ALSC+Notable+Children's+Books+2012

ALSC Notable Children’s Books - 2012

** Younger Readers **

BARTOLETTI, Susan Campbell. Naamah and the Ark at Night. illus. by Holly Meade. Candlewick.

BENTLY, Peter. King Jack and the Dragon. illus. by Helen Oxenbury. Dial.

BURKERT, Rand, retel. Mouse & Lion. illus. by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Scholastic/Michael di Capua Bks.

CUNNANE, Kelly. Chirchir Is Singing. illus. by Jude Daly. Random/Schwartz & Wade Bks.

DALY, Cathleen. Prudence Wants a Pet. illus. by Stephen Michael King. Roaring Brook/A Neal Porter Bk.

HARRIS, Robie H. Who Has What?: All About Girls’ Bodies and Boys’ Bodies. illus. by Nadine Bernard Westcott. Candlewick.

HENKES, Kevin. Little White Rabbit. illus. by author. Greenwillow.

INTRIAGO, Patricia. Dot. illus. by author. Farrar/Margaret Ferguson Bks.

KLASSEN, Jon. I Want My Hat Back. illus. by author. Candlewick.

LAMB, Albert. Tell Me the Day Backwards. illus. by David McPhail. Candlewick.

LI-QIONG, Yu. A New Year’s Reunion. illus. by Zhu Cheng-Liang. Candlewick.

LYON, George Ella. All the Water in the World. illus. by Katherine Tillotson. S & S/Atheneum/Richard Jackson Bks.

MCDONNELL, Patrick. Me...Jane. illus. by author. Little, Brown.

MARTIN, Bill, Jr. Ten Little Caterpillars. illus. by Lois Ehlert. S & S/Beach Lane Bks.

MASON, Margaret H. These Hands. illus. by Floyd Cooper. Houghton Harcourt.

MEDINA, Meg. Tía Isa Wants a Car. illus. by Claudio Muñoz. Candlewick.

MEISEL, Paul. See Me Run. illus. by author. (I Like to Read Series). Holiday House.

MESSNER, Kate. Over and Under the Snow. illus. by Christopher Silas Neal. Chronicle.

OGBURN, Jacqueline K. Little Treasures: Endearments from Around the World. illus. by Chris Raschka. Houghton Harcourt.

RASCHKA, Chris. A Ball for Daisy. illus. by author. Random/Schwartz & Wade Bks.

RAY, Mary Lyn. Stars. illus. by Marla Frazee. S & S/Beach Lane Bks.

RINKER, Sherri Duskey. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site. illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle.

ROCCO, John. Blackout. illus. by author. Hyperion/Disney.

SAVAGE, Stephen. Where’s Walrus? illus. by author. Scholastic.

SCHNEIDER, Josh. Tales for Very Picky Eaters. illus. by author. Clarion.

SHEA, Susan A. Do You Know Which One Will Grow? illus. by Tom Slaughter. Blue Apple. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-1-60905-062-7.

SMITH, Lane. Grandpa Green. illus. by author. Roaring Brook.

STOCKDALE, Susan. Bring on the Birds. illus. by author. Peachtree.

VAMOS, Samantha R. The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred. illus. by Rafael López. Charlesbridge.

WILD, Margaret. Harry & Hopper. illus. by Freya Blackwood. Feiwel & Friends.

WILLEMS, Mo. I Broke My Trunk! illus. by author. (An Elephant & Piggie Book). Hyperion/Disney.

WILLEMS, Mo. Should I Share My Ice Cream? illus. by author. (An Elephant & Piggie Book). Hyperion/Disney.

** Middle Readers **

ARNOSKY, Jim. Thunder Birds: Nature’s Flying Predators. illus. by author. Sterling.

ASTON, Dianna Hutts. Dream Something Big: The Story of the Watts Towers. illus. by Susan L. Roth. Penguin/Dial.

BOYCE, Frank Cottrell. The Unforgotten Coat. photos by Carl Hunter and Clare Heney. Candlewick.

BROWN, Don. America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell. illus. by author. Roaring Brook.

BROWN, Monica. Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald no combina. tr. by Adriana Dominquez. illus. by Sara Palacios. Children’s Book Press.

BURLEIGH, Robert. Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic. illus. by Wendell Minor. S & S/Paula Wiseman Bks.

DEEDY, Carmen Agra & Randall Wright. The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale. illus. by Barry Moser. Peachtree.

ELLIS, Deborah. No Ordinary Day. Groundwood.

EVANS, Shane W. Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom. illus. by author. Roaring Brook/A Neal Porter Bk.

GARZA, Xavier. Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller. illus. by author. Cinco Puntos.

GEORGE, Kristine O’Connell. Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems. illus. by Nancy Carpenter. Clarion.

GREENFIELD, Eloise. The Great Migration: Journey to the North. illus. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. HarperCollins/Amistad.

HATKE, Ben. Zita the Spacegirl: Far from Home. Bk. 1. illus. by author. Roaring Brook/First Second.

HENKES, Kevin. Junonia. illus. by author. HarperCollins/Greenwillow.

HOLM, Jennifer L. The Trouble with May Amelia. illus. by Adam Gustavson. S & S/Atheneum.

LAI, Thanhha. Inside Out & Back Again. HarperCollins.

LICHTENHELD, Tom & Ezra Fields-Meyer. E-mergency! illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle.

NAPOLI, Donna Jo. Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters. illus. by Christina Balit. National Geographic.

NURSERY RHYME COMICS: 50 TIMELESS RHYMES FROM 50 CELEBRATED CARTOONISTS. intro. by Leonard S. Marcus. First Second.

PARK, Linda Sue. The Third Gift. illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Clarion. RTE $16.99.

RACZKA, Bob. Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word. illus. by Nancy Doniger. Roaring Brook.

ROTH, Susan L. & Cindy Trumbore. The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families. illus. by Susan L. Roth. Lee & Low.

SELZNICK, Brian. Wonderstruck. illus. by author. Scholastic.

SWEET, Melissa. Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade. illus. by author. Houghton Harcourt.

TAK, Bibi Dumon. Soldier Bear. tr. from Dutch by Laura Watkinson. illus. by Philip Hopman. Eerdmans.

THOR, Annika. The Lily Pond. tr. from Swedish by Linda Schenck. Delacorte.

TONATIUH, Duncan. Diego Rivera: His World and Ours. illus. by author. Abrams.

TROTTIER, Maxine. Migrant. illus. by Isabelle Arsenault. Groundwood.

VOIGT, Cynthia. Young Fredle. illus. by Louise Yates. Knopf.

WARDLAW, Lee. Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku. illus. by Eugene Yelchin. Holt.

WINTER, Jeanette. The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps. illus. by author. Random/Schwartz & Wade Bks.

YELCHIN, Eugene. Breaking Stalin’s Nose. illus. by author. Holt.

**Older Readers** ARNI, Samhita, adapt. Sita’s Ramayana. illus. by Moyna Chitrakar. Groundwood.

BLUMENTHAL, Karen. Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition. Roaring Brook/Flash Point.

BRADLEY, Kimberly Brubaker. Jefferson’s Sons. Dial.

BRAGG, Georgia. How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous. illus. by Kevin O’Malley. Walker.

BRIMNER, Larry Dane. Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor. Calkins Creek.

BROOKS, Martha. Queen of Hearts. Farrar.

BROSGOL, Vera. Anya’s Ghost. illus. by author. First Second.

CHRISTOPHER, Lucy. Flyaway. Scholastic/Chicken House.

ENGLE, Margarita. Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck. Holt.

FLEMING, Candace. Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Random/Schwartz & Wade Bks.

FROST, Helen. Hidden. Farrar/Frances Foster Bks.

GANTOS, Jack. Dead End in Norvelt. Farrar.

GOURLAY, Candy. Tall Story. Random/David Fickling Bks. Tr $16.99.

KENT, Trilby. Stones for My Father. Tundra.

MCCALL, Guadalupe Garcia. Under the Mesquite. Lee & Low.

NESS, Patrick. A Monster Calls. illus. by Jim Kay. Candlewick.

O’CONNELL, Caitlin & Donna M. Jackson. The Elephant Scientist. photos by Caitlin O’Connell and Timothy Rodwell. (Scientists in the Field Series). Houghton Harcourt.

PRINGLE, Laurence. Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution. illus. by Steve Jenkins.

ROSS, Stewart. Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air. illus. by Stephen Biesty. Candlewick.

RUBIN, Susan Goldman. Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein. Charlesbridge.

SAY, Allen. Drawing from Memory. illus. by author. Scholastic.

SCHANZER, Rosalyn. Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem. illus. by author. National Geographic.

SCHMATZ, Pat. Bluefish. Candlewick.

SCHMIDT, Gary D. Okay for Now. Clarion.

SCOTT, Elaine. Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw. Clarion.

SEPETYS, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray. Philomel.

STIEFVATER, Maggie. The Scorpio Races. Scholastic.

TAN, Shaun. Lost & Found: Three by Shaun Tan. with “The Rabbits” by John Marsden. illus. by author. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Bks.

THOMSON, Ruth. Terezín: Voices from the Holocaust. Candlewick.

VANHECKE, Susan. Raggin’, Jazzin’, Rockin’: A History of American Musical Instrument Makers. Boyds Mills.

WALKER, Sally M. Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917. Holt. \

WOLITZER, Meg. The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman. Dutton.

YOUNG, Ed. The House Baba Built: An Artist’s Childhood in China. as told to Libby Koponen. illus. by author. Little, Brown.

JENKINS, Martin. Can We Save the Tiger? illus. by Vicky White. Candlewick.
 * All Ages **

MCGUIRK, Leslie. If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet. photos by Denise Ritchie. illus. by author. Tricycle.

MCKISSACK, Patricia C. Never Forgotten. illus. by Leo & Diane Dillon. Random/Schwartz & Wade Bks.

NELSON, Kadir. Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans. illus. by author. HarperCollins.

SIDMAN, Joyce. Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature. illus. by Beth Krommes. Houghton Harcourt.

TULLET, Hervé. Press Here. tr. from French by Christopher Franceschelli. illus. by author. Chronicle/Handprint.