Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Children's Books1971

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Other Names: Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Best Children's Book, Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Books for Children
200 Works 56,086 Books 1,027 Reviews ½ 4.0
Annual best-books selection from the Children's Literature Center of the Library of Congress, produced 1964-1983 under the direction of Virginia Haviland.

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Continued by Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Books for Children

1975-1978, 1982 pending addition. All other yesrs believed complete but unverified.
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Categories:
All, Arts and Hobbies (142), Biography (138), Fiction for Older Readers (95), Folklore (105), Folklore and Literature (40), Foreign Languages (5), History, Peoples, and Places (193), Nature and Science (262), Picture and Picture-Story Books (366), Poems, Rhymes, and Verbal Fun (8), Poetry (7), Poetry and Rhymes (51), Poetry, Plays, and Bible Stories (23), Poetry, Plays, and Essays (11), Science and Nature (30), Stories for Older Boys and Girls (236), Stories for the Middle Group (434), No Category (1,274)
Years:
All, 1995 (52), 1994 (12), 1990 (84), 1989 (1), 1986 (110), 1983 (168), 1982? (1), 1979, 1981 (3), 1981 (94), 1979, 1980 (2), 1980 (116), 1979 (118), 1971; 1979? (1), 1964-1978 (512), 1974 (71), 1973 (202), 1972 (196), 1971 (200), 1970 (215), 1969 (225), 1968 (222), 1967 (206), 1966 (204), 1965 (204), 1964 (198)
WorkCategoryYear
Masks (Little craft book series) by Chester Jay Alkema
Arts and Hobbies1971
Holly, Reindeer, and Colored Lights: The Story of the Christmas Symbols by Edna Barth
Arts and Hobbies1971
Of Course You Can Sew by Barbara Corrigan
Arts and Hobbies1971
Card and cardboard by Franklin Watts Inc
Arts and Hobbies1971
The Art of the Southwest Indians by Shirley Glubok
Arts and Hobbies1971
The Bread Book: All About Bread and How to Make It (Voyager Book ; Avb 106) by Carolyn Meyer
Arts and Hobbies1971
Boxed-in doll houses by Betsy Pflug
Arts and Hobbies1971
Costumes for you to make by Susan Gold Purdy
Arts and Hobbies1971
El Toro Pinto And Other Songs in Spanish by Anne Rockwell
Arts and Hobbies1971
The Seeing Eye. by Victor B. Scheffer
Arts and Hobbies1971
Lens and shutter; an introduction to photography by Harvey Weiss
Arts and Hobbies1971
Gandhi, by Olivia E. Coolidge
Biography1971
The Life of Malcolm X by Richard Curtis
Biography1971
Pablo Picasso;: An introduction by Howard Greenfeld
Biography1971
Mendelssohn (The Great composers) by Michael Hurd
Biography1971
The hidden contributors: Black scientists and inventors in America by Aaron E. Klein
Biography1971
Shalom Golda by Terry Morris
Biography1971
Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood by Willie Morris
Biography1971
Emmeline and her daughters: The Pankhurst suffragettes by Iris Noble
Biography1971
Paintbrush & Peacepipe: The Story of George Catlin by Anne F. Rockwell
Biography1971
The Making Of An Afro-american: Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885 by Dorothy Sterling
Biography1971
His was the voice; the life of W. E. B. Du Bois by Emma (Gelders) Sterne
Biography1971
The Buffalo King: The Story of Scotty Philip by Nancy Veglahn
Biography1971
The man who built a city : a life of Sir Christopher Wren. by Rosemary Weir
Biography1971
American painter in Paris; a life of Mary Cassatt by Ellen Janet (Cameron) Wilson
Biography1971
Night Fall by Joan Aiken
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The man from the sea by J. S Andrews
Fiction for Older Readers1971
I thought you were a unicorn, and other stories by Paul Darcy Boles
Fiction for Older Readers1971
A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor Cameron
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Iron Mountain by Mavis Thorpe Clark
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The Mock Revolt by Vera Cleaver
Fiction for Older Readers1971
This Is a Recording by Barbara Corcoran
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Somebody will miss me by Deborah Crawford
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Emma Tupper's Diary by Peter Dickinson
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The Link boys = Tom Hawke by Constance Fecher
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris by Leon Garfield
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The Seal-Singing by Rosemary Harris
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Wolf Run: A Caribou Eskimo Tale by James Houston
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The Thirteenth Member by Mollie Hunter
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The master of miracle; a new novel of the Golem by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Pulga by Siny van Iterson
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The Healer by Daniel P. Mannix
Fiction for Older Readers1971
A Game of Dark by William Mayne
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Hunt Down the Prize by Sheila Moon
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Pennington's Seventeenth Summer by K. M. Peyton
Fiction for Older Readers1971
My kingdom for a grave by Stephanie Plowman
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Almost Year by Florence Engel Randall
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Vengeance of the Zulu king by Jenny Seed
Fiction for Older Readers1971
By the Highway Home by Mary Stolz
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Linnet by Sally Watson
Fiction for Older Readers1971
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fiction for Older Readers1971
Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfeld
Fiction for Older Readers1971
King Arthur in Fact and Legend by Geoffrey Ashe
Folklore1971
The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales by Ashley Bryan
Folklore1971
Three stone woman by Glo Coalson
Folklore1971
The pedlar of Swaffham by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Folklore1971
The book of wishes and wishmaking by Duncan Emrich
Folklore1971
Daedalus and Icarus. by Penelope Farmer
Folklore1971
Fourteen hundred cowries, and other African tales by Abayomi Fuja
Folklore1971
The God Beneath the Sea by Leon Garfield
Folklore1971
The Kaha Bird: Tales from the Steppes of Central Asia by Mirra Ginsburg
Folklore1971
Tales of Mogho; African stories from Upper Volta by Frederic Guirma
Folklore1971
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Denmark by Virginia Haviland
Folklore1971
Gassire's Lute: A West African Epic by Alta Jablow
Folklore1971
The Moon Painters and Other Estonian Folk Tales by Selve Maas
Folklore1971
About Wise Men and Simpletons: Twelve Tales from Grimm by Elizabeth Shub
Folklore1971
Tristan and Iseult by Rosemary Sutcliff
Folklore1971
Hawaiian Tales of Heroes and Champions (Kolowalu Books) by Vivian L. Thompson
Folklore1971
Tales the people tell in China, by Robert Wyndham
Folklore1971
Tooni, the elephant boy by Astrid Bergman Sucksdorff
History, Peoples, and Places1971
The quest for Atlantis by John Stewart Bowman
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Great civilizations of ancient Africa by Lester Brooks
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad' by Mary Cable
History, Peoples, and Places1971
From Vietnam to Cambodia: A Background Book About the Struggle in Southeast Asia. by Hal Dareff
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Ireland: the edge of Europe by Arnold Dobrin
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Taiwan: The Other China by I. G. Edmonds
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Camera on Ghana; the world of a young fisherman by Victor Englebert
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Dahomey by F. Blanche Foster
History, Peoples, and Places1971
State capital cities by Delia Goetz
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Arms and armor in Africa by Helmut Nickel
History, Peoples, and Places1971
This is Australia by Miroslav Šašek
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Air Raid--Pearl Harbor!: The Story of December 7, 1941 by Theodore Taylor
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Reconstruction: The Great Experiment, by Allen W. Trelease
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Athens at war by Rex Warner
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Shurik: A WWII Saga of the Siege of Leningrad by Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Continent in turmoil: a background book on Latin America by Byron Williams
History, Peoples, and Places1971
A Time for Courage: The Story of the Declaration of Independence. by Esmond Wright
History, Peoples, and Places1971
Mysteries from the past; stories of scientific detection from Nature and science magazine by Thomas G. Aylesworth
Nature and Science1971
Enzymes in Action by Melvin Berger
Nature and Science1971
The Nightwatchers by Angus Cameron
Nature and Science1971
Look what I found! by Marshal T Case
Nature and Science1971
Watchers in the Wild: The New Science of Ethology. by Daniel Cohen
Nature and Science1971
Cockroaches by Joanna Cole
Nature and Science1971
The balance of living; survival in the animal world by Margaret Rice Cooper
Nature and Science1971
Our Dirty Air by Sarah M Elliott
Nature and Science1971
Me and My Bones by Roy A. Gallant
Nature and Science1971
Space Puzzles: Curious Questions and Answers About the Solar System by Martin Gardner
Nature and Science1971
Guardians of tomorrow; pioneers in ecology by S. Carl Hirsch
Nature and Science1971
Collecting Small Fossils by Lois Jackson Hussey
Nature and Science1971
Scaly wings; a book about moths and their caterpillars by Ross E. Hutchins
Nature and Science1971
What Does a Bee See? by D. C. Ipsen
Nature and Science1971
Winds and weather by John Kaufmann
Nature and Science1971
Cold against disease by Lucy Kavaler
Nature and Science1971
Of Man and Mouse by Patricia Lauber
Nature and Science1971
Animal movers; a collection of ecological surprises by George Laycock
Nature and Science1971
Birds in the Street: The City Pigeon Book by Winifred Lubell
Nature and Science1971
The earth's crust by William H. Matthews
Nature and Science1971
The Blue Whale by Kazue Mizumura
Nature and Science1971
Graph Games, (Young Math Books) by Frederique Papy
Nature and Science1971
Aquarium Fish from Around the World by Klaus Paysan
Nature and Science1971
The day they parachuted cats on Borneo; a drama of ecology by Charlotte Pomerantz
Nature and Science1971
Animals in the night; senses in action after dark by J. H. Prince
Nature and Science1971
One earth, many people; the challenge of human population growth by Laurence P. Pringle
Nature and Science1971
Octopus by Evelyn S. Shaw
Nature and Science1971
Living Lanterns: Luminescence in Animals by Hilda Simon
Nature and Science1971
Chipmunks on the Doorstep by Edwin Tunis
Nature and Science1971
Curious Ways of Common Birds by Robert Henry, Wright
Nature and Science1971
A Woggle of Witches by Adrienne Adams
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Ma nda la by Arnold Adoff
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Nobody Asked Me If I Wanted a Baby Sister by Martha Alexander
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Upside Downers: More Pictures to Stretch the Imagination by Mitsumasa Anno
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Look What I Can Do by Jose Aruego
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Lisen kan inte sova by Kaj Beckman
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
the hunting trip by Robert Burch
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Go and Hush the Baby by Betsy Byars
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Harry's Bee by Peter Campbell
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Do You Want to Be My Friend? by Eric Carle
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
If All The Seas Were One Sea by Janina Domanska
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Bear Circus by William Pène Du Bois
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book by Muriel Feelings
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Shrewbettina's Birthday by John S. Goodall
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
The bears who stayed indoors by Susanna Gretz
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
LOOK AGAIN! by Tana Hoban
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
When Will It Snow? by Syd Hoff
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Changes, Changes by Pat Hutchins
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Can I Keep Him? by Steven Kellogg
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
The Fat Cat: A Danish Folktale by Jack Kent
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Joey and the birthday present by Maxine Kumin
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed into Town by Arnold Lobel
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
The tortoise's tug of war by Giulio Maestro
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
If I Built a Village. by Kazue Mizumura
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Do you have the time, Lydia? by Evaline Ness
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Theodore's Rival by Edward Ormondroyd
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Hey riddle diddle; a book of traditional riddles by Rodney Peppé
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
The Toolbox by Anne Rockwell
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Hildilid's Night by Cheli Durán Ryan
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Charles by Liesel Moak Skorpen
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Amos & Boris by William Steig
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Up on a hilltop (A Watts international picture book) by Kota Taniuchi
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Father Fox's Pennyrhymes by Clyde Watson
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Brian Wildsmith's Puzzles by Brian Wildsmith
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Sixes and Sevens by John Yeoman
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
A Penny a Look: An Old Story by Harve Zemach
Picture and Picture-Story Books1971
Haiku: The Mood of Earth by Ann Atwood
Poetry1971
In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations by John Bierhorst
Poetry1971
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Poetry1971
David He No Fear, by Lorenz B. Graham
Poetry1971
The Trees Stand Shining by Hettie Jones
Poetry1971
I Am a Man: Ode to Martin Luther King, Jr. by Eve Merriam
Poetry1971
Persephone: Bringer of Spring by Sarah F. Tomaino
Poetry1971
The Cuckoo Tree by Joan Aiken
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Goody Hall by Natalie Babbitt
Stories for the Middle Group1971
As tall as a spear, by Leona Bond
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Nothing Said by L. M. Boston
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The Shades by Betty Brock
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Viento salvaje de verano by Bo Carpelan
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The Prettiest Gargoyle by William Corbin
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The Easter Cat by Meindert DeJong
Stories for the Middle Group1971
What's the prize, Lincoln? by Dale Fife
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Jingo Django by Sid Fleischman
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Who Really Killed Cock Robin? by Jean Craighead George
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The magic mirrors by Judith Berry Griffin
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The Shrinking of Treehorn by Florence Parry Heide
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The making of Joshua Cobb by Margaret Hodges
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Boss Cat by Kristin Hunter
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson
Stories for the Middle Group1971
A Cat Called Camouflage by Cordelia Jones
Stories for the Middle Group1971
It happened in Chichipica by Francis Kalnay
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Insect summer by James Kirkup
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The year of Small Shadow by Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The Astonishing Stereoscope by Jane Langton
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Rita, the Weekend Rat by Sonia Levitin
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Sir MacHinery by Tom McGowen
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Johnny/Bingo by Browning Norton
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The old powder line by Richard Parker
Stories for the Middle Group1971
The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) by Ellen Raskin
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Magdalena by Louisa R. Shotwell
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Jake by Alfred Slote
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Zoe's Zodiac by M. J. Stephens
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Thursday's Child by Noel Streatfeild
Stories for the Middle Group1971
Nobody is Perfick by Bernard Waber
Stories for the Middle Group1971

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Annual best-books selection from the Children's Literature Center of the Library of Congress, produced 1964-1983 under the direction of Virginia Haviland.

Full text available via HathiTrust

Continued by Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Books for Children

1975-1978, 1982 pending addition. All other yesrs believed complete but unverified. (English, Member-written)
Annual best-books selection from the Children's Literature Center of the Library of Congress, produced 1985-1995 under the direction of Margaret N. Coughlan.

Full text available via HathiTrust

Continues Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Children's Books.

Unofficially succeeded by Capitol Choices. (English, Member-written)

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