Title:
100 best books for children
JLCTITLE245:
Anita Silvey.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2004.
Physical Description:
xv, 192 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780618278893
9780618618774
General Note:
"A Frances Tenenbaum book."
Abstract:
By selecting only 100 "best books" Anita Silvey distinguishes her guide from all the others and makes it possible to give young readers their literary heritage in the childhood years. The books we hear or read when we are children stay with us all our lives. If we miss them when we are young, we"ll miss them forever: no Hungry Caterpillar, no Winn-Dixie, no Roll of Thunder. As adults we remember a few familiar favorites, but no one but an expert like Anita Silvey, with her thirty-five years at the heart of children"s book publishing, could put together an authoritative list like this one. Parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, and bookstore clerks will feel completely comfortable recommending these books for any child, from infancy to almost-teens. Silvey includes, in addition to the 100 best, extensive lists of books to meet special needs and interests as well as classics, selected by age, to round out this extraordinarily useful work. In addition to giving an age range and the plot of each book, Silvey relates the fascinating, often hilarious story behind the story, something only an insider in the field of children"s publishing could tell. 100 Best Books for Children is as much fun to read as it is helpful.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-171) and index.
Variant Title:
One hundred best books for children
Contents:
BOARD BOOKS : birth to age 2. Goodnight moon / Margaret Wise Brown -- Mr. Gumpy's outing / John Bumingham -- Very hungry caterpillar / Eric Carle -- Freight train / Donald Crews -- The carrot seed / Ruth Krauss -- -- PICTURE BOOKS : ages 2 to 8. Miss Nelson is missing! / Harry Allard -- Madeline / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Snowman / Raymond Briggs -- Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel / Virginia Lee Burton -- Millions of cats / Wanda Gág -- Lilly's purple plastic purse / Kevin Henkes -- Swamp angel / Anne Isaacs -- Snowy day / Ezra Jack Keats -- Leo the late bloomer / Robert Kraus -- Story of Ferdinand / Munro Leaf -- John Henry / Julius Lester -- Swimmy by Leo Lionni -- Chicka chicka boom boom / Bill Martin, Jr., and John Archambault -- Snowflake Bentley / Jacqueline Briggs Martin -- Make way for ducklings / Robert McCloskey -- The tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter -- Officer Buckle and Gloria / Peggy Rathmann -- Curious George / H.A. Rey -- The true story of the 3 little pigs / Jon Scieszka -- Where the wild things are / Maurice Sendak -- Caps for sale / Esphyr Slobodkina -- Doctor De Soto / William Steig -- The Polar Express / Chris Van Allsburg -- Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day / Judith Viorst -- Tuesday / David Wiesner -- A chair for my mother / Vera B. Williams -- Seven blind mice / Ed Young -- Harry the dirty dog / Gene Zion -- -- BOOKS FOR BEGINNING READERS : ages 5 to 7. Frog and toad are friends / Arnold Lobel -- Little bear / Else Holmelund Minarik -- Henry and Mudge / Cynthia Ryland -- The cat in the hat / Dr. Seuss -- -- BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS : ages 7 to 9. Ramona the pest / Beverly Cleary -- Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / Eleanor Coerr -- Morning girl / Michael Dorris -- The hundred dresses / Eleanor Estes -- My father's dragon / Ruth Stiles Gannett -- Stone fox / John Reynolds Gardiner -- Snow-White and the seven dwarfs / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Misty of Chincoteague / Marguerite Henry -- Babe : the gallant pig / Dick King-Smith -- Betsy-Tacy / Maud Hart Lovelace -- Sarah, plain and tall / Patricia MacLachlan -- The new kid on the block / Jack Prelutsky -- Grandfather's journey / Allan Say -- Little House in the big woods / Laura Ingalls Wilder -- -- BOOKS FOR MIDDLE READERS : ages 8 to 11. The secret garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The incredible journey / Sheila Burnford -- The dark is rising / Susan Cooper -- The BFG / Roald Dahl -- Because of Winn-Dixie / Kate DiCamillo -- Half magic / Edward Eager -- Harriet the spy / Louise Fitzhugh -- Humbug mountain / Sid Fleischman -- Lincoln : a photobiography / Russell Freedman -- Julie of the wolves / Jean Craighead George -- The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame -- The people could fly : American black folktales / Virginia Hamilton -- Redwall / Brian Jacques -- The phantom tollbooth / Norton Juster -- From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E.L. Konigsburg -- Rabbit Hill / Robert Lawson -- A wrinkle in time / Madeleine L'Engle -- The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe / C.S. Lewis -- Pippi Longstocking / Astrid Lindgren -- In the year of the boar and Jackie Robinson / Bette Bao Lord -- The new way things work / David Macaulay -- Winnie-the-Pooh / A.A. Milne -- Anne of Green Gables / Lucy Maud Montgomery -- The great fire / Jim Murphy -- Rascal / Sterling North -- Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH / Robert C. O'Brien -- Island of the blue dolphins / Scott O'Dell -- Bridge to Terabithia / Katherine Paterson -- Hatchet / Gary Paulsen -- Tom's midnight garden / Philippa Pearce -- The westing game / Ellen Raskin -- Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone / J.K. Rowling -- Holes / Louis Sachar -- The cricket in Times Square / George Selden -- The witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare -- Mary Poppins / P.L. Travers -- Charlotte's web / E.B. White -- -- BOOKS FOR OLDER READERS : ages 11 to 12. The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle / Avi -- Tuck everlasting / Natalie Babbitt -- Behind the attic wall / Sylvia Cassedy -- Catherine, called Birdy / Karen Cushman -- Johnny Tremain / Esther Forbes -- Anne Frank : The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- Out of the dust / Karen Hesse -- A wizard of earthsea / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The giver / Lois Lowry -- Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred Taylor -- The hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien -- Homecoming / Cynthia Voigt.