WILD WOMEN

Never get the blues…and they do some mighty fine things. Some books about notable women – real and imagined.

Picture books
Aunt Harriet’s underground railroad by Faith Ringgold
The ballot box battle by Emily Arnold McCully
Beautiful warrior by Emily Arnold McCully
But god remembered by Sandy Eisenberg
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Emma by Wendy Kesselman
Fanny’s dream by Carolyn and Mark Buehner
JoJo’s flying side kick by Brian Pinckey
The king’s equal by Katherine Patterson
Lily’s plastic purse by Kevin Henkes
Nosiy Nora by Rosemary Wells
The old man who named things by Cynthia Rylant
A ride on the red mare’s back by Ursula K LeGuin
The rough-face girl by Rafe Martin
Swamp angel by Anne Issacs
The wise woman and her secret by Eve Merriman

Real women
Amelia and Eleanor go for a ride by Pam Munoz Ryan
Bloomers! By Rhoda Blumberg
Books in a box: Lutie Stearns and the traveling libraries of Wisconsin by Stuart Stotts
Eleanor Roosevelt: a life of discovery by Russell Freedman
Girls who rocked the world by Amelie Welden
Island of the blue dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Lost star: the story of Amelia Earhart by Patricia Lauber
Mother Jones by Betsy Kraft
My name is Georgia by Jeanette Winter
Rosa Parks: my story by Rosa Parks
Rosie the riveter by Penny Coleman
She’s wearing a dead bird on her head by Kathryn Lasky
Susan B Anthony by Lucille Davis
Wilma unlimited by Kathleen Krull
You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton? by Jean Fritz

Chapter books
All by herself by Ann Whitford Paul
Catherine called Birdy by Karen Cushman
I am Regina by Sally Keehn
Ida Early comes over the mountain by Robert Burch
Julie of the wolves by Jean Craighead George
The keeping quilt by Patricia Polacco
Morning girl by Michael Dorris
Sarah plain and tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Scooter by Vera Williams
Shabanu: daughter of the wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

SCHOOL

It’s where kids spend most of their time and it can be a little crazy.

Picture books
A fine, fine school by Sharon Creech
Annabelle Swift, kindergartener by Amy Scwartx
Art lesson by Tomie dePaola
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
David’s drawings by Cathryn Falwell
Don’t go! By Jane Breskin Zalben
First day jitters by Judith Dufour Love
First day, hooray! by Nancy Poydor
Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
Lunch bunnies by Kathryn Lasky
The Magic School Bus at the waterworks by Joanna Cole
Minerva Louise at School by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Miss Bindergarten gets ready for kindergarten by Joseph Slate
Miss Nelson is missing by Harry Allard
Mrs. Toggle'szZipper by Robin Pulver
My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
My name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits
Ndito runs by Laurie Halse Anderson
Running the road to ABC by Denize Lauture and Reynolds Ruffins
Ruby the copycat by Peggy Rathman
School by Emily McCully
Stand tall, Molly Lou Melon! By Patty Lovell
What will mommy do while I’m at school? By Dolores Johnson
Where are you going, Manyoni by Catherine Stock

Easy readers
Amanda Pig, school girl by Jean Van Leeuwen
Fox at school by Edward Marshall
The gingerbread kid goes to school by Joan Holub
I’ve got the back to school blues by Gail Herman
Lulu goes to witch school by Jane O'Connor
The most beautiful place in the world by Ann Cameron and Thomas B. Allen
The 100th day of school by Angela Medearis
Prairie school by Avi
Survival school by Frank Asch
The werewolf club by Daniel Pinkwater

Beginning chapter books
Bailey school kids by Marcia Thorton
Judi Moody by Megan McDonald
Junie B Jones and the stupid, smelly bus by Barbara Park
My teacher is an alien by Bruce Colville
Ramona forever by Beverly Cleary
Second grade rules, Amber Brown by Paula Danzinger

Summer reading is killing me by Jon Scieszka

Chapter books
Amadine by Adele Griffin
The best school year ever by Barbara Robinson
Black mirror by Nancy Werlin
Buffalo Brenda by Jill Pinkwater
Drummers of Jericho by Caolyn Meyer
Feeling sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty
Head above water by SL Rottman
In the year of the boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
The Landry News by Andrew Clements
Outrageously Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Nayolr
Present takers by Aidan Chambers
Regarding the fountain by Kate Klise
Shakespeare’s secret by Elise Broach
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Under the persimmon tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Wayside School is falling down by Louis Sachar
Whales on stitlts by MT Anderson

PIRATES

Ahoy, matey! Pirates came in all sizes, shapes and genders. They operated everywhere from the Erie Canal to the Caribbean.

Picture books
Alvin the pirate by Ulf Lofgren
The ballad of the pirate queens by Jane Yolen

Captain Abdul's pirate school by Colin McNaughton
Come away from the water, Shirley by John Burningham
Edward and the pirates by David McPhail
The Erie Canal pirates by Eric Kimmel
The night pirates by Peter Harris
Pirate girl by Cornelia Funke
How I became a pirate by Melinda Long
The night pirates by Peter Harris
The pirates of Bedford Street by Rachel Isadora
Rabbit pirates: a tale of the Spanish Main by Judy Cox
Robin Hook, pirate hunter! by Eric A. Kimmel
Roger, the jolly pirate by Brett Helquist

Easy readers
Commander Toad and the space pirates by Janet Yolen
Do pirates take baths? by Kathy Tucker
Pirate school by Cathy Dubrowski

Chapter books

Bloody Jack: Being an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy by L.A. Meyer

The dark frigate by Charles Hawes Boardman
The giant rat of Sumatra or pirates galore by Sid Fleischman
How to be a pirate by Cressida Cowell
The last of the sky pirates by Paul Stewart
The not-so-jolly Roger by Jon Scieszka
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry
Pirate diary by Richard Platt
Pirates don’t wear pink sunglasses by Debbie Dadey
Pirates past noon by Will Osborne
Pirate’s promise by Peter Burchard
Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
True confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Violet and the mean and rotten pirates by Richard Hamilton

Real pirates
The Barbarosa brothers by Aileen Weintraub
Pirates by Patricia Netzley
Pirates and privateers of the high seas by Laura Lee Wren
The pirate’s handbook by Margarette Lincoln
Seafaring women by Linda Grant De Pauw
What if you met a pirate? by Jan Adkins

Fables and fairy tales
The barefoot book of pirates by Richard Walker

DOGS

All different kinds of dogs in all different kind of settings. How we love our canine companions!

Picture books
Boodil, my dog by Pija Lindenbaum
Carmine: a little more red by Melissa Sweet
Chato goes cruisin’ by Gary Soto
The dirty cowboy by Amy Timberlake
Good boy, Fergus by David Shannon
Harry’s box by Angela McAllister
I want a dog by Dayal Kaur Khlasa
John Brown, Rose, and the midnight cat by Jenny Wagner
Kashtanka by Anton Pavlovich Chekov
Let’s get a pup…said Kate by Bob Graham
Madeline’s rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
Madlenka’s dog by Peter Sis
Martha speaks by Susan Meddaugh
Mary of mile 18 by Ann Blades
Max in Hollywood, baby by Maira Kalman
Moe the dog in tropical paradise by Diane Stanley
Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
Old Mother Hubbard and her wonderful dog by James Marshall
Oma and Bobo by Amy Schwartz
One of each by Mary Ann Hoberman
Poofy loves company by Nancy Parker
Sun bread by Elisa Kleven
Where’s Spot? By Eric Hill

Easy readers
Bony legs by Joanna Cole
Henry and Mudge and the best day of all by Cynthia Rylant
One nosy pup by Carol Wallace
The outside dog by Charlotte Pomerantz

Chapter books
Barry, boyhound by Andy Spearman
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Di Camillo
Blue mystery by Margot Benary-Isbert
Breaking trail by Joanne Bell
Dog sense: a novel by Sneed Collard
A dog’s life: the autobiography of a stray by Ann Martin
Fleabiscuit sings by Marlene Fanta Shyer
The outlaw Varjak Paw by SF Said
Singing the dogstar blues by Alison Goodman

Real dogs
Alone across the Artctic: one woman’s epic journey by dog team by Pam Flowers
Brave dogs, gentle dogs: how they guard sheep by Cat Urbigkit
Cindy, a hearing eye dog by Patricia Curtis
Disaster search dogs by Melissa McDaniel
Guide dogs by Melissa McDaniel
Hachiko waits by Leslaea Newman
Puppies by Rebecca Sjonger
Security dogs by Bendix Alexander
Therapy dogs by Linda Tagliaferro

PRINCESSES

All these royal gals have a story to tell. Join them on their journeys!

Picture books
The magic nesting doll by Jacqueline Ogburn
The paperbag princess by Robert Munsch
The princess and the pizza by Mary Jane Augh
Princess Penelope’s parrot by Helen Lester
Princess Prunella and the purple peanut by Margaret Atwood
Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole
The queen who couldn’t bake gingerbread by Dorothy van Woerkom
The red wolf by Margaret Shannon
The very smart pea and the princess to be by Mini Grey

Fables and fairy tales
The pirate princess and other fairy tales by Neil Philip
The practical princess and other liberating fairy tales by Jay Williams
White flower: a Maya princess by Victor Montejo

Easy readers
A grain of rice by Helena Clare Pittman
Lady lollipop by Dick King-Smith
Sleeping ugly by Jane Yolen
The storytelling princess by Rafe Martin

Chapter books
The castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
Ella enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The enchanted forest chronicles by Patricia Wrede
Girl in a cage by Jane Yolen
Goose chase by Patricia Kindl
A little princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The princess bride by William Goldman
The princess diaries by Meg Cabot
Princess Hyacinth and some other surprises by Tanith Lee

Real princesses
At her majesty’s request: an African princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers
The last princess: the story of princess Kaiulani by Fay Stanley
The Royal Diaries series
To be a princess: the fascinating lives of real princesses by Hugh Brewster

Graphic novels
The courageous princess by Art Espinoza
Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki
Princess Tutu by Ikuko Itoh

TRAINS

All aboard for stories about the iron horse!

Picture books

All aboard trains by Mary Harding
Aunt Harriet's underground railroad in the sky by Faith Ringgold
The banshee train by Odds Bodkin
The bebop express by HL Panahi
Black and white by David Macauley
Casey Jones’s fireman: the story of Sim Webb by Nancy Farmer
Emma and the silk train by Julia Lawson
Freight train by Donald Crews
Ghost train by Paul Yee
Here comes the train by Charlotte Voake
Mailing May by Michael Tunnell
An outlaw Thanksgiving by Emily Arnold McCully
Peacebound trains by Haemi Balgassi
Silver packages: an Appalachian Christmas story by Cynthia Rylant
Sunday outing by Gloria Jean Pinckney
The train ride by June Crebbin
Train song by Diane Siebert
The train that rode on water by June Doolittle
Train to somewhere by Eve Bunting
Whistle up the chimney by Nan Hunt

Easy readers
Gus and grandpa ride the train by Claudia Mills
Hello freight train by Marjorie Blain Parker
The long way westward by Joan Sandin
Mandie and the ghost bandits by Lois Gladys Leppard

Chapter books
Aggie’s home by Joan Lowery Nixon
The boxcar family by Gertrude Chandler Warner
By the shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls
Catch as catch can by Josephine Poole
Gratefully yours by Jane Buchanan
The midnight train home by Erika Tamar
The railway children by E. Nesbit
Trouble on the tracks by Donna Jo Napoli

Real trains
Death of the Iron Horse by Paul GobleTracks across America: The story of the American railroad 1825-1900 by Leonard Everett Fisher

DRAGONS

In Asia, Europe and the Americas, these mythical beasts live on. Is it the flying, the fire or the hoards?

Picture books
Dragon soup by Arlene Willams
The egg by MP Robertson
A friend for Dragon by Dav Pilkey
Everyone knows what a dragon looks like by Mercer Meyer
Fire and stone by Ursula K Le Guin
The knight and the dragon by Tomie De Paola
The little girl and the dragon by Else Minarik
Raising dragons by Jardine Nolen
The reluctant dragon by Kenneth Grahame

Chapter books
Dealing with dragons by Patricia Wrede
The dragon of doom by Bruce Colville
Dragon of the lost sea by Laurence Yep
Dragon rider by Cornelia Funke
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Eragorn by Christopher Paolini
Falcon’s egg by Luli Gray
Flight of the dragon Kyn by Susan Fletcher
How to train your dragon by Cressida Cowell
My father’s dragon by Ruth Stiles
Song in the silence: the tale of Lanen Kaelar by Elizabeth Kerner

Easy reader
The dragonling by Jackie French Koller
Knights of the kitchen table by Jon Scieszka

Fables and fairy tales
Behold…the dragons by Gail Gibbons
The book of dragons by Michael Hague
The loathsome dragon by David Weisner
A time of golden dragons by Song Nan Zhang

Graphic Novels

The Dragonslayer by Jeff Smith

Poetry
The dragons are singing tonight by Jack Prelutsky
Dragons and other creatures that never were by Eric Carle
The tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash

MYSTERIES

The game is afoot in mysteries for all ages.


Picture books
The angel of Mill Street by Francis Ward Weller
The cat who got carried away by Allan Ahlberg
Clara and Asha by Eric Rohmann
A dark, dark tale by Ruth Brown
Fran’s friend by Lisa Bruce
Full moon soup by Alistair Graham
I lost my bear by Jules Feiffer
The miraculous tale of the two Maries by Rosemary Wells
Olivia and the missing boy by Ian Falconer
Riverbend by Chris Van Allsburg
Tuesday by David Weisner
World famous Muriel by Sue Alexander

Easy readers
Aunt Eater loves a mystery by Doug Cushman
How can I be a detective if I have to babysit by Linda Bailey
Young Cam Jansen and the new girl mystery by David Adler

Chapter books
The Akhenaten adventure by PB Kerr
Angel’s Gate by Gary Crew
Assassin by Patricia Finney
The big house by Carolyn Coman
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

Down the rabbit hole by Peter Abrahams
Dovey Coe by Frances O’Roark Dowell
The Eye, The Ear and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
I know what you did last summer by Lois Duncan
Missing Abby by Lee Weatherby
Murdered, my sweet by Joan Lowery Nixon
My mom and other mysteries of the universe by Gina Willner-Pardo
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
The Old Willis place: a ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn
The ruby in the smoke by Phillip Pullman
Sammy Keyes by Wendelin Van Draanen
So yesterday by Scott Westerfield
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
Stealaway by KM Peyton
Tarot says beware by Betsy Byars
The third eye by Lois Duncan
Time stops for no mouse by Michael Hoeye
Wanted! by Caroline Conney

Historical mysteries
The lost colony of Roanoke by Jean Fritz

CINDERELLA STORIES

There’s more than glass slippers to this gal! Here are a variety of takes on the classic fairy tale. For more information on this list and these titles go to http://www.childrenslit.com/th_cinderella.html.

Picture books
Abadeha: the Philippine Cinderella by Myrna de la Paz
Adelita: a Mexican Cinderella story by Tomie de Paola
Anklet for a princess: a Cinderella story from India by Meredith Becker
Ashpet: an Appalachian tale by Joanne Compton
The boll weevil ball by Kelly Murphy
Chicharella by Mary Jane Auch
Cinderella by Hilary Knight
Cinderella: an art deco love story by Lynn Roberts
Cinderella, the dog and her little glass slipper by Diane Goode
Cinderella: a floral fairy tale in three acts by David Ellwand
Cinderella’s dress by Nancy Willard
Cindy Ellen: a wild west Cinderella by Susan Lowell
Domitila: a Cinderella tale from the Mexican tradition by Jewel Reinhrat Coburn
Ella’s big chance: a jazz-age Cinderella by Shirley Hughes
Fair, brown & trembling: an Irish Cinderella story by Jude Daley
Fanny’s dream by Carolyn Buehner
The gift of the crocodile: a Cinderella story by Judy Sierra
The golden slipper: a Vietnamese legend by Darrell Lum
Little gold star: a Spanish American Cinderella tale by Robert San Souci
Prince cinders by Babette Cole
Rexerella by Keith Faulkner
The rough-face girl by Marin Rafe
Ruferrella by Vanessa Gill-Brown and Mandy Stanley
The youngest fairy godmother ever by Stephen Krensky

Chapter books
Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
Ella enchanted by Gail Levine
If the shoe fits by Jane Mason and Sarah Hines Stephens