Controversial Books

This page shows your 100 most controversial books, as measured by the standard deviation of members star ratings. (This is also the source of the Zeitgeist category "25 Books People Can't Agree on.") To be included, a book must have been rated at least 20 times. Work titles are given.

Standard Deviation	Rating	Title
1.197	3.3	White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
1.194	3.63	My Heart is on the Ground : the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl by Ann Rinaldi
1.167	3.78	Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping by Peggy Parish
1.16	3.85	A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
1.151	3.6	The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
1.123	3.73	The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel
1.074	3.86	Car Wash by Sandra Steen
1.072	4.01	Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy (Nature) by II Carl R. Sams
1.044	4.19	Abiyoyo: Based on a South African Lullaby and Folk Story by Pete Seeger
1.043	3.88	Of Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647 by William Bradford
1.039	3.97	Pete's a Pizza by William Steig
1.032	3.93	Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith
1.027	4.17	Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
1.013	4.1	When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books) by Cynthia Rylant
1.012	3.86	Hantao Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill
0.998	3.65	Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature by Alison Lurie
0.995	3.99	Pigsty by Mark Teague
0.992	3.52	The Moon Lady (Aladdin Picture Books) by Amy Tan
0.991	4.12	Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories [Gertrude McFuzz/The Big Brag] by Dr. Seuss
0.988	4.03	How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting
0.987	3.8	Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence by T. C. McLuhan
0.987	4.05	Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae
0.982	3.69	Black and White by David Macaulay
0.977	3.8	The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
0.977	3.97	Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (An Owlet Book) by Gerald McDermott
0.976	4.01	The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun
0.975	4.02	Happy to Be Nappy (Jump at the Sun) by bell hooks
0.971	3.94	Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Muriel Feelings
0.969	3.72	Knots on a Counting Rope (Reading Rainbow Book) by Bill Martin, Jr.
0.968	3.81	The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy
0.968	3.53	Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
0.967	3.95	Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert
0.963	3.56	The First Strawberries (Picture Puffin) by Joseph Bruchac
0.962	4.34	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
0.959	3.81	The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
0.954	4.43	The Story Of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
0.952	4.34	Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
0.951	4.03	Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
0.95	4.11	The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
0.949	3.94	Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka
0.948	4.15	Whoever You Are by Mem Fox
0.947	3.93	Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee
0.947	4.05	The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
0.943	3.92	National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather by David Ludlum
0.942	3.97	Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott
0.942	3.91	Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
0.941	3.72	The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni
0.94	4.16	Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
0.937	3.67	Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
0.934	4.27	Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn-- And Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
0.933	4.11	Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
0.933	3.73	Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott
0.933	4.15	Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
0.929	3.94	Abuela (English Edition with Spanish Phrases) (Picture Puffins) by Arthur Dorros
0.928	3.62	When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
0.926	3.75	I Went Walking by Sue Williams
0.923	4.07	Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse
0.921	4.21	One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
0.917	4.01	Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
0.917	4	Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt
0.914	4.16	Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
0.909	4.21	The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
0.908	3.93	Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
0.906	4.33	Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
0.906	4.09	Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
0.905	4.28	Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
0.904	4.23	In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
0.904	4.07	The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth by Joanna Cole
0.903	4.27	King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
0.901	3.98	500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians by Alvin M. Jr Josephy
0.901	4.01	God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria Jr.
0.895	4.05	The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body by Joanna Cole
0.894	3.95	Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
0.893	3.96	Golem by David Wisniewski
0.89	4.19	Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You by Clare Walker Leslie
0.889	4	The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
0.885	4.01	The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
0.883	3.74	Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks
0.883	3.53	Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture by Mario Salvadori
0.883	3.83	In My Family/En mi familia by Carmen Lomas Garza
0.882	4.3	The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
0.88	4.36	Tuesday by David Wiesner
0.878	3.92	Snowballs by Lois Ehlert
0.877	4.2	Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
0.875	4.28	Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang
0.874	4.09	Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric A. Kimmel
0.872	4.37	The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
0.869	3.95	Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
0.866	4.12	Duck for President by Doreen Cronin
0.866	4.13	Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
0.863	4.12	Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
0.863	4.15	A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
0.859	4.34	Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
0.857	4.1	Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
0.853	4.24	How Are You Peeling?: Foods with Moods by Saxton Freymann
0.853	4.31	Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson
0.85	4.1	The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
0.849	4.25	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
0.849	3.8	Tatterhood and Other Tales by Ethel Johnston Phelps
0.846	3.28	Zia by Scott O'Dell

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