North Star Academy Book List

Here is the list of books needed by the North Star Academy. Keep checking back for updates to the list. Also, any doubles of the same book will be donated to the Big Red Bookshelf, although you are welcome to comment on this post to claim a certain title that you are excited about. 

Special thanks to the teachers at North Star Academy for putting this list together.

Books DECS North Star K-2 would love to have in their library…….

Caldecott and Honor winners:

A Sick Day for Amos McGee, for which Erin E. Stead is the 2011

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2010. ISBN: 9780316107310)

Interrupting Chicken, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein (Candlewick Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780763641689

All the World, illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon and published by Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman and published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney won the Caldecott Medal in 2010. 

The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson won the Caldecott Medal in 2009. 

How I Learned Geography, written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz, published by Farrar Straus Giroux.

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant,

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick won the Caldecott Medal in 2008. 

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine, and published by Scholastic

First the Egg, written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, published by Roaring Brook/Neal Porter

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, written and illustrated by Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster)

Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity, written and illustrated by Mo Willems, published by Hyperion

Flotsam by David Wiesner won the Caldecott Medal in 2007. 

Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet, written and illustrated by David McLimans, published by Walker

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Carole