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
Poetry, Please
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
Single-poet collections
- 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
Some Perfect Pairs
- 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
Word Play
- 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
Tales of Journeys, Heroic Deeds, and Unsolved Mysteries
- 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
Information, Please
- 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
Music, Music, Music
- 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
I Have a Tale to Tell
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
Individual Tales
- 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
Oh, the People You'll Meet!
- 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
Classic Collections
- 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
It's As Good As--or Better Than or Almost As Good As--the First Book! Sequels & Series
Picture Books
- 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
Transitional Books
- Judy Moody Saves the World! by Megan McDonald; illustrated by Peter Reynolds
- Viking It and Liking It by Jon Sciezka; illustrated by Adam McCauley
Novels
- 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
Picture Book Favorites
- 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
Novels That Hook You on the First Page
- 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