A Century of Best Children’s Books 1900-1909 The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903) The Sea-Wolf, Jack London (1904)

1920-1929 The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem van Loon (1922) The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting (1923) The Dark Frigate, Charles Hawes (1924) Shen of the Sea, Arthur Bowie Chrisman (1926) Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne (1926) Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1928) The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly (1929)

1930-1939 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field (1930) The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Coatsworth (1931) Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (1933) Invincible Louisa, Cornelia Meigs (1934) Caddie, Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink (1936) Roller skates, Ruth Sawyer (1937) The White Stag, Kate Seredy (1938) Animals of the Bible, Dorothy P. Lathrop (1938) Mei Li, Thomas Handforth (1939) Andy and the Lion, James Daugherty (1939) A Century of Best Children’s Books - 1 Prepared by Monterey County Free Libraries

Barkis, Clare Turlay Newberry (1939) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Wanda Gag (1939) Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright (1939)

1940-1949 Daniel Boone, James Daugherty (1940) Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans (1940) Call It Courage, Armstrong Sperry (1941) They Were Strong and Good, Robert Lawson (1941) Paddle-to-the-Sea, Holling C. Holling (1941) Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey (1942) The Matchlock Gun, Walter D. Edmonds (1942) The Little House, Virginia Lee Burton (1943) Dash and Dart, Mary and Conrad Buff (1943) Marshmallow, Clare Turlay Newberry (1943) Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Gray Vining (1943) Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (1944) Many Moons, Louis Slobodkin (1944) A Child’s Good Night Book, Jean Charlot (1944) Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson (1945) Prayer for a Child, Elizabeth Orton Jones (1945) Mother Goose, Tasha Tudor (1945) In the Forest, Marie Hall Ets (1945) The Rooster Crows, Maud and Miska Petersham (1946) My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Ruth Gannett (1946) A Century of Best Children’s Books - 2 Prepared by Monterey County Free Libraries

Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski (1946) The Little Island, Leonard Weisgard (1947) Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown (1947) Misty of Chincoteague, Margaret Henry (1947) Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Betty MacDonald (1947) Caps for Sale, Esphyr Slobodkina (1947) How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss (1947) Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (1947) My Father’s Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett (1948) White Snow, Bright Snow, Roger Duvoisin (1948) Stone Soup, Marcia Brown (1948) McElligot’s Pool, Dr. Seuss (1948) Song of Robin Hood, Virginia Lee Burton (1948) The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois (1948) The Big Snow, Berta and Elmer Hader (1949) Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey (1949) King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry (1949)

1950-1959 Song of the Swallows, Leo Politi (1950) Bartholomew and the Oobleck, Dr. Seuss (1950) Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (1950) Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren (1950) The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli (1950) Minn of the Mississippi, Holling Clancy Holling (1951) A Century of Best Children’s Books - 3 Prepared by Monterey County Free Libraries

The Egg Tree, Katherine Milhous (1951) If I Ran the Zoo, Dr. Seuss (1951) Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates (1951) Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes (1952) Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark (1952) Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White (1952) Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark (1953) The Borrowers, Mary Norton (1953) The Biggest Bear, Lynd Ward (1953) Madeline’s Rescue, Ludwig Bemelmans (1954) …And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold (1954) The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong (1955) Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, Marcia Brown (1955) Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes, Marguerite de Angeli (1955) Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham (1956) A Tree is Nice, Marc Simont (1957) Little Bear, Maurice Sendak (1957) The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss (1957) Time of Wonder, Robert McCloskey (1958) Rifles for Waite, Harold Keith (1958) The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare (1959)

1960-1969 Onion John, Joseph Krumgold (1960) Nine Days to Christmas, Marie Hall Ets (1960) A Century of Best Children’s Books - 4 Prepared by Monterey County Free Libraries

Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell (1960) The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden (1960) The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester (1961) Inch by Inch, Leo Lionni (1961) Little Bear’s Visit, Maurice Sendak (1962) The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats (1962) The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare (1962) A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle (1963) Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak (1963) Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, Donald J. Sobol (1963) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl (1964) It’s Like This, Cat, Emily Cheney Neville (1964) Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska (1965) May I Bring a Friend?, Beni Montresor (1965) I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (1966) Always Room for One More, Nonny Hogrogian (1966) Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine, Evaline Ness (1967) From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg (1967) Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt (1967) Tikki Tikki Tembo, Arlene Mosel (1968) Corduroy, Don Freeman (1968) Ramona the Pest, Beverly Cleary (1968) The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle (1969) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, Uri Shulevitz (1969) A Century of Best Children’s Books - 5 Prepared by Monterey County Free Libraries

The High King, Alexander Lloyd (1969)

1970-1979 Sounder, William H. Armstrong (1970) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig (1970) Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume (1970) A Story a Story, Gail E. Haley (1971) Frog and Toad are Friends, Arnold Lobel (1971) In the Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak (1971) Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars (1971) One Fine Day, Nonny Hogrogian (1972) George and Martha, James Marshall (1972) The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Barbara Robinson (1972) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst (1972) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien (1972) The Funny Little Woman, Blair Lent (1973) Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George (1973) The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox (1974) Duffy and the Devil, Margot Zemach (1974) Arrow to the Sun, Gerald McDermott (1975) M.C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton (1975) Strega Nona, Tomie de Paola (1976) Arthur’s Nose, Marc T. Brown (1976) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor (1976) The Grey King, Susan Cooper (1976) A Century of Best Children’s Books - 6 Prepared by Monterey County Free Libraries

Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (1977) Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, Leo and Diane Dillon (1977) Noah’s Ark, Peter Spier (1978) The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin (1979) The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Paul Goble (1979)

1980-1989 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, Joan Blos (1980) Ox-Cart Man, Barbara Cooney (1980) Where’s Spot?, Eric Hill (1980) The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks (1980) Fables, Arnold Lobel (1981) Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson (1981) A Visit to William Blake’s Inn, Nancy Willard (1982) Jumanji, Chris Van Allsburg (1982) Shadow, Marcia Brown (1983) A Chair for My Mother, Vera B. Williams (1983) Dicey’s Song, Cynthia Voigt (1983) Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary (1984) The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, Alice and Martin Provensen (1984) Saint George and the Dragon, Trina Schart Hyman (1985) Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan (1985) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Felicia Bond (1985) The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg (1985) The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley (1985) A Century of Best Children’s Books - 7 Prepared by Monterey County Free Libraries

The Magic School Bus at the Water Works, Joanna Cole (1986) Love You Forever, Robert Munsch (1986) The Babysitters Club, Ann M. Martin (1986) Redwall, Brian Jacques (1986) Hey, Al, Richard Egielski (1987) The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman (1987) Owl Moon, John Schoenherr (1988) Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman (1988) Joyful Noise: Poems in Two Voices, Paul Fleischman (1989) Song and Dance Man, Stephen Gammell (1989) The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka (1989)

1990-1999 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China, Ed Young (1990) Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (1990) Black and White, David Macaulay (1991) Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli (1991) Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1992) Tuesday, David Wiesner (1992) The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Stories, Jon Scieszka (1992) Goosebumps, R.L. Stine (1992) Stellaluna, Janell Cannon (1993) The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993) Mirette on the High Wire, Emily Arnold McCully (1993) Missing May, Cynthia Rylant (1993) A Century of Best Children’s Books - 8 Prepared by Monterey County Free Libraries

Grandfather’s Journey, Allen Say (1994) Smoky Night, David Diaz (1995) Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech (1995) Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Kevin Henkes (1996) Officer Buckle and Gloria, Peggy Rathmann (1996) The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman (1996) Golem, David Wisniewski (1997) The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg (1997) Rapunzel, Paul O. Zelinsky (1998) The Way Things Work, David Macaulay (1998) A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck (1998) Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (1998) Holes, Louis Sachar (1999) Snowflake Bentley, Mary Azarian (1999) No, David!, David Shannon (1999)

2000-Present Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis (2000) Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, Simms Taback (2000) A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck (2000) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon (2000) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000) So You Want to Be President?, David Small (2001) Olivia, Ian Falconer (2001) A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park (2002) A Century of Best Children’s Books - 9 Prepared by Monterey County Free Libraries

The Three Pigs, David Wiesner (2002) My Friend Rabbit, Eric Rohmann (2003) Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi (2003) The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, Mordicai Gerstein (2004) Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Mo Willems (2004) The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo (2004) Kitten’s First Full Moon, Kevin Henkes (2005) Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata (2005) The Hello, Goodbye Window, Chris Raschka (2006) Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins (2006) The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron (2007) Flotsam, David Wiesner (2007) The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick (2007) The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt (2007) Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura Amy Schlitz (2008) The House in the Night, Beth Krommes (2009) The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (2009) When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead (2010) The Lion and the Mouse, Jerry Pinkney (2010) A Sick Day for Amos McGee, Erin E. Stead (2011) Moon Over Manifest, Clare Vanderpool (2011)

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