by Roger Sutton
Cover from Go Away, Big Green Monster! Ed Emberley. Copyright © Ed Emberley, reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company.
Illustration by Melissa Sweet, copyright © 2009 Melissa Sweet, from The Sleepy Little Alphabet: A Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Melissa Sweet. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Runaway Bunny Copyright © 1942 Harper & Row Publishers. Text copyright renewed 1970 Roberta Brown Rauch. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Illustrations from The Three Pigs by David Wiesner. Copyright © 2001 David Wiesner. Reprinted by permission of Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Art from I See Myself by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Julia Gorton. Text and illustration copyright © 2002, used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpt from What Is Science by Rebecca Dotlitch. Copyright © 1999, 2006 Rebecca Kai Dotlitch. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Excerpt from I Fall Down by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Julia Gorton. Text and illustration copyright © 2004, used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
READING WITH THEM
Illustration from Sweet Jasmine! Nice Jackson! by Robie Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley. Illustration copyright © 2004 Michael Emberley. Used with permission of Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.
From The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, Trademark™ and copyright © Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. 1957, renewed 1985. Used by permission.
Excerpt from Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Copyright © 1957 Else Holmelund Minarik. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Fossil Finds” by Rebecca Kai Dotlich. Copyright © 2005 Rebecca Kai Dotlich. First appeared in Days to Celebrate, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins, published by Greenwillow Books. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Illustration from Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman by Dav Pilkey. Copyright © 2001 Dav Pilkey. Used by permission of Scholastic Inc./The Blue Sky Press.
READING ON THEIR OWN
Illustration from Camp Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm, copyright © 2007 Jennifer Holm and Matthew Holm. Used by permission of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Illustration by Pauline Baynes. Copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. 1950. Reprinted by permission.
Ilustration from Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis! by Jon Agee. Copyright © 1999 Jon Agee. Reprinted by permission of Jon Agee.
From John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge, copyright © 2005 Elizabeth Partridge, text. Used by permission of Viking Children’s Books, A Division of Penguin Young Readers Group, A Member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. All rights reserved.
Photograph of Russell Freedman copyright © Evans Chan.
Cover of The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner, photographs by Andy Comins. Photographs copyright © 2009 Andy Comins. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Illustration from Prehistoric, Actual Size by Steve Jenkins. Copyright © 2005 Steve Jenkins. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Excerpt reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Photograph of Jon Scieszka copyright © Marty Umans.
It’s So Amazing! by Robie H. Harris, illustrations by Michael Emberley. Text © 1999 Bee Productions, Inc. Illustrations © 1999 Bird Productions, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Candlewick Press.
Photograph of Katherine Paterson copyright © Samantha Loomis Paterson.
LEAVING THEM ALONE
From The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Copyright © 2007 Sherman Alexie. Illustrations copyright 2007 by Ellen Forney, used by permission of Nancy Stauffer Associates. All rights reserved.
Cover of Monster © 1999 Christopher Myers. Cover © 2001 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Photograph of Sarah Dessen copyright © KPO Photo.
Cover of Just Listen by Sarah Dessen used with permission of Penguin Group USA.
ROGER SUTTON has been editor in chief of The Horn Book since 1996. With an MA in library science from the University of Chicago, he worked as a children’s librarian for eight years before becoming a full-time book review editor. Sutton has served as a judge for every major children’s book award, frequently teaches and speaks about children’s books, and maintains a lively blog called Read Roger.
MARTHA V. PARRAVANO has been at The Horn Book since 1989, and she is now the executive editor of the magazine. She has worked as a children’s librarian and bookseller and has a master’s degree from the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two teenage daughters.
Portions of this book previously appeared in The Horn Book Magazine.
Text copyright © 2010 by The Horn Book, Inc., Roger Sutton, and Martha V. Parravano
Cover illustration copyright © 2011 by Jules Feiffer
Illustration credits appear here.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
First electronic edition 2012
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Sutton, Roger.
A family of readers : the book lover’s guide to children’s and young adult literature / Roger Sutton and Martha V. Parravano. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7636-3280-9 (hardcover)
1. Children’s literature — History and criticism. 2. Children — Books and reading.
3. Young adults — Books and reading. 4. Reading — Parent participation.
I. Parravano, Martha V. II. Title.
PN1009.A1S8795 2010
809.89282 — dc22 2009049104
ISBN 978-0-7636-5755-0 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-6217-2 (electronic)
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