Juvenile Fiction Lists

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus. (description from catalog)

An illustrated bedtime prayer which gives thanks for the many aspects of a child's world. (description from catalog)

Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz. (description from catalog)

Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecott medal. (description from catalog)

Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. (description from catalog)

A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. (description from catalog)

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories." (description from catalog)

Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land. (description from catalog)

Tells the stories of a selfish lion, lovesick ostrich, greedy hippopotamus, vain rhinoceros, proud camel, the timid duck sisters, and others, and the lessons that they learned. (description from catalog)

An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men. (description from catalog)

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle. (description from catalog)

A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague. (description from catalog)

Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother. (description from catalog)

A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900's. (description from catalog)

A collection of traditional American nursery rhymes, finger games, skipping rhymes, jingles, and counting-out rhymes. (description from catalog)

Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z. (description from catalog)

Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton. (description from catalog)

Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. (description from catalog)

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations. (description from catalog)

Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper. (description provided by publisher)

A little kitten comes ashore on a beautiful island. (description from catalog)

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her. (description from catalog)

When a wolf cub and little girl are lost in a snowstorm they must find their way home.(description from catalog)

A well-mannered little boy has permission to bring his animal friends to visit the king and queen. (description from catalog)

Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. (description from catalog)

A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. (description from catalog)

A picture book celebrating both the highs and lows that everyone experiences in the course of a life.

A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries. (description from catalog)

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. (description from catalog)

A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. (description from catalog)

Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow. (description from catalog)

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family. (description from catalog)

When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it. (description from catalog)

Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye. (description from NoveList K-8 Plus)

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. (description from catalog)

A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene. (description from catalog)

In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by. (description from catalog)

Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption. (Description from catalog.)

Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion. (description from catalog)

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring. (description from catalog)

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear. (description from catalog)

A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost. (description from catalog)

The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches. (description from catalog)

A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.

Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend. (description from catalog)

"A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air" (description provided by publisher)

An imaginary friend waits a long time to be imagined by a child and given a special name, and finally does the unimaginable--he sets out on a quest to find his perfect match in the real world. (description from catalog)

Max sails to the land of the wild things, where he becomes their king. (description from catalog)

Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests. (description from catalog)

In a moment of fright Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again. (description from catalog)

Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light. (description from catalog)

A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments. (description from catalog)

Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon. (description from catalog)

Briefly describes the value of a tree. (description from catalog)

Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game. (description from catalog)

Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble. (description from NoveList K-8 Plus)

Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep. (description from catalog)

On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl. (description from catalog)

A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well. (description from catalog)