ALA Notable Children's Book2005

Given by Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)

78 Works 69,528 Books 4,017 Reviews 4.1
Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the Notables Criteria, "notable" is defined as: show more Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding. As applied to children's books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways. show less
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Years:
All, 2023 (97), 2022 (124), 2021 (93), 2020 (115), 2019 (109), 2018 (96), 2017 (95), 2016 (116), 2015 (105), 2014 (93), 2013 (79), 2012 (102), 2011 (69), 2010 (73), 2009 (74), 2008 (76), 2007 (94), 2006 (100), 2005 (78), 2004 (61), 2003 (66), 2002 (88), 2001 (72), 2000 (70), 1999 (61), 1998 (41), 1997 (59), 1996 (74), 1995 (65), 1993; Older Readers, 1995 (1), 1994; Older Readers, 1995 (1), 1994 (69), 1993 (60), 1992 (1), 1991 (4), 1990 (3), 1987 (1), 1986 (2), 1984 (2), 1983 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1976 (2), 1973 (1), 1971 (1), 1940-1970 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (2), 1966 (1), 1965 (2), 1964 (3), 1963 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (2), 1959 (1), 1940-1959 (1), 1958 (2), 1955 (2), 1954 (1), 1952 (1), 1951 (1), 1950 (1), 1942 (1), 1941 (1)
WorkYear
Under the Spell of the Moon: Art for Children from the World's Great Illustrators by Patricia Aldana
2005
The Fire-Eaters by David Almond
2005
Home by Jeannie Baker
2005
My Light by Molly Bang
2005
Baby Danced the Polka by Karen Beaumont
2005
César: ¡Sí, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
2005
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
2005
The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove by Bodil Bredsdorff
2005
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein by Don Brown
2005
Guji Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen
2005
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
2005
Daniel Half-Human by David Chotjewitz
2005
The Big House by Carolyn Coman
2005
The Neighborhood Mother Goose by Nina Crews
2005
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
2005
Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle
2005
Remember D-Day: Both Sides Tell Their Stories by Ronald J. Drez
2005
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue by Karen English
2005
The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst
2005
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
2005
The Oracle Betrayed: Book One of The Oracle Prophecies by Catherine Fisher
2005
Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman
2005
Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox
2005
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
2005
Doodler Doodling by Rita Golden Gelman
2005
Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems by John Grandits
2005
What is Goodbye? by Nikki Grimes
2005
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
2005
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
2005
The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
2005
Merlin and the Making of the King by Margaret Hodges
2005
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip M. Hoose
2005
Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) across the Plains by Deborah Hopkinson
2005
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
2005
Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance by Marthe Jocelyn
2005
Bird by Angela Johnson
2005
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2005
Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley
2005
Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains by Barbara Knutson
2005
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg
2005
Selavi, That Is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope by Youme Landowne
2005
Heck Superhero by Martine Leavitt
2005
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
2005
Ruby Lu, Brave and True by Lenore Look
2005
Fish by L. S. Matthews
2005
Indigo's Star by Hilary McKay
2005
A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 by Diane McWhorter
2005
The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery
2005
Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
2005
Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen by Marissa Moss
2005
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers
2005
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
2005
Wow! City! by Robert Neubecker
2005
Is This Forever, or What?: Poems & Paintings from Texas by Naomi Shihab Nye
2005
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
2005
The Little Gentleman by Philippa Pearce
2005
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
2005
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
2005
If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky
2005
Tiger on a Tree by Anushka Ravishankar
2005
The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard by Gregory Rogers
2005
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford
2005
Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan
2005
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides by Rosalyn Schanzer
2005
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
2005
Science Verse by Jon Scieszka
2005
Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
2005
Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
2005
The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman
2005
Wild About Books by Judy Sierra
2005
The Train of States by Peter Sís
2005
The Shadows of Ghadames by Joelle Stolz
2005
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
2005
Polar Bear Night by Lauren Thompson
2005
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
2005
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
2005
Coming On Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson
2005
Teeth Tails and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book by Christopher Wormell
2005

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