100 Picture Books Ever Child Should Read Author Title Birmingham Mr. Grumpy’s Outing Steptoe Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters Author Title Fleming Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! Dorros Abuela Rohmann My Friend Rabbit Viorst Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Wood Napping House Very Bad Day Shannon No David! Kimmel Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Hest Off to School, Baby Duck! Daugherty Andy and the Lion Aylesworth Old Black Fly Feiffer Bark, George Falconer Olivia Gonzalez Bossy Gallito Henkes Owen Hoban Bread and Jam for Frances Carle Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Martin Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see? Sendak Pierre: A Cautionary Tale Munari Bruno Munari’s ABC Van Allsburg Polar Express Egielski Buz Perrault Puss in Boots Slobodkina Caps for Sale Lobel Book of Mother Goose Krauss Carrot Seed Jonas Round Trip Williams A Chair for My Mother Zelinsky Rumpelstiltskin Martin Chick Chicka Boom Boom Keats Snowy Day Cronin Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type Tafuri Spots, Feather and Curly Tails Simmons Come Along Daisy Leaf Story Of Ferdinand Freeman Corduroy Marc Stray Dog Rey Curious George DePaola Strega Nona Stickland Dinosaur Roar! Lionni Swimmy Willems Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Steig Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Shannon Duck on a Bike Potter Tale of Peter Rabbit Sis Fire Truck Ringgold Tar Beach Crews Freight Train Bang Ten, Nine, Eight London Froggy Gets Dressed Taback There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Stewart Gardener Galdone Three Bears Marshall George and Martha Zimmerman Trashy Town Emberley Go Away Big Green Monster Scieszka True Story of the Three Little Pigs McKissack Goin’ Someplace Special Wiesner Tuesday Rathmann Good Night Gorilla Bryan Uptown Brown Goodnight Moon Carle Very Hungry Caterpillar Olivier Gossie Zelinsky Wheels on the Bus Say Grandfather’s Journey Sendak Where the Wild Things Are Johnson Harold and the Purple Crayon Hill Where’s Spot Zion Harry the Dirty Dog Keats Whistle for Willie Johnson Henry Hikes to Fitchburg Kasza Wolf’s Chicken Stew Seuss Horton Hatches the Egg Wells Yoko Yolen How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? McDermott Zomo the Rabbit Murphy I Kissed the Baby! Numeroff If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Zemach It could Always Be Worse Lester John Henry To see if we currently own a title on this list please search Johnson Julius on one of the library’s online catalogs, located around the Henkes Kitten’s First Full Moon pillar at the front of the library. Kevin Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse Marisabina Line-up Book Or visit the catalog online at http://ibistro.tln.lib.mi.us Zemach Little Red Hen Young Lon Po Po : Red Riding Hood Story from China Titles on this list may have to be placed on hold for your Waber Lyle, Lyle Crocodile MacDonald Mabela the Clever reading enjoyment! Barton Machines at Work Bemelmans Madeline Cousins Maisy Goes Swimming McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings Trenton Veterans Memorial Library Fleming Mama Cat Has Three Kittens Gerstein Man Who Walked Between the Towers 08/09- CH Meddaugh Martha Speaks Burton Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Gag Millions and Millions of Cats Allard Miss Nelson is Missing Classic Juvenile Fiction Author Title Lewis Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Author Title Lindgren Pippi Longstocking Alcott Little Women Lionni Fredrick Atwater Mr. Popper’s Penguin Lobel Frog and Toad are Friends Awdry Thomas the Tank Engine McCloskey Blueberries for Sal Barroe Peter Pan McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings Baum Wonderful Wizard of OZ Milne Winnie the Pooh Bemelman Madeline Minarik Little Bear Berenstain Berenstain Bears Montgomery Anne of Green Gables Bond Bear Called Paddington Norton Borrowers Boston Children of Green Knowe Parish Ameila Bedelia Bourgeois Franklin Piper Little Engine that Could Bridwell Clifford the Big Red Dog Potter Tale of Peter Rabbit Brink Caddie Woodlawn Porter Pollyanna Brown Goodnight Moon Rey Curious George Brunhoff Story of Babar Rylant Henry and Mudge Burgess Old Mother West Wind Saint- Little Prince Burnett Secret Garden Exupery Burnford Incredible Journey Selden Cricket in Time Squares Burton Little House Sendak Where the Wild Things Are Burton Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Sewell Black Beauty Butterworth Enormous Egg Seuss Horton Hears a Who Carle Very Hungry Caterpillar Seuss Cat in the Hat Carroll Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland Slobodkina Caps for Sale Collodi Adventures of Pinocchio Spyri Heidi DuBois Twenty Balloons Swift Gulliver’s Travels Eastman Go Dog Go Thurber Many Moons Estes Hundred Dresses Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Flack The story about Ping Twain Adventures of Tom Sawyer Freeman Corduroy White Charlotte’s web Gag Millions and Millions of Cats Wilder Little House in the Big Woods Grahame Wind in the Willows Wyss Swiss Family Robinson Graham Harry the Dirty Dog Henry Misty of Chincoteague To see if we currently own a title on this list Hoff Danny and the Dinosaur please search on one of the library’s online Irving Rip Van Winkle / The Legend of catalogs, located around the pillar at the front of Sleepy Hollow Johnson Harold and the Purple Crayon the library. Keats Snowy Day Or visit the catalog online at Kipling Jungle Book http://ibistro.tln.lib.mi.us Krauss A Hole is to Dig Krauss Carrot Seed Titles on this list may have to be placed on hold Kredel Aesop’s Fables for your reading enjoyment! Langstaff Frog Went a Courtin’ Lester Tales of Uncle Remus 09/09 – CH Leaf Story of Ferdinand Juster Phantom Toolbooth Kendall Gammage Cup Kendall Whisper of Glocken If you Liked Harry Potter…try these! Kerr Akhenaten Adventures [Series] L’Engle Wrinkle in Time LeGuin Earth Sea [Series] Levine Ella Enchanted Lewis Chronicles of Narnia [Series] Lowry Giver McKinley Hero and the Crown McMullan Dragon Slayers [Series] Nesbit Enchanted Castle Nimmo Charlie Bone [Series] Pope Perilous Card Pullman Dark Materials [Series] Rand Michigan / American Chillers [Series] Author Title Riordan Percy Jackson and the Olympians [Series] Aiken Wolves of Willoughby Chase Roberts Magic Book Alexander Book of Three [Series] Rodda Deltora [Series] Avi Tom, Babette and Simon Sage Septimus Heap [Series] Bath Secrets of Castle Cant Skye Leven Thumps [Series] Barry Peter and the Starcatchers [Series] Snickett Series of Unfortunate Events [Series] Baum Wizard of Oz [Series] Stroud Bartimaeus Trilogy [Series] Bellairs House with a Clock in its Walls Vande Wizard at Work Billingsley Folk Keeper Velde Bode Anybodies Wrede Dealing with Dragons Brittain Wish Giver Yep Dragon Steel Brock No Flying in the House Yolen Wizard’s Hall Brooke A Brush with Magic Carman Dark Hills Divided [Series] Clements Frindle To see if we currently own a title on this Clements Landry News list please search on one of the library’s Colfer Artemis Fowl [Series] Collins Gregor the Overlander [Series] online catalogs, located around the pillar Cooper Boggart at the front of the library. Coville Jeremy Thatcher Dahl The BFG Or visit the catalog online at Dahl Witches DiCamillo Tale of Despereaux http://ibistro.tln.lib.mi.us Downer Hatching Magic Duane So You Want to Be a Wizard? Titles on this list may have to be placed on DuPrau City of Ember [Series] hold for your reading enjoyment! Eager Half Magic Farmer Sea of Trolls Funke Dragon Rider [Series] Bunnicula Howe Trenton Veterans Memorial Library Howe House of Bunnicula [Series] Ibbotson Secret of Platform 13 Jacques Redwall [Series] 08/09- CH Jones Stopping for a Spell Jones Archer’s Goon Michigan Authors – Children’s / Teen Teen A selection of authors who were born in or live in Joan Blos - The historical novelist and Newbery Award Michigan and have titles currently in print. winner lives in Ann Arbor. Her books include A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, Verna Aardema - The Caldecott Award winner from 1830-1832**, Brothers of the Heart: A Story of the Old Muskegon is known for picture books of African Northwest, 1837-1838, folktales. Her books include Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears*, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, and Christopher Paul Curtis - The writer from Flint was a Who's in Rabbit's House. Newbery Medalist with his first novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963** and won the Newbery Award Patricia Polacco - The prolific, award-winning author for his second novel Bud, Not Buddy. spent her childhood on a Michigan farm. Her books include Thank You Mr. Falker, My Rotten Redheaded Johnathan Rand - The author of the popular Michigan Older Brother, and the Civil War era Pink and Say. Chillers and American Chillers series is from Pontiac. His books include Poltergeists of Petoskey, Dinosaurs Devin Scillian - The up and coming children's author is Destroy Detroit, Terror Stalks Traverse City, and a Detroit TV news anchor. His books include A is for Wisconsin Werewolves. America - An American Alphabet, Fibblestax, and One Nation - America by the Numbers. Willo Davis Roberts - The writer of over 92 books, including young adult mysteries, is from Grand Rapids. Nancy Shaw - The Ann Arbor writer is the author of the Her books include Twisted Summer, Scared Stiff, and popular "Sheep" series. Her books include Sheep in a Secrets at Hidden Valley. Jeep, Sheep out to Eat, and Sheep on a Ship. Jerry Stanley - The award winning non-fiction author is David Small - The Detroit born author and illustrator is from Highland Park. His books include Children of the the 2001 Caldecott Award winner. His many books Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weed Patch include So You Want to Be President?*, The Gardener, Camp, I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese and his first title, Eulalie and the Hopping Head. Internment, and Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution.