Books for Children 3 and Under
Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8
Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10)
Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12)
Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up)
Poetry
| Books for Children 3 and Under | |||
| Bedtime | Kate Duke | Dutton | $ 5.95 |
| Down by the Station | Will Hillenbrand | Gulliver/Harcourt | $15.00 |
| Old MacDonald | Amy Schwartz | Scholastic | $15.95 |
| Quack and Count | Keith Baker | Harcourt | $14.00 |
| Sleepytime Rhyme | Remy Charlip | Greenwillow | $16.00 |
| Trucks Trucks Trucks | Peter Sis | Greenwillow | $14.95 |
| Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8 | |||
| Another Important Book | Margaret Wise Brown | Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Are We There Yet, Daddy | Virginia Walters | Viking | $15.99 |
| Bark, George | Jules Feiffer | HarperCollins | $14.95 |
| Black Cat | Christopher Myers | Scholastic | $16.95 |
| Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo | Kevin Lewis | Hyperion | $12.99 |
| Come On, Rain! | Karen Hesse | Scholastic | $15.95 |
| Dear Juno | Soyung Pak | Viking | $15.99 |
| Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round | Teri Sloat | DK Ink | $15.95 |
| Five Trucks | Brian Floca | DK | $15.95 |
| Good Job, Little Bear | Martin Waddell | Candlewick | $15.99 |
| Hooway for Wodney Wat | Helen Lester | Walter Lorraine/Clarion | $15.00 |
| Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest | Steve Jenkins | Houghton Mifflin | $16.00 |
| I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! | Emma Chichester Clark | Doubleday | $15.95 |
| I Want a Pet | Lauren Child | Tricycle | $13.95 |
| Jamela's Dress | Niki Daly | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Just Like A Baby | Rebecca Bond | Little, Brown | $14.95 |
| Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza), The | Philemon Sturges | Dutton | $15.99 |
| Magpie Magic | April Wilson | Dial | $14.99 |
| Meet My Grandmother: She's a Supreme Court Justice | Lisa Tucker McElroy | Millbrook | $21.90 |
| My Goose Betsy | Trudi Braun | Candlewick | $16.99 |
| One Monkey Too Many | Jackie French Koller | Harcourt | $16.00 |
| Peddler's Gift, The | Maxine Rose Schur | Dial | $15.99 |
| Raising Sweetness | Diane Stanley | Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| Rare Treasure | Don Brown | Houghton Mifflin | $15.00 |
| Sammy and the Dinosaurs | Ian Whybrow | Orchard | $15.95 |
| Sector 7 | David Wiesner | Clarion | $16.00 |
| Shadow Story | Nancy Willard | Harcourt | $17.00 |
| Sunday Week | Dinah Johnson | Henry Holt | $15.95 |
| Sylvia Long's Mother Goose | Sylvia Long | Chronicle | $19.95 |
| Tasty Baby Belly Buttons | Judy Sierra | Knopf | $17.00 |
| Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! | Cari Best | DK | $16.95 |
| Trashy Town | Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha | HarperCollins | $14.95 |
| Ugly Duckling, The | Hans Christian Andersen | Morrow | $16.00 |
| Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10) | |||
| 26 Fairmount Avenue | Tomie DePaola | Penguin Putnam | $13.99 |
| Aesop's Fox | Aki Sogabe | Browndeer/Harcourt | $16.00 |
| Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Scholastic | $16.95 |
| Babe and I, The | David Adler | Gulliver/Harcourt | $16.00 |
| Band of Angels, A | Deborah Hopkins | Atheneum | $16.00 |
| Bird Boy | Elizabeth Starr Hill | Farrar Straus Giroux | $15.00 |
| Boy Named Giotto, A | Paolo Guarnieri | Farrar Straus Giroux | $17.00 |
| Dive! My Adventures in the Deep Frontier | Sylvia A. Earle | National Geographic | $18.95 |
| Exodus | Brian Wildsmith | Eerdmans | $20.00 |
| Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea | Gail Gibbons | Little, Brown | $14.95 |
| Gorilla Walk | Ted & Betsy Lewin | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | $16.00 |
| Healthy Me | Michelle O'Brien-Palmer | Chicago Review Press | $12.95 |
| Here Is the African Savanna | Madeleine Dunphy | Hyperion | $14.99 |
| History of Counting, The | Denise Schmandt-Besserat | Morrow | $17.00 |
| Honest Pretzels | Mollie Katzen | Tricycle | $19.95 |
| How Tall, How Short, How Far Away | David A. Adler | Holiday | $15.95 |
| How the Rooster Got His Crown | Amy Lowry Poole | Holiday | $15.95 |
| It's So Amazing!: A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies and Families | Robie H. Harris | Candlewick | $21.99 |
| Molly Bannaky | Alice McGill | Houghton Mifflin | $16.00 |
| Morgy Makes His Move | Maggie Lewis | Houghton Mifflin | $15.00 |
| Noah and the Great Flood | Mordicai Gerstein | Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Outside and Inside Kangaroos | Sandra Markle | Atheneum | $16.00 |
| Prog Frince, The: A Mixed-up Tale | C. Drew Lamm | Orchard | $16.95 |
| Red-Eyed Tree Frog | Joy Cowley | Scholastic | $16.95 |
| Sebastian: A Book About Bach | Jeannette Winter | Silver Whistle | $16.00 |
| Seesaw Girl | Linda Sue Park | Clarion | $14.00 |
| Tea With Milk | Allen Say | Houghton Mifflin | $17.00 |
| Three Golden Oranges, The | Alma Flor Ada | Atheneum | $16.00 |
| Through My Eyes | Ruby Bridges | Scholastic | $16.95 |
| Tough Cookie | David Wisniewski | Lothrop | $16.00 |
| Troll with No Heart in His Body | Lise Lunge-Larsen | Houghton Mifflin | $18.00 |
| What Do Illustrators Do? | Eileen Christelow | Clarion | $15.00 |
| White Tiger, Blue Serpent | Grace Tseng | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | $16.00 |
| Why Not, Lafayette? | Jean Fritz | Penguin Putnam | $16.99 |
| William Shakespeare & the Globe | Aliki | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman | Claudia Mills | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12) | |||
| Adventures of Blue Avenger, The | Norma Howe | Henry Holt | $15.95 |
| All Alone in the Universe | Lynne Rae Perkins | Greenwillow | $16.00 |
| Always Inventing | Tom L. Matthews | National Geographic | $16.95 |
| At Home with the Presidents | Juddi Morris | Wiley | $12.95 |
| Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneer | Linda Lowery | Carolrhoda | $19.93 |
| Aztecs-The Fall of the Aztec Capital | Richard Platt | DK | $14.95 |
| Birchbark House, The | Louise Erdrich | Hyperion | $14.99 |
| Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | Delacorte | $15.95 |
| Carnival of the Animals | Saint-Saëns | Henry Holt | $19.95 |
| Club Earth | Gail Gauthier | Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| Coyote: North America's Dog | Stephen R. Swinburne | Boyds Mills | $15.95 |
| Fairy's Mistake, The | Gail Carson Levine | HarperCollins | $8.95 |
| Figuring Out Frances | Gina Willner-Pardo | Clarion | $14.00 |
| Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them | Karen Magnuson Beil | Harcourt | $18.00 |
| Folk Keeper, The | Franny Billingsley | Atheneum | $16.00 |
| Friendship of Milly and Tug | Dian Curtis Regan | Henry Holt | $15.95 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. K. Rowling | Scholastic | $17.95 |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling | Scholastic | $19.95 |
| Hatshepsut and Ancient Egypt | Miriam Greenblatt | Benchmark | $19.95 |
| Journeys with Elijah: Eight Tales of the Prophet | Barbara Diamond Goldin | Harcourt | $20.00 |
| Landry News, The | Andrew Clements | Simon & Schuster | $15.00 |
| Letters From Camp | Kate Klise | Avon | $15.00 |
| Marguerite Makes A Book | Bruce Robertson | Getty | $18.95 |
| Mystery of the Hieroglyphs | Carol Donoughue | Oxford | $16.95 |
| Mystery of the Mammoth Bones, The | James Cross Giblin | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf | Stephen R. Swinburne | Houghton Mifflin | $16.00 |
| Ramona's World | Beverly Cleary | Morrow | $15.00 |
| Roots Shoots Buckets & Boots | Sharon Lovejoy | Workman | $13.95 |
| Skellig | David Almond | Delacorte | $15.95 |
| Strong to the Hoop | John Coy | Lee & Low | $16.95 |
| Strudel Stories | Joanne Rocklin | Delacorte | $14.95 |
| Trolls, The | Polly Horvath | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Unbroken | Jessie Haas | Greenwillow | $15.00 |
| When the Soldiers Were Gone | Vera W. Propp | Penguin Putnam | $14.99 |
| While You're Waiting for the Food to Come | Eric Muller | Orchard | $8.95 |
| Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up) | |||
| Angels of Mercy: The Army Nurses of World War II | Betsy Kuhn | Atheneum | $18.00 |
| Babe Didrikson Zaharias | Russell Freedman | Clarion | $18.00 |
| Beetle and Me: A Love Story, The | Karen Romano Young | Greenwillow | $15.00 |
| Black Pioneers: An Untold Story | William Loren Katz | Atheneum | $17.00 |
| Breaking Rank | Kristen D. Randle | Morrow | $16.00 |
| Cure, The | Sonia Levitin | Harcourt | $16.00 |
| Getting Near to Baby | Audrey Couloumbis | Penguin Putnam | $17.99 |
| Ghost Stallion, The | Laura E. Williams | Henry Holt | $15.95 |
| Goodbye, Walter Malinski | Helen Recorvits | Farrar Straus Giroux | $15.00 |
| Gypsy Rizka | Lloyd Alexander | Dutton | $16.99 |
| Hard Love | Ellen Wittlinger | Simon & Schuster | $16.95 |
| In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer | Irene Gut Opdyke and Jennifer Armstrong | Knopf | $18.00 |
| In Search of the Spirit: The Living National Treasures of Japan | Sheila Hamanaka & Ayano Ohmi | Morrow | $16.00 |
| In the Line of Fire: Presidents' Lives at Stake | Judith St. George | Holiday | $18.95 |
| In the Shade of the Nispero Tree | Carmen T. Bernier-Grand | Orchard | $15.95 |
| Keeping the Moon | Sarah Dessen | Viking | $15.99 |
| Kids on Strike! | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Houghton Mifflin | $20.00 |
| King of Shadows | Susan Cooper | Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Lincoln and Slavery | Peter Burchard | Atheneum | $17.00 |
| Mapping The World | Sylvia A. Johnson | Atheneum | $16.00 |
| Mind's Eye | Paul Fleischman | Henry Holt | $15.95 |
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Multiple Choice | Janet Cashjian | Henry Holt | $16.95 |
| Name Me Nobody | Lois-Ann Yamanaka | Hyperion | $14.99 |
| Safe at Second | Scott Johnson | Philomel | $17.99 |
| Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance | Jennifer Armstrong | Crown | |
| Signs & Wonders | Pat Lowery Collins | Houghton Mifflin | $15.00 |
| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Starplace, The | Vicki Grove | Penguin Putnam | $17.99 |
| Terror of the Spanish Main: Sir Henry Morgan and his Buccaneers | Albert Marrin | Dutton | $19.99 |
| Two Suns in the Sky | Miriam Bat-Ami | Front Street/Cricket | $15.95 |
| When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Kimberly Willis Holt | Henry Holt | $16.95 |
| Wild Colorado, The | Richard Maurer | Crown | $18.00 |
| Poetry | |||
| Child's Calendar, A | John Updike | Holiday | $16.95 |
| Flicker Flash | Joan Bransfield Graham | Houghton Mifflin | $15.00 |
| Little Dog Poems | Kristine O'Connell George | Clarion | $12.00 |
| Lucky Thing, A | Alice Schertle | Browndeer/Harcourt | $17.00 |
| My Man Blue | Nikki Grimes | Dial | $15.99 |
| Relatively Speaking | Ralph Fletcher | Orchard | $14.95 |
| Very Best (Almost) Friends | Paul B. Janeczko | Candlewick | $12.95 |
Updated 04/01/01
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