |
| *Title - I'll Meet You At the Cucumbers | Adam Mouse considers his own country world the ultimate until his pen pal invites him to the city. |
| *Title - Julian, Secret Agent (AR) | When Julian, his little brother Huey, and their friend Gloria decide to be "crime busters" they find themselves in one adventure after another. |
| *Title - Her Seven Brothers (AR) | Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper. |
| *Title - The Hundred Penny Box (AR) | Michael's love for his great-great-aunt, who lives with them leads him to intercede with his mother who wants to toss out all of her old things. |
| *Title - Annie and the Old One (AR) | A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes will mean the death of her grandmother. |
| *Title - The Boxcar Children (AR) | Four orphans, two boys and two girls, set up housekeeping in an old boxcar. |
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| *Author List - Cosgrove, Stephen | Mr. Cosgrove deals with life --whether it's a simple thing like clean up your room or more complex such as dealing with the death of a loved one. |
| *Author List - Cole, Joanna | A writer of fiction and nonfiction for children, Ms. Cole is best known for the science books she has created such as the Magic School Bus series. |
| *Author List - Neville Emily | Born in 1919, she wrote fiction novels. Her books have dealt with topics ranging from death of a sibling and the Nazi occupation of Denmark, to the humorous antics of the rebellious Anastasia Krupnick. |
| *Author List - Hamilton, Virginia | Ms. Hamilton is one of todays most prolific and influential authors of children's books. Her work is a mixture of realism, history, myth, and folklore. |
| *Author List - Fleischman, Sid | As a child, Sid wanted to be a magician. He gave up that dream to follow a calling to write. His stories are a favorite of kids. |
| *Author List - Cleary, Beverly | Born in 1916, Beverly has enjoyed the praise of audiences and critics for over 40 years. Her work is valued for its humorous, yet sincere portrayals of childhood, adolescence, and the early teen years. |
| *Author List - Blos, Joan | Born in 1928 in New York city, she wrote many children's works such as It's Spring, She Said, A Gathering of Days, and Brothers of the Heart. |
| *Title - All Time Great World Series | Stories of baseball. |
| *Title - Amazing Grace | Although a classmate says that she can't play Peter Pan in the school play because she's black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to. |
| *Title - Benjamin Franklin | A biography of the young Philadelphia printer who grew up to become a world-renowned author, diplomat, scientist, and inventor and one of the founding fathers of the U.S. |
| *Title - Fourth Grade Rats | "Rats" aren't afraid of spiders, don't carry bag lunch boxes and never cry. But Suds wishes he was still a third grader. |
| *Title - Helen Keller (by: Graff, Stewart) | A Biography of the blind and deaf woman who rose above her disabilities. |
| *Title - Home Is Where Your Family Is | A Newberry winner about a family constantly on the move. |
| *Title - Lindburgh | A biography about his childhood as well as his famous transatlantic flight. |
| *Title - Paul Bunyon | Story of an extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many adventures. |
| *Title - Slime Time | Danny and Jed become contestants in the TV show Slime Time. |
| *Title - The Great Kapok Tree | The different animals of the rain forest try to convince the man not to cut down the Kapok tree. |
| *Title - The Terrible Eek | A father's fear of the terrible Eek saves him from a thief and a wolf. |
| *Title - The Trumpet of the Swan | Louis the Trumpeter Swan lacks voice but his father has a bold alternative. |
| *Title - Ramona the Brave | Ramona struggles with the trials of growing up. |
| The BFG | Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant concoct a plan to save the world from nine other mean giants. |
| If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand | Poems about the ups and downs of elementary school. |
| Courage of Sarah Noble | A story about a brave eight year old who goes with her father into the wilderness in 1707. |
| George Washington's Breakfast | George W. Allen named after Washington wants to learn everything about the first president. |
| The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales | Folktales told by slaves. |
| Pippi Longstocking | A lucky little girl lives with a horse and a monkey-but without her parents. |
| Charlotte's Web | The loving story of a little girl, a pig, and a beautiful gray spider. |
| Where the Sidewalk ends | A book of silly poems about learning and growing up. |
| Magic School Bus (Ocean Floor) | A zany teacher takes her class on a learning tour of the ocean floor. |
| Amber brown goes to 4th grade | Amber deals with problems as she enters 4th grade- her best friend moves and parents divorce. |
| Wreck of the Zephyr | A fantasy story about a storm and a lost ship and a boy who's desire is to sail. |
| Boxcar Children, Mystery Detective | Resoureful children make home for themselves in an old box car. |
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| *Author List - Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Laura was a teacher and an author. Her novels are based on her own past. Her work was adapted for the TV series "Little House On The Prairie" and the Broadway show "Prairie". |
| *Author List - White, E.B. | White is best know for his book charlotte's Web. All of his juvenile books were written on his Maine farm. |
| *Author List - Paulsen, Gary | A prolific writer in a number of genres, Gary is acclaimed as the author of powerful young adult fiction. Usually set in wilderness areas, his books feature teenagers who learn about themselves as they test their survival instincts. |
| *Author List - Pascal, Francine | Prolific writer of books such as the Sweet Valley High Series. |
| *Author List - O'Dell, Scott | Scott is an author of many award winning books. Personal experiences, favorite stories, and both happy memories motivates his novels. The plots are often conventional, but suspenseful enough to hold attention. |
| *Author List - Martin, Ann | Ann "just might be queen of the children's bestsellers". Her memories of childhood events, such as summers at the beach, figure prominently in her fiction. |
| *Author List - MacLachlan, Patricia | Her books derive chiefly from her family life. She writes in a style that appeals to young teens. Her book, Sarah, Plain and Tall is perhaps her most known work. |
| *Author List - Lowry, Lois | Lois wrote 21 juvenile novels. Lowry's books have dealt with topics ranging from death of a sibling and the Nazi occupation of Denmark, to the humorous antics of the rebellious Anastasia Krupnick. |
| *Author List - London, Jack | Novelist, short story writer, and political essayist. He writes suspenseful entertaining novels. |
| *Author List - Lewis, C.S. | Lewis wrote many adult novels but his juvenile works are impressive. His works range from the scholarly to science fiction, from religious to the delightful "Narnia" series of children's stories. |
| *Author List - Keene, Caroline | This is a collective pseudonym for the "Dana Girls" and "Nancy Drew" series. These mysteries are enjoyed by girls since the 1930's. |
| *Author List - Dixon, Franklin | This is a collective pseudonym for the "Hardy Boys" and "Ted Scott Flying Stories series. Join teenage sleuths Frank and Joe Hardy as they solve many thrilling cases. |
| *Author List - Dahl, Roald | 1916-1990, Robert's children's fiction is known for its sudden turns into the fantastic, its wheeling fast-moving prose, and its decidedly harsh treatment of any adults foolish enough to cause the young heroes trouble. |
| *Author List - Conford, Ellen | Initially, a picture book author, Ellen's later books are for older children. She depicts situations familiar to her audiences and often uses an entertaining style based on funny characters and witty dialogue. Her themes recur: Believe in yourself! |
| *Author List - Cleary, Beverly | Cleary has enjoyed the praise of audiences and critics for over 40 years. Her work is valued for its humorous, yet sincere portrayals of childhood, adolescence, and the early teen years. She has captivated children and their parents with her unique ability to recreate the everyday joys and sorrows of childhood. |
| *Author List - Byars, Betsy | Byars is one of the most popular and prolific authors of contemporary
realistic fiction for middle grade readers. She is lauded for creating
advenuous works that blend humor and sympathy to address the universal
emotions of childhood.
She frequently portrays the growth of respect and understanding between child and adult characters. |
| *Author List - Bunting, Eve | Eve Bunting has written many novels and short stories in addition to authoring stories for basal readers. She has a science fiction series, a romance series, a horse series, a dinosaur series as well as other books. |
| *Author List - Bulla, Clyde Robert | Clyde is an award winning and prolific children's author whose works demonstrate that he hasn't forgotten what it's like to be a child. His quick paced plots appeal to readers as does his subject matter of historical fiction, religious stories, opera plots and stories set in contemporary America and foreign lands. |
| *Author List - Blume, Judy | Judy has become one of the most popular and controversial authors for children. Her accessible humorous style and direct, sometimes explicit treatment of youthful concerns have won her fans and critics. Her works are entertaining and thought provoking. |