Favorite Books from the Children's Department

Lauren, Children's Librarian

Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures by Menno Metselaar

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie by Tanya Lee Stone

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers

The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

Press Here by Herve Tullet

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt

Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis

The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

Carol, Children's Librarian

Black and Blue Magic by Zipha Keatley Snyder

Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper

Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Gone-Away-Lake by Elizabeth Enright

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

The Kin by Peter Dickinson

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf by Jennifer L. Holm

The Moorchild by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald

A Pocket of Silence by Barbara C. Freeman

Robert the Rose Horse by Joan Heilbroner

The Tailypo:A Ghost Story by Joanna Galdone

Tripod Trilogy by John Christopher

Yvonne, Children's Librarian

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Sleeping Beauty by Trina Schart Hyman

Rapunzel  by the Brothers Grimm

The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Red Riding Hood by James Marshall

Poppy by Avi

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

Duck on a Bike by David Shannon

The Sea of Dreams by Dennis Nolan

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman

Carla, Children’s Services Manager

Appalachia The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Cynthia Rylant

Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens

In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck

It’s Snowing by Olivier Dunrea

The Journey by Sarah Stewart

Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman illus. By Christopher Bing

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Ian Lawrence

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale by Carmen Deedy

Mary on Horseback by Rosemary Wells

The Moffats by Eleanor Estes

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells

Remembering Mrs. Rossi by Amy Hest

Snow Music by Lynne Rae Perkins

True Story of Stellina by Matteo Pericoli

Two Eggs Please by Sarah Weeks

Village that Vanished by Ann Grifolconi

Walt Disney’s Cinderella retold by Cynthia Rylant

When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

Sheila, Children’s Librarian

Amulet of Samarkand series by Jonathan Stroud

Beauty by Robin McKinley

Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Emily of New Moon L.M. Montgomery

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Girl With the Silver Eyes Willo Davis Roberts

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

I, Coriander by Sally Gardner

Little Sister by Kara Dalkey

Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh

Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart and Carson Ellis

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Sammy Keyes seriesby Wendelin Van Draanen

Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

Laura, Children's Services Assistant Manager & Children's Librarian

Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells.

Burt Dow, Deep Water Man by Robert McCloskey

Circus Time (Little Golden Book) by Tibor Gergely

Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O’Shea

Jump_ The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Van Dyke Parks

A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

Lenny and Mel: Holidazed_By Erik Kraft

Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag

Mud Flat April Fool by James Stevenson

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamiliton

The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman

Secret Life of Owen Skye by Alan Cumyn

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keates

Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher

Wednesday Wars by Gary L. Schmidt

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron

Chantelle, Children's Librarian

Beauty by Robin McKinley

Betsy Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace

Goodnight, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery

Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit

Happy Hockey Family by Lane Smith

Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Jade by Sally Watson

Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica Hughes

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner

North to Freedom (I Am David) by Anne Holm

Sawdust in His Shoes by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

A Spell is Cast by Eleanor Cameron

Tom’s Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce

Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls