classic adult books with brave characters

I read about this book after reading an article about the author's school visits, and how she encourages kids to love books, and to want to write books. Lucille Colandro, Jared Lee (Illustrator): There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow.Eric Carle: The Very Busy Spider (Board Book) and Papa Please Get The Moon For Me (Classic Board Books).Virginia Lee Burton: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (Sandpiper books).Marc Brown: Scared Silly! : A Halloween Book for the Brave (Adventure Series).

Laurence Anholt, Catherine Anholt (Illustrator): Chimp and Zee (Action Packs).Jonathan Allen: 'I'm Not Cute!' Highly, highly recommended by A Fuse #8 Production.It was originally published in Great Britian by HarperCollins in 2002). Kane/Miller (This is the American board book edition. Janet and Allan Ahlberg: Each Peach Pear Plum.

Anything that appears more than once is recommended -). These are lists of books that I've read to Baby Bookworm. But there are a few books that I feel belong quintessentially to middle school kids, and I have categorized those as such.įor picture books and board books, see also here and here. The middle school category, in particular, is difficult to define (since standard age ranges for books are simply 9-12 and 13 and up). I've done my best to categorize the books by age range, but of course every child is different. I haven't necessarily read all of the books, especially the books for younger kids, but the recommendations all come from people that I trust. I am especially grateful to my friend Sara for the wonderful list of recommendations that she sent, and to my nieces from Westwood, MA. These book recommendations come a variety of sources: reviews in Publisher's Weekly, Bookmarks, The Horn Book, and Mystery Scene magazines, and the M is for Mystery newsletter and suggestions from readers of my blog. Recommended Children's and Young Adult Books by Age Range

Classic adult books with brave characters