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Ant Plays Bear, by Betsy Cromer Byars, illustrated by Marc Simont.
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World, by Selby B. Beeler, illustrated by G. Brian Karas.
First Palm Trees: An Anancy Spiderman Story, by James Berry, illustrated by Greg Couch.
Cocoa Ice, by Diana Appelbaum, illustrated by Holly Meade.
The Summer My Father Was Ten, by Pat Brisson, illustrated by Andrea Shine.
Barnyard Lullaby, by Frank Asch.
The Sky Is Always in the Sky, by Karla Kuskin, illustrated by Isabelle Dervaux.
One Horse Waiting for Me, by Patricia Mullins.
Three Monks, No Water, by Ting-xing Ye, illustrated by Harvey Chan.
Hands, by Lois Ehlert.
Telling Time with Big Mama Cat, by Dan Harper, illustrated by Barry Moser and Cara Moser.
So Far from the Sea, by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet.
January Rides the Wind: A Book of Months, by Charlotte F. Otten, illustrated by Todd L.W. Doney.
Flora and Tiger: 19 Very Short Stories from My Life, by Eric Carle.
Here in Space, by David Milgrim.
Too Close Friends, by Shen Roddie, illustrated by Sally Anne Lambert.
The Greatest Treasure, by Demi.
Diez Deditos: Ten Little Fingers and Other Play Rhymes and Action Songs from Latin America, by Jose-Luis Orozco, illustrated by Elisa Kleven.
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
My Daddy, by Susan Paradis.
Mouse Match: A Chinese Folktale, by Ed Young.
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, by Alan Schroeder, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
Miz Berlin Walks, by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
The Goose That Almost Got Cooked, by Marc Simont.
Allison, by Allen Say.
The Awful Aardvarks Go to School, by Reeve Lindbergh, illustrated by Tracey Campbell Pearson.
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Begetables from A to Z, by Lois Ehlert
The Paper Dragon, by Marguerite W. Davol, illustrated Robert Sabuda.
Alfie’s ABC, by Shirley Hughes.
Maples in the Mist: Children’s Poems from the Tang Dynasty, by Minfong Ho, illustrated by Jean Tseng and Mou-Sien Tseng.
Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English, by Alam Flor Ada, illustrated by Simon Silva.
The Lost and Found House, by Michael Cadnum, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher.
Hush! A Thai Lullaby, by Minfong Ho, illustrated by Holly Meade.
*Books recommended by the National Library Association
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The American Revolution, by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier.
Insectlopedia: Poems and Paintings, by Douglas Florian.
Ogbo: Sharing Life in an African Village, by Ifeoma Onyefulu.
The Beauty of the Beast: Poems from the Animal Kingdom, edited by Jack Prelutsky.
The Pirate’s Son, by Geraldine McCaughrean.
Habibi, by Naomi Shihab Nye, illustrated by Raul Colon.
Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero, by James Cross Giblin.
Trouble’s Daughter: The Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive, by Katherine Kirkpatrick.
Across America on an Emigrant Train, by Jim Murphy.
Mud Matters: Stories from a Mud Lover, by Jennifer Owings Dewey, photographs by Stephen Trimble.
Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence, by Dennis Brindell Fradin.
Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy, by Andrea D. Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
Leonardo Da Vinci, by Diane Stanley.
Golem, story and pictures by David Wisniewski.
Painters of the Caves, by Patricia Lauber.
Earth Always Endures: Native American Poems, by Neil Philip, photographs by Edward S. Curtis.
Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse.
Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend, by Alison Leslie Gold.
Popcorn, by James Stevenson.
I Have Heard of a Land, by Joyce Carol Thomas, illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
I Have a Dream, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leon’s Story, by Leon WalterTillage, illustrated by Susan L. Roth.
Being Youngest, by Jim Heynen.
Buffalo Days, by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, illustrated by Lawrence Migdale.
Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth, by Jane Resh Thomas.
This Land Is Your Land, by Woody Guthrie, paintings by Kathy Jakobsen.
Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems, by Francisco X. Alarcon, illustrated by Mary Gonzalez.
*Books recommended by the National Library Association
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Blue Star Rapture, by James W. Bennett.
Fire, Bed, and Bone, by Henrietta Branford, illustrated by Bryan Leister.
Starting with "I": Personal Essays by Teenagers, edited by Philip Kay.
The Transcontinental Railroad in American History, by R. Conrad Stein.
Songs of Faith, by Angela Johnson.
The Robber and Me, by Josef Holub.
The Long Patrol (Redwall Series), by Brian Jacques.
The College Application Essay, by Sarah Myers McGinty.
Winning Ways: A Photohistory of American Women in Sports, by Sue Macy.
Forever Outsiders, Vol.1: Jews and History from Ancient Times to August 1935, by Linda Jacobs Altman.
Monteverde: Science and Scientists in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest, by Sneed B. Collard.
Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde, by Marc Aronson.
Spirits of the High Mesa, by Floyd Martinez.
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road, by Julius Lester, illustrated by Rod Brown.
The Serpent’s Tongue: Prose, Poetry and Art of the New Mexico Pueblos, edited by Nancy C. Wood, introduction by N. Scott Momaday.
Parrot in the Oven: mi vida, by Victor Martinez.
Bone Dance, by Martha Brooks.
The Window, by Michael Dorris, photographs by Ken Robbins.
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry, by Catherine Clinton, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn.
Young, Black and Determined: a Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, by Patricia McKissack.
Sarny: A Life Remembered, by Gary Paulsen, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, by Ji-Li Jiang.
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, by Francisco Jimenez.
The Wreckers, by Iain Lawrence.
No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa, photographs by Anne Blackshaw and interviews by Tim McKee.
Soldier’s Heart, by Gary Paulsen.
Bat 6, by Virginia Euwer Wolff.
The Space between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Buried Onions, by Gary Soto.
My Louisiana Sky, by Kimberly Willis Holt.
*Books recommended by the National Library Association
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