📚 August's Bookshelf 📚
Selected children's titles from the National Emergency Library,
via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card
Curated by Jim Cocola, Associate Head for the Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Right now many of us can't access the children's rooms in our public libraries. Instead we're turning to digital libraries, making plans for the next time we'll check out physical books from physical shelves, maybe on some future August day. Here are some selections I've made for my son August, 2, and his older siblings, all of whom love books, and libraries, and library books. I hope you can find time to share these titles with children in your lives: they're from the National Emergency Library, via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card. |
📚🎨🥇 Caldecott Medalists🥇🎨📚
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2013: This Is Not My Hat
by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press) |
1978: Noah's Ark
by Peter Spier (Doubleday) |
1942: Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey (Viking) |
📚🎨🥇 Geisel Medalists🥇🎨📚
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2015: You Are (Not) Small
by Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant |
2011: Bink and Gollie
Kate DiCamillo, Alison McGhee, and Tony Fucile |
2009: Benny and Penny in The Big No-No!
by Geoffrey Hayes (Toon Books) |
2008: There is a Bird on Your Head!
by Mo Willems |
📚🖊️🥇 Newbery Medalists 🥇🖊️📚
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2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick) |
1999: Holes
by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster) |
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
by Nancy Willard (Harcourt) |
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial) |
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1954: ...And Now Miguel
by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell) |
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pène du Bois (Viking) |
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown) |
1922: The Story of Mankind
by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright) |
📚📜🥇 Sibert Medalists 🥇📜📚
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2010: Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick) |
2004: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy (Clarion) |
2001: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
by Marc Aronson (Clarion) |
📚🌎🌍🌏🥇 Batchelder Medalists🥇🌏🌎🌍📚
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2005: The Shadows of Ghadames
by Joëlle Stolz translated from the French by Catherine Temerson (Delacorte Press / Dell) |
1997: The Friends
by Kazumi Yumoto translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
1986: Rose Blanche
by Christophe Gallaz and Robert Innocenti translated from the Italian by Martha Coventry and Richard Craglia (Creative Education) |
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1973: Pulga
by S. R. Van Iterson translated from the Dutch by Alexander and Alison Gode (William Morrow) |
1970: Wildcat Under Glass
by Alki Zei translated from the Greek by Edward Fenton (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) |
1968: The Little Man
by Erich Kästner translated from the German by James Kirkup (Knopf) |
August's Bookshelf
(Pre-K) 🌞
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1989: The Big Red Barn
by Margaret Wise Brown and Felicia Bond (Harper Collins) |
1946: The Bear That Wasn't
by Frank Tashlin (E.P. Dutton) |
1945: The Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss (Harper and Row) |
Lucy's Bookshelf
(Grades K-1) 😸
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1994: The Berenstain Bears and the Talent Show
by Stan and Jan Berenstain |
1970: Barbapapa
by Annette Tison (Walck) |
1943: The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton) |
Juliana's Bookshelf
(Grades 2-3) 😍
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2014: El Deafo
Cece Bell (Amulet) |
2006: The Baby Sitters Club: The Truth About Stacey
by Ann M. Martin and Raina Telgemeier (Graphix) |
1981: A Light in the Attic
by Shel Silverstein |
Milo's Bookshelf
(Grades 4-5) 📚
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1961: The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norman Juster and Jules Feiffer (Random House) |
1957: The Wonderful O
by James Thurber (Simon and Schuster) |
1918: The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff
by Norman Lindsay (Angus & Robertson) |