Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Children's Books

Given by Children's Literature Center

Other Names: Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Best Children's Book, Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Books for Children
3,143 Works / 3,420 Items 1,327,432 Books 27,376 Reviews 4.0
Annual best-books selection from the Children's Literature Center of the Library of Congress, produced 1964-1983 under the direction of Virginia Haviland.

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Categories:
All, Arts and Hobbies (142), Biography (138), Fiction for Older Readers (95), Folklore (105), Folklore and Literature (40), Foreign Languages (5), History, Peoples, and Places (193), Nature and Science (262), Picture and Picture-Story Books (366), Poems, Rhymes, and Verbal Fun (8), Poetry (7), Poetry and Rhymes (51), Poetry, Plays, and Bible Stories (23), Poetry, Plays, and Essays (11), Science and Nature (30), Stories for Older Boys and Girls (236), Stories for the Middle Group (434), No Category (1,274)
Years:
All, 1995 (52), 1994 (12), 1990 (84), 1989 (1), 1986 (110), 1983 (168), 1982? (1), 1979, 1981 (3), 1981 (94), 1979, 1980 (2), 1980 (116), 1979 (118), 1971; 1979? (1), 1964-1978 (512), 1974 (71), 1973 (202), 1972 (196), 1971 (200), 1970 (215), 1969 (225), 1968 (222), 1967 (206), 1966 (204), 1965 (204), 1964 (198)
WorkCategoryYear
The Piñata Maker by George Ancona
1995
Twelve Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
1995
Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books, 1621-1922 by Gillian Avery
1995
Big Fat Hen by Keith Baker
1995
The Examination (Sunburst Book) by Malcolm Bosse
1995
Grandfather and I by Helen E. Buckley
1995
Grandmother and I by Helen Elizabeth Buckley
1995
Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Boy With a Camera by John Cech
1995
So Much! by Trish Cooke
1995
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
1995
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
1995
Flour Babies by Anne Fine
1995
Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming
1995
Beast Feast by Douglas Florian
1995
War Game by Michael Foreman
1995
Julie by Jean Craighead George
1995
The Shadow of a Flying Bird by Mordicai Gerstein
1995
Los Pollitos Dicen / The Baby Chicks Sing by Nancy Abraham Hall
1995
Wag Wag Wag by Peter Hansard
1995
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library) by Robie H. Harris
1995
The Headless Haunt: And Other African-American Ghost Stories by James Haskins
1995
It's Nothing to a Mountain by Sid Hite
1995
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
1995
The Creation by James Weldon Johnson
1995
Grandfather's Dream by Holly Keller
1995
Fire on the Mountain by Jane Kurtz
1995
What Do You See and How Do You See It? by Patricia Lauber
1995
My Farm by Alison Lester
1995
Last Tales of Uncle Remus by Julius Lester
1995
The Frog Princess by J. Patrick Lewis
1995
75 Years of Children's Book Week Posters: Celebrating Great Illustrators of American Children's Books by Leonard S. Marcus
1995
Over the Hills and Far Away by Alan Marks
1995
Hob and the Goblins by William Mayne
1995
I Love Animals by Flora McDonnell
1995
Martha Calling (Martha Speaks) by Susan Meddaugh
1995
A Quiet Night In by Jill Murphy
1995
Bitter Bananas by Isaac Olaleye
1995
De Colores and Other Latin American Folksongs for Children by Jose-Luis Orozco
1995
Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art by Nora Panzer
1995
Mister Fred by Jill Pinkwater
1995
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
1995
The Lifesize Animal Counting Book by DK
1995
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
1995
The Boys from St. Petri by Bjarne Reuter
1995
Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
1995
A Teeny Tiny Baby by Amy Schwartz
1995
Hi by Ann Herbert Scott
1995
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley
1995
A Hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke
1995
Pigsty by Mark Teague
1995
My Brother, My Sister, and I by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
1995
Bibles and Bestiaries: A Guide to Illuminated Manuscripts by Elizabeth B. Wilson
1995
The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1994
John Burningham's ABC by John Burningham
1994
Noah's Ark by Lucy Cousins
1994
Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
1994
In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
1994
The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul Brett Johnson
1994
Everything Has a Place by Patricia Lillie
1994
Dinosaur Encore by Patricia Mullins
1994
The Adventures of Snail at School by John Stadler
1994
Coyote Steals the Blanket by Janet Stevens
1994
By the Light of the Halloween Moon by Caroline Stutson
1994
Christmas Carol: A Poem by Sara Teasdale
1994
Stina by Lena Anderson
1990
Anno's Aesop: A Book of Fables by Aesop and Mr. Fox by Mitsumasa Anno
1990
The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
1990
The Rights of Man, the Reign of Terror: The Story of the French Revolution by Susan Banfield
1990
Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus by Barbara Bash
1990
The Outside Child by Nina Bawden
1990
The Great American Gold Rush by Rhoda Blumberg
1990
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
1990
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1990
My Brown Bear Barney by Dorothy Butler
1990
Bingo Brown and the Language of Love by Betsy Byars
1990
What Am I?: Very First Riddles by Stephanie Calmenson
1990
Eric Carle's Animals Animals by Eric Carle
1990
Lucie Babbidge's House by Sylvia Cassedy
1990
Celine by Brock Cole
1990
Benjamin Banneker: Scientist and Mathematician by Kevin Conley
1990
The Tub People by Pam Conrad
1990
The Dancing Skeleton by Cynthia DeFelice
1990
Eva by Peter Dickinson
1990
The Valley of Deer by Eileen Dunlop
1990
Goggle-Eyes by Anne Fine
1990
The White House by Leonard Everett Fisher
1990
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz
1990
Young Nick and Jubilee by Leon Garfield
1990
Does God Have a Big Toe?: Stories About Stories in the Bible by Marc Gellman
1990
Box Turtle at Long Pond by William T. George
1990
Tommy at the Grocery Store by Bill Grossman
1990
The Missing Tarts by B. G. Hennessy
1990
Of Colors and Things by Tana Hoban
1990
Chita's Christmas Tree by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
1990
Princess Furball by Charlotte Huck
1990
Sweetgrass by Jan Hudson
1990
Angel Mae (Tales from Trotter Street) by Shirley Hughes
1990
The Big Alfie and Annie Rose Storybook by Shirley Hughes
1990
Russell and Elisa by Johanna Hurwitz
1990
In Two Worlds: A Yu'pik Eskimo Family by Aylette Jenness
1990
Crocodile Beat by Gail Jorgensen
1990
Paddle Said the Swan by Gloria Kamen
1990
The News About Dinosaurs by Patricia Lauber
1990
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans Fighting Fascism in the Spanish Civil War by Don Lawson
1990
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
1990
Hey World, Here I Am! by Jean Little
1990
The Blood and Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak by Margaret Mahy
1990
Stalin: Russia's Man of Steel by Albert Marrin
1990
Will’s Mammoth by Rafe Martin
1990
A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean
1990
Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris
1990
Hats, Hats, Hats by Ann Morris
1990
Zack's Alligator (An I Can Read Book) by Shirley Mozelle
1990
And One for All by Theresa Nelson
1990
How Glooskap Outwits the Ice Giants: And Other Tales of the Maritime Indians by Howard Norman
1990
Birdy and the Ghosties by Jill Paton Walsh
1990
The Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulsen
1990
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
1990
Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
1990
Easter by Jan Pieńkowski
1990
Harry in Trouble by Barbara Ann Porte
1990
Poems of A. Nonny Mouse by Jack Prelutsky
1990
The Season of Secret Wishes by Iva Procházková
1990
Marathon and Steve by Mary Rayner
1990
Sydney, Herself by Colby Rodowsky
1990
The Christmas Pageant by Jacqueline Rogers
1990
Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Glen Rounds
1990
Henry and Mudge Get the Cold Shivers by Cynthia Rylant
1990
The Long Way Westward (I Can Read Level 3) by Joan Sandin
1990
The Book of Eagles by Helen Roney Sattler
1990
Tyrannosaurus Rex and Its Kin: The Mesozoic Monsters by Helen Roney Sattler
1990
Ragtime Tumpie by Alan Schroeder
1990
If You Made a Million by David M. Schwartz
1990
Storms by Seymour Simon
1990
Dancing Teepees: Poems of American Indian Youth by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
1990
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South by Robert D. San Souci
1990
All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir (Picture Puffins) by Bill Staines
1990
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
1990
Beatrix Potter: The Artist and Her World 1866-1943 by Judy Taylor
1990
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
1990
Where Does the Brown Bear Go? by Nicki Weiss
1990
East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Nancy Willard
1990
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
1990
The Warrior and the Wise Man by David Wisniewski
1990
The Rainbow People by Laurence Yep
1990
The Lap-Time Song and Play Book by Jane Yolen
1990
Oh, Brother by Arthur Yorinks
1990
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
1990
The Dawn Palace by H. M. Hoover
1989
Travelers by Night by Vivien Alcock
1986
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
1986
The Story of Football by Dave Anderson
1986
Saving the Peregrine Falcon by Caroline Arnold
1986
The Paper Crane by Molly Bang
1986
Anna Banana and Me by Lenore Blegvad
1986
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
1986
Hurricane Watch by Franklyn M. Branley
1986
Gorilla by Anthony Browne
1986
The Big Sneeze by Ruth Brown
1986
The Cat's Purr by Ashley Bryan
1986
A Man Named Thoreau by Robert Burleigh
1986
Cracker Jackson by Betsy Byars
1986
Who Kidnapped the Sheriff?: Tales from Tickfaw by Larry Callen
1986
Yossi Asks the Angels for Help by Miriam Chaikin
1986
A B C by Elizabeth Cleaver
1986
Someone Saw a Spider: Spider Facts and Folktales by Shirley Climo
1986
Chemically Active: Experiments You Can Do at Home by Vicki Cobb
1986
When the Tide Is Low by Sheila Cole
1986
Louis Armstrong: An American Genius by James Lincoln Collier
1986
Healer by Peter Dickinson
1986
Busy Monday Morning by Janina Domanska
1986
The Elephant Man by Frederick Drimmer
1986
Flying the Space Shuttles by Don Dwiggins
1986
The Statue of Liberty by Leonard Everett Fisher
1986
I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1986
The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
1986
Cowboys of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
1986
Sharks by Russell Freedman
1986
China Homecoming by Jean Fritz
1986
Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales by Alan Garner
1986
The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons
1986
The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden
1986
Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog by Rosa Guy
1986
Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton
1986
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
1986
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Virginia Hamilton
1986
Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady by Selina Hastings
1986
Favorite Fairy Tales Told Around the World by Virginia Haviland
1986
1, 2, 3 Board Book by Tana Hoban
1986
A Children's Zoo by Tana Hoban
1986
Badger on the Barge and Other Stories by Janni Howker
1986
An Evening at Alfie's by Shirley Hughes
1986
The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein by Johanna Hurwitz
1986
The Very Worst Monster by Pat Hutchins
1986
The Major, the Poacher, and the Wonderful One-Trout River by Dayton O. Hyde
1986
I Hear by Rachel Isadora
1986
I See by Rachel Isadora
1986
I Touch by Rachel Isadora
1986
Seasons of Splendour by Madhur Jaffrey
1986
The Trek (Reading Rainbow Books) by Ann Jonas
1986
Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg
1986
Amy's Eyes by Richard Kennedy
1986
Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
1986
Herbie Jones by Suzy Kline
1986
Maps and Globes (Reading Rainbow Book) by Jack Knowlton
1986
Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People by Kenneth Koch
1986
Puppeteer by Kathryn Lasky
1986
Tales Mummies Tell by Patricia Lauber
1986
My Little Island by Frané Lessac
1986
Watch The Stars Come Out by Riki Levinson
1986
Celebrations by Myra Cohn Livingston
1986
Thanksgiving Poems by Myra Cohn Livingston
1986
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1986
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1986
Handles by Jan Mark
1986
1812: The War Nobody Won by Albert Marrin
1986
Four On the Shore by Edward Marshall
1986
The Christmas Box by Eve Merriam
1986
The Mystery of the Ancient Maya by Carolyn Meyer
1986
The Inside-Outside Book of New York City by Roxie Munro
1986
The Agony of Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1986
Dad's Back (Dad & me) by Jan Ormerod
1986
Messy Baby by Jan Ormerod
1986
Sleeping by Jan Ormerod
1986
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
1986
Sing a Song of Sixpence by Tracey Campbell Pearson
1986
Remembering the Good Times by Richard Peck
1986
The House That Jack Built by Rodney Peppé
1986
The Sign in Mendel's Window by Mildred Phillips
1986
Harry's Mom by Barbara Ann Porte
1986
Nuclear War: From Hiroshima to Nuclear Winter by Laurence Pringle
1986
Town & Country by Alice Provensen
1986
Going to Day Care (First Experiences) by Fred Rogers
1986
The New Baby (First Experiences) by Fred Rogers
1986
Action Alphabet by Shelley Rotner
1986
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
1986
Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles by Helen Roney Sattler
1986
Train Whistles by Helen Roney Sattler
1986
All of Our Noses Are Here and Other Noodle Tales by Alvin Schwartz
1986
How Much Is a Million? by David M. Schwartz
1986
The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat by Lore Segal
1986
Stories to Solve by George Shannon
1986
How They Built the Statue of Liberty by Mary J. Shapiro
1986
The Search for Grissi by Mary Francis Shura
1986
Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation 1945-1948 by Aranka Siegal
1986
Sam Ellis's Island by Beatrice Siegel
1986
Destination: Jupiter by Seymour Simon
1986
Saturn by Seymour Simon
1986
Singularity by William Sleator
1986
Mt. Rushmore Story by Judith St. George
1986
Curtain Up by Noel Streatfeild
1986
Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
1986
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
1986
Auks, rocks, and the odd dinosaur : inside stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History by Peggy Thomson
1986
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
1986
Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt
1986
From Spore to Spore by Jerome Wexler
1986
The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
1986
Eagles: 2 by Joe Van Wormer
1986
The Baby's Catalogue by Janet Ahlberg
1983
Bridle the Wind by Joan Aiken
1983
A Medieval Feast by Aliki
1983
Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro Anno
1983
Anno's U.S.A. by Mitsumasa Anno
1983
Pets Without Homes by Caroline Arnold
1983
Secrets of a Wildlife Watcher by Jim Arnosky
1983
Benjamin's Book: Story and Pictures by Alan Baker
1983
Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
1983
The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs
1983
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt by John Bellairs
1983
The Nutcracker by Anthea Bell
1983
Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, and Yawn by Melvin Berger
1983
Rain and Hail by Franklyn M. Branley
1983
Saturn: The Spectacular Planet by Franklyn M. Branley
1983
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
1983
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
1983
Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World by Polly Schoyer Brooks
1983
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Activity Book by Osa Brown
1983
Body Noises by Susan Kovacs Buxbaum
1983
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Rod Campbell
1983
Patrick's Dinosaurs by Carol Carrick
1983
Sled Dogs by Brigid Casey
1983
Jack and the Beanstalk by Lorinda Bryan Cauley
1983
Grand Constructions by Gian Paolo Ceserani
1983
Make Noise, Make Merry: The Story and Meaning of Purim by Miriam Chaikin
1983
Swamp Monsters by Mary Blount Christian
1983
Tall City, Wide Country by Seymour Chwast
1983
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
1983
Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole
1983
Cars and How They Go by Joanna Cole
1983
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
1983
The Silver Cow by Susan Cooper
1983
Parade by Donald Crews
1983
Animal partners : training animals to help people by Patricia Curtis
1983
Back Yard Angel by Judy Delton
1983
The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola
1983
The Story of the Three Wise Kings by Tomie dePaola
1983
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1983
Invent your own computer games by Fred D'Ignazio
1983
Simon's Book by Henrik Drescher
1983
Shabbat: A Peaceful Island by Malka Drucker
1983
Eddy B, Pigboy by Olivier Dunrea
1983
The Moffat Museum by Eleanor Estes
1983
A Kitten Is Born by Heiderose Fischer-Nagel
1983
Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
1983
The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz
1983
Cully Cully and the Bear by Wilson Gage
1983
The Monster and the Tailor by Paul Galdone
1983
Cranberry Book Juv by Elizabeth Gemming
1983
Voyage by Adèle Geras
1983
Boat Book by Gail Gibbons
1983
New Road! by Gail Gibbons
1983
Fireworks, Picnics, and Flags: The Story of the Fourth of July Symbols by James Cross Giblin
1983
The Valiant Chatti-Maker by Rumer Godden
1983
Busy bugs by Ada Graham
1983
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
1983
Max and Me and the Time Machine by Gery Greer
1983
The Girl Who Wouldn't Get Married by Ruth Belov Gross
1983
A Field Guide to Dinosaurs: The First Complete Guide to Every Dinosaur Now Known by Diagram Group
1983
Daphne's Book by Mary Downing Hahn
1983
Fishy Riddles: Level 3 (Easy-to-Read, Puffin) by Katy Hall
1983
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton
1983
Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed by Virginia Hamilton
1983
Esteban and the Ghost by Sibyl Hancock
1983
A Boy's Will by Erik Christian Haugaard
1983
Pat the Cat (A Flip-the-Page Rhyme-and-Read Book) by Colin Hawkins
1983
Wordchanger by Mary Haynes
1983
Spot's First Christmas by Eric Hill
1983
I read symbols by Tana Hoban
1983
The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs by Nonny Hogrogian
1983
I Unpacked My Grandmother's Trunk: A Picture Book Game by Susan Hoguet
1983
The 100 Year Old Cactus by Anita Holmes
1983
The Sky Is Full of Song by Lee Bennett Hopkins
1983
A song in stone : city poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins
1983
Alfie's Feet by Shirley Hughes
1983
The Curse of the Egyptian Mummy by Pat Hutchins
1983
You'll Soon Grow Into Them, Titch by Pat Hutchins
1983
Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman
1983
City Seen from A to Z by Rachel Isadora
1983
The joy of birth : a book for parents and children by Camilla Jessel
1983
Ten Sleepy Sheep by Holly Keller
1983
The Owlstone Crown by X. J. Kennedy
1983
Sizzle and Splat by Ronald Kidd
1983
Frogs (Natural Pop-Ups) by Tony King
1983
Ghost Vision by Jeanie Kortum
1983
Little Chick's Breakfast by Mary Deball Kwitz
1983
In Charge by Kathleen Sharar Kyte
1983
Computer Languages (First Book) by Christopher Lampton
1983
Cats are good company : an I can read book about owning a cat by Ursula Landshoff
1983
When the Dark Comes Dancing: A Bedtime Poetry Book by Nancy Larrick
1983
The Great Alexander, the Great by Joe Lasker
1983
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
1983
Pitcher Plants: The Elegant Insect Traps by Carol Lerner
1983
The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chicken by Helen Lester
1983
The Computer That Said Steal Me by Elizabeth Levy
1983
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
1983
Chicken Tricks by Megan Lloyd
1983
The Book of Pigericks by Arnold Lobel
1983
The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline by Lois Lowry
1983
Taking Care of Terrific by Lois Lowry
1983
The golden path : the lure of gold through history by Richard B. Lyttle
1983
Oak and Company by Richard Mabey
1983
Halloween Howls: Riddles that Are a Scream (Picture Puffins) by Giulio Maestro
1983
Fox at School by Edward Marshall
1983
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
1983
Here a chick, there a chick by Bruce McMillan
1983
Pig Pig Goes to Camp by David McPhail
1983
The Summer I Learned About Life by Carolyn Meyer
1983
Apples On A Stick by Barbara Michels
1983
The Human Body by Jonathan Miller
1983
Meet Matisse by Nelly Munthe
1983
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
1983
Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish by Lilian Obligado
1983
From the Hills of Georgia: An Autobiography in Paintings by Mattie Lou O'Kelley
1983
Rhymes Around the Day by Jan Ormerod
1983
First Day of School (Out-and-About) by Helen Oxenbury
1983
Love from Aunt Betty by Nancy Winslow Parker
1983
Germs! by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
1983
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom by Katherine Paterson
1983
We Wish You a Merry Christmas by Tracey Campbell Pearson
1983
Piñatas and Paper Flowers: Holidays of the Americas in English and Spanish / Piñatas y flores de papel: Fiestas de las Américas en inglés y español (Spanish and English Edition) by Lila Perl
1983
How do you get a horse out of the bathtub? : profound answers to preposterous questions by Louis Phillips
1983
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
1983
I Was a Second Grade Werewolf by Daniel J. Pinkwater
1983
Posy by Charlotte Pomerantz
1983
Harry's Visit by Barbara Ann Porte
1983
It's Valentine's Day by Jack Prelutsky
1983
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky
1983
Zoo Doings: Animal Poems by Jack Prelutsky
1983
Wolfman: Exploring the World of Wolves by Laurence P. Pringle
1983
The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909 by Alice Provensen
1983
The Pet-Sitting Peril by Willo Davis Roberts
1983
The Night We Slept Outside by Anne F. Rockwell
1983
Goodbye, My Island by Jean Rogers
1983
My Friend Leslie: The Story of a Handicapped Child by Maxine B. Rosenberg
1983
What Has Ten Legs and Eats Corn Flakes? by Ron Roy
1983
Meet the Opossum by Leonard Lee Rue
1983
Bobcat by Hope Ryden
1983
The Illustrated Dinosaur Dictionary by Helen Roney Sattler
1983
Unriddling: All Sorts of Riddles to Puzzle Your Guessery by Alvin Schwartz
1983
Catnip by Millicent E. Selsam
1983
Eleanor by Mary Francis Shura
1983
The Tempering by Gloria Skurzynski
1983
The Night of the Bozos by Jan Slepian
1983
The First Hard Times by Doris Buchanan Smith
1983
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
1983
Peter Spier's Christmas! by Peter Spier
1983
Barbara's birthday by James Stevenson
1983
What's Under My Bed? by James Stevenson
1983
Early Morning in the Barn by Nancy Tafuri
1983
The happy dog by Hideyuki Tanaka
1983
Butterflies by Graham Tarrant
1983
If You Look around You by Fulvio Testa
1983
A Foreign Affair by John Rowe Townsend
1983
The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg
1983
Tales of Amanda Pig by Jean Van Leeuwen
1983
The Callender Papers by Cynthia Voigt
1983
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
1983
Father Fox's Feast of Songs by Clyde Watson
1983
Machines and How They Work by Harvey Weiss
1983
Something Special for Me by Vera B. Williams
1983
A Child Is Born: The Christmas Story by Elizabeth Winthrop
1983
Katharine's Doll by Elizabeth Winthrop
1983
A Little Fear by Patricia Wrightson
1983
Train Talk by Roger B. Yepsen
1983
Up a Tree by Ed Young
1983
Little Red-Cap by Lisbeth Zwerger
1983
A Light in the Attic: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
1982?
Cross-Country Cat by Mary Calhoun
1979, 1981
Tales of Oliver Pig by Jean Van Leeuwen
1979, 1981
Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
1979, 1981
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale by Verna Aardema
1981
Funnybones by Janet Ahlberg
1981
The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken
1981
Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker
1981
Tye May and the Magic Brush by Molly Bang
1981
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
1981
Building a House by Byron Barton
1981
My Mom Travels a Lot by Caroline Feller Bauer
1981
The Patchwork Cat by Nicola Bayley
1981
Fireman Jim by Roger Bester
1981
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
1981
A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost by Natalie S. Bober
1981
The Voyage Begun by Nancy Bond
1981
Notes for Another Life by Sue Ellen Bridgers
1981
Devil's Donkey by Bill Brittain
1981
A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
1981
Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1981
Hot-Air Henry by Mary Calhoun
1981
Light Another Candle: The Story and Meaning Of Hanukkah by Miriam Chaikin
1981
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
1981
How to Really Fool Yourself: Illusions for All Your Senses by Vicki Cobb
1981
The Big Balloon Race by Eleanor Coerr
1981
A Snake's Body by Joanna Cole
1981
Light by Donald Crews
1981
Spiders (Lerner Natural Science Books) by Jane Dallinger
1981
The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Tomie dePaola
1981
The Friendly Beasts: An Old English Christmas Carol by Tomie dePaola
1981
The Seventh Raven by Peter Dickinson
1981
Stranger with My Face by Lois Duncan
1981
William Penn; apostle of dissent by Hans Fantel
1981
Daydreamers by Tom Feelings
1981
Earth Afire! Volcanoes & Their Activity by R. V Fodor
1981
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold by Jean Fritz
1981
The changing desert by Ada Graham
1981
Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole by Sheila Greenwald
1981
Baking in a box, cooking on a can by Gail Kay Haines
1981
Rabbits (Junior Petkeeper's Library) by Fiona Henrie
1981
Arthur's Funny Money by Lillian Hoban
1981
Take another look by Tana Hoban
1981
Aesop's Fables by Heidi Holder
1981
Mean Jake and the Devils by William H. Hooks
1981
You Never Knew Her As I Did! by Mollie Hunter
1981
Americans at Home by Lee Pennock Huntington
1981
A Duckling is Born by Hans Hein Isenbart
1981
Bo Rabbit Smart For True: Tall Tales from the Gullah by Priscilla Jaquith
1981
Hieroglyphs: The Writing of Ancient Egypt (Hieroglyphs CL) by Norma Jean Katan
1981
Viruses, life's smallest enemies by David C. Knight
1981
Halcyon Island by Anne Knowles
1981
Mao by Norman Kolpas
1981
The Battle Horse by Harry Kullman
1981
Seeds: Pop-Stick-Glide by Patricia Lauber
1981
The United States in the Vietnam war (The Young people's history of America's wars series) by Don Lawson
1981
Uncle Elephant by Arnold Lobel
1981
China Pushing Toward the Year 2000 by Gil Loesher
1981
Traffic a Book of Opposites by Betsy Maestro
1981
Three by the Sea by Edward Marshall
1981
Giftwish by Graham Dunstan Martin
1981
Soul-Singer of Tyrnos by Ardath Mayhar
1981
Pretty girl : a guide to looking good, naturally by Judith. McGrath
1981
Pretty girl : a guide to looking good, naturally by Judith. McGrath
1981
The Money Room by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
1981
The Legend of Tarik by Walter Dean Myers
1981
Luke and Angela by Christine Nöstlinger
1981
Sunshine by Jan Ormerod
1981
Pyramids: Tombs for Eternity by Mildred Mastin Pace
1981
Amelia Bedelia and the Baby by Peggy Parish
1981
Encore For Eleanor by Bill Peet
1981
Frankenstein's Aunt by Allan Rune Pettersson
1981
An Owl and Three Pussycats by Alice Provensen
1981

Descriptions

Annual best-books selection from the Children's Literature Center of the Library of Congress, produced 1964-1983 under the direction of Virginia Haviland.

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Continued by Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Books for Children

1975-1978, 1982 pending addition. All other yesrs believed complete but unverified. (English, Member-written)
Annual best-books selection from the Children's Literature Center of the Library of Congress, produced 1985-1995 under the direction of Margaret N. Coughlan.

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Continues Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Children's Books.

Unofficially succeeded by Capitol Choices. (English, Member-written)

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