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:

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


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