Notable Children's Book2014

Given by Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)

Other Names: Notables, ALA Notable Children's Book
93 Works 67,720 Books 5,259 Reviews 4.2
Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the Notables Criteria, "notable" is defined as: show more Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding. As applied to children's books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways. show less
Categories:
All, All Ages (39), Middle Readers (161), Older Readers (173), Younger Readers (232), Zelinsky Edition (1), [2017], All Ages, 2017 (1), illustration (1), No Category (2,154)
Years:
All, 2024 (103), 2023 (97), 2022 (124), 2021 (93), 2020 (115), 2019 (109), 2018 (96), 2017 (95), 2016 (116), 2015 (105), 2014 (93), 2013 (79), 2012 (102), 2011 (69), 2010 (73), 2009 (74), 2008 (76), 2007 (94), 2006 (100), 2005 (78), 2004 (61), 2003 (66), 2002 (88), 2001 (72), 2000 (70), 1999 (61), 1998 (41), 1997 (59), 1996 (74), 1995 (65), 1993; Older Readers, 1995 (1), 1994; Older Readers, 1995 (1), 1994 (69), 1993 (60), 1992 (1), 1991 (4), 1990 (3), 1987 (1), 1986 (2), 1984 (2), 1983 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1976 (2), 1973 (1), 1971 (1), 1940-1970 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (2), 1966 (1), 1965 (2), 1964 (3), 1963 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (2), 1959 (1), 1940-1959 (1), 1958 (2), 1955 (2), 1954 (1), 1952 (1), 1951 (1), 1950 (1), 1942 (1), 1941 (1)
WorkYear
Little Santa by Jon Agee
2014
Soldier Dog by Sam Angus
2014
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt
2014
Count The Monkeys by Mac Barnett
2014
Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
2014
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me by Daniel Beaty
2014
Journey by Aaron Becker
2014
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne
2014
Doll Bones by Holly Black
2014
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden
2014
The Great American Dust Bowl by Don Brown
2014
Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo (Pura Belpre Honor Books - Illustration Honor) by Monica Brown
2014
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown
2014
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant
2014
Serafina's Promise by Ann E. Burg
2014
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
2014
Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette Leblanc Cate
2014
Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas! by Philippe Coudray
2014
Deep in the Sahara by Kelly Cunnane
2014
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
2014
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
2014
Maria Had a Little Llama by Angela Dominguez
2014
Mitchell Goes Bowling by Hallie Durand
2014
Locomotive by Brian Floca
2014
Alphablock by Christopher Franceschelli
2014
Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty by Russell Freedman
2014
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
2014
The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg
2014
Words with Wings by Nikki Grimes
2014
Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell
2014
Fraidyzoo by Thyra Heder
2014
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman
2014
Penny and Her Marble I Can Read by Kevin Henkes
2014
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
2014
Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill
2014
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent) by Laban Carrick Hill
2014
Flight of the Honey Bee by Raymond Huber
2014
Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle
2014
Old Mikamba Had a Farm by Rachel Isadora
2014
The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest--and Most Surprising--Animals on Earth by Steve Jenkins
2014
How to Catch a Bogle by Catherine Jinks
2014
Poems to Learn by Heart by Caroline Kennedy
2014
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd
2014
My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz
2014
Moo! by David LaRochelle
2014
Warning: Do Not Open This Book! by Adam Lehrhaupt
2014
March: Book One by John Lewis
2014
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson
2014
My Father’s Arms Are a Boat by Stein Erik Lunde
2014
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
2014
Mister Orange by Truus Matti
2014
Lulu and the Dog from the Sea by Hilary McKay
2014
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal
2014
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
2014
Take Me Out to the Yakyu by Aaron Meshon
2014
Niño Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales
2014
Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss
2014
The Bathing Costume: Or the Worst Vacation of My Life by Charlotte Moundlic
2014
Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers
2014
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals by Donna Jo Napoli
2014
Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson
2014
Xander's Panda Party by Linda Sue Park
2014
Bluffton: My Summer with Buster Keaton by Matt Phelan
2014
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Andrea Davis Pinkney
2014
The Tortoise and the Hare by Jerry Pinkney
2014
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
2014
Battling Boy by Paul Pope
2014
Robot, Go Bot! (Step into Reading Comic Reader) by Dana M. Rau
2014
Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes
2014
Exclamation Mark by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
2014
Parrots Over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth
2014
Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People by Susan Goldman Rubin
2014
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
2014
Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch
2014
Ten Orange Pumpkins: A Counting Book by Stephen Savage
2014
The War within These Walls by Aline Sax
2014
Eat Like a Bear by April Pulley Sayre
2014
Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka
2014
Bully by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
2014
Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
2014
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
2014
The Dark by Lemony Snicket
2014
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone
2014
When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky: Two Artists, Their Ballet, and One Extraordinary Riot by Lauren Stringer
2014
Ball by Mary Sullivan
2014
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
2014
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale by Duncan Tonatiuh
2014
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
2014
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
2014
Mr. Wuffles! by David Wiesner
2014
A Big Guy Took My Ball! by Mo Willems
2014
P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia
2014
Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse by Tamera Will Wissinger
2014

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