The Association for Library Service to Children has announced their picks for the best books for children from 2013.  The books below are from the older reader section which is for ages 11-14 as well as the all ages section.

OLDER READERS

 

Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty. Freedman, Russell.

Counting by 7s. Sloan, Holly Goldberg. 

  

Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers. Stone, Tanya Lee.

Darius & Twig. Myers, Walter Dean.

 

Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People. Rubin, Susan Goldman.

Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty. Bolden, Tonya.

  

Etiquette & Espionage. Carriger, Gail. 

Far Far Away. McNeal, Tom. 

Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design. Kidd, Chip.

  

The Living. de la Peña, Matt.  

March: Book One. Lewis, John and Aydin, Andrew. Illus. by Nate Powell.

Navigating Early. Vanderpool, Clare.

  

One Came Home. Timberlake, Amy. 

Paperboy. Vawter, Vince. 

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass. Medina, Meg. 

 

ALL AGES

 

Journey. Becker, Aaron.

Poems to Learn by Heart. Kennedy, Caroline. Illus. by Jon J Muth.

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has selected their 2014 Notable Children’s Books list.  The Middle Readers section contains books for children ages 8-10.  Here are the books:

  

The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest–and Most Surprising–Animals on Earth. Jenkins, Steve.

Barbed Wire Baseball. Moss, Marissa. Illus. by Yuko Shimizu.

Battle Bunny. Scieszka, Jon and Barnett, Mac. Illus. by Matthew Myers.

  

Battling Boy. Pope, Paul.

Better Nate Than Ever. Federle, Tim.

Bluffton: My Summers with Buster. Phelan, Matt.

  

Bo at Ballard Creek. Hill, Kirkpatrick. Illus. by LeUyen Pham.

The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible…on Schindler’s List. Leyson, Leon.

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdös. Heiligman, Deborah. Illus. by LeUyen Pham.

 

Doll Bones. Black, Holly.

Eruption!:  Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives. Rusch, Elizabeth. Illus. by Tom Uhlman.

  

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library. Grabenstein, Chris.

Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table. Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. Illus. by Eric-Shabazz Larkin.

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. DiCamillo, Kate. Illus. by K. G. Campbell.

  

Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse. Wissinger, Tamera Will. Illus. by Matthew Cordell.

The Great American Dust Bowl. Brown, Don.

How to Catch a Bogle. Jinks, Catherine. Illus. by Sarah Watts.

  

Knock Knock : My Dad’s Dream for Me. Beaty, Daniel. Illus. by Bryan Collier.

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist. Engle, Margarita.

Lincoln’s Grave Robbers. Sheinkin, Steve.

 

Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard. Cate, Annette LeBlanc.

The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius. Greenberg, Jan and Jordan, Sandra.

  

Mister Orange. Matti, Truus. Illus. by Jenni Desmond. Trans. by Laura Watkinson.

Monster on the Hill. Harrell, Rob.

P. S. Be Eleven. Williams-Garcia, Rita.

  

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale. Tonatiuh, Duncan.

Rooftoppers. Rundell, Katherine. Illus. by Terry Fan.

Serafina’s Promise: A Novel in Verse. Burg, Ann E.

  

Soldier Dog. Angus, Sam.

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, Bryant, Jen. Illus. by Melissa Sweet.

Sugar. Rhodes, Jewell Parker.

  

Treasury of Egyptian Mythology. Napoli, Donna Jo. Illus. by Christina Balit.

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp. Appelt, Kathi.

The War within These Walls. Sax, Aline. Illus. by Caryl Strzelecki. Trans. by Laura Watkinson.

 

When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky: Two Artists, Their Ballet, and One Extraordinary Riot. Stringer, Lauren.

When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop. Hill, Laban Carrick. Illus. by Theodore Taylor III.

Words with Wings. Grimes, Nikki.

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has selected their 2014 Notable Children’s Books list.  The Younger Readers section contains books for children preschool to age 7.  Here are the books:

  

Alphablock by Christopher Franceschelli

Ball by Mary Sullivan

The Bathing Costume, or, the Worst Vacation of My Life by Charlotte Moundlic, illustrated by Olivier Tallec

  

Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas by Philippe Coudray

A Big Guy Took My Ball! by Mo Willems

Building Our House by Jonathan Bean

 

Bully by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Count the Monkeys by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Kevin Cornell

  

The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers

Deep in the Sahara by Kelly Cunname, illustrated by Hoda Hadadi

 

Eat Like a Bear by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Steve Jenkins

Exclamation Mark by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld

  

Flight of the Honey Bee by Raymond Huber

Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle

Fraidyzoo by Thyra Heder

  

Little Santa by Jon Agee

Locomotive by Brian Floca

Lulu and the Dog from the Sea by Hilary McKay, illustrated by Priscilla Lamont

 

Maria Had a Little Llama by Angela Dominguez

Martin & Mahalia by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney

  

Mitchell Goes Bowling by Hallie Durand, illustrated by Tony Fucile

Moo! by David LaRochelle, illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown

 

Mr. Wuffles! by David Wiesner

My Father’s Arms Are a Boat by Stein Erik Lunde, illustrated by Øyvind Torseter

  

My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz

Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson

Nino Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales

  

Old Mikamba Has a Farm by Rachel Isadora

On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne, illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky

Parrots over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore

  

Penny and Her Marble by Kevin Henkes

Robot, Go Bot! by Dana Meachen Rau, illustrated by Wook Jin Jung

Take Me Out to the Yakyu by Aaron Meshon

 

Ten Orange Pumpkins by Stephen Savage

Tito Puente: Mambo King by Monica Brown, illustrated by Rafael Lopez

 

The Tortoise and the Hare by Jerry Pinkney

Warning: Do Not Open This Book! by Adam Lehrhaupt, illustrated by Matthew Forsythe

  

The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli

Xander’s Panda Party by Linda Sue Park, illustrated by Matt Phelan

The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes

There are 20 books in the longlist for the UK’s most prestigious children’s book award.  Look for the shorlists on March 18th and the winners in June.

Here are the books on the longlist:

  

After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross

All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry

Binny for Short by Hilary McKay

  

Blood Family by Anne Fine

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas by David Almond

Brock by Anthony McGowan

  

The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks

Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn

The Child’s Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston

  

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper

Heroic by Phil Earle

  

Hostage Three by Nick Lake

Infinite Sky by CJ Flood

Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher

  

Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead

Monkey Wars by Richard Kurti

The Positively Last Performance by Geraldine McCaughrean

 

Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell

The Wall by William Sutcliffe