1.Title: Good night, Baby Bear
Author: Frank Asch
Genre: Picture book
Summary: A mother bear faces the challenge of finding
a snack, a drink and even the moon to her baby bear before he can fall asleep. This
book is a very cute story for younger children.
2. Title: Dear John
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Genre: Realistic Fiction
This is a romance novel about a young man (John) who proves that when you love someone, their happiness
is more important than anything, even one’s own self.
3. Title: Five Days in Paris
Author: Danielle Steele
Genre: Realistic Fiction
This is also a romance novel about the realistic truth about love and business and politics. Very enjoyable.
4. Title: The Busy Day
Author: Sarah Gillespie
Genre: Picture book
A cute board picture book about a young dragon who has a very busy day doing things many young
children do.
5. Title: Out to Play
Author: Sarah Gillespie
Genre: Picture Book
A very nice picture book about young dragons that love to play
the same games and activities as young children.
6. Title: Time for Bed
Author: Sarah Gillespie
Genre: Picture Book
This is also a fun picture book about Dragons and Bedtime.
It helps with bedtime for young children.
7. Title: The Tea Party
Author: Sarah Gillespie
Genre: Picture Book
This is a helpful book for young children, also about dragons and tea parties. Ideal for kindergarten age children.
8. Title: One Hen
Author: Katie Smith Milway
Genre: Picture Book
This is a story about a young boy who borrows money from his mom and bought a hen. He sold eggs
to buy more hens to sell more eggs. Eventually he was able to pay his mom back
and gain enough money to go to school. Very interesting book for older children. Very impressive illustrations as well.
9. Title: Goodnight, Sweet Pig
Author: Linda Bailey
Genre: Picture Book
This book is great. It is a counting book about a
pig who just wants to go to sleep, but more and more pigs continue to interrupt her by making noises and dancing etc.. She nicely asks them to lave and eventually she gets to sleep. Great for bed time.
10. Title: Whales on Stilts
Author: M.T. Anderson
Genre: Picture Book
This is a hilarious children’s novel for older children about three children making an attempt
to stop a mad scientist from taking over the world. I enjoyed listening to this
audio book.
11. Title: Nuts to You!
Author: Lois Ehlert
Genre: Picture Book
This is a fun short book for younger children about a squirrel and sharing her nuts.
12. Title: My Mama Says
There Aren’t Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Creatures, Demons, Monsters, Fiends, Goblins or Things
Genre: Picture Book
Author: Judith Viorst
This is a great story about a child who discovers “Things.” He is curious but believes they do not exist because of what his mom told him. This story is very creative.
13. Title: Where does the Garbage Go?
Author: Paul Showers
Genre: Picture Book
This is more of an informational children’s book depicting in children’s
terms where garbage goes. In my opinion it is a nice book, but not attention
grabbing.
14. Title: Goodnight, Me
Author: Andrew Daddo
Genre: Picture Book
This is a picture book for young readers about an orangutan who says
goodnight to all his body parts before trying to sleep. It is attention keeping
and entertaining.
15. Title: A Gift to Share: The Story of Moritz
Author: Barry J. Schieber
Genre: Picture Book
This is an appealing story that depicts the loving relationship
between a person and a wonderful dog. Its talks about how helpful a dog can be
to a lonely or sick person.
16. Title: Hurty Feelings
Author: Helen Lester
Genre: Picture Book
This story is sweet.
It is about a hippo named Fragility. She is very easily hurt and extremely
sensitive. By the end she learns how to accept a complement.
17. Title: Sebastian’s Roller Skates
Author: Joan De Deu Prats
Genre: PIcture Book
This is a great story for shy children.
It is about an extremely shy boy who finds roller skates. While wearing
them, the boy became more and more outgoing. Eventually he was comfortable and
no longer shy.
18. Title: Zoopa: An Animal Alphabet
Genre: Picture book/ informational
Author: Gianna Marino
This educational book is a great learning book. It is about a bowl of soup and it goes through the entire alphabet using creative words.
19. Title: Excuse Me!
Author: Karen Katz
Genre: Picture Book
This is a great book for younger children about manners. Very enjoyable.
20. Title: The Going-To-Bed Book
Author: Sandra Boynton
Genre: Picture Book
This is a cute and silly story about going to bed. It is geared toward younger readers.
21. Title: A to Z
Author Sandra Boynton
Genre: Picture Book/ Informational
This is also an educational alphabet board book for young readers. It pictures animals.
22. Title: Moo, Baa, La La La
Author: Sandra Boynton
Genre: Picture Book
This is also a great children’s book by Sandra Boynton. It is a
fun story about farm animals and the silly songs they sing. My 4 year old daughter
loved it.
23. Title: Opposites
Author: Sandra Boynton
Genre: Picture Book
This is a great educational children’s picture book about opposites. An elephant (large) is friends with a rabbit (very small). A very nice short story for young readers.
24. Title: But not the Hippopotamus
Author: Sandra Boynton
Genre: Picture Book
This is a funny story about the game hide and seek. The hippo has a very hard time playing because he cannot hide because he is too large. Very fun story.
25. Title: The Grouchy Ladybug
Author: Eric Carle
Genre: Picture Book
This is a great story about a lady bug that does not want
to share food with the friendly ladybug so he wants to pick fights all day long but never actually wants to fight. In the end he fights a whale and is very humbled. In the end
he goes back to the friendly lady bug where they share their food.
26. Title: Pumpkin Critter
Author: Mister Tom
Genre: Picture Book
This is a fantastic Halloween book about a pumpkin who will stop at nothing
to scare a little boy. In the end the boy greatly scares the pumpkin. The idea of the story is that bullies are cowards too. My
daughter absolutely loves this story.
27. Title: Seven Things that Steal your Joy
Author: Joyce Meyer
Genre: Informational for Young Adults
This is a great realistic book about the seven life activities that drain
a person from joy. It teaches how to regain your joy and keep it regardless of
the seven things. It really helps me in continual happiness and keeping a positive
outlook.
28. Title: Purpose Driven
Life
Author: Rick Warren
Genre: Informational for young Adults
This is a Christian Devotional consisting of 40 ideas. It is a book that helps a person find the meaning of life through God.
29. Title: Peter Cottontail’s Easter Egg Hunt
Author: Joseph R Ritchie
Genre: Picture Book
This is an awesome flip the flap educational book that encourages
counting, and learning through fun interesting ways. GREAT for kindergarten and
first grade.
30. Title: Thank You Bear
Author: Greg Foley
Genre: Picture Book
This is a very cute book about a little bear who finds a tiny box.
Everyone he shows it too seems completely unimpressed. He begins to think
it is not that great until a mouse comes and absolutely loves it and thanks him. The
moral of the story is that not everyone likes something that may be special to you.
31. Title: The Lady and the
Spider
Author: Faith McNulty
Genre: Picture
Book
This is a nice
story about a gardener who finds a spider in her garden and decides to be nice and let the spider live. The story is about the value of life and a great story for all ages.
32. Title: Horton Hears a Who
Author: Dr. Seuss
Genre: Picture
Book
This is of course
a Dr. Seuss book about an elephant who believes that a person is a person regardless of size, and also in keeping his word. It is a very cute book for younger children.
33. Title: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Author: Dr. Seuss
Genre: Picture Book
This book is a
classic by Dr. Seuss. I enjoyed reading the book version. Very cute and sweet.
34. Title: Gilgamesh the King
Author: Ludmila Zeeman
Genre: Folktale
This is a short
retelling of the first portion of the myth of Gilgamesh. It is the first of three
books.
35. Title: Miss Suzy’s Easter Surprise
Author: Miriam Young
Genre: Picture
Book
This is such a
great story. It tells of a mommy squirrel who adopts 4 baby squirrels. I definitely suggest this book.
36. Title: The little Engine that Could
Author: Watty Piper
Genre: Picture
Book
This story is a
classic. Very cute story about a little train that faces a huge hurdle in trying
to get over a mountain. He ends up successful.
Great book for encouragement.
37. Title: The Wind is not a River
Author: Arnold A. Griese
Genre: Realistic
Fiction
This is a longer
Fiction book about two siblings who manage to live alone on an island after the Japanese invasion. Very heart-touching story.
38. Title: The Empty Chair
Author: Bess Kaplan
Genre: Realistic Fiction
This is a beautifully
written sad story about a young Jewish girl whose mother has died. He must then deal with adjusting to a new mom. She faces obstacles
that deal mainly with her emotion and feelings.
39. Title: Noah and the Great Flood
Author: Warwick Hutton
Genre: Picture Book
This is simply
a retelling of the classic bible story of Noah’s Ark.
40. Title: The Angry Moon
Author: William Sleator
Genre: Picture
Book
This is a great
fantasy story of a Tlingit Indian. It is a great story that includes bravery
and Magic.
41. Title: Tuesday
Author: David Wiesner
Genre: Fantasy
This is such a
cute fantasy story about frogs. They float in the air and discover and explore
neighborhoods while the people sleep. It is a great story for young readers.
42. Title: The Color Wizard
Author: Fantasy/ Poetry
This is a great
story about a Gray Wizard. It is actually a rhyming poem. It is also very colorful. It tells about a wizard who
changes his gray world by adding color.
43. Title: The Dragonling
Author: Jackie F. Koller
Genre: Fantasy
This story is very
cute. It is about a baby dragon who mistakenly got left alive. His name is Darek. He faces obstacles in successfully getting
back to the Valley of the Dragons.
44. Title: Kinship with All Life
Author: Allen J Boone
Genre: Fantasy/SciFi
This is a great
story for older readers. It tells of how animals of all kinds can communicate
with creatures (including humans) of all kinds. It is somewhat philosophical.
45. Title: The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank
Genre: Biography/Autobiography
I wanted to add
this book simply because it is the story of a young girl whose family hid from the Nazi’s during WWII. I actually did not read it this semester, but it is a great historical piece.
46. Title: Helping Out
Author: George Ancona
Genre: Picture
Book
This is a great
picture book showing many photos of children being helpful. I think this book
is great because it encourages children to help in various activities.
47. Title: Mom Can’t See
Me
Author: Sally Hobart Alexander
Genre: Realistic Fiction
This story is quite
touching. It is about living life to the fullest through a huge obstacle: Blindness.
48. Title: Charlotte’s Web
Author: E.B. White
Genre: Fantasy
This is also a
book I read in a past semester that I wanted to add to my book list. It is about
the classic story about the spider (Charlotte) who makes brilliant
webs in Wilbur’s (a pig) pen. Brilliantly written.
49. Title: The Rough-Face Girl
Author Rafe Martin
Genre: Fantasy/Picture
Book
This is somewhat
of a Cinderella story about an Indian girl who has no outer beauty, but amazing inner beauty.
Of course the story has a happy ending. A great story.
50. Title: Jack and the Beanstalk
Author: Steven Kellogg
Genre: Picture
book/ Fantasy
This is just the
story of the Classic magic bean and the rapidly growing beanstalk. This is an
awesome classic story. My daughter makes me read it to her all the time.
51. Title: Wolstencroft The Bear
Author: Michael S. Weber
Genre: Picture
Book
This is a cute little
story about a bear who sat on the shelf at a drug store for so long. He saw many
other animals come and go. Finally someone loved him and his name. Of course again the book had a happy ending.
52 Title: The Emperor Penguin's New Cloths
Author: Retold & Illustrated by Janet Perlman
Genre: Picture Book
Summary: The emperor penguin always wore new cloths (every
hour of every day). One day 2 scoundrels said they had cloth to make cloths but if you were dishonest or simpleminded you
would not be able to see the cloths. The emperor paid a lot of money to to scoundrels to make him some cloths made of
this magic fabric. When the cloths were "finished" the emperor pretended he could see him so others would not
think he was dishonest or simpleminded. Everyone pretened to see the cloths for the same reason. A small penguin
child admitted he could not see the cloths and many others began to admit. Soon the emperor realized he indeed did not
have any cloths. He was tricked by the scoundrels. The scoundrels were never seen again.
The moral of the story is to always tell the truth, even if
it makes you look bad.
53. Title: The Little Ant
Author: Michael Rose Ramirez
Genre: Picture Book
Summary: A little ant broke his leg in a snow storm and
asked the judge to punish the snow for breaking his leg. The snow blamed it on the sun, who blamed it on the clouds,
who blamed it on the wind, who blamed it on the wall, who blamed it on the mouse, who blamed it on the cat, who blamed it
on the yarn, who blamed it on the scissors, who blamed it on the blacksmith... The blacksmith pleaded that God makes everything
and we have to make the best of it. The ant went home, propped his leg up and just enjoyed the beautiful snow flakes.
Moral of the story is to be thankful not blameful.
54. Title: Victoria's Adventure
Author: Susan Jeschke
Genre: Picture Book
Victoria was a little girl who was very sick and had a dream
about her toys. They took her to the land of bears. It was very cold and she froze into ice. So the toys
took her to the sun, where she melted completely. Then a medicine man planted her in the ground where she came back
to life. Her toys then took her home and crashed into the window to get into her room. She woke from her nap at
this time and fell out of her bed. She realized she felt better.
The moral of the story is that when you are sick, you need your
rest, and sometimes reality can enter your dreams.
55. Title: Max and Ruby's Midas
Author: Rosemary Wells
Genre: Picture Book
Ruby was a rabbit and Max was her little brother. She
read a book to Max about using laser eyes to turn healthy snacks into unhealthy snacks like cake and cookies. The character
accidently used his laser eyes and turned his family into snacks. All he wanted was to get his family back. When
he decided to eat the healthy food, his family was reestablished.
The moral of the story is that we need to eat healthy and not
try to sabotage things.
56. Title: Poetry for Young People
Author: Robert Frost
Genre: Poetry
This is a book of seasonal poems. There are many fun poems
about Winter, Autumn, Summer and Spring. It is refreshing.
57. Title: Don't Read this Book, Whatever you do. More
poems about School
Author: Kalli Dakos
Genre: Poetry
This is another fun book of poems about school. Some of
them are very funny.
58. Title: Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll, and other School
Poems
Author: Kalli Dakos
Genre: Poetry
This is a funny book of poems. It is also very refreshing
to read after reading serious stories. Great for Read Alouds.
59. Title: In the Swim (Poems and Paintings)
Author: Douglas Florran
Genre: Poetry
This is a small book full of lovely poems. I would love
to use this book as part of a classroom library.
60. Title: Love Letters
Author: Arnold Adoff
Genre: Poetry
This is a book full of great poetry, suitable for older children
or young adults.
61. Title: If Pigs Could Fly , and other Great Thoughts
Author: Bruce Lansky
Genre: Poetry
This is a great book of funny poems. Great for any day.
62. Title: Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose
Author: Charles Ghisna
Genre: Poetry
These are more great poems for chldren. This is another
book I would love to have in my classroom library.
63. Title: Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe
Genre: Historical Fiction
This is a book about the life of an Indian man and his family.
It touches on the rituals and beliefs practiced in their tribe. Some of them outlandish. Eventually, things fell
apart. Very interesting novel for young adults or high school age.
64. Title: Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Genre: Historical Fiction
This is a book for young adults about a farm that was taken
over by the animals on the farm. It has historical truth about the ruler Napolean and his people. It is a political
Satire. Very interesting story line.
65. Title: The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Genre: Historical Fiction
This story depicts what life may have been like for adulterers
long ago. Hester Prynne had to wear the letter A on her chest to signify her as an adultress. It has a twisted
storyline and a great ending. More for young adult readers than children. Great for high school level readers.
66. Title: The Truth about Bats
Author: Joanna Cole
Genre: nonfiction/informational
This is a great children's chapter book about bats. It
is very informational and educational. It even tells how to make a bat cage. Very neat book.
67.Title: I Wonder why Encyclopedia
Author: Many Authors: Published by Kingfisher
Genre: nonfiction/informational
This is a children's encyclopedia. All the wording is
focused for children. Awesome Informational book.
68. Title: Everything from A to Z about Cats
Author: Candace Henderson
Genre: Nonfiction/ Informational
This is actually a book in progress. Candace is working
on getting it published. It has valuable information for children about how to befriend their pets; in particular cats.
69. 70. 71. Title: His Dark Materials: A trilogy
based on three books The Goldern Compass, The Subtle Knife, and the Amber Spyglass
Author: Philip Pullman
Genre: SciFi/Fantasy
This trilogy is great but can and has caused religious controversy.
It has a good story line. The movie The Golden Compass definately has been toned down to release on television but the
books let it all out. More about this trilogy on my author biography page. There are also links on there to access
information about the author and these books.l
72. Title: Christina Aguilera: The Unauthorized
Audio Biography
Author: Chris Herring and Susan Van Dusen
Genre: Biography/AutoBiography
This is a biography about the life of Christina, Ideal
for high school age.
73. Title: Jennifer Lopez: Maximum Audio Biography
(Maximum)
Author: Dan Winter and Louise Weekley
Genre: Biography/Autobiography
This is a biography about J-Lo. Also very interesting
book ideal for high school age.
74. Title: Fat Cat
Author: Margaret Macdonald
Genre: Folktale
This is a great Danish Folktale. Very interesting.
75. Title: The Fire Children
Author: Eric Maddern
Genre: Folktale
This is a folk tale about the Western Africa. I personally
did not find this book interesting, but I believe it can be fun and informational.
76. Title: Tales from Old Ireland
Author: Malachy Doyle
Genre: Folktale
This is a book of tales of ireland. Some of
the tales are very much fun. Great for read aloud.
77. Title: Sisters
Author: Danielle Steele
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Great realistic story about a tragedy and the bond between 4
sisters. It would be a good book for young adult readers.
78. Title: The Penderwicks
Author: Jeamme Birdsall
Genre: Folktale From the Land of Enchantment Book
Awards
This was a cute tale about a widowed man and his 4 girls who
befriend a boy. Very cute story. I would recommend this as a read aloud at any level.
78. Title: The Boy on Fairfield Street
Author: Katherine Kull
Genre: LOE book Autobiography/biography
This is the story of the life of Dr. Seuss. I absolutely
loved it. It had a lot of insight on the real Dr. Seuss.
79. Title: Becoming Naomi Leon
Author:Pat Munoz
Genre: LOE
This is a story of a girl who runs away with her gradmother
from her mom in search of her father. A beautiful story.
80. Title: My Snowball
Author: Grace Coleman
Genre: Poetry
This is an unpublished poem about a little girl and her friend
who happend to be a snowball. Eventually the snowball ran away but not before wetting the bed.
