Favorite Children's Books 2006

(Reviews by Kelly Herold, Big A little a)

• Chris Abouzeid. Anatopsis
• Frank Cottrell Boyce. Framed
• Susan Taylor Brown. Hugging the Rock
• Beth Cooley. Shelter
• Anna Dale. Dawn Undercover
• Helen Dunmore. Ingo
• Helen Dunmore. The Tide Knot
• Gail Gauthier. Happy Kid!
• Cassandra Golds. Clair-de-Lune
• John Green. An Abundance of Katherines
• Tad Hills. Duck & Goose
• Jennifer L. Holm (ill. Matthew Holm). Babymouse: Beach Babe
• Jennifer L. Holm. Penny From Heaven
• Emily Jenkins (ill. Paul O. Zelinsky). Toys Go Out
• Ellen Klages. The Green Glass Sea
• Uma Krishnaswami. Bringing Asha Home
• Kirby Larson. Hattie Big Sky
• Mike Lupica. Heat
• Sebastian Meschenmoser. Learning to Fly
• Kirsten Miller. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
• Antoinette Portis. Not a Box
• Rick Riordan. The Sea of Monsters
• Laura Amy Schlitz. A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
• Robert W. Service (ill. Edward Hardy Harrison). The Cremation of Sam McGee
• Jonathan Stroud. Ptolemy's Gate
• Kate Thompon. The New Policeman
• Mélanie Watt. Augustine
• Nancy Werlin. Rules of Survival
• Howard Whitehouse (ill. Bill Slavin). The Strictest School in the World
• Jonah Winter (ill. Barry Blitt). The 39 Apartments of Ludwig van Beethoven