Notable Children's Book2001

Given by Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)

Other Names: Notables, ALA Notable Children's Book
72 Works 216,894 Books 4,187 Reviews 4.2
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)
WorkYear
America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle by David A. Adler
2001
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
2001
Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson
2001
The Night Worker by Kate Banks
2001
Radio Rescue by Lynne Barasch
2001
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
2001
Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs: An Expedition to Madagascar by Nic Bishop
2001
Voices : Poetry and Art from Around the World by Barbara Brenner
2001
Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa by Don Brown
2001
Crazy Horse's Vision by Joseph Bruchac
2001
Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi
2001
The Hunter by Mary Casanova
2001
Satchel Paige by Lesa Cline-Ransome
2001
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
2001
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
2001
Liberty by Lynn Curlee
2001
The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash
2001
Cold Feet by Cynthia DeFelice
2001
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
2001
Olivia by Ian Falconer
2001
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis Brindell Fradin
2001
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
2001
Norman Rockwell: Storyteller With A Brush by Beverly Gherman
2001
The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Cross Giblin
2001
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
2001
Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter by Alan Govenar
2001
Max by Bob Graham
2001
How God Fix Jonah by Lorenz Graham
2001
Iris and Walter by Elissa Haden Guest
2001
Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
2001
Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
2001
Days Like This: A Collection of Small Poems by Simon James
2001
Stone Bench In An Empty Park by Paul Janeczko
2001
The Christmas Gift / El regalo de Navidad (Spanish Edition) by Francisco Jimenez
2001
The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph
2001
Gershon's Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year by Eric A. Kimmel
2001
Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence
2001
Ultimate Game by Christian Lehmann
2001
Freedom Like Sunlight: Praisesongs for Black Americans by J. Patrick Lewis
2001
In Every Tiny Grain of Sand: A Child's Book of Prayers and Praise by Reeve Lindbergh
2001
The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle
2001
Gold Dust by Chris Lynch
2001
Building Big by David Macaulay
2001
The Doll People by Ann M. Martin
2001
Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
2001
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story by Angela Shelf Medearis
2001
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy
2001
Wings by Christopher Myers
2001
Surviving Brick Johnson by Laurie Myers
2001
The Wind Singer by William Nicholson
2001
Kate and the Beanstalk by Mary Pope Osborne
2001
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
2001
Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck by Lisa Westberg Peters
2001
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
2001
Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney
2001
Frank O. Gehry Outside In by DK
2001
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
2001
Freedom River (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) by Doreen Rappaport
2001
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell
2001
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
2001
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Commemorative Pop-up by Robert Sabuda
2001
The Jack Tales by Lynn Salsi
2001
Chato and the Party Animals by Gary Soto
2001
So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George
2001
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 by Ernest L. Thayer
2001
Good Night, Good Knight by Shelley Moore Thomas
2001
Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa: And Other Talking Drum Rhymes by Uzo Unobagha
2001
Space Race by Sylvia Waugh
2001
My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal by Sophie Webb
2001
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
2001
Pedro & Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned by Judd Winick
2001
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen
2001

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