2001 Book List

Texas Library Association sponsors the 2X2 Reading List solely to encourage free voluntary reading.

  • Alborough, Jez. Hug. Candlewick Press. Ages 2-4. Trade edition, ISBN 0-7636-1287-1. $14.99. While walking through the forest, a baby chimp sees other animal babies hugging their mommies and decides that he needs a hug too.
  • Barner, Bob. Fish Wish. Holiday House. Ages 5-8. Trade edition, ISBN 0-8234-1482-5, $16.95. Bright, colorful illustrations lead the reader on an underwater adventure through a coral reef. This book includes an identification chart with descriptions of each animal.
  • Brown, Ruth. Snail Trail. Crown Publishers, Inc. Ages 2-5. Trade edition, ISBN 0-375-80696-2, $9.95. Follow a snail on his journey through a garden, which shows the snail's perspective of size.
  • Coy, John. Vroomaloom Zoom. Illustrated by Joe Cepeda. Crown Publishers, Inc. Ages 5-7. Trade edition, ISBN 0-517-80009-8, $15.95. Library edition ISBN 0-517-80010-1, $17.99. When Carmela can't sleep, she and her daddy take a rollicking ride over mountains, through rivers and beyond.
  • Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Ages 5-7. ISBN 0-689-83213-3, $15.00. Farmer Brown's troubles begin when his cows find a typewriter in the barn and the cows and chickens start making demands.
  • Falconer, Ian. Olivia. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Ages 4-6. Trade edition, ISBN 0-689-82953-1, $16.00. Olivia, a feisty pig, appeals to the child in everyone as she dances through the pages with an "attitude".
  • Fleming, Denise. The Everything Book. Henry Holt and Company. Ages 3-6. Trade edition, ISBN 0-8050-6292-0, $18.95. Vibrant "just right" illustrations of colors, shapes, numbers, animals, food, nursery rhymes and EVERYTHING else, fill the pages of this child's introduction to the world around, --best experienced on someone's lap.
  • French, Vivian. Growing Frogs. Illustrated by Alison Bartlett. Candlewick Press. Trade edition, ISBN 0-7636-0317-1, $15.99. This is a delightful story about the life cycle of a frog, with helpful tips to readers on "growing their own frogs".
  • Hobbie, Holly. Toot & Puddle: Puddle’s ABC. Little, Brown and Company. Trade edition, ISBN 0-316-36593-9, $14.95. Join some familiar friends as they learn the letters of the alphabet, the sounds of the letters and the words that the letters can form--like your name!
  • Hopkins, Jackie Mims. The Horned Toad Prince. Illustrated by Michael Austin. Peachtree Publishers. Ages 6-8. Trade edition, ISBN 1-56145-195-9, $15.95. Enjoy a humorous retelling of The Frog Prince, with a Texas twist!
  • Keller, Holly. That's Mine, Horace. Greenwillow Books. Ages 6-8. Trade edition, ISBN 0-688-17159-1, $15.95. Library edition, 0-688-17160-5, $15.89. Horace loves that little truck he found on the playground--does he really have to give it back?
  • MacDonald, Suse. Look Whooo's Counting. Scholastic Inc. Ages 4-6. Trade edition, ISBN 0-590-68320-9, $14.95. Come count along with a wise old owl and find the hidden numbers on each page.
  • Marzollo, Jean. Papa, Papa. Illustrated by Laura Regan. Harper Festival. Ages 2-3. ISBN 0-694-01246-7, $5.95. Significant bonding moments between animal babies and their fathers are celebrated with color-filled pages and brief rhymes to be read again and again.
  • Pérez, Amada Irma. My Very Own Room/Mi Propio Cuartito. Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Children’s Book Press. Ages 6-8. ISBN 0-89239-164-2. $15.95. A young girl tires of sharing a room with her five little brothers so she begins to search her house for a little space she can call her own.
  • Peters, Lisa Westberg. Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck. Illustrated by Sam Williams. Greenwillow Books. Ages 3-5. Trade edition, ISBN 0-688-16178-2, $15.95. Library edition, ISBN 0-688-16179-0, $15.89. Cold little stuck duck just knows that spring will be here soon.
  • Shields, Carol Diggory. Lucky Pennies and Hot Chocolate. Illustrated by Hiroe Nakata. Dutton Children's Books. Ages 5-7. ISBN 0-525-46450-6, $13.99. On a weekend visit, a grandfather shares many activities with his grandson.
  • Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Jingle Dancer. Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. HarperCollins/Morrow. Ages 6-8. Trade edition, ISBN 0-688-16241-X, $15.95. Library edition, ISBN 0-688-16242-8, $15.89. Follow Jenna, a member of the Muscogee or Creek Nation, in her quest for the jingles she needs for her skirt so she can dance in the Jingle dance at the POW WOW.
  • Stojic, Manya. Rain. Crown Publishers, Inc. Ages 5-7. Trade edition, ISBN 0-517-80085-3, $15.95. Library edition, ISBN 0-517-80086-1, $17.99. The animals of the African savanna await a rainstorm that is on its way.
  • Thomas, Shelley Moore. Good Night, Good Knight. Illustrated by Jennifer Plecas. Dutton Children's Books. Ages 6-8. ISBN 0-525-46326-7, $13.99. A rhyming, repetitive text introduces new readers to a good knight who says good night to three dragons.
  • Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? Illustrated by Mark Teague. Blue Sky Press. Ages 4-6. ISBN 0-590-31681-8, $15.95. Readers discover rhyming reasons why dinosaurs don't want to go to bed either.

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