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ALA Notable Children's Books 1979

Each peach pear plum : an "I spy" story
Each peach pear plum : an "I spy" story
It's a baby!
We hide, you seek
Daniel's duck
Strega Nona's magic ring
Originally published as Big Anthony and the Magic Ring
Beany
Blue sea
Days with Frog and Toad
A treeful of pigs
James Marshall's Mother Goose
The Old woman and her pig, & 10 other stories
Seeing is believing
Fast friends: two stories
How do I put it on? : getting dressed

Eats: poems
The King's flower
Why the tides ebb and flow
Ramona and her mother
Watching them grow : inside a zoo nursery
Bunnicula : a rabbit-tale of mystery
New neighbors for Nora
A very young circus flyer
The boy who loved music
What's hatching out of that egg?
Anastasia Krupnik
Anastasia Krupnik
Living with a parent who drinks too much
Family secrets: five very important stories
The long view into space
The Little house cookbook : frontier foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic stories
White wave: a Chinese tale
How I hunted the little fellows

The robbers
A cry from the earth : music of the North American Indians
Self-portrait, Erik Blegvad
A gathering of days : a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel
The 79 squares
All together now : a novel
Stonewall
The girls in the velvet frame
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
The road from home : the story of an Armenian girl
Throwing shadows
FDR's New Deal
Thunders and lightnings
The young landlords
A midsummer night's death
Snake secrets
The story of American photography: an illustrated history for young people
The ink-keeper's apprentice
Words by heart
The tree house book
Song for a dark queen
The talking stone: an anthology of Native American tales and legends
The moonclock
Tonweya and the eagles and other Lakota Indian tales

ALA Notable Children's Books 1978

Moon Bear
Wagon wheels
The snowman
Freight train
Freight train = Tren de carga
First Spanish-English bilingual edition
The most amazing hide-and-seek book
Is it red? Is it yellow? Is it blue? : An adventure in color
Happy birthday, Sam
Little things
Grasshopper on the road
Gregory Griggs and other nursery rhyme people
George and Martha one fine day
Note: this is included in the book George and Martha : the complete stories of two best friends
Oh, were they ever happy!
John Brown, Rose, and the midnight cat
A special trade

Silas and the black mare
Panda
Hickory
Absolute zero : being the second part of the Bagthorne saga
Bagthorpes unlimited
The girl who married a ghost and other tales from The North American Indian
Escape to freedom : a play about young Frederick Douglass
Dr. Beaumont and the man with the hole in his stomach
Something on my mind
The girl who loved wild horses
Whale watch
Honey, I love : and other love poems
Passover
Banana twist
Great-grandfather, the baby, and me
Snakes
Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast
The great Gilly Hopkins
The great Gilly Hopkins
Mr. Yowder and the giant bull snake
The little deer of the Florida Keys
Kidnapping Mr. Tubbs
Discovering the mysterious egret
Mimosa, the sensitive plant
The Sea View Hotel
Self-portrait: Margot Zemach

Queen of hearts
Bridges
The murderer
The hawks of Chelney
The dark princess
It ain't all for nothin'
The case of the Baker Street Irregular : a Sherlock Holmes story
The devil in Vienna
A chance child
The Westing game
The Westing game : a puzzle mystery
The Westing game
The book of the dun cow

Anno's journey
The way to start a day
Steven Caney's Kids' America
The clown of God : an old story
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
Family scrapbook
My Noah's ark
The Great song book
Small worlds close up
The queen of Eene: poems
Wild foods: a beginner's guide to identifying, harvesting and cooking safe and tasty plants from the outdoors
A Peaceable kingdom : the Shaker abecedarius
The lines are coming: a book about drawings
The iron road : a portrait of American railroading
Where can the animals go?
The magic orange tree, and other Haitian folktales
1997 edition with new foreword by Edwidge Danticat
Still more small poems

ALA Notable Children's Books 1977

Who's in Rabbit's house? : A Masai tale retold
Anno's Counting book
Anno's counting book
Big Book
Amifika
Helga's dowry : a troll love story
The quicksand book
Down in the boondocks
The mysterious tadpole
The church mice adrfit
Garth Pig and the ice cream lady
Albert B. Cub & Zebra : an alphabet storybook
Noah's ark
Noah's ark
Noah's ark
Caleb & Kate
Harry and Shellburt
Anna's silent world
It could always be worse : a Yiddish folk tale

The town cats and other tales
The eyes of the Amaryllis
The pinballs
Julia and the hand of God
Ramona and her father
Ordinary Jack
Mouse woman and the mischief-makers
The wicked one : a story of suspense
A very young rider
Flower, moon, snow : a book of haiku
Bridge to Terabithia
Bridge to Terabithia
The snopp on the sidewalk, and other poems
Death is natural
Little dogs of the prairie
The amazing dandelion
Child of the owl

The golden circle: a book of months
Hobberdy Dick
Trial Valley
I am the cheese
Annerton Pit
Exit from home
Anpao : an American Indian odyssey
Dogsbody
Struggle and lose, struggle and win: the United Mine Workers
A summer to die
A summer to die
Dragonsinger
Note: this book is also part of the book ”The Harper Hall of Pern”

A January fog will freeze a hog, and other weather folklore
Chess for children: a new easy way to learn the game
Castle
Castle
Full-color edition
The changing city
The changing countryside
Behind the sealed door: the discovery of the tomb and treasures of Tutankhamun

ALA Notable Children's Books 1976

The skin spinners: poems
Wiley and the Hairy Man
Steven Kellogg's Yankee Doodle
Shelter from the wind
Hawk, I'm your brother
Black rainbow: legends of the Incas and myths of ancient Peru
A string in the harp
City of darkness
Home before dark : a novel
The silver crest : my Russian boyhood
A chick hatches
Grandmother's pictures
The winter of the birds
Catch the wind: a book of windmills and windpower
Djugurba: tales from the spirit time
Window into a nest
Squash pie
The diary of Trilby Frost
Fish for supper
Beat the turtle drum
Books : from writer to reader
Arilla sun down
The contest
The Chinese New Year
Moon-whales and other moon poems
Max
The turning place: stories of a future past
The blue stone
A northern nativity: Christmas dreams of a prairie boy
Merry ever after
The bat
Very far away from anywhere else
Learning to say good-by : when a parent dies
Frog and toad all year
Zero makes me hungry : a collection of poems for today
Dragonsong
Note: this book is also part of the book ”The Harper Hall of Pern”
Underground
The Golem : a Jewish legend
Dear Bill, remember me? And other stories
Never to forget : the Jews of the Holocaust
Ashanti to Zulu : African traditions
Zia
A certain magic
The master puppeteer
Lizard music
Nightmares : poems to trouble your sleep
Listen to the crows
Twenty-two, twenty-three
Mr. and Mrs. Pig's evening out
To spoil the sun
Discovering the American stork
Naftali the storyteller and his horse, Sus : and other stories
Tattercoats : an old English tale
Abel's island
The amazing bone
The Trouble they seen: Black people tell the story of Reconstruction
Voyaging to Cathay: Americans in the China trade
Roll of thunder, hear my cry
Flashlight and other poems
How the Moolah was taught a lesson & other tales from Russia
Little Fox goes to the end of the world
Noah's castle
Granfa' Grig had a pig and other rhymes without reason
Deep in the forest
Elephants
Tunes for a small harmonica
The bear & the fly : a story
More small poems
Family
The Sound of flutes and other Indian legends

ALA Notable Children's Books 1975

Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears : a West African tale
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Africa : the land and people”
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears : a West African tale
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Africa : the land and people”
Cakes and custard: children's rhymes
Anno's alphabet; an adventure in imagination
Tuck everlasting
The desert is theirs
The terrible thing that happened at our house
To the green mountains
Thirteen
The grey king
The moon on the one hand: poetry in song
Strega Nona : an old tale
Founding mothers : women in America in the Revolutionary era
Din dan don! it's Christmas
The blossom on the bough: a book of trees
The writings of W. E. B. DuBois
As I was crossing Boston Common
Where was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?
About owls
How Wilka went to sea and other tales from west of the Urals
Song of the boat
Me and Nessie
The Maggie B.
Dinner at Alberta's
The story of Christmas: a picture book
The heritage sampler: a book of colonial arts & crafts
Two Roman mice
Season songs
A stranger came ashore : a story of suspense
New life, new room
Is that you, Miss Blue?
King Rooster, Queen Hen
Owl at home
Pyramid
Stoneflight
The bear's bicycle
The boy who was followed home
The hundred penny box
Letters to Horseface, being the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's journey to Italy, 1769-1770, when he was a boy of fourteen
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
Amelia mixed the mustard and other poems
Z for Zachariah
The ghost belonged to me
The tattooed potato and other clues
The kidnapping of the coffee pot
How to count like a Martian
The harlequin moth: its life story
Below the root
Cat in the mirror
How democracy failed
The dark didn't catch me
Exploring Black America: a history and guide
The borrowed house
The integration of Mary-Larkin Thornhill
Morris's disappearing bag
A little demomstration of affection
Chinese writing: an introduction
Dragonwings

ALA Notable Children's Books 1974

Watership Down
Watership Down
My Black me: a beginning book of Black poetry
The woman with the eggs
The Devil's storybook; stories and pictures
Everybody needs a rock
All butterflies; an ABC
Walk together children: Black American spirituals
After the goat man
Greedy Mariana and other folktales of the Antilles
Handtalk; an ABC of finger spelling & sign language
Thank you, Jackie Robinson
My brother Sam is dead
My brother Sam is dead
The son of the leopard
The elephant and his secret
Transport 7-41-R
Two good friends
Charlie needs a cloak
What do you see?
Making puppets come alive; a method of learning and teaching hand puppetry
A toad for Tuesday
Jambo means hello; Swahili alphabet book
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Africa : the land and people”
Duffy's rocks
Nobody's family is going to change
Why don't you get a horse, Sam Adams?
Why the sky is far away : a Nigerian folktale
Note: we do have the 1992 edition with illustrations by Carla Golembe
Mushroom in the rain
A carrot for a nose
Philip Hall likes me, I reckon maybe
She come bringing me that little baby girl
Paul Robeson: the life and times of a free Black man
M.C. Higgins, the great
How Tom beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsman
Slake's limbo
The stronghold
Firerose
Owliver
Lumberjack
The house in Norham Gardens
The first American Revolution
City : a story of Roman planning and construction
Arrow to the sun; a Pueblo Indian tale
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Native Americans”
Flecha al sol : un cuento de los indios Pueblo
Spanish translation
The forgotten beasts of Eld
To see the world afresh
Wrapped for eternity: the story of the Egyptian mummy
Of nightingales that weep
The perilous gard
Squawk to the moon, little goose
Figgs & phantoms
Shapes : a book
A billion for Boris
Harry Cat's pet puppy
Songs and stories from Uganda
Dawn
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein
Farmer Palmer's wagon ride
Blue fin
The iron lily
Albert's toothache
Kings, commomers, and colonists; Puritan politics in old New England, 1603-1660
The Nargun and the stars
The girl who cried flowers, and other tales
My grandson Lew

ALA Notable Children's Books 1973

Behind the back of the mountain; Black folktales from southern Africa
Toolchest
The cat who wished to be a man
The foundling
Carrie's war
It's raining said John Twaining; Danish nursery rhymes
The tales of Olga da Polga
Father Christmas
The court of the stone children
Harlequin and the gift of many colors
Me too
The dark is rising
The dancing bear
Gorilla gorilla
The slave dancer : a novel
The slave dancer
And then what happened, Paul Revere?
Summer of my German soldier
Tom Thumb
illustrated by Felix Hoffmann
A proud taste for scarlet and miniver
Who owns the moon?
An old tale carved out of stone
The little red hen
The little red hen : a folk tale classic
Cathedral: the story of its construction
Cathedral
Full-color edition
Poor Richard in France
Three jovial huntsmen
Three jovial huntsmen
What the neighbors did and other stories
A pattern of roses
The satanic mill
Who, said Sue, said whoo?
Games (and how to play them)
A pocket full of seeds
A taste of blackberries
The real thief
A great big ugly man came up and tied his horse to me; a book of nonsense verse
The tavern at the ferry
Benjamin & Tulip
Noisy Nora
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Opening the world of learning : a comprehensive literacy program”
Opposites
Duffy and the devil

ALA Notable Children's Books 1972

The four donkeys
When clay sings
When clay sings
Only the names remain; the Cherokees and the Trail of Tears
How the devil gets his due
The rebel
The house of wings
Up the pier
D'Aulaires' Trolls
Red Riding Hood: retold in verse for boys and girls to read themselves
Black pilgrimage
The death of Evening Star : the diary of a young New England whaler
The web in the grass
A long way from Verona
The ghost downstairs
Julie of the wolves
Julie of the wolves
The old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle
Snow-White and the seven dwarfs
W.E.B. DuBois: a biography
Count and see
The fire bringer: a Paiute Indian legend
This story is included in ”Pourquoi tales : the cat's purr, Why frog and snake never play together, The fire bringer”
Hosie's alphabet
The haunted mountain
Good night, Owl!
When Hitler stole pink rabbit
Dinky Hocker shoots smack
Behind the wheel
Milton the early riser
The knee-high man
Frog and toad together
Anansi the spider : a tale from the Ashanti
The impossible people
George and Martha
Note: this is included in the book George and Martha : the complete stories of two best friends
George and Martha
Note: this is included in the book George and Martha : the complete stories of two best friends
Jorge y Marta
Spanish translation
The funny little woman
Old Mother Hubbard and her dog
illustrated by Evaline Ness
The squirrel wife
How to make whirligigs and whimmy diddles and other American folkcraft objects
The Beethoven medal
The upstairs room
Freaky Friday
The wicked city
Blackbriar
No way of telling
The witches of Worm
Josh
Dominic
The summer people
The dead tree
The twelve days of Christmas
Brian Wildsmith
Petros' war
William's doll

ALA Notable Children's Books 1971

Ma nda la
Squib
In the trail of the wind; American Indian poems and ritual orations
Mr. Gumpy's outing
A room made of windows
Do you want to be my friend?
The green tree of democracy
Gandhi
Emma Tupper's diary
Incident at Hawk's Hill
Moja means one; Swahili counting book
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Africa : the land and people”
Jingo Django
All upon a stone
About wise men and simpletons; twelve tales from Grimm
The planet of Junior Brown
The untold tale
The shrinking of Treehorn
Look again!
One fine day
Changes, changes
If all the seas were one sea
The master of miracle: a new novel of the Golem
Pulga
Gassire's lute: a West African epic
The trees stand shining : poetry of the North American Indians
The tombs of Atuan
On the day Peter Stuyvesant sailed into town
The bread book: all about bread and how to make it
Annie and the Old One
The Vicksburg veteran
Twelve great black cats and other Scottish tales
Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh
Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH
Pennington's last term
The almost year
The mysterious disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel)
Hildilid's night
The seeing eye
The headless Cupid
The headless Cupid
Amos & Boris
The making of an Afro-American: Martin Robinson Delany, 1812-1885
Tristan & Iseult
Reconstruction : the great experiment
Chipmunks on the doorstep
Father Fox's pennyrhymes
The black mustanger
A penny a look; an old story
The bear and the people

ALA Notable Children's Books 1970

Black out loud; an anthology of modern poems by Black Americans
Malcolm X
The marvelous misadventures of Sebastian; grand extravaganza, including a performance by the entire cast of the Gallimaufry-Theatricus
Topsy-turvies; pictures to stretch the imagination
Kneeknock Rise
Sundiata; the epic of the lion king
A snake-lover's diary
Beyond the weir bridge
The summer of the swans
The summer of the swans
Come by here
Dawn of fear
A horse came running
A herd of deer
The nonsense book of riddles, rhymes, tongue twisters, puzzles and jokes from American folklore
Enchantress from the stars
Keeping the plants you pick
Journey to the moon
Red Hawk's account of Custer's last battle : the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 25 June 1876
What you should know about drugs
King Thrushbeard
A story, a story; an African tale
The moon in the cloud
The overland launch
Lift every voice and sing
Math menagerie
Whose mouse are you?
Whose mouse are you?
Jim along, Josie; a collection of folk songs and singing games for young children
Fish is fish
Fish is fish
Big Book
Frog and toad are friends
Jonah and the Lord
A flock of words; an anthology of poetry for children and others
The other people
Ravensgill
The drinking gourd : a story of the underground railroad
Sing down the moon
Flambards in summer
Charley
Tell me a Mitzi
In the night kitchen
The angry moon
The witch's brat
The intruder
Vasilisa the beautiful
A firefly named Torchy
Fireweed
The trumpet of the swan
Trumpet of the swan
illustrated by Fred Marcellino
Brian Wildsmith's circus