All Time Favorite Books

Call Number	Author	Title	Synopsis
398.2 Aa	Aardema, Verna	Who's in Rabbit's House: A Masai Tale ; retold by Verna Aardema / illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon	Rabbit has a problem; someone is inside her house and won't let her in.
398.2	Aesop	Fables	Short animal stories with a moral. Collection includes The Tortoise and the Hare, Androcles and the Lion. Use catalog for other titles.
F ATW	Atwater, Richard and Florence	Mr. Popper's Penguins.	The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.
	Benchley, Nathaniel	Sam, The Minuteman	An easy-to-read account of Sam and his father fighting as minutemen against the British in the Battle of Lexington.
E BEM	Bemelmans, Ludwig	Madeline	Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis. Other titles include Madeline in London.
F BLU	Blume, Judy	Freckle Juice	Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.
398.2 BRO	Brown, Marcia	Stone Soup	When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.
	Brown, Margaret Wise	Goodnight Moon	As a little bunny says goodnight to many familiar objects, the illustrations are progressively darker.
	Brunhoff, Jean de	The Story of Babar, The Little Elephant	Translation of: Histoire de Babar, le Petit Elephant. Young Babar, escaping from a hunter, goes to the city where he is befriended by a rich old Lady.
E BUR	Burton, Virginia Lee	Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel	Mike Mulligan proves that, although dated, his steam shovel is still useful.
	Carroll, Lewis	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	The story of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
F CLE	Cleary, Beverly	The Mouse and the Motorcycle
	Collodi, Carlo	Adventures of Pinocchio	A little puppet made by a woodcarver wanted to be a real boy. Was he up to the task?
E CRE	Crews, Donald	Freight Train	Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.
	Daugherty, James	Andy and the Lion	Andy was kind to a lion with felicitous results. An Aesop fable with a little twist.
398.2 DEP	DePaola, Tomie	Strega Nona: An Old Tale	When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.
E FLA	Flack, Marjorie	Angus and the Ducks	A curious Scottish terrier decides to investigate the strange noise coming from the other side of the hedge.
E FRE	Freeman, Don	Corduroy	A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.
	Fritz, Jean	The Cabin Faced West
E GAG	Gag, Wanda	Millions of Cats	An old man makes an unwise decision when he brings too many cats home to his wife. Awards: Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1929.
398.2 THR	Galdone, Paul	The Three Little Pigs	Retells the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same pigfalls.
	Goble, Paul	The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
F GRA	Grahame, Kenneth	The Reluctant Dragon	An extract from Dream Days, first published in 1898.
	Gramatky, Hardie	Little Toot	He was just a little tugboat, but mighty deeds are done by little fellows with courage.
E HOB	Hoban, Russell	Bedtime For Frances	Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.
E JOH	Johnson, Crockett	Harold and the Purple Crayon	A little boy uses a purple crayon to take a trip and return to his bedroom.
E KEA	Keats, Ezra Jack	A Snowy Day	A little boy plays outside on a perfect snowy day.
E KRA	Kraus, Robert	Leo the Late Bloomer	Leo is taking his time learning to do many things, especially read. Should his parents worry?
E KRA	Krauss, Ruth	The Carrot Seed	A little boy plants a carrot seed but his family warns him that carrots are hard to grow.
E LEA	Leaf, Munro	The Story of Ferdinand	A little bull didn't want to learn to fight; he preferred smelling flowers.
812 LEA	Lear, Edward	A Book of Nonsense	There once was a man from Great Britain who could wrote as no one had written He'd make up a rhyme and then spend his time making words he needed to fit in
E LEV	Levinson, Riki	Watch the Stars Come Out
E LIO	Lionni, Leo	Frederick	Frederick is a mouse with special skills but the other mice don't quite get it, until....
PF LOB	Lobel, Arnold	Frog and Toad Are Friends	Two friends, different but devoted, put up with each other's quirky habits.
811 LON	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	Paul Revere's Ride	Longfellow told the tale of Paul Revere's ride so well that even though not "a man is now alive that remembers that famous day and year" the poem will teach us forever.
PF LOP	Lopshire, Robert	Put Me in the Zoo
E MAR	Marshall, James	George and Martha
E McC	McCloskey, Robert	Make Way for Ducklings	A family of ducks takes up residence in Boston Commons and astonishes the busy downtown crowd.
398.2 McD	McDermott, Gerald	Anansi the Spider
812 MIL	Milne, A. A.	Winnie-The-Pooh	The original story of the little bear and his friend Christopher Robin and all the inhabitants of the 100-acre-wood.
PF PAR	Parish, Peggy	Amelia Bedelia	Amelia Bedelia misunderstands the meaning of many words and lands in a confusing situation every time.
E PIP	Piper, Watty	The Little Engine that Could	This little engine was all heart and he thought he could deliver the goods.
E POT	Potter, Beatrix	The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Mischief is Peter's middle name, but he learns a sorry lesson.
E REY	Rey, H. A.	Curious George	A very curious little monkey comes to America with the Man in the Yellow Hat.
F SEL	Selden, George	The Cricket in Times Square
E SEN	Sendak, Maurice	Where the Wild Things Are	A little boy goes off to a wild place where there is much gnashing of teeth and swinging through branches, but comes home to a hot dinner just the same.
PF SEU	Seuss, Dr.	The Cat in the Hat	The quintessential mess-maker visits two children while their mother is away.
E SLO	Slobodkina, Esphyr	Caps for Sale	The peddlar fell asleep and awoke to find the monkeys in the tree above had all his "Caps for Sale." How to get them back?
E STE	Steig, William	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble	Sylvester didn't mean to do it, but he turned into a rock. His parents were frantic. Where was he?
812 STE	Stevenson, Robert Lewis	A Child's Garden of Verses	The Land of Counterpane," "The Swing" and so many more gentle, lovely rhymes that are easy to remember and remind us of the past.
F TAY	Taylor, Sydney	All-Of-A-Kind-Family
F THU	Thurber, James	Many Moons	A princess wants the moon; who can give it to her? The king? No. The queen? No. The court jester? hmm
E UDR	Udry, Janice May	A Tree is Nice
E VAN	VanAllsburg, Chris	The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
E VIO	Viorst, Judith	Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Some days start out bad and get worse. This one was like that for Alexander.
E WAR	Ward, Lynn	The Biggest Bear	Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
F WHI	White, E. B.	Charlotte's Web	Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
	Yashima, Taro	Crow Boy	Chibi came to school from the countryside, not the village. He didn't say much but he learned and he taught his teacher important lessons of life.
E ZIO	Zion, Gene	Harry the Dirty Dog	When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots.
E ZOL	Zolotow, Charlotte	William's Doll	William's father gives him a basketball and a train but these do not make him want a doll less.