The Best Children's Books of the YearUp to Five2013

Uddelt af Children's Book Committee, Bank Street College Center for Children's Literature

Andre Navne: CBCA Selected Book of the Year for Children (Engelsk), Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year (Engelsk), Bank Street Book of the Year (Engelsk), Bank Street CBC Best Children's Book of the Year (Engelsk), Bank Street CBC Best Children's Book of the Year, Outstanding Merit (Engelsk), Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year (Engelsk), Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year (Engelsk), CBCA Book of the Year for Children (Engelsk), Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year (Engelsk), CSCBC Children's Book of the Year (Engelsk)
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The Children's Book Committee was founded more than 100 years ago to help parents, teachers, and librarians choose the books that children will find captivating and transforming.
One of the most vis mere comprehensive annotated book lists for children, aged infant through 16. The Committee reviews over 6,000 titles annually for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. The best 600 books published each year, both fiction and nonfiction, are listed with annotations, according to age and category.

Included are the past editions that are currently available online. Reference copies of editions published in print before 2010 may be found in the Bank Street College Library.
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*Fourteen and Older, Fiction, Science Fiction (1), *Fourteen and Older, Fiction, Today (7), *Fourteen and Older, Information Books, History (2), *Fourteen and Older, Information Books, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) (1), *Nine to Twelve, Fiction, Adventure and Mystery (2), *Nine to Twelve, Fiction, Coming of Age (5), *Nine to Twelve, Fiction, Fantasy (4), *Nine to Twelve, Fiction, Folk and Fairy Tales (1), *Nine to Twelve, Fiction, Historical Fiction (4), *Nine to Twelve, Fiction, Humor (1), *Nine to Twelve, Fiction, Magical Realism (1), *Nine to Twelve, Fiction, Today (2), *Nine to Twelve, Information Books, Biography and Memoir (3), *Nine to Twelve, Information Books, Ecology (2), *Nine to Twelve, Information Books, History (4), *Nine to Twelve, Information Books, Holidays and Religion (1), *Nine to Twelve, Information Books, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) (3), *Nine to Twelve, Poetry (3), *Twelve to Fourteen, Fiction, Coming of Age (4), *Twelve to Fourteen, Fiction, Fantasy (1), *Twelve to Fourteen, Fiction, Folk and Fairy Tales (1), *Twelve to Fourteen, Fiction, Historical Fiction (1), *Twelve to Fourteen, Information Books, Biography and Memoir (4), *Twelve to Fourteen, Information Books, History (2), *Twelve to Fourteen, Information Books, Reference (1), *Twelve to Fourteen, Information Books, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) (1), *Under Five (16), *Under Five, Concept Books (1), Ages Five, Six and Seven (42), Ages Five, Six and Seven—Beginning Readers (11), Ages Seven, Eight and Nine—Biography (4), Ages Seven, Eight and Nine—Boys and Girls (5), Ages Seven, Eight and Nine—Easy to Read (7), Ages Seven, Eight and Nine—Fantasy, Folk Tales and Legends (21), Ages Seven, Eight and Nine—Stories About Animals (9), Ages Three, Four and Five (27), Collections (10), Five to Nine (1,014), Five to Nine & Nine to Twelve (2), Five to Nine, 2011; Five to Nine, 2012 (1), Five to Nine, Fiction, Adventure 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No Stage 119

VærkÅr
What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World af Maya Ajmera2013
No Jumping on the Bed! af Tedd Arnold2013
Toads on Toast af Linda Bailey2013
This Monster Needs a Haircut af Bethany Barton2013
Dinosaur Thunder af Marion Dane Bauer2013
The Great Sheep Shenanigans af Peter Bently2013
The Lonely Book af Kate Bernheimer2013
Z is for Moose af Kelly Bingham2013
Oh! What a Surprise! af Suzanne Bloom2013
I Don't Want to Be a Pea! af Ann Bonwill2013
Too Shy for Show-and-Tell (Little Boost) af Beth Bracken2013
Peek-a-Boo Baby af Sebastien Braun2013
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star af Jane Cabrera2013
Ollie's School Day: A Yes-and-no Story af Stephanie Calmenson2013
Have You Seen My Cat? af Eric Carle2013
Alfie Is Not Afraid af Patricia Carlin2013
Little Dog Lost: The True Story of a Brave Dog Named Baltic af Monica Carnesi2013
Five Little Monkeys Jump in the Bath af Eileen Christelow2013
Get Dressed! af Seymour Chwast2013
Baby Be Kind af Jane Cowen-Fletcher2013
Mr. King's Things af Geneviève Côté2013
Dolphin Baby! af Nicola Davies2013
Just Ducks! af Nicola Davies2013
Bow-Wow Wiggle-Waggle af Mary Newell DePalma2013
Llama Llama Time to Share af Anna Dewdney2013
Tabby McTat af Julia Donaldson2013
What Can a Crane Pick Up? af Rebecca Kai Dotlich2013
Kate and Nate Are Running Late! af Kate Egan2013
The Ant and the Grasshopper af Rebecca Emberley2013
Mice on Ice af Rebecca Emberley2013
The Day Louis Got Eaten af John Fardell2013
Make a Wish Bear af Greg Foley2013
Friends af Michael Foreman2013
Christmas Wombat af Jackie French2013
Step Gently Out af Helen Frost2013
Little Bee af Edward Gibbs2013
What's the Time, Mr. Wolf? af Debi Gliori2013
You Choose af Pippa Goodhart2013
Zorro Gets an Outfit af Carter Goodrich2013
How To Be Friends with a Dragon af Valeri Gorbachev2013
Speak Up, Tommy! (Kar-Ben Favorites) af Jacqueline Dembar Greene2013
Drummer Boy of John John af Mark Greenwood2013
Moonlight af Helen V. Griffith2013
Oh No, George! af Chris Haughton2013
Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do af Kathryn Heling2013
Charley's First Night af Amy Hest2013
Kite Day: A Bear and Mole Story af Will Hillenbrand2013
Rocket Writes a Story af Tad Hills2013
One Spotted Giraffe af Petr Horáček2013
Who Has This Tail? af Laura Hulbert2013
Bea at Ballet af Rachel Isadora2013
There Was a Tree af Rachel Isadora2013
Christmastime af Alison Jay2013
Lovabye Dragon af Barbara Joosse2013
My Big Boy Undies af Karen Katz2013
This Is Not My Hat af Jon Klassen2013
Duck Sock Hop af Jane Kohuth2013
It's a Tiger! af David LaRochelle2013
Hey Little Baby! af Heather Leigh2013
Trains Go af Steve Light2013
Sleep Like a Tiger af Mary Logue2013
Frog and Fly af Jeff Mack2013
The Man from the Land of Fandango af Margaret Mahy2013
On My Way to the Bath af Sarah Maizes2013
Zoom, Rocket, Zoom! af Margaret Mayo2013
The Monster Returns af Peter McCarty2013
I'm Fast! af Kate McMullan2013
Ben Loves Bear af David McPhail2013
The Family Tree af David McPhail2013
Pig Pig Meets the Lion af David McPhail2013
Lola Reads to Leo af Anna McQuinn2013
Itsy-Bitsy Baby Mouse af Michelle Meadows2013
Isabella's Garden af Glenda Millard2013
A Kiss Like This af Mary Murphy2013
Utterly Lovely One af Mary Murphy2013
One Two That's My Shoe! af Alison Murray2013
What Little Boys Are Made Of af Robert Neubecker2013
Whoa, Baby, Whoa! af Grace Nichols2013
Bears in Beds af Shirley Parenteau2013
When Dads Don't Grow Up af Marjorie Blain Parker2013
My No No No Day af Rebecca Patterson2013
Who Am I? (Andersen Press Picture Books) af Gervase Phinn2013
Bear in Love af Daniel Pinkwater2013
Trucks af Debbie Powell2013
Hamsters Holding Hands af Kass Reich2013
Sky Color af Peter H. Reynolds2013
Plant a Kiss af Amy Krouse Rosenthal2013
I Want to Win! (A Little Princess Story) af Tony Ross2013
Huff & Puff: Can You Blow Down the Houses of the Three Little Pigs? af Claudia Rueda2013
My Dad Is Big And Strong, BUT...: A Bedtime Story af Coralie Saudo2013
Little Tug af Stephen Savage2013
One Special Day (A Story for Big Brothers and Sisters) af Lola M. Schaefer2013
Petunia Goes Wild af Paul Schmid2013
All About Grandmas (Dial Books for Young Readers) af Roni Schotter2013
The Three Ninja Pigs af Corey Rosen Schwartz2013
Green af Laura Vaccaro Seeger2013
My Snake Blake af Randy Siegel2013
Wild About You! af Judy Sierra2013
Cold Snap af Eileen Spinelli2013
Together at Christmas af Eileen Spinelli2013
Kate & Pippin: An Unlikely Love Story af Martin Springett2013
A Home for Bird af Philip C. Stead2013
Silly Doggy! af Adam Stower2013
Whose Toes Are Those? af Sally Symes2013
Animal 123 (Templar) af Britta Teckentrup2013
Animal Spots and Stripes (Templar) af Britta Teckentrup2013
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse af Helen Ward2013
Max and Ruby's Treasure Hunt (Max & Ruby) af Rosemary Wells2013
The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? af Mo Willems2013
Let's Go for a Drive! af Mo Willems2013
Listen to My Trumpet! af Mo Willems2013
Fly, Chick, Fly! af Jeanne Willis2013
Hippospotamus af Jeanne Willis2013
Kali's Song af Jeanette Winter2013
Dog Loves Drawing af Louise Yates2013
Summer Days and Nights af Wong Herbert Yee2013
Mousterpiece af Jane Breskin Zalben2013
Train Man af Andrea Zimmerman2013
Little Bird af Germano Zullo2013

Beskrivelser

The Children's Book Committee was founded more than 100 years ago to help parents, teachers, and librarians choose the books that children will find captivating and transforming.
One of the most comprehensive annotated book lists for children, aged infant through 16. The Committee reviews over 6,000 titles annually for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. The best 600 books published each year, both fiction and nonfiction, are listed with annotations, according to age and category.

Included are the past editions that are currently available online. Reference copies of editions published in print before 2010 may be found in the Bank Street College Library. (English, Medlems-skrevet)
By Child Study Children's Book Committee of Child Study Association of America (1967-1977) and at Bank Street College (subsequently)

[Succeeds CBCA Book of the Year for Children.
Succeeded by Bank Street CBC Best Children's Book of the Year.]

from Bank Street: About the Children's Book Committee

We began in 1909 as part of the family life education program of the Child Study Association of America, an organization devoted to guiding parents in their understanding of child development.

At the time, a nascent "parent education" movement fostered a growing awareness of the emotional needs of children, and of how books might affect children's feelings of themselves and the world around them. As "expert" opinions of psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators filtered down to parents, the Child Study Association decided to evaluate current literature for children, and to prepare and publish booklists to guide parents, librarians, and teachers in the selection of developmentally appropriate reading materials. Interestingly enough, the Committee decided right from the start to publish only positive reviews and recommendations.

Its first product was a modest pamphlet, but more ambitious lists soon followed. Eventually, with a rapidly expanding number of new children's books being published, the Committee adopted a more organized reviewing process, which continues to this day.

For many years the Committee's reviews appeared in the monthly (and later quarterly) magazine published by the Association. When the magazine was discontinued, the Committee compiled its own annual booklet, the "Children's Books of the Year," which has been published and distributed yearly since 1936.

The Committee eventually expanded its mandate in a number of significant ways. It collected and edited anthologies of children's stories and published specific lists in response to requests from parents, organizations, or specific needs that arose in the community. It also arranged lectures to promote public interest in children's literature and invited children to discuss their preferences in books, which eventually led to the inclusion of Young Reviewers on the Committee.

In addition, the Committee established an annual award in 1942 to encourage the writing and publishing of books "for children and young people dealing realistically with some of the problems in the world." The Committee now also bestows an annual award for the best poetry book for young readers as well as an award for a nonfiction book that "serves as an inspiration for young readers."

By 1977, the Child Study Association was forced to discontinue its programs because of financial difficulties, but the Children's Book Committee was invited to continue its groundbreaking work at the Bank Street College of Education, where it remains to this day. Here its outreach broadened, not only in increasing the circulation of its list, but in the wider range of its membership.

Today's Committee comprises some 40 members—all volunteers—from various professions and backgrounds concerned with children and books: writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, teachers, and parents. Members use their skills and expertise to foster the unique point of view bequeathed to us by our founding organization—namely, how books can affect young readers, and what books can do for them. (English, Medlems-skrevet)
[Succeeds CBCA Selected Book of the Year for Children
Succeeded by CSCBC Children's Book of the Year.]

from Bank Street:
About the Children's Book Committee
We began in 1909 as part of the family life education program of the Child Study Association of America, an organization devoted to guiding parents in their understanding of child development.

At the time, a nascent "parent education" movement fostered a growing awareness of the emotional needs of children, and of how books might affect children's feelings of themselves and the world around them. As "expert" opinions of psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators filtered down to parents, the Child Study Association decided to evaluate current literature for children, and to prepare and publish booklists to guide parents, librarians, and teachers in the selection of developmentally appropriate reading materials. Interestingly enough, the Committee decided right from the start to publish only positive reviews and recommendations.

Its first product was a modest pamphlet, but more ambitious lists soon followed. Eventually, with a rapidly expanding number of new children's books being published, the Committee adopted a more organized reviewing process, which continues to this day.

For many years the Committee's reviews appeared in the monthly (and later quarterly) magazine published by the Association. When the magazine was discontinued, the Committee compiled its own annual booklet, the "Children's Books of the Year," which has been published and distributed yearly since 1936.

The Committee eventually expanded its mandate in a number of significant ways. It collected and edited anthologies of children's stories and published specific lists in response to requests from parents, organizations, or specific needs that arose in the community. It also arranged lectures to promote public interest in children's literature and invited children to discuss their preferences in books, which eventually led to the inclusion of Young Reviewers on the Committee.

In addition, the Committee established an annual award in 1942 to encourage the writing and publishing of books "for children and young people dealing realistically with some of the problems in the world." The Committee now also bestows an annual award for the best poetry book for young readers as well as an award for a nonfiction book that "serves as an inspiration for young readers."

By 1977, the Child Study Association was forced to discontinue its programs because of financial difficulties, but the Children's Book Committee was invited to continue its groundbreaking work at the Bank Street College of Education, where it remains to this day. Here its outreach broadened, not only in increasing the circulation of its list, but in the wider range of its membership.

Today's Committee comprises some 40 members—all volunteers—from various professions and backgrounds concerned with children and books: writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, teachers, and parents. Members use their skills and expertise to foster the unique point of view bequeathed to us by our founding organization—namely, how books can affect young readers, and what books can do for them. (English, Medlems-skrevet)
[Succeeded by CBCA Book of the Year for Children]

from Bank Street:
About the Children's Book Committee
We began in 1909 as part of the family life education program of the Child Study Association of America, an organization devoted to guiding parents in their understanding of child development.

At the time, a nascent "parent education" movement fostered a growing awareness of the emotional needs of children, and of how books might affect children's feelings of themselves and the world around them. As "expert" opinions of psychiatrists, psychologists, and educators filtered down to parents, the Child Study Association decided to evaluate current literature for children, and to prepare and publish booklists to guide parents, librarians, and teachers in the selection of developmentally appropriate reading materials. Interestingly enough, the Committee decided right from the start to publish only positive reviews and recommendations.

Its first product was a modest pamphlet, but more ambitious lists soon followed. Eventually, with a rapidly expanding number of new children's books being published, the Committee adopted a more organized reviewing process, which continues to this day.

For many years the Committee's reviews appeared in the monthly (and later quarterly) magazine published by the Association. When the magazine was discontinued, the Committee compiled its own annual booklet, the "Children's Books of the Year," which has been published and distributed yearly since 1936.

The Committee eventually expanded its mandate in a number of significant ways. It collected and edited anthologies of children's stories and published specific lists in response to requests from parents, organizations, or specific needs that arose in the community. It also arranged lectures to promote public interest in children's literature and invited children to discuss their preferences in books, which eventually led to the inclusion of Young Reviewers on the Committee.

In addition, the Committee established an annual award in 1942 to encourage the writing and publishing of books "for children and young people dealing realistically with some of the problems in the world." The Committee now also bestows an annual award for the best poetry book for young readers as well as an award for a nonfiction book that "serves as an inspiration for young readers."

By 1977, the Child Study Association was forced to discontinue its programs because of financial difficulties, but the Children's Book Committee was invited to continue its groundbreaking work at the Bank Street College of Education, where it remains to this day. Here its outreach broadened, not only in increasing the circulation of its list, but in the wider range of its membership.

Today's Committee comprises some 40 members—all volunteers—from various professions and backgrounds concerned with children and books: writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, teachers, and parents. Members use their skills and expertise to foster the unique point of view bequeathed to us by our founding organization—namely, how books can affect young readers, and what books can do for them. (English, Medlems-skrevet)
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(See also Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature)

(See also Cook Prize)

The Children's Book Committee was founded more than 100 years ago to help parents, teachers, and librarians choose the books that children will find captivating and transforming. One of the most comprehensive annotated book lists for children, aged infant through 16. The Committee reviews over 6,000 titles annually for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. The best 600 books published each year, both fiction and nonfiction, are listed with annotations, according to age and category. Included are the past editions that are currently available online. Reference copies of editions published in print before 2010 may be found in the Bank Street College Library. (English, Medlems-skrevet)

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