Friday, January 06, 2006

Go Bloomers, go!

Here's the booktalk list. She must have listed them in the order she presented them, which must have been nice for her audience. Of course, one can only wonder what her segues could have been, because this list doesn't seem to have a useful order.
Enjoy, dears.

Transformations in Style and Content:
Selected Children’s Books of Distinction in 2005

Banyai, Istvan. The Other Side. Chronicle.

Juster, Norton. The Hello, Goodbye Window. Illustrated by Chris Raschka. Hyperion.

Myers, Christopher. Lies and Other Tall Tales. Collected by Zora Neale Hurston. HarperCollins.

Grey, Mini. Traction Man is Here! Knopf.

Meddaugh, Susan. The Witch’s Walking Stick. Houghton.

Philobolus. The Human Alphabet. Photos by John Kane. Roaring Brook.

Woodson, Jacqueline. Show Way. Illustrated by Hudson Talbott. Putnam.

Lester, Julius. The Old African. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial.

Lester, Julius. Days of Tears. Hyperion.

Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till. Houghton.

Barbour, Karen. Mr. Williams. Holt.

Sidman, Joyce. Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems. Illustrated by Beckie Prange. Houghton.

Rosen, Michael. Michael Rosen’s Sad Book. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Candlewick.

Poole, Josephine. Anne Frank. Illustrated by Angela Barrett. Knopf.

Muth, Jon. Zen Shorts. Scholastic.

Say, Allen. The Kamishibai Man. Houghton.

Young, Ed. Beyong the Great Mountais: A Visual Poem about China. Chronicle.

Shulevitz, Uri. The Travels of Benjamin Tudela. Farrar.

Bartoletti, Susan. Hitler Youth. Scholastic.

Erdich, Louise. The Game of Silence. HarperCollins.

Lanagan, Margo. Black Juice. HarperCollins.

Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere. Farrar.

Gerstein, Mordecai. The Old Country. Roaring Brook.

Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks. Knopf.

McKay, Hilary. Permanent Rose. McElderry.

Yancey, Rick. The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp. Bloomsbury.

Perkins, Lynn Rae. CrissCross. Greenwillow.

Lynch, Chris. Inexcusable. Atheneum.

Partridge, Elizabeth. John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth. Viking.

Marsalis, Wynton. Jazz ABZ. Illustrations by Paul Rodgers. Candlewick.

Sabuda, Robert, and Matthew Reinhart. Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs. Candlewick.

Seeger, Laura Vaccaro. Walter Was Worried. Roaring Brook.

Jenkins, Emily. That New Animal. Illustrated by Pierre Pratt. Farrar.

Best, Cari. Are You Going to Be Good? Illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Farrar.

Bee, William. Whatever. Candlewick.

Agee, John. Terrific. Hyperion.

Girmay, Aracelis. changing, changing. George Braziller.

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