Suggested Reading: Titles to Watch
Below are suggested reading titles (listed in no particular order)
compiled by WLS/WLA Think tank members, followed by helpful websites
which you may want to peruse before coming to the event.
Suggested Caldecott Titles
Duck! Rabbit! written by Amy
Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld
Hook, written and illustrated
by Ed Young
Longest Night, written by
Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Ted Lewin
Red Sings From Treetops,
written by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Mouse Was Mad, written and
illustrated by Linda Urban
Curious Garden, written and
illustrated by Peter Brown
14 Cows for America, written by
Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez
Birds, by Kevin Henkes,
illustrated by Laura Dronzek
Coretta Scott written by
Ntozake Shange, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Chicken Little, written by Ed
Emberley, illustrated by Rebecca Emberley
Jeremy Draws a Monster written
and illustrated by Peter McCarty
Secret Circus, written and
illustrated by Johanna Wright
A Penguin Story, written and
illustrated by Annette Portis
All the World, written by Liz
Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Marla Frazee
Lion and the Mouse, written and
illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Dinotrux, written and
illustrated by Chris Gall
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes,
written by Margie Palatini, illustrated by Barry Moser
My People, written by Langston
Hughes, illustrated by Charles R Smith Jr.
Moonshot written and
illustrated by Brian Floca
Let's Do Nothing, written and
illustrated by Tony Fucile
The Storm in the Barn, written
and illustrated by Matt Phelan
Suggested Newbery Titles
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
by Jaqueline Kelly
When You Reach Me by Rebecca
Stead
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
by Mick Cochrane
The Magician's Elephant by Kate
DiCamillo
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
by Grace Lin
All The Broken Pieces by Ann E.
Burg
A Season of Gifts by Richard
Peck
Anything But Typical by Nora
Raleigh Baskin
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of
Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared
to Dream Tanya Lee Stone
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P.
Figg by Rodman Philbrick
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline
Woodson
Suggested Young Adult
Titles
We Were Here by Matt de la Pena
Marcelo in the Real World by
F.X. Stork
Crossing Stones by Helen Frost
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse
Anderson
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Solace of the Road by Siobhan
Dowd
Charles and Emma by Helligman
Tales From Outter Suburbia by
Tan
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by
Stanniford
Eternal Smile by Yang/Kim
Fire by Cashore
