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Picture Books | Fiction | Real Life and Lasting Legends
The titles that follow were selected by the Youth Services staff of the Highland Park Public Library on the basis of popularity, as reflected in the balloting of the community, but consideration was also given to such matters as special merit and enduring value. These annotations were written by members of the Youth Services staff.
Barrett, Judi, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Bemelmans, Ludwig, Madeline
Brown, Margaret Wise, Goodnight, Moon
Burton, Elizabeth, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Carle, Eric, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
De Paola, Tomie, Strega Nona
Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
Freeman, Don, Corduroy
Johnson, Crockett, Harold and the Purple Crayon
Kimmel, Eric, Anansi and the Moss-covered Rock
Martin, Bill, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
McCloskey, Robert, Make Way for Ducklings
Piper, Watty, The Little Engine That Could
Rey, H.A., Curious George
Scieszka, John, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Sendak, Maurice, Where the Wild Things Are
Steig, William, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Van Allsburg, Chris, The Polar Express
Viorst, Judith, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Wiesner, David, Tuesday
Zelinsky, Paul, Rapunzel
Aardema, Verna, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women
Andersen, Hans Christian, Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Anonymous, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Atwater, Richard, Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Babbitt, Natalie, Tuck Everlasting
Barrie, J.M., Peter Pan
Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz
Blume, Judy, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Bruchac, Joseph, Four Ancestors: Stories, Songs and Poems from Native North America
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, The Secret Garden
Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland
Christopher, Matt, The Kid Who Only Hit Homers
Cleary, Beverly, Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Clements, Andrew, Frindle
Creech, Sharon, Walk Two Moons
Dahl, Roald, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
Ehlert, Lois, Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna
Fitzhugh, Louise, Harriet the Spy
George, Jean Craighead, Julie of the Wolves
Goble, Paul, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows
Grimm, Jakob, Grimms Fairy Tales
Hahn, Mary Downing, Wait Till Helen Comes
Hamilton, Virginia, The People Could Fly
Hayes, Joe, A Spoon for Every Bite
Hesse, Karen, Out of the Dust
Howe, Deborah and James Howe, Bunnicula
Jacques, Brian, Redwall
Juster, Norman, The Phantom Tollbooth
Konigsburg, E.L., From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
L’Engle, Madeline, A Wrinkle in Time
Lewis, C.S., The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Lobel, Arnold, Frog and Toad Are Friends
Lofting, Hugh, The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Lowry, Lois, Number the Stars
Milne, A.A., Winnie the Pooh
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds, Shiloh
O’Brien, Robert C., Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O’Dell, Scott, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Paterson, Katherine, Bridge to Terabithia
Perrault, Charles, Puss in Boots
Pyle, Howard
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Robin Hood
Raskin, Ellen, The Westing Game
Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Sachar, Louis, Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Schute, Linda, Momotaro, the Peach Boy
Schwartz, Alvin, In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, The Golem
Spinelli, Jerry, Maniac Magee
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island
Taylor, Mildred, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Towle, Faith, The Magic Cooking Pot
White, E.B., Charlotte’s Web
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Little House in the Big Woods
Yolen, Jane, The Devil’s Arithmetic
Young, Ed, Lon Po Po
Mother Goose: A Collection of Classic Nursery Rhymes
Coerr, Eleanor, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Cole, Joanna, The Magic Schoolbus Series
Coolidge, Olivia, Greek Myths
Dahl, Roald, Boy: Tales of Childhood
Frank, Anne, The Diary of a Young Girl
Freedman, Russell
Indian Chiefs
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Fritz, Jean, Homesick
Macaulay, David, Pyramid
Meltzer, Milton, All Times, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery
Murphy, Jim, The Great Fire
Prelutsky, Jack, The New Kid on the Block
Provensen, Alice, The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States
Reiss, Johanna, The Upstairs Room
Selsam, Millicent, How to Be a Nature Detective
Silverstein, Shel, Where the Sidewalk Ends
Simon, Seymour, Our Solar System
Stevenson, Robert Louis, A Child’s Garden of Verses
Willard, Nancy, A Visit to William Blake’s Inn
Blume, Judy, Forever: A Novel
Collier, James Lincoln, My Brother Sam Is Dead
Cooney, Caroline , The Face on the Milk Carton
Cormier, Robert , The Chocolate War
Deuker, Carl , Heart of a Champion
Duncan, Lois, Killing Mr. Griffin
Greene, Bette, Summer of My German Soldier
Hinton, S.E., The Outsiders
London, Jack, White Fang
Lowry, Lois, The Giver
Montgomery, L.M., Anne of Green Gables
Myers, Walter Dean , Scorpions
Paulsen, Gary, Hatchet
Philbrick, W.R., Freak the Mighty
Voigt, Cynthia, Homecoming
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