In addition to exceptional writing, creative story lines (for fiction) and factual accuracy (for nonfiction and historical fiction), the criteria for selection are age-appropriate subject matter, fresh themes, new approaches to known stories and relevance to the lives of today's kids.
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Children's Literature Choice List 1999 |
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Books for Children 3 and Under |
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Come Along, Daisy! |
Jane Simmons |
Little, Brown |
$ 5.95 |
| Fire Truck |
Peter Sis |
Greenwillow |
$14.95 |
| Jack- It's Playtime, Jack-Happy Birthday, Jack-It's Bathtime, Jack-It's Bedtime |
Rebecca Elgar |
Kingfisher |
$5.95 |
| Just You and Me |
Sam McBratney |
Candlewick |
$15.99 |
| Lunch |
Denise Fleming |
Henry Holt |
$6.95 |
| No, David! |
David Shannon |
The Blue Sky Press |
$14.95 |
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Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8 |
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| 18 Penny Goose, The |
Sally M. Walker |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
| Celebrate! Stories of the Jewish Holidays |
Gilda Berger |
Scholastic |
$17.95 |
| Disappearing Alphabet, The |
Richard Wilbur |
Harcourt |
$16.00 |
| Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra |
Andrea Davis Pinkney |
Hyperion |
$15.95 |
| Elizabeti's Doll |
Stephanie Stuve Bodeen |
Lee & Low |
$15.95 |
| Frog Face - My Little Sister & Me |
John Schindel |
Henry Holt |
$14.95 |
| God's Little Seeds |
Bijou Le Tord |
Eerdmans |
$15.00 |
| Greetings, Sun |
Phillis Gershator and David Gershator |
DK Ink |
$15.95 |
| Gullible's Troubles |
Margaret Shannon |
Houghton Mifflin |
$15.00 |
| Gus and Grandpa Ride the Train |
Claudia Mills |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
$13.00 |
| Handful of Beans, A |
Jeanne Steig |
HarperCollins |
$17.95 |
| Honk! |
Pamela Duncan Edwards |
Hyperion |
$14.95 |
| In the Hush of the Evening |
Nancy Price Graff |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
| Loud Emily |
Alexis O'Neill |
Simon & Schuster |
$16.00 |
| My Box of Color |
Lorianne Siomades |
Boyds Mills Press |
$8.95 |
| Ouch! |
Natalie Babbitt |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
| Owl and the Pussycat, The |
Edward Lear |
HarperCollins |
$15.95 |
| Pete's a Pizza |
William Steig |
HarperCollins |
$13.95 |
| Puddle, The |
David McPhail |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
$15.00 |
| Pushkin Meets the Bundle |
Harriet M. Ziefert |
Atheneum |
$16.00 |
| Raising Yoder's Barn |
Jane Yolen |
Little, Brown |
$15.95 |
| Salmon Summer |
Bruce McMillan |
Houghton Mifflin |
$16.00 |
| Sense-Abilities: Fun Ways to Explore the Senses |
Michelle O'Brien-Palmer |
Chicago Review Press |
$12.95 |
| Shanti |
Maartje Padt |
DK Publishing |
$14.95 |
| Snake Alley Band |
Elizabeth Nygaard |
Bantam Doubleday Dell |
$15.95 |
| Snow |
Uri Shulevitz |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
$16.00 |
| So Say the Little Monkeys |
Nancy Van Laan |
Atheneum |
$16.00 |
| Tale of a Tail |
Judit Z. Bodnár |
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard |
$16.00 |
| Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep |
Joyce Dunbar |
Harcourt |
$16.00 |
| Trow-Wife's Treasure, The |
Olivier Dunrea |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
$16.00 |
| What Baby Wants |
Phyllis Root |
Candlewick |
$15.99 |
| What's the Matter Davy? |
Brigitte Weninger |
North-South |
$15.95 |
| When Mama Comes Home Tonight |
Eileen Spinelli |
Simon & Schuster |
$14.00 |
| Which Way to the Revolution? A Book about Maps |
Bob Barner |
Holiday |
$16.95 |
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Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10) |
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| Autumn Leaves |
Ken Robbins |
Scholastic |
$15.95 |
| Barefoot Book of Princesses, The |
Caitlin Matthews |
Barefoot Books |
$17.95 |
| Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu |
Emily Arnold McCully |
Scholastic |
$16.95 |
| Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story |
Julius Lester |
Dial |
$16.99 |
| Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic |
Robert Burleigh |
Atheneum |
$16.00 |
| Boom Town |
Sonia Levitin |
Orchard |
$15.99 |
| Boss of the Plains: The Hat theat Won the West |
Laurie Carlson |
DK Ink |
$16.95 |
| Bravo, Zan Angelo! |
Niki Daly |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
$16.00 |
| Clouds of Glory |
Miriam Chaikin |
Clarion |
$19.00 |
| Crane Wife, The |
Odds Bodkin |
Gulliver/Harcourt |
$16.00 |
| G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book |
David M. Schwartz |
Tricycle |
$15.95 |
| Hatmaker's Sign, The |
Candace Fleming |
Orchard |
$15.95 |
| Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth |
Robert Burleigh |
Silver Whistle |
$16.00 |
| I See the Rhythm |
Toyomi Igus |
Children's Book Press |
$15.95 |
| Johnny on the Spot |
Edward Sorel |
McElderry |
$16.00 |
| Look-Alikes |
Joan Steiner |
Little, Brown |
$12.95 |
| Lucy Dove |
Janice Del Negro |
DK Ink |
$16.95 |
| Morning on the Lake |
Jan Bourdeau Waboose |
Kids Can Press |
$15.95 |
| My Freedom Trip |
Frances Park and Ginger Park |
Boyds Mills Press |
$15.95 |
| My Name is Georgia |
Jeanette Winter |
Silver Whistle |
$16.00 |
| Nothing Here But Trees |
Jean Van Leeuwen |
Dial |
$15.99 |
| Painted Dreams |
Karen Lynn Williams |
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard |
$16.00 |
| Riches of Oseola McCarty, The |
Evelyn Coleman |
Albert Whitman |
$14.95 |
| Sailor's Alphabet, The |
Michael McCurdy |
Houghton Mifflin |
$16.00 |
| Scrambled States of America, The |
Laurie Keller |
Henry Holt |
$16.95 |
| Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups, The |
David Wisniewski |
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard |
$16.00 |
| Shadows in the Dawn |
Kathryn Lasky |
Gulliver Green/Harcourt Brace |
$18.00 |
| Sky Sash So Blue |
Libby Hathorn |
Simon & Schuster |
$16.00 |
| Snowflake Bentley |
Jacqueline Briggs Martin |
Houghton Mifflin |
$16.00 |
| So Far from the Sea |
Eve Bunting |
Clarion |
$15.00 |
| Soaring with the Wind: The Bald Eagle |
Gail Gibbons |
Morrow |
$16.00 |
| This Land is Your Land |
Woody Guthrie |
Little, Brown |
$15.95 |
| Weave of Words, A |
Robert D. San Souci |
Orchard |
$15.95 |
| Wild Boy, The |
Mordicai Gerstein |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
$16.00 |
| Zelda and Ivy |
Laura McGee Kvasnosky |
Candlewick |
$15.99 |
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Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12) |
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| 52 Days by Camel: My Sahara Adventure |
Lawrie Raskin |
Annick |
$13.99 |
| Adventures of Sojourner, The: The Mission to Mars that Thrilled the World |
Susi Trautmann Wunsch |
Mikaya |
$22.95 |
| Bandit's Moon |
Sid Fleischman |
Greenwillow |
$15.00 |
| Bodies from the Bog |
James M. Deem |
Houghton Mifflin |
$16.00 |
| Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground |
Joyce Hansen & Gary McCowan |
Henry Holt |
$19.98 |
| Bronze Cauldron, The |
Geraldine McCaughrean |
McElderry |
$19.95 |
| Career Ideas for Kids series |
Lindsey Reeves |
Facts On File |
$18.95 |
| Chuck Close, Up Close |
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan |
DK Ink |
$19.95 |
| Clockwork |
Phillip Pullman |
Scholastic |
$16.95 |
| The Deetkatoo: Native American Stories about Little People, The |
Edited by John Bierhorst |
Morrow |
$16.00 |
| Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden: My Adventures on Ampato |
Johan Reinhard |
National Geographic |
$17.99 |
| Faraway Summer |
Johanna Hurwitz |
Morrow |
$15.00 |
| Great Turkey Walk, The |
Kathleen Karr |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
$16.00 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
J.K. Rowling |
Scholastic |
$16.95 |
| Holes |
Louis Sachar |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
$16.00 |
| In the Forest with the Elephants |
Roland Smith |
Gulliver Green/Harcourt Brace |
$9.00 |
| Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration |
Lynn Curlee |
Houghton Mifflin |
$16.00 |
| Jazmin's Notebook |
Nikki Grimes |
Dial |
$15.99 |
| Joan of Arc |
Diane Stanley |
Morrow |
$16.00 |
| Just Juice |
Karen Hesse |
Scholastic |
$14.95 |
| Let My People Go |
Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack |
Atheneum |
$20.00 |
| Long Way from Chicago, A |
Richard Peck |
Dial |
$15.99 |
| Other Shepards, The |
Adele Griffin |
Hyperion |
$14.95 |
| Painters of the Caves |
Patricia Lauber |
National Geographic |
$17.95 |
| Panama Canal |
Elizabeth Mann Mikaya |
$19.95 |
| Perloo the Bold |
Avi |
Scholastic |
$16.95 |
| Petey |
Ben Milaelsen |
Hyperion |
$15.95 |
| Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl |
Marissa Moss |
Silver Whistle |
$15.00 |
| Reaching Dustin |
Vicki Grove |
Penguin Putnam |
$16.99 |
| Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief |
Wendelin Van Draanen |
Knopf |
$15.00 |
| Sang Spell |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Atheneum |
$16.00 |
| Secret Letters From 0 to 10 |
Susie Morgenstern |
Penguin Putnam |
$15.99 |
| Shakespeare Stealer, The |
Gary Blackwood |
Dutton |
$15.99 |
| Squire's Tale, The |
Gerald Morris |
Houghton Mifflin |
$15.00 |
| Starting School with an Enemy |
Elisa Carbone |
Knopf |
$16.00 |
| Storyteller's Beads |
Jane Kurtz |
Guilliver/Harcourt |
$15.00 |
| Tales of Wisdom and Magic |
Berlie Doherty |
Candlewick |
$21.99 |
| Turn of the Century |
Ellen Jackson |
Charlesbridge |
$17.95 |
| Walter Wick's Optical Tricks |
Walter Wick |
Scholastic |
$13.95 |
| Weirdo's War |
Michael Coleman |
Orchard |
$16.95 |
| Wild Kid, The |
Harry Mazer |
Simon & Schuster |
$15.00 |
| Young Astronomer, The |
Harry Ford |
DK Publishing |
$15.95 |
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Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up) |
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| Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde |
Marc Aronson |
Clarion |
$20.00 |
| Behaving Bradley |
Perry Nodelman |
Simon & Schuster |
$16.00 |
| Behind the Mask: the Life of Queen Elizabeth I |
Jane Resh Thomas |
Clarion |
$19.00 |
| Brad's Universe |
Mary Woodbury |
Orca |
$16.00 |
| Dark Lord of Derkholm |
Diana Wynne Jones |
Greenwillow |
$16.00 |
| Go and Come Back |
Joan Abelove |
DK Ink |
$16.95 |
| Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale |
Jim Murphy |
Clarion |
$18.00 |
| Greater than Angels |
Carol Matas |
Simon & Schuster |
$16.00 |
| Heat |
Michael Cadnum |
Viking |
$15.99 |
| I Am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot |
Nancy Springer |
Philomel |
$16.99 |
| I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade |
Diane Lee Wilson |
Orchard |
$17.95 |
| In a Dark Wood |
Michael Cadnum |
Orchard |
$17.95 |
| Invisible Enemies |
Jeanette Farrell |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
$17.00 |
| Joyride |
Gretchen Olson |
Boyds Mills Press |
$14.95 |
| Killing Frost, A |
John Marsden |
Houghton Mifflin |
$15.00 |
| My Louisana Sky |
Kimberley Willis |
Holt Henry Holt |
$15.95 |
| No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa |
Tim McKee |
DK Ink |
$19.95 |
| No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War |
Anita Lobel |
Greenwillow |
$16.00 |
| Outspoken: Role Models from the Lesbian and Gay Community |
Michael Thomas Ford |
Beechtree |
$15.00 |
| Rules of the Road |
Joan Bauer |
Penguin Putnam |
$15.99 |
| Shadow Spinner |
Susan Fletcher |
Atheneum |
$17.00 |
| Someone Like You |
Sarah Dessen |
Viking |
$15.99 |
| Stephen Fair |
Tim Wynne-Jones |
DK Ink |
$15.95 |
| Strays Like Us |
Richard Peck |
Dial |
$15.99 |
| Transall Saga, The |
Gary Paulsen |
Delacorte |
$15.99 |
| Whirligig |
Paul Fleischman |
Henry Holt |
$16.95 |
| Virtual War |
Gloria Skurzynski |
Simon & Schuster |
$16.00 |
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Poetry |
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| BoshBlobberBosh |
J. Patrick Lewis |
Creative Editions |
$18.00 |
| Cool Melons - Turn to Frogs!: The Life and Poems of Issa |
Matthew Gollub |
Lee & Low |
$16.95 |
| Insectlopedia |
Douglas Florian |
Harcourt |
$16.00 |
| Llama Who Had No Pajama, The |
Mary Ann Hoberman |
Browndeer/Harcourt |
$20.00 |
| Space Between Our Footsteps |
Naomi Shihab Nye |
Simon & Schuster |
$19.95 |
| This Big Sky |
Pat Mora |
Scholastic |
$15.95 |
