BOARD BOOKS : BIRTH TO AGE 2. Goodnight moon / Margaret Wise Brown

Mr. Gumpy's outing / John Burningham

The very hungry caterpillar / Eric Carle

Freight train / Donald Crews

The carrot seed / Ruth Krauss

PICTURE BOOKS : AGES 2 TO 8. Miss Nelson is missing! / Harry Allard

Madeline / Ludwig Bemelmans

The snowman / Raymond Briggs

Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel / Virginia Lee Burton

Millions of cats / Wanda Gag

Lilly's purple plastic purse / Kevin Henkes

Swamp angel / Anne Isaacs

The snowy day / Ezra Jack Keats

Leo the late bloomer / Robert Kraus

The story of Ferdinand / Munro Leaf

John Henry / Julius Lester

Swimmy / Leo Lionni

Chicka chicka boom boom / Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault

Snowflake Bentley / Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Make way for ducklings / Robert McCloskey

The tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter

Officer Buckle and Gloria / Peggy Rathmann

Curious George / H.A. Rey

The true story of the 3 little pigs / Jon Scieszka

Where the wild things are / Maurice Sendak

Caps for sale / Esphyr Slobodkina

Doctor De Soto / William Steig

The polar express / Chris Van Allsburg

Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day / Judith Viorst

Tuesday / David Wiesner

A chair for my mother / Vera B. Williams

Seven blind mice / Ed Young

Harry the dirty dog / Gene Zion.

BOOKS FOR BEGINNING READERS : AGES 5 TO 7. Frog and toad are friends / Arnold Lobel

Little bear / Else Holmelund Minarik

Henry and Mudge / Cynthia Ryland

The cat in the hat / Dr. Seuss

BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS : AGES 7 TO 9. Ramona the pest / Beverly Cleary

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / Eleanor Coerr

Morning girl / Michael Dorris

The hundred dresses / Eleanor Estes

My father's dragon / Ruth Stiles Gannett

Stone fox / John Reynolds Gardiner

Snow-White and the seven dwarfs / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Misty of Chincoteague / Marguerite Henry

Babe : the gallant pig / Dick King-Smith

Betsy-Tacy / Maud Hart Lovelace

Sarah, plain and tall / Patricia MacLachlan

The new kid on the block / Jack Prelutsky

Grandfather's journey / Allen Say

Little house in the big woods / Laura Ingalls Wilder.

BOOKS FOR MIDDLE READERS : AGES 8 TO 11. The secret garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett

The incredible journey / Sheila Burnford

The dark is rising / Susan Cooper

The BFG / Roald Dahl

Because of Winn-Dixie / Kate DiCamillo

Half magic / Edward Eager

Harriet the spy / Louise Fitzhugh

Humbug mountain / Sid Fleischman

Lincoln : a photobiography / Russell Freedman

Julie of the wolves / Jean Craighead George

The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame

The people could fly : American black folktales / Virginia Hamilton

Redwall / Brian Jacques

The phantom tollbooth / Norton Juster

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E.L. Konigsburg

Rabbit hill / Robert Lawson

A wrinkle in time / Madeleine L'Engle

The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe / C.S. Lewis

Pippi Longstocking / Astrid Lindgren

In the year of the boar and Jackie Robinson / Bette Bao Lord

The new way things work / David Macaulay

Winnie-the-Pooh / A.A. Milne

Anne of Green Gables / Lucy Maud Montgomery

The great fire / Jim Murphy

Rascal / Sterling North

Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH / Robert C. O'Brien

Island of the blue dolphins / Scott O'Dell

Bridge to Terabithia / Katherine Paterson

Hatchet / Gary Paulsen

Tom's midnight garden / Philippa Pearce

The Westing game / Ellen Raskin

Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone / J.K. Rowling

Holes / Louis Sachar

The cricket in Times Square / George Selden

The witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare

Mary Poppins / P.L. Travers

Charlotte's web / E.B. White.

BOOKS FOR OLDER READERS : AGES 11 TO 12. The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle / Avi

Tuck everlasting / Natalie Babbitt

Behind the attic wall / Sylvia Cassedy

Catherine, called Birdy / Karen Cushman

Johnny Tremain / Esther Forbes

Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl / Anne Frank

Out of the dust / Karen Hesse

A wizard of Earthsea / Ursula K. Le Guin

The giver / Lois Lowry

Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred Taylor

The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien

Homecoming / Cynthia Voigt.