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 | |||
| Daisy Says Coo! and Daisy's Day Out | Jane Simmons | Little, Brown | $5.95ea |
| Dinosaur! | Peter Sis | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $14.95 |
| In Wibbly's Garden | Mick Inkpen | Viking/Penguin Putnam | $12.99 |
| Papa's Song | Kate McMullan | Farrar Straus Giroux | $15.00 |
| Sail Away | Florence McNeil | Orca | $15.95 |
| Seals on the Bus, The | Lenny Hort | Holt | $15.95 |
| Toby's Alphabet Walk and Toby's Rainbow Clothes | Cyndy Szekeres | Little Simon/Simon & Schuster | $6.99ea |
| Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8 | |||
| Ant and the Grasshopper | Amy Lowry Poole | Holiday | $16.95 |
| Baby BeeBee Bird | Diane Redfield Massie | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Basho and the Fox | Tim Myers | Marshall Cavendish | $15.95 |
| Blackberry Booties | Tricia Gardella | Orchard | $15.95 |
| Bug Faces | Darlyne A. Murawski | National Geographic | $16.95 |
| Buttons | Brock Cole | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella | Susan Lowell | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Click, Clack Moo Cows That Type | Doreen Cronin | Simon & Schuster | $15.00 |
| Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck | Lisa Westberg Peters | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Comes a Wind | Linda Arms White | DK Publishing | $15.99 |
| Crab Moon | Ruth Horowitz | Candlewick | $15.99 |
| Faraway Home | Jane Kurtz | Gulliver/Harcourt | $16.00 |
| Firefighters A to Z | Chris L. Demarest | McElderry/Simon & Schuster | $16.95 |
| Growing Frogs | Vivian French | Candlewick | $12.95 |
| Here Come Poppy and Max | Lindsey Gardiner | Little, Brown | $12.95 |
| Hog Music | M.C. Helldorfer | Viking/Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| In the Rainfield Who Is the Greatest? | Isaac O. Olaleye | Blue Sky/Scholastic | $16.95 |
| Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This World Moon Pie Adventure | Tony DiTerlizzi | Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Kate and the Beanstalk | Mary Pope Osborne | Antheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Lizzy and Skunk | Mary-Louise Fitzpatrick | DK Publishing | $14.95 |
| Look Whooo's Counting | Susie MacDonald | Scholastic | $14.95 |
| Louie's Goose | H.M. Ehrlich | Houghton | $15.00 |
| Making Animal Babies | Sneed B. Collard III | Houghton | $16.00 |
| Mother Goose Remembers | Clare Beaton | Barefoot | $16.99 |
| Off We Go! | Jane Yolen | Little, Brown | $12.95 |
| Olivia | Ian Falconer | Antheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| On a Wintry Morning | Dori Chaconas | Viking/Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| One Lighthouse One Moon | Anita Lobel | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| River Story | Meredith Hooper | Candlewick | $15.99 |
| Slinky, Scaly, Slithery Snakes | Dorothy Hinshaw Patent | Walker | $16.95 |
| Soccer Mom from Outer Space, The | Barney Saltzberg | Crown/Random House | $15.95 |
| Song for the Whooping Crane | Eileen Spinelli | Eerdmans | $16.00 |
| Stowaway on Noah's Ark, A | Charles Santore | Random House | $16.95 |
| Ten Times Better | Richard Michelson | Marshall Cavendish | $17.95 |
| Vroomaloom Zoom | John Coy | Crown/Random House | $15.95 |
| Wemberly Worried | Kevin Henkes | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10) | |||
| Asteroid Impact | Douglas Henderson | Dial/Penguin Putnam | $16.99 |
| Bats! Strange and Wonderful | Laurence Pringle | Boyds Mills Press | $15.95 |
| Butterfly, The | Patricia Polacco | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | $16.99 |
| Clinging Sea Horses | Judith Jango-Cohen | Lerner | $21.27 |
| Cool Crazy Crickets, The | David Elliot | Candlewick | $14.99 |
| Dancing in the Wings | Debbie Allen | Dial/Pengin Putnam | $16.99 |
| Genius of Leonardo, The | Guido Visconti | Barefoot | $16.99 |
| Gift of the Crocodile, The: A Cinderella Story | Judy Sierra | Simon & Schuster | $17.00 |
| Girl Who Spun Gold, The | Virginia Hamilton | Blue Sky/Scholastic | $16.95 |
| Good Night, Good Knight | Shelley Moore Thomas | Dutton/Penguin Putnam | $13.99 |
| Gus and Grandpa and Show-and-Tell | Claudia Mills | Farrar Straus Giroux | $13.00 |
| Handful of Dirt, A | Raymond Bial | Walker | $16.95 |
| Hunter, The: A Chinese Folktale | Mary Casanova | Antheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.95 |
| Inspector Hopper | Doug Cushman | HarperCollins | $14.95 |
| Into the A, B, Sea: An Ocean Alphabet Book | Deborah Lee Rose | Scholastic | $15.95 |
| Jesus | Brian Wildsmith | Eerdmans | $20.00 |
| Liberty | Lynn Curlee | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $18.00 |
| Magic Nesting Doll, The | Jacqueline K. Ogburn | Dial/Penguin Putnam | $16.99 |
| Michelangelo | Diane Stanley | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Mystery of Mr. Nice, The | Bruce Hale | Harcourt | $14.00 |
| Only One Cowry | Phyllis Gershator | Orchard | $16.95 |
| Radio Rescue | Lynne Barasch | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Satchel Paige | Lesa Cline-Ransome | Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Saturday Kid, The | Edward Sorel | McElderry/Simon & Schuster | $18.00 |
| Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs | James Rumford | Houghton | $15.00 |
| So You Want to Be President? | Judith St. George | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | $17.99 |
| Starring Grace | Mary Hoffman | Penguin | $13.99 |
| Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride | Marsha Amstel | Carolrhoda/Lerner | $21.27 |
| Truth about Great White Sharks, The | Mary M. Cerullo | Chronicle | $14.95 |
| Uptown | Bryan Collier | Holt | $15.95 |
| Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys | Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard | Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker | Kathryn Lasky | Candlewick | $16.99 |
| Why on This Night? A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration | Rahel Musleah | Simon & Schuster | $24.95 |
| Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark | Carmen Agra Deedy | Peachtree | $16.95 |
| You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer | Shana Corey | Scholastic | $16.95 |
| Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12) | |||
| Abraham Lincoln the Writer: A Treasury of His Greatest Speeches and Letters | Harold Holzer | Boyds Mills Press | $15.95 |
| Bartleby of the Mighty Mississippi | Phyllis Shalant | Dutton/Pengin Putnam | $15.99 |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | Candlewick | $15.99 |
| Blizzard! | Jim Murphy | Scholastic | $18.95 |
| Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves | Dennis Brindell Fradin | Clarion/Houghton | $20.00 |
| Boxer, The | Kathleen Karr | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Building Big | David Macaulay | Houghton | $30.00 |
| Christmas Rat, The | Avi | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Crossing Jordan | Adrian Fogelin | Peachtree | $14.95 |
| Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs: An Expedition to Madagascar | Nic Bishop | Houghton | $16.00 |
| Dovey Coe | Frances O'Roark Dowell | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Fever 1793 | Laurie Halse Anderson | Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Freedom River | Doreen Rappaport | Jump at the Sun/Hyperion | $14.99 |
| Give Me Liberty | Russell Freedman | Holiday | $24.95 |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling | Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic | $25.95 |
| Hope Was Here | Joan Bauer | Knopf/Random House | $16.99 |
| I Was a Rat | Philip Pullman | Knopf/Random House | $15.95 |
| Joey Pigza Loses Control | Jack Gantos | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| John Riley's Daughter | Kezi Matthews | Front Street/Cricket | $15.95 |
| Kite Fighters, The | Linda Sue Park | Clarion/Houghton | $15.00 |
| Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Gulliver/Harcourt | $20.00 |
| Longitude Prize, The | Joan Dash | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Miracle's Boys | Jacqueline Woodson | Putnam/Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal | Sophie Webb | Houghton | $15.00 |
| Nory Ryan's Song | Patricia Reilly Giff | Delacorte | $15.95 |
| Picturing Lincoln: Famous Photographs That Popularized the President | George Sullivan | Clarion/Houghton | $16.00 |
| Samir and Yonatan | Daniella Carmi | Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic | $15.95 |
| Savion: My Life in Tap | Savion Glover and Bruce Weber | HarperCollins | $19.95 |
| Send One Angel Down | Virginia Frances Schwartz | Holiday | $15.95 |
| Shaman's Nephew, The: A Life in the Far North | Simon Tookoome with Sheldon Oberman | Stoddart | $18.95 |
| Shaping the Earth | Dorothy Hinshaw Patent | Clarion/Houghton | $18.00 |
| Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado | Marc Aronson | Clarion/Houghton | $20.00 |
| Skyscrapers: How America Grew Up | John B. Severance | Holiday | $18.95 |
| Spellbinder | Tom Lalicki | Holiday | $18.95 |
| Stowaway | Karen Hess | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | 17.00 |
| Wanderer, The | Sharon Creech | HarperCollins | 15.95 |
| What Kids Are Made of: True Stories of Young Rescuers, Rulers, and Rebels | Kirsty Murray | Chicago Review Press | 7.95 |
| Year Down Yonder, A | Richard Peck | Dial/Penguin Putnam | 16.99 |
| Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up) | |||
| 145th Street Stories | Walter Dean Myers | Delacorte | $15.95 |
| Beast | Donna Jo Napoli | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $17.00 |
| Body of Christopher Creed, The | Carol Plum-Ucci | Harcourt | $17.00 |
| Book of the Lion, The | Michael Cadnum | Viking/Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| Braid of Lives: A Native American Childhood | Neil Philip | Clarion/Houghton | $20.00 |
| Cut | Patricia McCormick | Front Street | $16.95 |
| Death at Devil's Bridge | Cynthia Defelice | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Dreamland | Sarah Dessen | Viking/Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| Eight Seconds | Jean Ferris | Harcourt | $17.00 |
| Esperanza Rising | Pam Munoz Ryan | Scholastic | $15.95 |
| Forgotten Fire | Adam Bagdasarian | DK Publishing | $17.95 |
| Hurry Freedom: Afican Americans in Gold Rush California | Jerry Stanley | Crown/Random House | $18.95 |
| Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement | Dennis Brendell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin | Clarion/Houghton | $18.00 |
| Life is Funny | E. R. Frank | DK Publishing | $17.95 |
| Many Stones | Carolyn Coman | Front Street | $15.95 |
| Men of Stone | Gayle Friesen | Kids Can Press | $16.95 |
| Night Hoops | Carl Deuker | Houghton | $15.00 |
| Pedro and Me: Frienship, Loss and What I Learned | Judd Winick | Holt | $15.00 |
| Playing Without the Ball: A Novel in Four Quarters | Rich Wallace | Knopf/Random House | $15.95 |
| Queen of Attolia, The | Megan Whalen Turner | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots | Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | $19.99 |
| Shiva's Fire | Suzanne Fisher Staples | Farrar Straus Giroux | $17.00 |
| Sitting Bull and His World | Albert Marrin | Dutton/Penguin Putnam | $27.50 |
| Spindle's End | Robin McKinley | Penguin | $19.99 |
| Torn Thread | Anne Isaacs | Scholastic | $15.95 |
| What Became of Her | M. E, Kerr | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune | Lori Aurelia Williams | Simon & Schuster | $17.00 |
| Poetry | |||
| Desert Song | Tony Johnston | Sierra | $15.95 |
| Just Us Two: Poems About Animal Dads | Joyce Sidman | Millbrook | $22.90 |
| Mammalabilia | Douglas Floria | Harcourt | $16.00 |
| My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States | Lee Bennett Hopkins | Simon & Schuster | $19.95 |
| Night Garden: Poems from the World of Dreams | Janet S. Wong | McElderry/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Stone Bench in an Empty Park | Paul B. Janeczko | Orchard | $15.95 |
| Touch the Poems | Arnold Adoff | Blue Sky/Scholastic | $16.95 |
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