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ALA Notable Books for Children 1999

Voices in the park
Home run
Insectlopedia : poems and paintings
This land is your land
I see the rhythm
A Caldecott celebration : six artists and their paths to the Caldecott medal
Tibet : through the red box
With a whoop and a holler: a bushel of lore from way down south
You can't take a balloon into the Metropolitan Museum
Walter Wick's optical tricks

ALA Notable Books for Children 1998

ALA Notable Books for Children 1997

The story of Little Babaji
Fanny's dream
My brother, Ant
Animal crackers: a delectable collection of pictures, poems, and lullabies for the very young
Where once there was a wood
Lilly's purple plastic purse
Hush! : a Thai lullaby
Sam and the tigers : a new telling of Little Black Sambo
Jelly beans for sale
My very first Mother Goose
The paperboy
The squiggle
The day Gogo went to vote: South Africa, April 1994

Growing up in coal country
Anastasia's album
Train to Somewhere
The rooster's gift
Eleanor
The apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
The bone detectives : how forensic anthropologists solve crimes and uncover mysteries of the dead
Small steps : the year I got polio
Wilma unlimited : how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman
Mysterious tales of Japan
Toussaint L'Ouverture: the fight for Haiti's freedom
Ogbo: sharing life in an African village
Jip : his story
Four perfect pebbles : a Holocaust story
Bill Pickett: rodeo-ridin' cowboy
What Zeesie saw on Delancey Street
Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman
Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei
Leonardo da Vinci
Orphan train rider : one boy's true story
Golem
The friends

Cold Shoulder Road
Granny the Pag
A girl named Disaster
The abracadabra kid : a writer's life
The life and death of Crazy Horse
The view from Saturday
Winning ways : a photohistory of American women in sports
The moorchild
Sabriel
The golden compass
John Steinbeck
Remembering Mog
The Smithsonian book of the first ladies: their lives, times, and issues
Big Annie of Calumet: a true story of the Industrial Revolution
The thief
Belle Prater's boy

Come Sunday
When birds could talk & bats could sing : the adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and their friends
Maples in the mist: children's poems from the Tang Dynasty
Grandmother Bryant's pocket
The graphic alphabet
Earth always endures: Native American poems
Nursery tales around the world
O Jerusalem
Beni's family cookbook for the Jewish holidays

ALA Notable Books for Children 1996

Street music : city poems
The story of rosy dock
More than anything else
That Kookoory!
My mama had a dancing heart
The rabbit's escape
Rhymes for Annie Rose
Black swan/white crow
Twist with a burger, jitter with a bug
The matzah that papa brought home
Guess how much I love you
Zin! zin! zin! : a violin
Piggie pie!
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Mr. Putter and Tabby pick the pears
Down the road
Carolina shout!
Chato's kitchen
Tops and bottoms
Bad day at Riverbend
Whistling Dixie
The Christmas miracle of Jonathan Toomey
The toll-bridge troll
When the wind stops

Poppy
A boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
The boy who lived with the bears : and other Iroquois stories
Talking with artists, volume 2
The midwife's apprentice
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
Ezra Jack Keats: a biography with illustrations
Fig pudding
You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton?
Falcon's egg
Grandaddy's stars
Star of fear, star of hope
Songs of Papa's island
Dog Friday
The distant talking drum: poems from Nigeria
A school for Pompey Walker
The Van Gogh Cafe
The faithful friend
Sweet corn : poems
The well : David's story
The forestwife
In a circle long ago : a treasury of native lore from North America
The book of changes
The ballad of the pirate queens

The Arkadians
Navajo : visions and voices across the Mesa
David
Rosie the riveter : women working on the home front in World War II
What Jamie saw
Trout summer
The middle passage : white ships/black cargo
Yolonda's genius
The eagle kite
When plague strikes : the Black Death, smallpox, AIDS
Her stories : African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales
The revenge of the forty-seven samurai
A place to call home
Under the mermaid angel
The great fire
The lady with the hat
Walt Whitman
Damned strong love: the true story of Willi G. And Stephan K.

ALA Notable Books for Children 1995

Misoso : once upon a time tales from Africa
Coming home : from the life of Langston Hughes
Sister Shako and Kolo the goat: memories of my childhood in Turkey
The big bug book
Beast feast
Meet Danitra Brown
The sweet and sour animal book
Russian girl : life in an Old Russian Town
The three princes : a tale from the Middle East
Three terrible trins
The librarian who measured the earth
John Henry
The last tales of Uncle Remus
Seven spiders spinning
Outside and inside birds
Hob and the goblins
Coyote : a trickster tale from the American Southwest
My rotten redheaded older brother
Pink and Say
Cleopatra

ALA Notable Books for Children 1994

Chin Yu Min and the ginger cat
Peppe the lamplighter
In the small, small pond
A number of animals
Owen
Julius
Pigs aplenty, pigs galore!
Uncle Jed's barbershop
The outside dog
Yo! Yes?
Two by two
Hunting the white cow
The three little wolves and the big bad pig
Hop jump

Giants in the land
Amish home
Tsugele's broom
Sadako
The lotus seed
Grandaddy and Janetta
The princess in the kitchen garden
A gathering of garter snakes
Hiding out : camouflage in the wild
Raven : a trickster tale from the Pacific Northwest
Maybe yes, maybe no, maybe maybe
More rootabagas
A small tall tale from the far Far North
The sweetest fig
Matthew and the sea singer
Scooter

Song of Be
Whaling days
Tell me everything
Crazy lady!
The boggart
A bone from a dry sea
Bull Run
Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery
Be seated : a book about chairs
Many thousand gone : African Americans from slavery to freedom
Plain City
It's our world, too! stories of young people who are making a difference
Toning the sweep
Hero of lesser causes
Owl in love
Alien secrets
The great migration : an American story
I was a teenage professional wrestler
The apprentice
The giver
The giver
with related readings
The giver
25th anniversary edition
El dador
Spanish translation
Starting home : the story of Horace Pippin, painter
Baby
The oxboy
Across America on an emigrant train
Nightjohn
Harper & Moon
Harper & Moon
The Wainscott weasel
Visions : stories about women artists
Anne Frank, beyond the diary : a photographic remembrance
Peter
Make lemonade
Dragon's gate
Learning by heart

From sea to shining sea : a treasury of American folklore and folk songs
The sculptor's eye : looking at contemporary American art
A short walk around the Pyramids and through the world of art
Santa calls
Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought)
Brown angels: an album of pictures and verses
Grandfather's journey
We are all in the dumps with Jack and Guy : two nursery rhymes with pictures
A color sampler

ALA Notable Books for Children 1993

The fortune-tellers
Hugh can do
Old black fly
Emily
Moon rope : a Peruvian folktale = Un lazo a la luna : una leyenda peruana
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”South America”
Lunch
My great-aunt Arizona
Bently & Egg
Soap soup and other verses
The moonbow of Mr. B. Bones
Mirette on the high wire
Mirette on the high wire
Martha speaks
Note: this is included in the book Martha speaks : story time collection
The Life and times of the apple
Back home
Chicken Sunday
Don't you know there's a war on?
Talking like the rain : a read-to me book of poems
Farmer duck
June 29, 1999
Working cotton
Letting Swift River go
Seven blind mice

Who was that masked man, anyway?
Wings along the waterway
The moon and I
Loop the loop
Who shrank my grandmother's house? : poems of discovery
Li'l Sis and Uncle Willie : a story based on the life and paintings of William H. Johnson
Jim Ugly
Love flute
Words of stone
Surtsey: the newest place on Earth
Underrunners
The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural
The amazing potato : a story in which the Incas, Conquistadors, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Jefferson, wars, famines, immigrants, and french fries all play a part
All but Alice
Life's a funny proposition, Horatio
Life's a funny proposition, Horatio
Antarctica: the last unspoiled continent
Sukey and the mermaid
And the green grass grew all around: folk poetry from everyone
Our solar system
Snakes
Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare
Sundiata : lion king of Mali

Steal away
What's your story? : a young person's guide to writing fiction
No place to be : voices of homeless children
Ajeemah and his son
What hearts
An Indian winter
A twilight struggle: the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Letters from Rifka
Against the storm
The Harmony Arms
Letters from a slave girl : the story of Harriet Jacobs
Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman?
Somewhere in the darkness
The beggars' ride
Rosa Parks : my story
Missing May
Missing May
Children of the Dust Bowl : the true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp
When the road ends
This same sky: a collection of poems from around the world
The leaving
The pigman & me

Red dragonfly on my shoulder
The world in 1492
Gonna sing my head off! : American folk songs for children
I saw Esau : the schoolchild's pocket book
Charlie Parker played be bop
An angel for Solomon Singer
The Stinky Cheese Man and other fairly stupid tales
Talking with artists
The widow's broom
The widow's broom
25th anniversary edition

ALA Notable Books for Children 1992

Traveling to Tondo : a tale of the Nkundo of Zaire
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Africa : the land and people”
Changes
Fly away home
Bigmama's
Abuela
In the tall, tall grass
In the tall, tall grass
Big book
Chrysanthemum
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace
Braille and print edition
At the crossroads
Jack and the beanstalk
The owl and the pussycat
illustrated by Jan Brett
Eating fractions
Michael Foreman's Mother Goose
The adventures of Isabel
Old Mother Hubbard and her wonderful dog
Tar Beach
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”African-Americans”
Tar Beach
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”African-Americans”
Tree of cranes
Albert's alphabet
Mouse count
Mouse count = Cuenta de ratón
Bilingual editon
Cuenta ratones
Spanish translation
Max's dragon shirt
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Opening the world of learning : a comprehensive literacy program”
Piggies

Flight : the journey of Charles Lindbergh
Wanted-- Mud Blossom
Nekomah Creek
Tiger with wings : the great horned owl
Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt!
A wave in her pocket : stories from Trinidad
Living with dinosaurs
Summer of fire: Yellowstone
Journey
The discovery of the Americas
Rats on the roof and other stories
Chameleons: dragons in the trees
The orphan boy
Shiloh
The diamond tree: Jewish tales from around the world
The Frog Prince, continued
The pennywhistle tree
Glasses : who needs 'em?
The last princess: the story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'i

Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel
Along the tracks
The remarkable voyages of Captain Cook
A separate battle : women and the Civil War
Year of impossible goodbyes
The borning room
Monkey island
The Wright brothers : how they invented the airplane
The truth about unicorns
The painter's eye : learning to look at contemporary American art
Stepping on the cracks
Stepping on the cracks
Tales of the early world
Castle in the air
Stars come out within
Poem-making: ways to begin writing poetry
Thomas Jefferson, the revolutionary aristocrat
Now is your time! : the African-American struggle for freedom
The man from the other side
Lyddie
Discovering Christopher Columbus: how history is invented
The place where nobody stopped
The Mozart season
Searching for dragons : the enchanted forest chronicles
A young painter : the life and paintings of Wang Yani-- China's extraordinary young artist

Anno's math games III
Songs of the Wild West
Night on Neighborhood Street
St. Jerome and the lion
All of you was singing
The woman who outshone the sun : the legend of Lucia Zenteno
Animal fables from Aesop
The handmade alphabet
Appalachia : the voices of sleeping birds
The story of Christmas
illustrated by Jane Ray
Tuesday
Pish, posh, said Hieronymus Bosch

ALA Notable Books for Children 1991

Two short and one long
The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The mousehole cat
A telling of the tales: five stories
Everywhere
The wall
Bingo Brown, gypsy lover
Weasel
Weasel
White Peak Farm
The Big book for peace
Ruby
Saturnalia
The midnight horse
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The riddle of the Rosetta Stone: key to Ancient Egypt
Insect metamorphosis : from egg to adult
Dixie storms
Cousins
Old John
The day of Ahmed's secret
Quest for a maid
The baby of the maid
Shadows and reflections
Sister
When I am old with you
Aardvarks, disembark!
Little Tricker the squirrel meets Big Double the bear
Cowboy dreams
Mice are nice
Seeing Earth from space
Further tales of Uncle Remus: the misadventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, the Doodang, and other creatures
Christopher Columbus : voyager to the unknown
The Little dog laughed
Family pictures = Cuadros de familia
Come a tide
Black and white
The seven Chinese brothers
Fox be nimble
Shake it to the one that you love best: play songs and lullabies from Black musical traditions
One sun: a book of terse verse
Columbus, and the world around him
The tale of the mandarin ducks
Woodsong
Puss in boots
Something big has been here
Aïda
Henry and Mudge and the happy cat : the eighth book of their adventures
Giraffes, the sentinels of the Savannas
A hand full of stars
Train song
Maniac Magee
Good Queen Bess : the story of Elizabeth I of England
July
The shining company
Rachel Chance
The very best of friends
I went walking
I went walking
Big book
Salí de paseo
Spanish translation of "I went walking"
"More more more" said the baby : 3 love stories
"More more more" said the baby : 3 love stories
Bird watch
Sky dogs
The wheels on the bus

ALA Notable Books for Children 1990

The Wednesday surprise
Eric Carle's animals animals
The tub people
Color zoo
The story of Hanukkah
Dance, Tanya
Children and the AIDS virus : a book for children, parents, & teachers
Of colors and things
The three little pigs and the fox : an Appalachian tale
Chita's Christmas tree
The big Alfie and Annie Rose storybook
Hershel and the Hanukkah goblins
It's an armadillo
I hate English!
I hate English!
Chicka chicka boom boom
Will's mammoth
Harry in trouble
Poems of A. Nonny Mouse
The talking eggs : a folktale from the American South
If you made a million
The true story of the 3 little pigs
No star nights
Where does the brown bear go?
Max's chocolate chicken
Nine-in-one, Grr! Grr! : a folktale from the Hmong people of Laos
Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China
Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China
Book on CD

Ali Baba and the forty thieves
The American family farm: a photo essay
Dinosaur Mountain : graveyard of the past
On our own terms: children living with physical disabilities
Dancing teepees : poems of American Indian youth
My war with goggle-eyes
Swan Lake
The chimpanzee family book
Nathaniel talking
The bells of Christmas
Martin's mice
The Canada geese quilt
How many spots does a leopard have? and other tales
Afternoon of the elves
Number the stars
Melisande
Bill Peet : an autobiography
Buster's world
The book of eagles
Ragtime Tumpie
Inspirations : stories about women artists : Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Faith Ringgold
Birdy and the ghosties

The outside child
The great American gold rush
Valentine & Orson : re-created as a folk play in verse and paintings
Eva
The great little Madison
Sweetgrass
Once upon a horse: a history of horses and how they shaped our history
Hey world, here I am!
A long hard journey : the story of the pullman porter
And one for all
The voyage of the Frog
The winter room
Buffalo Brenda
Shades of gray
The adventures of High John the Conqueror
The Broccoli tapes
Panama Canal: gateway to the world
Shabanu : daughter of the wind
The rainbow people