Notable Children's Book1995

Given by Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)

Other Names: Notables, ALA Notable Children's Book
65 Works 57,186 Books 1,838 Reviews 4.1
Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the Notables Criteria, "notable" is defined as: show more Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding. As applied to children's books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways. show less
Categories:
All, All Ages (39), Middle Readers (161), Older Readers (173), Younger Readers (232), Zelinsky Edition (1), [2017], All Ages, 2017 (1), illustration (1), No Category (2,154)
Years:
All, 2024 (103), 2023 (97), 2022 (124), 2021 (93), 2020 (115), 2019 (109), 2018 (96), 2017 (95), 2016 (116), 2015 (105), 2014 (93), 2013 (79), 2012 (102), 2011 (69), 2010 (73), 2009 (74), 2008 (76), 2007 (94), 2006 (100), 2005 (78), 2004 (61), 2003 (66), 2002 (88), 2001 (72), 2000 (70), 1999 (61), 1998 (41), 1997 (59), 1996 (74), 1995 (65), 1993; Older Readers, 1995 (1), 1994; Older Readers, 1995 (1), 1994 (69), 1993 (60), 1992 (1), 1991 (4), 1990 (3), 1987 (1), 1986 (2), 1984 (2), 1983 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1976 (2), 1973 (1), 1971 (1), 1940-1970 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (2), 1966 (1), 1965 (2), 1964 (3), 1963 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (2), 1959 (1), 1940-1959 (1), 1958 (2), 1955 (2), 1954 (1), 1952 (1), 1951 (1), 1950 (1), 1942 (1), 1941 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
All Ages1995
The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion by Barbara Diamond Goldin
All Ages1995
Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs
All Ages1995
The Creation by James Weldon Johnson
All Ages1995
De Colores and Other Latin American Folksongs for Children by Jose-Luis Orozco
All Ages1995
Time Flies by Eric Rohmann
All Ages1995
The Christmas Alphabet by Robert Clarke Sabuda
All Ages1995
Misoso: Once Upon a Time Tales from Africa by Verna Aardema
Middle Readers1995
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes by Floyd Cooper
Middle Readers1995
Sister Shako and Kolo the Goat by Vedat Dalokay
Middle Readers1995
The Big Bug Book by Margery Facklam
Middle Readers1995
Beast Feast by Douglas Florian
Middle Readers1995
Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes
Middle Readers1995
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature) by Langston Hughes
Middle Readers1995
Russian Girl: Life in an Old Russian Town by Russ Kendall
Middle Readers1995
The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East by Eric A. Kimmel
Middle Readers1995
Three Terrible Trins by Dick King-Smith
Middle Readers1995
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
Middle Readers1995
John Henry by Julius Lester
Middle Readers1995
Last Tales of Uncle Remus by Julius Lester
Middle Readers1995
Seven Spiders Spinning by Gregory Maguire
Middle Readers1995
Outside and Inside Birds by Sandra Markle
Middle Readers1995
Hob and the Goblins by William Mayne
Middle Readers1995
Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest by Gerald McDermott
Middle Readers1995
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco
Middle Readers1995
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Middle Readers1995
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley
Middle Readers1995
The Barn by Avi
Older Readers1995
Tell Them We Remember by Susan D. Bachrach
Older Readers1995
The Amazing Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen by Beth Wagner Brust
Older Readers1995
I See the Moon by C. B. Christiansen
Older Readers1995
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Older Readers1995
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Older Readers1995
Guests by Michael Dorris
Older Readers1995
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
Older Readers1995
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell Freedman
Older Readers1995
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library) by Robie H. Harris
Older Readers1995
Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse
Older Readers1995
Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me by Julie Johnston
Older Readers1995
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright by Ron Koertge
Older Readers1995
Jazz: My Music, My People by Morgan Monceaux
Older Readers1995
Earthshine by Theresa Nelson
Older Readers1995
Iblis by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
Older Readers1995
Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art by Nora Panzer
Older Readers1995
Flip-Flop Girl by Katherine Paterson
Older Readers1995
The Boys from St. Petri by Bjarne Reuter
Older Readers1995
Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
Older Readers1995
I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment by Jerry Stanley
Older Readers1995
Focus: Five Women Photographers : Julia Margaret Cameron/Margaret Bourke-White/Flor Garduno/Sandy Skoglund/Lorna Simpson by Sylvia Wolf
Older Readers1995
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
Older Readers1995
The Golly Sisters Ride Again by Betsy Byars
Younger Readers1995
Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming
Younger Readers1995
Tough Boris by Mem Fox
Younger Readers1995
The Rattlebang Picnic by Margaret Mahy
Younger Readers1995
Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolen
Younger Readers1995
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
Younger Readers1995
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
Younger Readers1995
The Surprise Family by Lynn Reiser
Younger Readers1995
How Now, Brown Cow? by Alice Schertle
Younger Readers1995
Hi by Ann Herbert Scott
Younger Readers1995
Don't Fidget a Feather! by Erica Silverman
Younger Readers1995
A Hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Younger Readers1995
Too Tired by Ann Turnbull
Younger Readers1995
Going Home by Margaret Wild
Younger Readers1995
Our Granny by Margaret Wild
Younger Readers1995

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