Summer Reading List 2006
I started an internship at the Glendale Central Library’s Children’s Room this summer, and their summer reading program ends this Saturday, August 5th. The theme of the summer reading program is “Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales.”
As part of the program, the kids who sign up just have to read 8 books and write them down in their reading log. Once they finish the 8 books and turn in the reading log, they get a certificate of accomplishment, a pencil, an animal eraser, 2 “READ” temporary tattoos, and until July 29th, a free ticket to a Dodger game on July 30th.
All of the proud and happy faces of the kids turning in their reading logs have inspired me to get reading and keep my own log of books I’ve read this summer. There are a good number of children’s cat & princess books in the list because I decided to do my storytime with a cat theme and because I have to do a princess bibliography for my internship.
Here they are, in no particular order:
[c] = children’s [gn] = graphic novel [m] = manga [ya] = young adult
= highly recommended!!!
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
Angels & Demons – Dan Brown
American Born Chinese – Gene Yang [gn]
Same difference & other stories – Derek Kirk Kim [gn]
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants – Ann Brashares [c/ya]
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood – Ann Brashares [c/ya]
In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot – Graham Roumieu [gn]
Rose – Jeff Smith & Charles Vess [gn]
Bee Season – Myla Goldberg
Forlorn Funnies – Paul Hornschemeier [gn]
Persepolis 2 – Marjane Satrapi [gn]
Embroideries – Marjane Satrapi [gn]
Don’t Call Me Stupid – Steven Weissman [gn]
Kat Kong – Dav Pilkey [c]
Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman – Dav Pilkey [c]
Five Little Kittens – Nancy Jewell [c]
Feathers for Lunch - Lois Ehlert [c]
Cleo on the Move – Caroline Mockford [c]
Cat & Canary – Michael Foreman [c]
Why Do Kittens Purr? – Marion Dane Bauer [c]
WE3 – Grant Morrison [gn]
Hopeless Savages – Jen Van Meter [gn]
The adventures of Sock Monkey – Tony Millionaire [gn]
xxxHolic – Clamp [m]
Queen bee – Chynna Clugston [gn]
Book of dead days – Marcus Sedgwick [c/ya]
Dark Flight Down – Marcus Sedgwick [c/ya]
Girl Stories – Lauren R. Weinstein [gn]
Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop – Meilo So [c]
The Usborne Book of Princess Stories – Heather Amery [c]
Princess Knight – Cornelia Funke [c]
Lottie’s Princess Dress – Doris Dorrie [c]
The King’s Monster – Carolyn Haywood [c]
Bark, George! – Jules Feiffer [c]
Olivia – Ian Falconer [c]
How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff [ya]
Vimanarama – Grant Morrison & Philip Bond [gn]
WE3 – Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely [gn]
Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir – Graham Roumieu [gn]
Princess Smartypants rules – Babette Cole [c]
Kitty Princess and the newspaper dress – Emma Carlow [c]
Bear in the sky – Stefan Czernecki [c]
Don’t let the pigeon stay up late – Mo Willems [c]
Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus – Mo Willems [c]
Leonardo the terrible monster – Mo Willems [c]
The Dark Horse book of Witchcraft – edited by Scott Allie [gn]
A few perfect hours…and other stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe – Josh Neufeld [gn]
Batman: Year One – Frank Miller [gn]
Prince Sparrow – Mordicai Gerstein [c]
Arthur’s Tractor: a fairy tale with mechanical parts – Pippa Goodheart [c]
The Curious incident of the dog in the night-time – Mark Haddon [ya]
The Dead Boy Detectives – Jill Thompson [gn]
Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones [c]
Kitty Princess and the Newspaper Dress – Emma Carlow [c]
Bear in the sky – Stefan Czernecki [c]
Arthur’s tractor: a fairy tale with mechanical parts – Pippa Goodheart [c]
The witch who wanted to be a princess – Lois Grambling [c]
The most wonderful egg in the world – Helme Heine [c]
The snow rose – Michel Laroche [c]
The princess and the pizza – Mary Jane Auch [c]
The cowboy and the black-eyed pea – Tony Johnston [c]
Night of the Goat Children – J. Patrick Lewis [c]
The storytelling princess – Rafe Martin [c]
Falling for Rapunzel – Leah Wilcox [c]
Princess Furball – Charlotte Huck [c]
The well at the end of the world – Tony San Souci [c]
The frog princess – Laura Cecil [c]
The three princes: A Middle Eastern fairytale – Eric A. Kimmel [c]
The princess who lost her hair – Tololwa M. Mollel [c]
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