Booklists: January 2009 Archives

From the Pigeon Post essay of January 18th, 2008, of the same name.

This book list is divided into three sections:
(1) Picture Books
(2) Books for Independent Readers
(3) Young Adults

The list begins below with Picture Books, but you can use the following link to skip directly to the Independent Readers or the Young Adults sections.
Go to books for Independent Readers
Go to books for Young Adults

Picture Books

	Make Way for Ducklings written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey Highly Recommended
	The Gardener by Sarah Stewart and illustrated by David Small Highly Recommended
	Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile written and illustrated by Bernard Waber Highly Recommended
	House on East Eighty-Eighth Street written and illustrated by Bernard Waber Highly Recommended
	The Adventures of Taxi Dog by Debra Barracca and Sal Barracca and illustrated by Mark Buehner Recommended
	Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone and illustrated by Ted Lewin Recommended
	Madeline written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans Recommended
	C Is for City by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Pat Cummings Recommended
	Alphabet City by Stephen Johnson Recommended
	The Journey by Sarah Stewart and illustrated by David Small Recommended
	City Mouse-Country Mouse and Two More Mouse Tales from Aesop by Aesop and illustrated by John Wallner Suggested
	Urban Roosts written and illustrated by Barbara Bash Suggested
	Madeline in London written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans Suggested
	The Little House written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton Suggested
	Katy and the Big Snow written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton Suggested
	Abuela by Arthur Dorros and illustrated by Elisa Kleven Suggested
	Good Night New York City by Adam Gamble and illustrated by Joe Veno Suggested
	Sky Boys by Deborah Hopkinson and illustrated by James E. Ransome Suggested
	My New York Holiday written and illustrated by Kathy Jakobsen Suggested
	Taxi by Betsy Maestro and Giulio Maestro Suggested
	This Is London written and illustrated by Miroslav Sasek Suggested
	New York Is English, Chattanooga Is Creek written and illustrated by Christopher Raschka Suggested
	You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman and illustrated by Robin Preiss-Glasser Suggested
	Sky Scrape/City Scape edited by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Ken Condon Suggested
	The Wheels on the Bus illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky Suggested
	Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino Suggested

Independent Reader

	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. (ILT) Denslow Highly Recommended
	A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett and illustrated by Tasha Tudor Highly Recommended
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake Highly Recommended
	The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams Highly Recommended
	All-Of-A-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor Highly Recommended
	Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers and illustrated by Mary Shepard Highly Recommended
	Stuart Little by E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams Highly Recommended
	A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond and illustrated by Peggy Fortnum Recommended
	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg Recommended
	Underground by David MacAulay Recommended
	Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell Suggested
	The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright Suggested
	Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Suggested
	Snow in August by Pete Hamill Suggested
	The Best of Nancy Drew Classic Collection by Carolyn Keene Suggested
	Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace Suggested
	145th Street by Walter Dean Myers Suggested
	Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer and illustrated by Valenti Angelo Suggested
	Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep Suggested
	Rats by Paul Zindel Suggested