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June 19, 2007
Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2006
University Park, PA—Among the many children’s books published last year, thirteen were chosen by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book to form A Baker’s Dozen: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy from 2006.
Winners include: About Marsupials: A Guide for Children, by Cathryn Sill, illustrated by Jo
hn Sill (Peachtree Publishers); Animal Babies in Seas (Animal Babies in Deserts) (Kingfisher Books); Black? White! Day? Night! A Book of Opposites, by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook Press); Clip-Clop!, by Nicola Smee (Boxer Books); Heave Ho!, by Heinz Janisch and Carola Holland (North-South Books); How To Be, by Lisa Brown (HarperCollins Publishers); "I’m not cute!", by Jonathan Allen (Hyperion Books for Children); The Last Laugh, by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey (Dial Books for Young Readers); Not a Box, by Antoinette Portis (HarperCollins Publishers); Snow Sounds: An Onomatopoeic Story, by David A. Johnson (Houghton Mifflin Company); Tools, by Taro Miura (Chronicle Books); What a Treasure!, by Jane Hillenbrand and Will Hillenbrand (Holiday House); and What Do Wheels Do All Day?, by April Jones Prince, illustrated by Giles Laroche (Houghton Mifflin Company).
Selection criteria, annotations, tips for using the books, and more are available at A Baker’s Dozen Web site, http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/familylit/bakersdozen/2006/index.html.
The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, sponsored by the Penn State University Libraries, is one of fifty-one similar organizations nationwide established by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Its mission is to study, honor, celebrate, and promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy to the citizens and residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For more information, visit www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu or contact Steven L. Herb, director, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 814-863-2141.
Editor's Contact:
Lana Munip, 814-863-4265