The Fabulous Summer Reading List!!!
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THE FABULOUS SUMMER READING LIST!!! SOME FAVORITE BOOKS FROM THE LOWER SCHOOL LIBRARY Summer 2020 This year’s list is much longer than usual, as we figured you might be especially eager for some fun new titles! Also, be sure to visit us on the Kindergarten and Lower School Classroom pages this summer for videos and other library fun! And as always, if you read anything especially awesome, let us know! E-mail the librarians at [email protected]. We miss seeing you so much, and we would be thrilled to hear from you! Love, Rebecca and Nan Stupendous Picture Books The Girl and the Wolf by Katherena Vermette The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe ‘Ohana Means Family by Ilima Loomis Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall Drawn Together by Minh Le Chirri & Chirra by Kaya Doi The Field by Baptiste Paul Islandborn by Junot Díaz Hooray for Books! by Brian Won The Turtle Ship by Helena Ku Rhee Pug Meets Pig by Sue Lowell Gallion If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson Lubna and Pebble by Wendy Maddour Daniel Finds a Poem by Micha Archer The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken A Storytelling of Ravens by Kyle Lukoff The Thing about Bees by Shabazz Larkin A Map into the World by Kao Kalia Yang Yaffa and Fatima by Fawzia Gilani-Williams Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty Festival of Colors by Kabir & Surishtha Sehgal La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy Penny and Penelope by Dan Richards and Claire Almon ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market and ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat by Raul the Third Magnificent Homespun Brown by Samara Cole Doyon Madeleine Finn and the Shelter Dog by Lisa Papp We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal No Reading Allowed: The WORST Read-Aloud Book Ever by Raj Halder 2 Fantastic Picture Book Authors Grace Lin: A Big Mooncake for Little Star, Seven Chinese Sisters Jory John: The Good Egg, The Bad Seed, Don’t Call Me a Monster! Bob Staake: The Donut Chef, Beachy and Me, The Red Lemon Brendan Wenzel: A Stone Sat Still, They All Saw a Cat Jonah Winter: The Sad Little Fact, Elvis is King Oge Mora: Thank You, Omu!, Saturday Anna Kang: You Are (Not) Small, It is (Not) Perfect Philip Stead: A Home for Bird, Music for Mister Moon Michael Hall: Red: A Crayon’s Story, Frankencrayon, Swing Faith Ringgold: Tar Beach, Cassie’s Word Quilt, We Came to America Laura Vaccaro Seeger: Green, Dog and Bear, One Boy Isabelle Simler: Plume, Blue Hour, Sweet Dreamers James Howe: Big Bob, Little Bob; Brontorina Cao Wenxuan: Feather, Summer Julie Flett: Birdsong, Wild Berries Christian Robinson: You Matter, Another Stacy McAnulty: Excellent Ed; Sun! One in a Billion Jon Agee: It’s Only Stanley, Terrific, Lion Lessons Jason Chin: Grand Canyon, Island, Redwoods, Gravity Angela Dominguez: Sing, Don’t Cry; Santiago Stays Andrea Beaty: Iggy Peck, Architect; Ada Twist, Scientist The Fan Brothers: The Night Gardener, Ocean Meets Sky Jerry Pinkney: John Henry, The Grasshopper and the Ants Rukhsana Khan: Big Red Lollipop, Silly Chicken, King for a Day Pat McKissack: Precious and the Boo Hag, Flossie and the Fox Ruth Sanderson: Castle Full of Cats, Snow Princess, Papa Gatto Monica Brown: Marisol McDonald, Waiting for the Biblioburro Jessie Sima: Not Quite Narwhal, Harriet Gets Carried Away Tara Lazar: 7 Ate 9, Normal Norman, Little Red Gliding Hood Ame Dyckman: Read the Book, Lemmings; Misunderstood Shark Yuyi Morales: Dreamers, Viva Frida, Niño Wrestles the World Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Straw, Uni the Unicorn, Duck! Rabbit! Baba Wague Diakite: The Hatseller and the Monkeys, Jamari’s Drum 3 We Voted! This spring the first and second graders listened to and reviewed the four semi- finalists for the 2020 Irma Black award for an outstanding read-aloud picture book, and were proud to have their votes counted in the national tally. The nominees were: The Crayon Man by Natascha Biebow (the winner!) The Most Terrible of All by Muon Thi Van Rocket Says Look Up! by Nathan Bryon Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry More Irma Black Award Fun! Enjoy these nominees and winners from previous years! 2019: We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins (the winner!) Sun! One in a Billion by Stacy McAnulty Stumpkin by Lucy Ruth Cummins The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee 2018: 7 Ate 9 by Tara Lazar (the winner!) After the Fall by Dan Santat Sparkle Boy by Lesleá Newman How the Cookie Crumbled by Gilbert Ford 2017: The Night Gardener by the Fan Brothers (the winner!) Quackers by Liz Wong Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith A Hungry Lion, or, a Dwindling Assortment of Other Animals by Lucy Ruth Cummins 4 Do You Have More Books Like the Irma Black books? The Crayon Man is a captivating biography of an inventor who invented something fun. Edwin Binney might have been interested to learn about these other clever thinkers and fun inventions: Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum and Earmuffs for Everyone by Meghan McCarthy The Marvelous Thing that Came from a Spring by Gilbert Ford How the Cookie Crumbled by Gilbert Ford Mr. Ferris and his Wheel by Kathryn Davis Hoop Genius by John Coy The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea by Tony Johnston Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton Rocket Says Look Up! includes cool facts about space and space exploration in the story. Here are some books that Rocket herself might like to read! Always Looking Up: Nancy Grace Roman, Astronomer by Laura Gehl The Astronaut with a Song for the Stars by Julia Finley Mosca Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed Astronaut Annie by Suzanne Slade The Story of Space by Catherine Barr Next Stop, Neptune by Alvin W. Jenkins Pluto’s Secret by Margaret A. Weitekamp Pluto Gets the Call by Adam Rex and Laurie Keller The Sun is Kind of a Big Deal by Nick Seluk A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Seth Fishman Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover by Markus Motum Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet by Curtis Manley The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Ekua Holmes Exploring Space by Martin Jenkins, illustrated by Stephen Biesty 5 Did you love The Most Terrible of All? Here are some more funny books about monsters! Thelonius Monster’s Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra Monsters Eat Whiny Children by Bruce Eric Kaplan I Want to be in a Scary Story! by Sean Taylor I Want a Monster! by Elise Gravel My Teacher is a Monster! by Peter Brown The Little Shop of Monsters by R. L. Stine Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex Even Monsters Need Haircuts by Matthew McElligott Marisol McDonald and the Monster by Monica Brown Quit Calling Me a Monster! and I Will Chomp You! by Jory John Hair Love is a beautiful story about a loving family. Here are more stories about all different kinds of loving families: Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown Lottie Paris Lives Here by Angela Johnson Blackout by John Rocco A Different Pond by Bao Phi Yo Soy Muslim by Mark Gonzales Stolen Words by Melanie Florence Under the Love Umbrella by Davina Bell The Best Family in the World by Susana López Harriet Gets Carried Away by Jessie Sima Here and There by Tamara Ellis Smith My Singing Nana by Pat Mora Hope by Isabell Monk Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff Hot, Hot Roti for Dada-ji by F. Zia The Story I’ll Tell by Nancy Tupper Ling My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero Anna Carries Water by Olive Senior and Laura James Rudas: Niño’s Horrendous Hermanitas by Yuyi Morales Carmela, Full of Wishes; Last Stop on Market Street; and Love by Matt de la Peña 6 Your Picture Book Suggestions During Reading Marathon, we invited you to post the titles of books you were enjoying on the library wall. Do you remember? Here are the picture books that YOU recommended! The Book with No Pictures by B. J. Novak Zen Shorts by Jon Muth Robot Zot by Jon Scieszka Big Mean Mike by Michelle Knudsen A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker Mr. Pusskins: A Love Story by Sam Lloyd Perfect by Max Amato (“You should read it, because it’s really funny.” If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, DON’T! by Elise Parsley The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde Swift The Antlered Ship by Dashka Slater Rotten Island by William Steig The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel Creepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron Reynolds Space Case by Edward Marshall Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems Chick-o-Saurus Rex by Lenore Jennewein The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt The Bad Seed by Jory John and Pete Oswald Gus and Button by Saxton Freymann The Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell Salt in His Shoes by Deloris Jordan (read by Ricky!) The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen Grow Up, David! by David Shannon The Flying Hockey Stick by Roger Bradfield 7 Excellent I-Can-Read Books * indicates great books for beginning readers *Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems *A Night at the Zoo and others in the I Like to Read series *The Good for Nothing Button! by Charise Mericle Harper *Harold and Hog Pretend for Real by Dan Santat *What About Worms!? by Ryan T.