Children's Books 2004

BLACK EXPERIENCE IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS 2004 (PDF)
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APPLES TO OREGON : BEING THE (SLIGHTLY) TRUE NARRATIVE OF HOW A BRAVE PIONEER FATHER BROUGHT APPLES, PEACHES, PEARS, PLUMS, GRAPES, AND CHERRIES (AND CHILDREN) ACROSS THE PLAINS
Hopkinson, Deborah
A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.


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ELLINGTON WAS NOT A STREET
Shange, Ntozake
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Powerful paiintings evoke the dreams of great African American men - all visitors to a young poet's home.


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THE GREATEST SKATING RACE : A WORLD WAR II STORY FROM THE NETHERLANDS
Borden, Louise
During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies.


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A HOUSE OF TAILORS
Giff, Patricia Reilly
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.


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KITTEN'S FIRST FULL MOON
Henkes, Kevin
When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.


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KNUFFLE BUNNY : A CAUTIONARY TALE
Willems, Mo
After Trixie and daddy leave the laundromat, something very important turns up missing.


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THE PEOPLE COULD FLY : THE PICTURE BOOK
Hamilton, Virginia
In this retelling of a folktale, a group of slaves, unable to bear their sadness and starvation any longer, calls upon the African magic that allows them to fly away.


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SCIENCE VERSE
Scieszka, Jon
When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.


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SEARCH FOR THE GOLDEN MOON BEAR : SCIENCE AND ADVENTURE IN THE ASIAN TROPICS
Montgomery, Sy
Stunning color photographs and the author's accounts of her travels introduce readers to a rarely seen and very beautiful bear.


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SEPTEMBER ROSES
Winter, Jeanette
On Sept. 11, 2001, two sisters from South Africa find good use for the roses they have grown when the flower show in New York City is canceled due to the attack on the World Trade Center..


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THE TEACHER'S FUNERAL: A COMEDY IN THREE PARTS
Peck, Richard
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."


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THE TRAIN OF STATES
Sis, Peter
Gives information about each state, including capital, motto, state tree, state bird, source of name, and date of statehood.


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WHEN BUGS WERE BIG, PLANTS WERE STRANGE, AND TETRAPODS STALKED THE EARTH : A CARTOON PREHISTORY OF LIFE BEFORE DINOSAURS
Bonner, Hannah
Takes a tour of the Earth three hundred and twenty million years ago, during the Paleozoic Era, and investigates the plants and animals found there.


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