by Roger Sutton
Neal Shusterman, The Schwa Was Here (Dutton).
Joyce Sidman, illustrations by Rick Allen, Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night (Houghton Mifflin).
Seymour Simon, Gorillas (HarperCollins).
Seymour Simon and Nicole Fauteux, Let’s Try It Out (Simon & Schuster).
Isaac Bashevis Singer, illustrations by Maurice Sendak, Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (HarperCollins).
Marilyn Singer, illustrations by Anna Vojtech, Tough Beginnings: How Baby Animals Survive (Holt); illustrations by Josée Masse, Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse (Dutton).
Peter Sís, Starry Messenger (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Geologist, & Thinker (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Roland Smith, Peak (Harcourt).
Lemony Snicket, illustrations by Brett Helquist, The Bad Beginning (HarperCollins).
Gary Soto, Mercy on These Teenage Chimps (Harcourt).
Elizabeth Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Houghton Mifflin).
Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me (Random House).
Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses (Grolier); Treasure Island (Scribner).
Trenton Lee Stewart, illustrations by Carson Ellis, The Mysterious Benedict Society (Little, Brown).
Tanya Lee Stone, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (Candlewick).
Rosemary Sutcliff, Warrior Scarlet (Walck).
Shaun Tan, The Arrival (Scholastic).
Lauren Tarshis, Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree (Dial).
Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Dial).
Peter Lane Taylor and Christos Nicola, The Secret of Priest’s Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story (Kar-Ben).
Catherine Thimmesh, Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From (Houghton Mifflin).
Kate Thompson, The New Policeman (Greenwillow).
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Houghton Mifflin).
P. L. Travers, illustrations by Mary Shepard, Mary Poppins (Harcourt).
Pamela S. Turner, photographs by Andy Comins, The Frog Scientist (Houghton Mifflin).
Judith Viorst, illustrations by Erik Blegvad, The Tenth Good Thing about Barney (Atheneum).
Sophie Webb, My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal (Houghton Mifflin).
Elissa Brent Weissman, The Trouble with Mark Hopper (Dutton).
David Weitzman, Pharaoh’s Boat (Houghton Mifflin).
Scott Westerfeld, illustrations by Keith Thompson, Leviathan (Simon & Schuster).
E. B. White, illustrations by Garth Williams, Charlotte’s Web (HarperCollins).
T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone (Putnam).
The Whopping Great Big Bonkers Joke Book: Over 1000 Side-Splitting Jokes (Puffin).
Laura Ingalls Wilder, illustrations by Garth Williams, Little House on the Prairie (HarperCollins).
Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer (Amistad).
Jacqueline Wilson, illustrations by Nick Sharratt, Candyfloss (Roaring Brook).
Judd Winick, Pedro and Me (Holt).
Virginia Euwer Wolff, Make Lemonade (Atheneum); True Believer (Atheneum).
Maryrose Wood, illustrations by Jon Klassen, The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling (Balzer & Bray).
Jacqueline Woodson, After Tupac & D Foster (Putnam).
Tim Wynne-Jones, Rex Zero and the End of the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (Roaring Brook).
Lisa Yee, Millicent Min, Girl Genius (Scholastic).
Jane Yolen, illustrations by Mark Teague, How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? (Blue Sky/Scholastic).
Part Four: Leaving Them Alone
Sherman Alexie, illustrations by Ellen Forney, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown).
Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Anonymous, Go Ask Alice (Prentice-Hall).
Judy Blume, Forever . . . (Atheneum).
Coe Booth, Kendra (Scholastic).
Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (Knopf); I Am the Cheese (Knopf).
Sarah Dessen, Just Listen (Viking); Lock and Key (Viking); The Truth about Forever (Viking).
Sharon Dogar, Annexed (Houghton Mifflin).
S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (Viking).
Hadley Irwin, Abby, My Love (Atheneum).
M. E. Kerr, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! (HarperCollins); Gentlehands (HarperCollins).
E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Hyperion).
Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries 2015 (Holiday House).
Janet McDonald, Brother Hood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Chill Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Spellbound (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Jaclyn Moriarty, The Spell Book of Listen Taylor (Scholastic).
Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen (Houghton Mifflin).
Walter Dean Myers, Monster (HarperCollins).
Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere (Dial).
John Neufeld, Lisa, Bright and Dark (Phillips).
Richard Peck, Are You in the House Alone? (Viking); Remembering the Good Times (Delacorte).
Willo Davis Roberts, Don’t Hurt Laurie! (Atheneum).
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (Little, Brown).
Sandra Scoppettone, The Late Great Me (Putnam).
Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver (Roaring Brook).
Francisco X. Stork, Marcelo in the Real World (Levine/Scholastic).
Nancy Werlin, Black Mirror (Dial); Double Helix (Dial); Locked Inside (Delacorte); The Killer’s Cousin (Delacorte); The Rules of Survival (Dial).
Maia Wojciechowska, Tuned Out (HarperCollins).
FURTHER READING
Barbara Bader, American Picturebooks from Noah’s Ark to the Beast Within (Macmillan, 1976).
Joan Bodger, How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children’s Books (Viking, 1965; McClelland and Stewart, 1999).
Kathleen T. Horning, From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books (HarperCollins, 2010).
Selma G. Lanes, Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures & Misadventures in the Realm of Children’s Literature (David R. Godine, 2006).
Leonard S. Marcus, ed., Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (HarperCollins, 1998).
———, Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature (Houghton Mifflin, 2008).
———, The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy (Candlewick, 2006).
———, Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book (Dutton, 2002).
Laura Miller, The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia (Little, Brown, 2008).
Daniel Pennac, illustrations by Quentin Blake, The Rights of the Reader (Candlewick, 2008).
Maurice Sendak, Caldecott & Co.: Notes on Books & Pictures (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988).
Anita Silvey, ed., The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators (Mariner, 2002).
Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading (Holt, 2002).
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Editors
ROGER SUTTON, editor in chief of The Horn Book, earned a master’s degree in library science from the University of Chicago and has worked as a children’s librarian and a full-time book review editor. Roger Sutton has served as a judge for many children’s book awards and frequently teaches and speaks about children’s books.
MARTHA V. PARRAVANO, executive editor of The Horn Book, has worked as a children’s librarian and bookseller. She has a master’s degree in children’s literature from Simmons College and has served on multiple children’s book award committees.
Contributors
MARC ARONSON is a children’s book editor and author of several accl
aimed nonfiction books for young people, including Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado and Sugar Changed the World.
DEIRDRE F. BAKER reviews children’s books for the Toronto Star and teaches children’s literature at the University of Toronto.
COE BOOTH is the author of the teen novels Tyrell and Kendra.
BRUCE BROOKS is the author of young adult novels including Asylum for Nightface and Midnight Hour Encores. The Moves Make the Man and What Hearts each received a Newbery Honor.
BETSY BYARS is the author of more than sixty books for young people, including the Blossom Family books, the Bingo Brown books, and the Herculeah Jones mysteries, as well as the easy readers My Brother, Ant and The Golly Sisters Go West. The Summer of the Swans won the Newbery Medal.
BETTY CARTER is professor emerita of children’s and young adult literature at Texas Woman’s University and a reviewer for The Horn Book.
SARAH DESSEN is the author of That Summer, The Truth About Forever, Just Listen, and Along for the Ride, among many other YA novels.
SARAH ELLIS, critic, reviewer, and author, teaches at Vermont College’s MFA program in writing for children and young adults. Her latest novel, Odd Man Out, won the 2007 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.
KITTY FLYNN is the online content editor and a reviewer for The Horn Book.
DANIELLE J. FORD is an associate professor of science education at the University of Delaware and a reviewer for The Horn Book.
RUSSELL FREEDMAN is the much-honored nonfiction author of more than fifty books for children, including Lincoln: A Photobiography, winner of a Newbery Medal; Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life; Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott; and Immigrant Kids. Freedman was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for lifetime achievement in children’s literature.
VIRGINIA HAMILTON is the author of such groundbreaking novels as Zeely; The Planet of Junior Brown; and Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush. She was the first African American writer to win the Newbery Medal, for M. C. Higgins, the Great, and the first children’s writer to be honored with a MacArthur Fellowship. She died in 2002.
KEVIN HENKES is the creator of such beloved picture-book characters as Lilly (Julius, the Baby of the World; Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse), Owen, and Chrysanthemum. His novels include Words of Stone and Olive’s Ocean, a Newbery Honor Book. His picture book Kitten’s First Full Moon is the winner of a Caldecott Medal.
CHRISTINE HEPPERMANN is a freelance writer, former bookseller, and reviewer for The Horn Book.
DEBORAH HOPKINSON is an award-winning author of many historical fiction and nonfiction books, including Apples to Oregon, Sky Boys, and Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek.
KATHLEEN T. HORNING is the director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center in Madison, Wisconsin. She is a former children’s librarian and the author of the children’s literature resource From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books.
MAEVE VISSER KNOTH, a reviewer and blogger, is also a librarian at the San Mateo County Library in California.
MEGAN LAMBERT is an instructor at the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. Since 2001 she has also worked in the education department of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
JANE LANGTON is the author of the middle-grade fantasy novels the Hall Family Chronicles. The Fledgling received a Newbery Honor.
MOLLY LEACH is a book designer. Among the books she has designed are The Stinky Cheese Man and Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith; Baby! Talk! by Penny Gentieu; and the complete Puffin library of Roald Dahl books.
ROBERT LIPSYTE is the author of the young adult classic The Contender and its sequels.
JOANNA RUDGE LONG is a former editor of Kirkus Reviews, a frequent lecturer on children’s literature, and a reviewer for The Horn Book.
LOIS LOWRY is the author of Number the Stars and The Giver, both winners of the Newbery Medal.
DIANA LUTZ is a science writer, reviewer, and the former editor of Muse, a nonfiction magazine for children.
ANNE SCOTT MACLEOD is a historian, a professor emerita at the University of Maryland, and the author of American Childhood: Essays on Children’s Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
GREGORY MAGUIRE is a founding co-director of Children’s Literature New England, Inc., and an author of books for children and adults, including What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy and Wicked, which inspired a Broadway musical.
MARGARET MAHY is New Zealand’s most highly regarded writer for children. Her picture books include The Great White Man-Eating Shark and Bubble Trouble; her novels include The Changeover, The Tricksters, Memory, and 24 Hours. She is the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
JANET MCDONALD is the author of the adult memoir Project Girl and several young adult novels, including Off-Color and Spellbound. She died in 2007.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE is a poet and author of picture books and novels, including Sitti’s Secrets and Habibi, and is the editor of the acclaimed poetry anthologies This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World; 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East; and A Maze Me: Poems for Girls.
KATHERINE PATERSON is the author of Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved, both winners of the Newbery Medal. She has also received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. In 2010 she was named the second National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
MITALI PERKINS is the author of several novels set in her native India or about the Indian-American experience, including Secret Keeper and Monsoon Summer.
LOLLY ROBINSON teaches children’s literature at Harvard University’s department of education and works as a designer at The Horn Book.
ALICE SCHERTLE is a poet and the author of over forty books for children, including We; Little Blue Truck; and several poetry collections.
DEAN SCHNEIDER is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and teaches seventh and eighth grade in Nashville, Tennessee.
JON SCIESZKA is the author of many books, including The Stinky Cheese Man, a Caldecott Honor Book, and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!. In 2008 he was named the first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
MAURICE SENDAK is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. He has also received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
GINEE SEO is a children’s book editor.
LANE SMITH is the author and illustrator of Madam President and John, Paul, George & Ben. He is also the illustrator of The Stinky Cheese Man, a Caldecott Honor Book; The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!; and Science Verse.
ROBIN SMITH teaches second grade in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and The Horn Book.
VICKY SMITH is the children’s book editor of Kirkus Reviews and a former public librarian and reviewer for The Horn Book.
DEBORAH STEVENSON is the editor of the review journal The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books and an assistant professor in the library school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
CYNTHIA VOIGT is best known for her series of Tillerman family novels, including Dicey’s Song, winner of the Newbery Medal. She is also the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her contributions to young adult literature.
NANCY WERLIN is the author of many young adult novels, including Impossible, The Rules of Survival, and Are You Alone on Purpose?
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF is the author of the young adult verse novels Make Lemonade, True Believer, and This Full House.
MARGOT ZEMACH is the illustrator of dozens of picture books, including It Could Always Be Worse and The Little Red Hen. She is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for Duffy and the Devil.
CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW is a former editor of children’s books and the author of many picture books, including Ov
er and Over, William’s Doll, and Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, a Caldecott Honor Book.
CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS
READING TO THEM
Illustration from Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, illustrated by Marla Frazee. Illustrations copyright © 2001 Marla Frazee. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Cover from Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann reprinted with permission of Penguin Group USA.
Excerpt from Blue Hat, Green Hat written and illustrated by Sandra Boynton, copyright © 1984. Used with permission of Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.
Here Comes Mother Goose. Illustration © 1999 Rosemary Wells. Text selections © 1999 Iona Opie. Reproduced by permission of Candlewick Press.
Excerpt by Leonard S. Marcus from Mary Engelbreit’s Mother Goose. Used by permission of Harper-Collins Publishers.
Cover illustrations and text for First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, © Laura Vaccaro Seeger, used with permission of Roaring Brook Press.
Excerpt, illustration, and cover from Mr. Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham. Copyright © 1970 John Burningham. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Illustrations from The Three Wishes by Margot Zemach. Copyright © 1986 Margot Zemach. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
Illustration from Baby Says Copyright © 1988 by John Steptoe. Reprinted with permission of McIntosh & Otis, Inc.
From The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith, designed by Molly Leach. Text © 1992 Jon Scieszka. Illustrations © 1992 Lane Smith. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, A Division of Penguin Young Readers Group. All rights reserved.
From Math Curse by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith, designed by Molly Leach. Text © 1995 Jon Scieszka. Illustrations © 1995 Lane Smith. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, A Division of Penguin Young Readers Group. All rights reserved.
Photograph of Maurice Sendak copyright © John Dugdale.