Authors Too Good to Miss!

  • Tedd Arnold
  • Jan Brett
  • Marc Brown
  • Eve Bunting
  • Niki Daly
  • Tomie dePaola
  • Gail Gibbons
  • Kevin Henkes
  • Angela Johnson
  • Steven Kellogg
  • Leo Lionni
  • Arnold Lobel
  • James Marshall
  • Patricia McKissack
  • Mary Pope Osborne
  • Brian Pinkney
  • Jerry Pinkney
  • Cynthia Rylant
  • Jon Scieszka
  • Laura Vaccaro Seeger
  • Dr. Seuss
  • Marjorie Sharmat
  • Janet Stevens
  • Mo Willems

 

 

Nonfiction

 

Button Up!: Wrinkled Rhymes  Alice Schertle

Before John was a Jazz Giant: a Song of John Coltrane                          Carole Boston Weatherford

Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote   Tanya Lee Stone

Flamingo Sunset   Jonathan London

Let Freedom Sing   Vanessa Newton

Lightship   Brian Floca

Martin’s Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.                  Doreen Rappaport

Monarch and Milkweek   Helen Frost

Once I Ate a Pie   Patricia MacLachlan

One Giant Leap   Robert Burleigh

Recess at 20 Below   Cindy Lou Aillaud

Sandy’s Circus: a Story about Alexander Calder    Tanya Lee Stone

A Seed is Sleepy   Dianna Hutts Aston

Turtle Crossing   Rick Chrustowski

Wolfsnail: a Backyard Predator   Sarah C. Campbell

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created by Tricia Goodman, 2010

Sternberger School Library

 

 

Fiction & Folklore

A is for Amber series Paula Danziger

Across the Alley   Richard Michelson

The Adventures of Sparrowboy   Brian Pinkney

Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)   Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

The Beeman   Laura Krebs

Ben’s Trumpet   Rachel Isadora

Birdsongs   Betsy Franco

A Birthday for Bear  Bonny Becker

The Black Book of Colors  Menena Cottin

Bones and the Big Yellow Mystery   David A. Adler (series)

A Book   Mordecai Gerstein

Buffalo Music  Tracey E. Fern

Chato and the Party Animals  Gary Soto

The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County  Janice N. Harrington

Chicken Little  Rebecca & Ed Emberley

Chicken Said, “Cluck!”  Judyann Grant

Clementine series  Sara Pennypacker

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever   Marla Frazee

Dimity Dumpty: the Story of Humpty’s Little Sister    Bob Graham

 

Flotsam   David Wiesner

Flossie and the Fox Patricia McKissack

Frog and Toad Are Friends   Arnold Lobel

The Gardener  Sarah Stewart

George and Martha  James Marshall

Henry & Mudge series Cynthia Rylant

High Rise Private Eyes series   Cynthia Rylant  

Horrible Harry series   Suzy Kline

Hot Day on Abbott Avenue   Karen English

The House Takes a Vacation    Jacqueline Davies

How I Learned Geography                  Uri Shulevitz

The Hungry Coat: a Tale from     Turkey   Demi

I Spy Fly Guy!   Tedd Arnold

Ivy + Bean series   Annie Barrows

Jitterbug Jam   Barbara Jean Hicks

Judy Moody series   Megan McDonald

Julian, Dream Doctor   Ann Cameron (series)

Just Plain Fancy   Patricia Polacco

The Lion and the Mouse   Jerry Pinkney

Little Bill series   Bill Cosby  

Little Red Riding Hood  Jerry Pinkney

Madam President  Lane Smith

Magic Tree House series  Mary Pope Osborne

The McElderry Book of Aesop’s Fables   Michael Morpurgo

Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride  Kate DiCamillo (series)

The Moon Over Star   Dianna Hutts Aston

Mr. Putter and Tabby series Cynthia Rylant

Nate the Great series Marjorie Sharmat 

Oodles of Animals   Lois Ehlert

Pictures from Our Vacation            Lynne Rae Perkins

Ruby Lu, Brave and True  Lenore Look (series)

Ruby’s Wish   Shirin Yim Bridges

Smoky Night  Eve Bunting

Spells  Emily Gravett

Stink: the Incredible Shrinking Kid   Megan McDonald (series)

There is a Bird on Your Head!       Mo Willems

Thunder-Boomer!  Shutta Crum

Traction Man Meets Turbodog         Mini Grey

Tricking the Tallyman  Jacqueline Davies

The Wakame Gatherers  Holly Thompson