The Foothill Reading Association is a group of teachers, paraprofessionals, librarians, and community members. This bibliography is their list titled Book Time: Engaging Readers with New and Notable Books Carolyn Angus & Marianne Newman

Begin with Mother Goose: Traditional Rhymes & Songs:

• Michael Foreman's Playtime Rhymes selected and illustrated by Michael Foreman
• Do Your Ears Hang Low? illustrated by Ashley Wolff
• Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop by Lisa Shulman; illustrated by Ashley Wolff
• This Is the House That Jack Built by Simms Taback
• The Ballad of Valentine by Allison Jackson; illustrated by Tricia Tusa

Anthologies

• Seeing the Blue Between: Advice and Inspiration for Young Poets compiled by Paul B. Janeczko
• Home to Me: Poems across America selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
• This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort by Georgia Heard

• Little Dog and Duncan by Kristine O'Connell George; illustrated by June Otani
• One Leaf Rides the Wind by Celeste Davidson Mannis; illustrated by Susan Kathleen Hartung
• Summersaults: Poems and paintings by Douglas Florian
• A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme by Patrick Lewis; illustrated by Alison Jay
• Scranimals by Jack Prelutsky; illustrated by Peter Sís
• Peacock and Other Poems by Valerie Worth; illustrated by Natalie Babbitt
• The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt; illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi

• Snow by Manya Stojic
• It's Snowing! by Olivier Dunrea

• Cock-a-Moo-Moo by Juliet Dallas-Conté; illustrated by Alison Bartlett
• Bob by Tracey Campbell Pearson

• Stella, Fairy of the Forest by Marie-Louise Gay
• Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child by Bob Graham

• Slow Loris by Alexis Deacon
• "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," Said the Sloth by Eric Carle

• Dream Carver by Diana Cohn; illustrated by Amy Córdova
• The Pot That Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel; illustrated by David Diaz

• The Company of Crows: A Book of Poems by Marilyn Singer; illustrated by Linda Saport
• Crows! Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle; illustrated by Bob Marstall

• Togo by Robert Blake
• The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail by Debbie S. Miller; illustrated by Jon Van Zyle

• Alphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming
• Alphaboat by Michael Chesworth
• A Huge Hog Is a Big Pig: A Rhyming Word Game by Francis McCall & Patricia Keeler
• Palindromania! by Jon Agee
• This Gum for Hire: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, private Eye by Bruce Hale
• The Carnivorous Carnival: Book the Ninth by Lemony Snicket
• A House Called Awful End: Book One of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy by Philip Ardagh; illustrated by David Roberts

• Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Mairia Kalman
• The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt by Claudia Logan; illustrated by Melissa Sweet
• New York's Bravest by Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Steven Johnson and Lou Fancher
• Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis
• Red Midnight by Ben Mikaelsen

• Dig Dig Digging by Margaret Mayo; illustrated by Alex Ayliffe
• Dirt (National Geographic, 2002) by Steve Tomecek; illustrated by Nancy Woodman
• Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution bySteve Jenkins
• Snake Charmer by Ann Whitehead Nagda
• If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People by David J. Smith; illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong

• Getting to Know You! Rodgers and Hammerstein Favorites with words by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers, and illustrations by Rosemary Wells
• Heaven's All-Atar Jazz Band by Don Carter
• This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge
• What Charlie Heard by Mordicai Gerstein
• When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan; illustrated by Brian Selznick

Collections

• Silly & Sillier: Read-Aloud Tales from Around the World retold by Judy Sierra; illustrated by Valerie Gorbachev
• Can You Guess My Name? Traditional Tales around the World selected and retold by Judy Sierra; illustrated by Stefano Vitale

• Ananse ad the Lizard: A West African Tale retold and illustrated by Pat Cummings
• Epossumondas by Coleen Salley; illustrated by Janet Stevens
• Sense Pass King: A Story from Cameroon by Katrin Tchana; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

• The Adventurous Chef: Alexis Soyer by Ann Arnold
• Confucius: The Golden Rule by Russell Freeman; illustrated by Frédéric Clément
• Degas and the Dance: The Painter and the Petits Rats, Perfecting Their Art by Susan Goldman Rubin
• Frida by Jonah Winter; illustrated by Ana Juan
• A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Inés by Pat Mora; illustrated by Beatriz Vidal
• Ruby's Wish by Shiran Yim Bridges; illustrated by Sophie Blackall

• HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics: A Child's First Collection edited by Katherine Brown Tegen
• Famous Bears & Friends: One Hundred Years of Teddy Bear Stories, Poems, Songs, and Heroics written and collected by Janet Wyman Coleman
• Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

• A Bit More Bert by Allan Ahlberg & Raymond Briggs
• Benny and the Binky by Barbro Lindgren; translated by Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard and illustrated by Olof Landström
• David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon
• Elizabeti's School by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen; illustrated by Christy Hale
• Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin
• Henry and Mudge and the Tall Tree House by D. B. Johnson
• Iris and Walter: The Sleepover by Elissa Haden Guest; illustrated by Christine Davenier
• Mr. Putter & Tabby Catch the Cold: The twenty-first book of their adventures by Cynthia Rylant; illustrated by Arthur Howard

• Judy Moody Saves the World! by Megan McDonald; illustrated by Peter Reynolds
• Viking It and Liking It by Jon Sciezka; illustrated by Adam McCauley

• Earthborn by Sylvia Waugh
• Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris
• Pure Dead Wicked by Debi Gliori
• Rowan and the Zebak by Emily Rodda
• Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes by Wendlin Van Draanen

• Close Your Eyes by Kate Banks; illustrated by Georg Hallensleben
• I Stink! by Kate McMullan; illustrated by Jim McMullan
• The Little Hippos' Adventure by Lea Landström

• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Darby by Jonathan Scott Fuqua
• The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
• Magnus Maybe by Errol Broome; illustrated by Ann James
• Mary Ann Alice by Brian Doyle