NCTE/CLA Notable Children's Book in the English Language Arts

Given by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

779 Works 791,319 Books 36,819 Reviews 4.2
The charge of the seven-member national committee of the Children's Literature Assembly (CLA) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is to select thirty titles each year that best show more exemplify the criteria established for the Notables Award. Books considered for this annual list are works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written for children, grades K-8. The books must meet one or more of the following criteria:

deal explicitly with language, such as plays on words, word origins, or the history of language;
demonstrate uniqueness in the use of language or style;
invite child response or participation. In addition, books are to:
have an appealing format;
be of enduring quality;
meet generally accepted criteria of quality for the genre in which they are written.
show less
Years:
All, 2023 (26), 2022 (27), 2021 (29), 2020 (25), 2019 (28), 2018 (29), 2017 (30), 2016 (29), 2015 (30), 2014 (30), 2013 (30), 2012 (30), 2011 (30), 2010 (30), 2009 (30), 2008 (29), 2007 (30), 2006 (30), 2005 (30), 2004 (30), 2003 (31), 2002 (30), 2001 (22), 2000 (24), 1999 (29), 1998 (30), 1997 (31)
WorkYear
Zia Erases the World by Bree Barton
2023
A Bear, a Bee, and a Honey Tree by Daniel Bernstrom
2023
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book by Tonya Bolden
2023
My Name is Saajin Singh by Kuljinder Kaur Brar
2023
Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story by Ruby Bridges
2023
Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? by Leslie Connor
2023
Caves by Nell Cross Beckerman
2023
Wondering Around by Meg Fleming
2023
The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart
2023
Ice Cycle: Poems about the Life of Ice by Maria Gianferrari
2023
Copycat: Nature-inspired Design Around the World by Christy Hale
2023
Wildoak by C. C. Harrington
2023
Moving Words About a Flower by K. C Hayes
2023
Big and Small and In-Between by Carter Higgins
2023
Skater Cielo by Rachel Katstaller
2023
Attack of the Black Rectangles by A. S. King
2023
Tell Me a Lion Story by Kara Kramer
2023
What Are Words, Really? by Alexi Lubomirski
2023
We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad
2023
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge
2023
Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds
2023
On a Gold-Blooming Day: Finding Fall Treasures by Buffy Silverman
2023
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
2023
Yonder by Ali Standish
2023
The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor
2023
Maya’s Song by Renée Watson
2023
Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
2022
My Two Border Towns by David Bowles
2022
Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden
2022
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
2022
King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin by Stephen Costanza
2022
Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña
2022
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo
2022
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
2022
How to Build an Insect by Robert A. Gibson
2022
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem by Amanda Gorman
2022
The 1619 Project {The New York Times Magazine, August 18, 2019} by Nikole Hannah-Jones
2022
A day for rememberin' : the first Memorial Day by Leah Henderson
2022
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
2022
Kiyoshi's Walk by Karlins
2022
The List of Unspeakable Fears by J. Kasper Kramer
2022
When Langston Dances by Kaija Langley
2022
Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
2022
Ducks Overboard!: A True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans by Markus Motum
2022
The Museum of Everything by Lynne Rae Perkins
2022
Home Is in Between by Mitali Perkins
2022
Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham
2022
Just Like That by Gary D. Schmidt
2022
Fast Pitch by Nic Stone
2022
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd
2022
Wishes by Muon Thi Van
2022
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
2022
Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston by Alicia D. Williams
2022
Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices by S. K. Ali
2021
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
2021
The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling
2021
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
2021
Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant
2021
All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
2021
Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin
2021
Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome
2021
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne by Lesa Cline-Ransome
2021
Swashby and the Sea by Beth Ferry
2021
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
2021
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson
2021
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
2021
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
2021
Lift by Minh Lê
2021
What I Like Most by Mary Murphy
2021
Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery by Meeg Pincus
2021
If Dominican Were a Color by Sili Recio
2021
On Account of the Gum by Adam Rex
2021
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
2021
Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz Ryan
2021
The Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar
2021
Packs: Strength in Numbers by Hannah Salyer
2021
I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott
2021
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzanne Slade
2021
Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters by Suzanne Slade
2021
Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
2021
Write! Write! Write! by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
2021
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
2021
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty
2020
Feed Your Mind: A Story of August Wilson by Jen Bryant
2020
Freedom Soup by Tami Charles
2020
Grandpa's Stories by Joseph Coelho
2020
New Kid by Jerry Craft
2020
Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
2020
Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle
2020
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage by Lee Bennett Hopkins
2020
The Magic of Letters by Tony Johnston
2020
Dream Within a Dream by Patricia MacLachlan
2020
Small World by Ishta Mercurio
2020
Insect Superpowers: 18 Real Bugs that Smash, Zap, Hypnotize, Sting, and Devour! by Kate Messner
2020
Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
2020
Thanku: Poems of Gratitude by Miranda Paul
2020
The Bell Rang by James E. Ransome
2020
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
2020
Say Something by Peter H. Reynolds
2020
Searching for Lottie by Susan Ross
2020
Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons by Laura Purdie Salas
2020
To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan
2020
A Plan for Pops by Heather Smith
2020
Room On Our Rock by Kate Temple
2020
Born to Ride: A Story About Bicycle Face by Larissa Theule
2020
Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War by Duncan Tonatiuh
2020
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
2020
The Button War: A Tale of the Great War by Avi
2019
Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes
2019
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
2019
After Zero by Christina Collins
2019
Boy by Phil Cummings
2019
Quiet by Tomie dePaola
2019
Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
2019
What a wonderful word by Nicola Edwards
2019
I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
2019
Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
2019
Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera
2019
A Bunch of Punctuation by Lee Bennett Hopkins
2019
Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes by Hena Khan
2019
Drawn Together by Minh Lê
2019
Thomas Paine and the Dangerous Word by Sarah Jane Marsh
2019
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
2019
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
2019
The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs: The Story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation by Kate Messner
2019
Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill by Heather L. Montgomery
2019
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
2019
Bookjoy, Wordjoy by Pat Mora
2019
Sunny by Jason Reynolds
2019
The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds
2019
Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick
2019
Ebb and Flow by Heather Smith
2019
With My Hands: Poems About Making Things by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
2019
Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten by Laura Veirs
2019
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
2019
Izzy Kline Has Butterflies by Beth Ain
2018
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander
2018
Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome
2018
La La La: A Story of Hope by Kate DiCamillo
2018
Little Bits of Sky by S. E. Durrant
2018
The Catawampus Cat by Jason Carter Eaton
2018
La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya
2018
Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote by Margarita Engle
2018
Benjamin Franklin's Wise Words: How to Work Smart, Play Well, and Make Real Friends (National Geographic Kids) by Benjamin Franklin
2018
This House, Once by Deborah Freedman
2018
Letters to a Prisoner by Jacques Goldstyn
2018
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song by Gary Golio
2018
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
2018
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups by Chris Harris
2018
A Greyhound, a Groundhog by Emily Jenkins
2018
Just Dance by Patricia MacLachlan
2018
Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters by Michael Mahin
2018
Balderdash! John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books by Michelle Markel
2018
Betty's Burgled Bakery: An Alliteration Adventure by Travis Nichols
2018
Between Two Skies by Joanne O'Sullivan
2018
The Nantucket Sea Monster: A Fake News Story by Darcy Pattison
2018
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell
2018
Niko Draws a Feeling by Robert Raczka
2018
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
2018
The Alphabet Thief by Bill Richardson
2018
Life by Cynthia Rylant
2018
The Warden's Daughter by Jerry Spinelli
2018
Fantastic Flowers by Susan Stockdale
2018
Look! What Do You See?: An Art Puzzle Book of American and Chinese Songs by Bing Xu
2018
Booked by Kwame Alexander
2017
The Island of Beyond by Elizabeth Atkinson
2017
Soar by Joan Bauer
2017
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
2017
Olinguito, de La A a la Z!/Olinguito, from A to Z! by Lulu Delacre
2017
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
2017
Free Verse by Sarah Dooley
2017
Du Iz Tak by Carson Ellis
2017
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano
2017
The Sound of Silence by Katrina Goldsaito
2017
Mayday by Karen Harrington
2017
Plants Can't Sit Still by Rebecca E. Hirsch
2017
A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers
2017
Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse , and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide by Josh Katz
2017
OCDaniel by Wesley King
2017
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
2017
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
2017
27 Magic Words by Sharelle Byars Moranville
2017
Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet
2017
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph by Roxane Orgill
2017
Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs by Linda Sue Park
2017
Fishbone's Song by Gary Paulsen
2017
Snow White: A Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan
2017
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day by Andrea Davis Pinkney
2017
Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems by Bob Raczka
2017
Before Morning by Joyce Sidman
2017
Treat by Mary Sullivan
2017
Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk by Jane Sutcliffe
2017
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet
2017
The storyteller by Evan Turk
2017
The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
2016
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown
2016
Willy's Stories by Anthony Browne
2016
Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings by Matthew Burgess
2016
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
2016
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle
2016
Where's the BaBOOn? by Michaël Escoffier
2016
W Is For Webster: Noah Webster and his American Dictionary by Tracey Fern
2016
A Spectacular Selection of Sea Critters: Concrete Poems (Millbrook Picture Books) by Betsy Franco
2016
Poems in the Attic by Nikki Grimes
2016
Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall
2016
The Wonder by Faye Hanson
2016
Jumping Off Library Shelves by Lee Bennett Hopkins
2016
28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles R. Smith Jr.
2016
My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald
2016
Bigfoot is Missing! by J. Patrick Lewis
2016
A Year in the Life of a Complete and Total Genius (The Arthur Bean Stories) by Stacey Matson
2016
How to Read a Story by Kate Messner
2016
My Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson
2016
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
2016
Use Your Imagination by Nicola O'Byrne
2016
Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales by Julie Paschkis
2016
The Plan by Alison Paul
2016
An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns (Millbrook Picture Books) by Betsy R. Rosenthal
2016
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
2016
The Marvels by Brian Selznick
2016
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
2016
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
2016
The Whisper by Pamela Zagarenski
2016
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
2015
A Library Book for Bear by Bonny Becker
2015
Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle
2015
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant
2015
The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life by Lois Ehlert
2015
On the Wing by David Elliott
2015
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle
2015
Take Away the A by Michaël Escoffier
2015
Any Questions? by Marie-Louise Gay
2015
The Great Big Green by Peggy Gifford
2015
It's an Orange Aardvark! by Michael Hall
2015
Shooting at the Stars by John Hendrix
2015
Rhyme Schemer by K. A. Holt
2015
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems by Paul B. Janeczko
2015
Weeds Find a Way by Cindy Jenson-Elliott
2015
The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee by Barry Jonsberg
2015
Voices from the March on Washington by J. Patrick Lewis
2015
A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
2015
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
2015
Migrant: The Journey of a Mexican Worker by José Manuel Mateo
2015
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
2015
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock
2015
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman
2015
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry by Peter Sís
2015
Construction by Sally Sutton
2015
Help! We Need a Title! by Hervé Tullet
2015
Ava and Pip by Carol Weston
2015
What Flowers Remember by Shannon Wiersbitzky
2015
Revolution by Deborah Wiles
2015
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
2015
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt
2014
Hold Fast by Blue Balliett
2014
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me by Daniel Beaty
2014
Journey by Aaron Becker
2014
Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette Leblanc Cate
2014
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy Cavanaugh
2014
Gaby, Lost and Found by Angela Cervantes
2014
Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet by Andrea Cheng
2014
Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret by Lesa Cline-Ransome
2014
The Candy Smash (The Lemonade War Series) by Jacqueline Davies
2014
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
2014
Nelly May Has Her Say by Cynthia DeFelice
2014
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle
2014
The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischman
2014
Zebra Forest by Adina Rishe Gewirtz
2014
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
2014
Words with Wings by Nikki Grimes
2014
Sure Signs of Crazy by Karen Harrington
2014
Little Red Writing by Joan Holub
2014
The Beatles Were Fab (and They Were Funny) by Kathleen Krull
2014
When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders by J. Patrick Lewis
2014
Ah Ha! by Jeff Mack
2014
The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit's Amazing Migration by Sandra Markle
2014
Prisoner 88 by Leah Pileggi
2014
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Andrea Davis Pinkney
2014
Exclamation Mark by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
2014
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
2014
The Language Inside by Holly Thompson
2014
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
2014
Forest Has a Song: Poems by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
2014
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
2013
Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham
2013
Snakes by Nic Bishop
2013
His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg by Louise Borden
2013
Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole
2013
Water Sings Blue by Kate Coombs
2013
The Obstinate Pen by Frank W. Dormer
2013
UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
2013
And Then It's Spring by Julie Fogliano
2013
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery by Cynthia Grady
2013
Cat Tale by Michael Hall
2013
Sadie and Ratz by Sonya Hartnett
2013
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards)) by Phillip Hoose
2013
The Phantom of the Post Office by Kate Klise
2013
See You at Harry's by Jo Knowles
2013
House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser
2013
Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems by Gail Carson Levine
2013
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
2013
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar! by J. Patrick Lewis
2013
Walking on Earth and Touching the Sky: Poetry and Prose by Lakota Youth at Red Cloud Indian School by Timothy P. McLaughlin
2013
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
2013
Hades: Lord of the Dead by George O'Connor
2013
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
2013
The Encyclopedia of Me by Karen Rivers
2013
Chopsticks by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
2013
A Leaf Can Be . . . (Millbrook Picture Books) by Laura Purdie Salas
2013
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer
2013
I Have the Right to Be a Child by Alain Serres
2013
Bear Has a Story to Tell by Philip C. Stead
2013
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
2013
A Butterfly Is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston
2012
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People by Monica Brown
2012
The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale by Carmen Agra Deedy
2012
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Shane W. Evans
2012
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
2012
Shout! Shout It Out! by Denise Fleming
2012
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
2012
True (. . . Sort Of) by Katherine Hannigan
2012
Addie on the Inside (The Misfits) by James Howe
2012
Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto by Paul B. Janeczko
2012
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
2012
The Friendship Doll by Kirby Larson
2012
These Hands by Margaret H. Mason
2012
Me . . . Jane by Patrick McDonnell
2012
Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
2012
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
2012
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
2012
Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word by Bob Raczka
2012
Stars by Mary Lyn Ray
2012
BookSpeak!: Poems About Books by Laura Purdie Salas
2012
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
2012
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
2012
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan Long Shang
2012
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
2012
Passing the Music Down by Sarah Sullivan
2012
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet
2012
Hound Dog True by Linda Urban
2012
Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
2012
The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos
2012
Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw
2012
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
2011
Keeper by Kathi Appelt
2011
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc Aronson
2011
LMNO Peas by Keith Baker
2011
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond
2011
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe by Loree Griffin Burns
2011
Alchemy and Meggy Swann by Karen Cushman
2011
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
2011
Rubia and the Three Osos by Susan Middleton Elya
2011
Zebrafish by Sharon Emerson
2011
Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming
2011
Older than The Stars by Karen C. Fox
2011
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
2011
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix by Gary Golio
2011
The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According To Susy) by Barbara Kerley
2011
Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook by Ellen Potter
2011
GUYKU: A Year of Haiku for Boys by Bob Raczka
2011
Hip Hop Dog by Chris Raschka
2011
Half Upon a Time by James Riley
2011
The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
2011
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
2011
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors by Joyce Sidman
2011
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems by Marilyn Singer
2011
The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood
2011
Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst
2011
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
2011
City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems
2011
We Are in a Book! by Mo Willems
2011
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
2011
Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia by Jeanette Winter
2011
Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
2010
Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black
2010
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's Song by Ashley Bryan
2010
Wild Things by Clay Carmichael
2010
Redwoods by Jason Chin
2010
Big, Bigger, Biggest! by Nancy Coffelt
2010
A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales by Ying Chang Compestine
2010
Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis
2010
Billy and Milly, Short and Silly! by Eve Feldman
2010
Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
2010
A Book by Mordicai Gerstein
2010
Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book by Nikki Grimes
2010
Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems by Georgia Heard
2010
The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination by Mary Ann Hoberman
2010
My People by Langston Hughes
2010
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
2010
Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day; Celebremos El dia de los ninos/El dia de los libros by Pat Mora
2010
Looking Like Me by Walter Dean Myers
2010
Sweethearts of Rhythm by Marilyn Nelson
2010
The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Barbara O'Connor
2010
Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction by Linda Barrett Osborne
2010
Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli
2010
The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
2010
A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems by Deborah Ruddell
2010
Tofu Quilt by Ching Yeung Russell
2010
The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster by Martin W. Sandler
2010
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year In Colors by Joyce Sidman
2010
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
2010
Heartsinger by Karlijn Stoffels
2010
Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics by James Sturm
2010
There's a Wolf at the Door by Zoe B. Alley
2009
The Savage by David Almond
2009
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2009
Peeled by Joan Bauer
2009
The Secret History of Giants by Ari Berk
2009
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial by Jen Bryant
2009
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant
2009
Artie and Julie by Chih-Yuan Chen
2009
Minji's Salon by Eun-hee Choung
2009
The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin
2009
Lincoln Shot: A President's Life Remembered by Barry Denenberg
2009
Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist by Philip Dray
2009
Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
2009
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat by Nikki Giovanni
2009
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett
2009
Side by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art from Around the World by Jan Greenberg
2009
A Is for Art: An Abstract Alphabet by Stephen T. Johnson
2009
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
2009
Just In Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book by Yuyi Morales
2009
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Reynolds Nelson
2009
Ways To Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
2009
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem by Jack Prelutsky
2009
The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas
2009
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
2009
Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein
2009
Silent Music by James Rumford
2009
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka
2009
One Boy by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
2009
The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman
2009
Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston
2009
Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones by Gene Barretta
2008
Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism by Ann Bausum
2008
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
2008
Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo Dillon
2008
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth
2008
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman
2008
How to Write Your Life Story by Ralph Fletcher
2008
Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman
2008
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford
2008
Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett
2008
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington
2008
The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins
2008
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge
2008
The Zoo by Suzy Lee
2008
Pass It Down: Five Picture Book Families Make Their Mark by Leonard S. Marcus
2008
When the Shadbush Blooms by Carla Messinger
2008
The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy
2008
Chess Rumble by G. Neri
2008
Tap Dancing on the Roof by Linda Sue Park
2008
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
2008
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
2008
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth
2008
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís
2008
Helen Keller: Her Life in Pictures by George Sullivan
2008
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
2008
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
2008
Chester by Melanie Watt
2008
Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild
2008
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
2008
Once Upon a Banana by Jennifer Armstrong
2007
Max's Words by Kate Banks
2007
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum
2007
Hugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown
2007
I Lost My Tooth In Africa by Penda Diakité
2007
The Illustrator's Notebook by Mohieddine Ellabbad
2007
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle
2007
The Braid by Helen Frost
2007
Wolves by Emily Gravett
2007
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon by Mini Grey
2007
Move! by Steve Jenkins
2007
AlphaOops!: The Day Z Went First by Alethea Kontis
2007
Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly by Gail Carson Levine
2007
The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin
2007
Rules by Cynthia Lord
2007
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
2007
Oh Rats! The Story of Rats and People by Albert Marrin
2007
Porch Lies by Patricia McKissack
2007
Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans
2007
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo
2007
Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo
2007
Jazz by Walter Dean Myers
2007
Something Invisible by Siobhan Parkinson
2007
The Big Bad Wolf and Me by Delphine Perret
2007
Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry by Joyce Sidman
2007
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel
2007
A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant
2007
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 by Ernest L. Thayer
2007
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
2007
Scaredy Squirrel by Mélanie Watt
2007
Terrific by Jon Agee
2006
The Serpent Came to Gloucester by M. T. Anderson
2006
The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey by Louise Borden
2006
Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
2006
Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
2006
The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales
2006
Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
2006
The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich
2006

Tags

adventure(5,730) African American(2,957) animals(5,005) biography(4,124) bullying(1,713) chapter book(3,558) children(5,251) children's(9,834) children's books(2,073) children's fiction(2,522) children's literature(4,911) coming of age(1,812) death(1,870) diversity(2,294) England(1,704) fairy tales(2,050) family(7,664) fantasy(35,187) fiction(34,189) friendship(7,168) graphic novel(1,890) hardcover(1,863) Harry Potter(9,012) historical fiction(8,715) history(3,539) humor(3,428) juvenile(2,973) juvenile fiction(2,138) kids(1,676) magic(8,639) middle grade(2,592) middle school(2,759) multicultural(2,646) mystery(2,326) Newbery(1,969) Newbery Medal(1,785) non-fiction(5,017) novel(3,305) own(2,064) picture book(16,503) poetry(10,803) read(5,081) realistic fiction(6,011) school(3,192) series(4,516) to-read(13,471) wizards(2,921) writing(1,740) ya(7,031) young adult(10,156)

Top Members

RLNunezKPL (472 works), stansteiner (447), Sullywriter (368), rdg301library (351), CurrColl (339), kday_working (317), arak (285), amandabock (282), manlius (266), chinatowne (264), CuriosityWorkshop (246), Kaethe (241), matthewbloome (233), ltfl_isblib (231), fernandie (223), mhagenberg (220), ltcl (217), mosylu1 (216), meyerson (202), logcablib (201), Whisper1 (201), StayerLibrary (199), mffowler (196), JeanLittleLibrary (193), FrontierGirl (183), kamills2 (173), foxly (167), ltfl_mountviewms (164), Sharquin (164), coveschool (161), goingmb (159), ChelseaWorden (156), AbigailAdams26 (155), UNTTEA (155), ASKier (154), JennyArch (152), Pantoja27 (152), bfritzlibrary (151), tarpfarmer (146), Lauren-at-LT (143), elfschild (142), buddingnaturalist (141), Saunders_Library (140), zjeszay (138), mhaloin (137), MrsBond (136), DrQ (135), casebrad (134), Cheryl_in_CC_NV (134), eduscapes (134), ghsmediacenter (134), librarian515 (134), Salsabrarian (134), janillabean (133), Christa_Josh (132), sheardliteracycenter (128), ASIJ (127), bethsand (126), SWONlibraries (126), jervin1 (125), Pages_Aplenty (125), PegD (125), stdamian (125), LutheranSouthUnity (124), charzie (123), pisgah13 (123), e-zReader (120), TildenSchoolLibrary (120), Conway_Library (119), CynthiaM (119), SlateLibrary (119), DebbieBaker27 (118), b.irons (117), Hope_School (117), shillcutt (116), bogreader (115), TheWellSpringSchool (115), melodyreads (114), klnbennett (113), theresearcher (113), DWEmma (112), glhs (112), kbishop (112), LadyKnightLibrarian (112), DonnaReyes (111), GMS_Library (111), hooligansmama (111), Fjola (110), irovienna (110), DianeVogan (109), sjii (109), iles (108), kidsread (108), rundlettmiddle (108), brauer57 (107), kteacherSC (107), pussreboots (107), meckert13 (106), mrbrett (106), EnterpriseCharter (105), keeneam (105), OlaDistrictLibrary (105), agenbiteofinwit (104), eandino2012 (103), GSCSlibrary (103), jennybeast (103), OMSspartans (103), RTCALibrary (103), scducharme (103), jbarry (101), Read2Lead (101), stals (101), corkymalorky (100), MDGentleReader (100), Merryann (100), KeithKron (99), yowst9 (99), Cliffisland (98), kleahey (98), kristi_test_02 (98), missblake (98), missblakelovesbooks (98), Rickmaniac (98), csfoster (97), HTLSLibrary (97), NancyH2020 (97), AmyTF (96), LTFL_UWCSEA (96), foggidawn (95), ReshelvingAlexandria (95)