Literature for the Millennium book list

BOOKS FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN

PICTURE BOOKS AND BOOKS FOR BEGINNING READERS
"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day," by Judith Viorst
"All the Colors of the Earth," by Shelia Hamanaka
"Amazing Grace," by Mary Hoffman
"Are You My Mother?" by P.D. Eastman
"Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)," by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
"The Story of Babar the Little Elephant," by Jean De Brunhoff
"Bread and Jam for Frances," by Russell Hoban
"Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business," by Esphyr Slobodkina
"A Chair for My Mother," by Vera B.Williams "Chato's Kitchen," by Gary Soto
"The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit," by Margery Williams
"Corduroy," by Don Freeman
"Corn Is Maize:The Gift of the Indians," by Aliki
"Danny and the Dinosaur," by Syd Hoff
"Doctor DeSoto," by William Steig
"Eloise," by Kay Thompson
"Family Pictures," by Carmen Lomas Garza
"George and Martha," by James Marshall
"The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses," by Paul Goble
"Goodnight Moon," by Margaret Wise Brown
"Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King," by Jean Marzollo
"How My Parents Learned to Eat," by Ina R. Friedman
"Harold and the Purple Crayon," by Crockett Johnson
"Harry the Dirty Dog," by Gene Zion
"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," by Laura Joffe Numeroff
"If You Were My Bunny," by David McPhail
"In the Small, Small Pond," by Denise Fleming
"Ira Sleeps Over," by Bernard Waber
"The Itsy Bitsy Spider," by Iza Trapani
"Jamberry," by Bruce Degen
"Leo the Late Bloomer," by Robert Kraus
"The Keeping Quilt," by Patricia Polacco
"Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse," by Kevin Henkes
"The Little Engine That Could," by Watty Piper
"The Little Red Hen," by Paul Galdone
"Love You Forever," by Robert Munsch
"Make Way for Ducklings," by Robert McCloskey
"Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel," by Virginia Lee Burton
"Miss Nelson Is Missing!," by Harry Allard and James Marshall
"Miss Rumphius," by Barbara Cooney
"Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present," by Charlotte Zolotow
"More Spaghetti, I Say!," by Rita Golden Gelman
"The Most Beautiful Place in the World," by Ann Cameron
"The Napping House," by Audrey Wood
"Owl Moon," by Jane Yolen
"The Polar Express," by Chris Van Allsburg
"The Rainbow Fish," by Marcus Pfister
"The Relatives Came," by Cynthia Rylant
"Seven Brave Women," by Betsy Hearne
"Smoky Night," by Eve Bunting
"Snowflake Bentley," by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
"The Snowy Day," by Ezra Jack Keats
"Starry Messenger," by Peter Sis
"The Story of Jumping Mouse," by John Steptoe
"Swimmy," by Leo Lionni
"Sylvester and the Magic Pebble," by William Steig
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit," by Beatrix Potter
"Tar Beach," by Faith Ringgold
"The Very Hungry Caterpillar," by Eric Carle
"Where the Wild Things Are," by Maurice Sendak
"Yoko," by Rosemary Wells

CONCEPT BOOKS
"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom," by Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archambault
"Freight Train," by Donald Crews
"Math Curse," by Jon Scieszka
"Stellaluna," by Janell Cannon
"Ten, Nine, Eight," by Molly Bang

FANTASY AND FOLKTALES
"Abiyoyo," by Pete Seeger
"Aesop's Fables," by Aesop
"Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti," by Gerald McDermott
"Bearskin," by Howard Pyle
"Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella," by Robert D. San Souci
"Charlotte's Web," by E.B. White
"Chicken Little," by Steven Kellogg
"Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story From China," by Ed Young
"The Classic Mother Goose," by Armand Eisen
"Nursery Tales Around the World," by Judy Sierra
"Rumpelstiltskin," by Paul O. Zelinksy
"Strega Nona," by Tomie De Paola
"The Gingerbread Man," by Jim Aylesworth
"The Legend of the Bluebonnet: An Old Tale of Texas," by Tomie De Paola
"The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale," by Jan Brett
"The Toll Bridge Troll," by Patricia Rae Wolff
"The Treasure," by Uri Shulevitz
"Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale," by Verna Aardema

POETRY
"A Giraffe and a Half," by Shel Silverstein
"A Pizza the Size of the Sun," by Jack Prelutsky
"Hush!: A Thai Lullaby," by Minfong Ho
"Arroz Con Leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America," by Lulu Delacre
"Where the Sidewalk Ends," by Shel Silverstein
"Trees," by Harry Behn
"You Be Good and I'll Be Night," by Eve Merriam

SERIES
"Amelia Bedelia," by Peggy Parish
"Arthur," by Marc Brown
"Clifford," by Norman Bridwell
"Curious George," by H.A. Rey
"Frog and Toad," by Arnold Lobel
"Little Bear," by Else Holmelund Minarik
"Madeline," by Ludwig Bemelmans
All titles by Seuss (e.g. "The Cat in the Hat")," by Dr. Seuss
"The Magic School Bus," by Joanna Cole

 

BOOKS FOR OLDER READERS

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
"And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?" by Jean Fritz
"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl," by Anne Frank
"Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra," by Andrea Davis Pinkney
"Good Queen Bess: The Story of Queen Elizabeth I of England," by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
"Rosa Parks: My Story," by Rosa Parks/James Haskins
"The Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.," by James Haskins
"Lincoln: A Photobiography," by Russell Freedman
"Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story," by Andrea Warren
"Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution," by Ji-Li Jiang

Classics
"The Borrowers," by Mary Norton
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," by Roald Dahl
"The Cricket in Times Square," by George Selden
Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling
"The Hundred Dresses," by Eleanor Estes
"Julie of the Wolves," by Jean Craighead George
"Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott
"Mary Poppins," by P.L. Travers
"Ramona Quimby, Age 8," by Beverly Cleary
"Old Yeller," by Fred Gipson
"Pippi Longstocking," by Astrid Lindgren
"The Secret Garden," by Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Stuart Little," by E.B. White "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," by Betty Smith
"The Wind in the Willows," by Kenneth Grahame
"Winnie-the-Pooh," by A. A. Milne

CONTEMPORARY REALISTIC FICTION
"Bridge to Terabithia," by Katherine Paterson
"Dicey's Song," by Cynthia Voigt
"From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," by E.L. Konigsburg
"Habibi," selected by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Harriet the Spy," by Louise Fitzhugh
"Hatchet," by Gary Paulsen
"Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key," by Jack Gantos
"Maniac Magee," by Jerry Spinelli
"Missing May," by Cynthia Rylant
"Pacific Crossing," by Gary Soto
"Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing," by Judy Blume
"Tomas and the Library Lady," by Pat Mora
"Walk Two Moons," by Sharon Creech

FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION
"Babe: The Gallant Pig," by Dick King-Smith "The Blue Sword," by Robin McKinley
"The Ear, the Eye and the Arm," by Nancy Farmer
"Ella Enchanted," by Gail Carson Levine
"The Giver," by Lois Lowry
"Half Magic," by Edward Eager
"Holes," by Louis Sachar
"James and the Giant Peach," by Roald Dahl "The Moorchild," by Eloise McGraw
"Mr. Popper's Penguins," by Richard and Florence Atwater
"Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH," by Robert C. O'Brien
"The Phantom Tollbooth," by Norton Juster
"A String on the Harp," by Nancy Bond
"Tuck Everlasting," by Natalie Babbitt
"The Wolves of Willoughby Chase," by Joan Aiken

HISTORICAL FICTION
"Across Five Aprils," by Irene Hunt
"Island of the Blue Dolphins," by Scott O'Dell
"Johnny Tremain," by Esther Forbes
"The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam," by Huynh Quang Nhuong
"Lily's Crossing," by Patricia Reilly Giff
"The Midwife's Apprentice," by Karen Cushman
"Morning Girl," by Michael Dorris
"Out of the Dust," by Karen Hesse
"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry," by Mildred Taylor
"Sarah, Plain and Tall," by Patricia MacLachlan
"The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle," by Avi
"The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963," by Christopher Paul Curtis
"The Yearling," by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
"The Year of Impossible Goodbyes," by Sook Nyul Choi

INFORMATIONAL
"Aztec, Inca and Maya (Eyewitness Books)," by Elizabeth Baquedano
"A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder," by Walter Wick
"The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War," by Jim Murphy
"Fire! Fire!" by Gail Gibbons
"The Middle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo," by Tom Feelings
"The New Way Things Work," by David Macaulay
"Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II," by Penny Colman
"Stephen Biesty's Incredible Pop-Up Cross-Sections," by Stephen Biesty
"Stone Age Farmers Beside the Sea: Scotland's Prehistoric Village of Skara Brae," by Caroline Arnold
"Sugaring Time," by Kathryn Lasky

Myths/legends/folktalkes
"The Arabian Nights," by Neil Philip
"D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths," by Ingri D'Aulaire/Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
"The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese and Other Tales of the Far North," by Howard Norman
"In a Circle Long Ago: A Treasury of Native Lore From North American," by Nancy Van Laan
"The People Could Fly," by Virginia Hamilton
"The Rainbow People," by Laurence Yep
"Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories," by Isaac Bashevis Singer

POETRY
"All Day Long," by David McCord
"Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino," by Lori M. Carlson, ed.
"Dream Keeper: And Other Poems," by Langston Hughes
"Harlem: A Poem," by Walter Dean Myers
"In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers," by Javaka Steptoe (illustrator)
"Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices," by Paul Fleischman
"Love Letters," by Arnold Adoff
"The New Kid on the Block," by Jack Prelutsky

SERIES
"Anne of Green Gables Series," by L. M. Montgomery
"The Chronicles of Narnia," by C. S. Lewis
"Chronicles of Prydain," by Lloyd Alexander "The Dark Is Rising Series," by Susan Cooper
"Dear America/My Name Is America," by various
"His Dark Materials," by Philip Pullman
"Little House Books," by Laura Ingalls Wilder
"The Time Quartet," by Madeleine L'Engle

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