One of my favorite bookstores, ever, is Anderson's, I played, or should I say, worked there for six years and never found a more dedicated book of book gobblers. We loved reading and arguing about books. If you need suggestions for best books, great books, award winning books for children, kids, and young adults...this is a great resource.
Naperville Downers
Grove Aurora
in Illinois
Illinois Reading Council
March 14th-17th, 2012
Looking at New Books for
Children
Presenter, Becky Anderson
Grades K-3
Picture Books _____________
And Then It’s Spring Julie
Fogliano, illus. Erin E. Stead
Another Brother Matthew
Cordell
Chopsticks Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illus. Scott Magoon
Extra Yarn Mac Barnett, illus. Jon Klassen
Goodnight iPad, A Parody for the Next Generation Ann Droyd
Grandpa Green Lane
Smith
I Don’t Want To Be a Pea! Ann Bonwill, illus Simon Rickerty
I Want My Hat back Jon
Klassen
Little Treasures Jacqueline K. Ogburn, illus. Chris Raschka
The Monster Returns Peter McCarty
Moonlight Helen V. Griffith, illus. Laura Dronzek
M.O.M. Doreen Cronin and Laura
Cornell
More I.C. Springman,
illus. Brian Lies
No Bears Meg McKinley,
illus. Leila Rudge
One Cool Friend Toni Buzzeo,
illus. David Small
Otto, The Book Bear Katie Cleminson
Paul Thurlby’s Alphabet Paul Thurlby
Pete the Cat .. I Love My White Shoes and
Rocking In My School Shoes Eric Litwin, illus. James Dean
Petunia Goes Wild Paul Schmid
Piggy Bunny
Rachel Vail, illus.
Jeremy Tankard
The Princess and the Packet of Frozen
Peas Tony Wilson, illus. Sue
deGennaro
Prudence Wants a Pet Cathleen Daly, illus. Stephan Michael King
Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit Chris Van Dusen
The Really Awful Musicians John Manders
Stuck Oliver Jeffers
Suppose You Meet a Dinosaur Judy Sierra, illus. Tim Bowers
Virginia Wolf
Kyo Maclear,
illus. Isabelle Arsenault
Z is for Moose Kelly Bingham, illus. Paul Zelinsky
Zero the Hero
Joan Holub, illus. Tom
Lichtenheld
Poetry, Language and Words________________________________________________
Book Speak! Poems about Books Laura Purdie Salas,
illus. Josee Bisaillon
Edgar Allan Poe’s Pie J. Patrick Lewis, illus. Michael
Slack
Grasshopper Pie and Other Poems D.J. Steinberg, illus. Adrian Sinnott
The Great Migration – Journey To The
North Eloise Greenfield, illus. Jan Spivey Gilchrist
I’ve Lost My Hippopotamus Jack Prelutsky,
illus. Jackie Urbanovic
A Meal Of the Stars – Poems Up and Down Dana Jensen, illus. Tricia Tusa
Out Of This World – Poems and Facts
About Space Amy E. Sklansky, illus. Stacey Schuett
Poem Runs – Baseball Poems and Paintings Douglas Florian
The President’s Stuck In the Bathtub –
Poems about the Presidents Susan Katz,
illus. Robert Neubecker
Step Gently Out Helen Frost, illus. Rick Lieder
UnBEElievables – Honeybee poems and
paintings Douglas Florian
We Are America – A Tribute From the
Heart Walter Dean Myers, illus. Christopher Myers
People, Places and Things____________________________________________________
ABC’s of Baseball Peter
Golenbock, illus. Dan Andreasen
Bambino and Mr. Twain P.I. Maltbie,
illus. Daniel Miyares
A Boy Called Dickens Deborah Hopkinson, illus. John Hendrix
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind William Kamkwamba, illus.
Elizabeth Zunon
Brothers at Bat Audrey Vernick, illus.. Steven Salerno
Escaping Titanic Marybeth Lorbiecki, illus. Kory S. Heinzen
Freedom Song Sally M. Walker,
illus. Sean Qualls
Friends Catherine Thimmesh
G is For Gold Medal Brad Herzog, illus. Doug Bowles
Here Come the Girl Scouts! Shana Corey, illus. Hadley Hooper
Looking at Lincoln Maira Kalman
There Goes Ted Williams Matt Tavares
Those Rebels, John & Tom
Barbara Kerley,
illus. Edwin Fotheringham
We March Shane W. Evans
Women Explorers Julie Cummins, illus. Cheryl Harness
Words Set Me Free Lesa Cline-Ransome, illus. James E. Ransome
Fiction_____________________________________________________________________
The Amazing Adventures of John
Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini Peter Johnson Gr.
3-7
Bad Kitty for President Nick Bruel Gr.
2-5
Listen to My Trumpet! and Happy Pig Day! Elephant and Piggie Books Mo Willems Gr.
K-2
Ellray Jakes in Not a Chicken! And Ellray Jakes is a Rock Star! Sally Warner Gr.
2-4
The Flying Beaver Brothers: The Evil Penguin Plan and The Fishy Business Maxwell Eaton III Gr. 1-4
Gooney Bird on the Map Lois Lowry Gr.
2-4
Heidi Heckelbeck Casts a Spell and Has a Secret Wanda Coven Gr.
2-4
Kaspar the Titanic Cat Michael Morpurgo Illus. Michael Foreman Gr.
3-7
Kindred Souls Patricia Mac Lachlan Gr.
2-5
The Legend of Diamond Lil and The Trouble with Chickens Doreen Cronin
Illus. Kevin Cornell Gr.
2-4
Magic Tree House #47: Abe Lincoln at Last and Abraham Lincoln Fast Tracker Mary Pope Osborne
Nancy Clancy Super Sleuth Jane
O’Connor Illus. Robin Preiss Glasser Gr.
2-4
Oddfellows Orphanage Emily Winfield Martin Gr.
3-6
The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Gr.
4-8
Penguin New Young Readers: multiple titles Gr.
K-3
Penny and Her Song Kevin
Henkes Gr.
Prek--3
Princess Posey and the First
Grade Parade and Princess Posey and
the Next Door Dog Stephanie
Greene
Super-Sized Slugger Cal Ripken Jr. Gr.
3-7
Stella Batts Needs a New Name Courtney Sheinmel Gr.
2-4
Stink and the Midnight Zombie
Walk Megan McDonald Gr.
2-4
Take Your Best Shot John Coy Gr.
3-7
Naperville Downers Grove Aurora
Illinois Reading Council
March 14th-17th,
2012
Looking at New Books for Children
Intermediate, Grades 4-8
Presenter, Becky Anderson
Novels and Stories ______________
Addie on the Inside James Howe Gr.
6-8
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith J. AKA Houdini Peter Johnson Gr.4-7
The Auslander Paul Dowswell Gr.
7-12
Bliss Kathryn Littlewood Gr.
4-7
Breaking Stalin’s Nose Eugene Yelchin Gr.
4-7
Cinder Marissa Meyer Gr.
7-12
The Case of the Deadly Desperados Caroline Lawrence Gr.
4-7
The Cheshire Cheese Cat, A Dickens of a Tale Carmen Agra Deedy Gr.
4-8
Cold Cereal Adam Rex Gr.
4-8
Crow Barbara Wright Gr.
4-7
Death Cure-Bk. #3 Maze Runner Trilogy James Dashner Gr.
7-12
Divergent Veronica
Roth Bk. 2—Insurgent-(Coming May 1st) Gr.
7-12
Explorer: The Mystery Boxes Kazu
Kibuishi Gr.
4-7
The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman Meg Wolitzer Gr.
4-12
The Fourth Stall Part II Chris
Rylander Gr.
4-7
The Gathering Storm Robin Bridges Gr.
7-12
Glory Be Augusta Scattergood Gr.
4-7
How Not to Run for President Catherine Clark Gr.
4-7
The Invisible Tower Nils Johnson-Shelton Gr.
4-7
Kaspar The Titanic Cat Michael Morpurgo Gr.
4-7
Kindred Souls Patricia MacLachlan Gr.
3-6
Legend Marie Lu Gr.
7-12
The Lions of Little Rock
Kristin Levine Gr.
5-8
May B. Carline Starr Rose Gr.
4-7
The Mighty Miss Malone Christopher Paul
Curtis (Sequel to Bud Not Buddy)Gr. 4-7
My Family for the War
Anne C. Voorhoeve Gr.7-12
Oddfellows Orphanage
Emily Winfield Martin Gr.
3-6
The One and Only Ivan Katherine
Applegate Gr.
3-8
Same Sun Here
Silas House and Neela Vaswani Gr.
4-8
Stealing Magic Marianne
Malone (Sequel
to The Sixty-eight Rooms) Gr.
4-7
Super-Sized Slugger Cal
Ripken Jr. Gr.
3-6
Take Your Best Shot John Coy Gr.
3-6
Winterling Sarah Prineas Gr.
4-7
Wonder R.J. Palacio Gr.
4-8
Novels for 8th
Grade and above-“Not for Kids Only”______________________________
Ashes Ilsa Bick
The Berlin Boxing Club
Robert Sharenow
Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys
Embrace Jessica
Shirvington
Future of Us Jay Asher
and Karolyn Mackler
Guantanamo Boy Ann
Perera
Illuminate Aimee Agresti
Incarnate Jodi Meadows
A Million Suns
Beth Revis
(Sequel to Across the Universe)
Pandemonium Lauren Oliver (Sequel to Delirium)
Playground
50 Cent
Switched and Torn Amanda Hocking
Under the Never Sky Veronica Rossi
The Way We Fall Megan
Crewe
Poetry-Language,
Words_and_Pictures_________________________________________
100 Great Poems for Boys Edited- Leslie Pockell
100 Great Poems for Girls
Edited- Celia Johnson
The Arrow Finds Its Mark, A Book
of Found Poems Edited-Georgia Heard
Edgar Allan Poe’s Pie, Math Puzzles in Classic Poems J. Patrick Lewis
Forgive Me, I Meant to Do
It, False Apology Poems Gail Carson Levine
Goodnight iPad, A Parody for the Next Generation Ann
Droyd
The Hound Dog’s Haiku and Other
Poems for Dog Lovers Michael J. Rosen
Poems I Wrote When No One Was
Looking Alan Katz
Requiem, Poems of the Terezin
Ghetto Paul
Janeczko
Step Gently Out Helen
Frost, illus. Rick Lieder
Non-Fiction_____________________________________________________________
100 People Who Made History, Meet the
People who Shaped the Modern World Ben Gilliland
Black and White Larry Dane Brimner
The Book of Perfectly Perilous Math Seam Connolly
Bootleg, Murder, Moonshine , and the
Lawless Years of Prohibition Karen Blumenthal
Charles Dickens and the Street Children
of London Andrea Warren
First Girl Scout, The Life of Juliette
Gordon Low Ginger Wadsworth
Ghosts in the Fog, The Untold Story of
Alaska’s WWII Invasion Samantha
Seiple
Heat and Soul, The Story of America and
African Americans Kadir Nelson
His Name was Raoul Wallenberg Louise Borden
Lives of the Presidents, Fame, Shame and
what the Neighbors Thought Kathleen Krull
Marching to the Mountaintop Ann
Bausum
So You Want to be President
Judith St. George
illus. David Small
Superman Versus The Klu Klux Klan Rick Bowers
Steve Jobs, The Man who Thought
Different Karen Blumenthal
Stolen into Slavery, The True Story of
Solomon Northup Judith and
Dennis Fradin
Surviving the Angel of Death, The True
Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz Eva Mozes Kor
Surviving the Hindenburg Larry Verstraete illus. David Geister
Temple Grandin, How the Girl who loved
Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World-
Sy Montgomery
Titanic Sinks Barry Denenberg
Trapped Marc
Aronson
Usborne War Stories, True Stories Paul Doswell
The War to End All Wars, World War I Russell Freedom
We’ve Got a Job, The 1963 Birmingham
Children’s March Cynthia
Levinson
Witches, The Absolutely True Tale of
Disaster in Salem Rosalyn Schanzer
