CCBC Choices2005

Given by Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison (CCBC)

Other Names: Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice Award, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice Book
227 Works 120,865 Books 6,012 Reviews ½ 4.0
CCBC CHOICES is an annual list of recommended books for children and young adults selected by the librarians at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a library of the School of Education at show more the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

[1987-2015: category designations not yet entered]
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Announced:
January 18: 2024 Recent
WorkYear
To Be an Artist by Maya Ajmera
2005
Under the Spell of the Moon: Art for Children from the World's Great Illustrators by Patricia Aldana
2005
George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War by Thomas B. Allen
2005
The Fire-Eaters by David Almond
2005
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
2005
The Cat Who Walked Across France by Kate Banks
2005
The Flag Maker by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2005
Baby Danced the Polka by Karen Beaumont
2005
Duck, Duck, Goose!: A Coyote’s on the Loose! by Karen Beaumont
2005
York's Adventures with Lewis and Clark: An African-American's Part in the Great Expedition by Rhoda Blumberg
2005
The Firefighters’ Thanksgiving by Maribeth Boelts
2005
Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of African American Artists by Tonya Bolden
2005
The A+ Custodian by Louise Borden
2005
The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands by Louise Borden
2005
Wallace's Lists by Barbara Bottner
2005
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
2005
The President's Daughter by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
2005
Mama Loves Me from Away by Pat Brisson
2005
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein by Don Brown
2005
Into the Forest by Anthony Browne
2005
Christmas in the Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
2005
Hidden Roots by Joseph Bruchac
2005
Jim Thorpe's Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac
2005
Superdog: The Heart of a Hero by Caralyn Buehner
2005
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti
2005
I Am Too Absolutely Small for School by Lauren Child
2005
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
2005
Daniel Half-Human by David Chotjewitz
2005
Mimmy and Sophie, All Around the Town by Miriam Cohen
2005
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne Collins
2005
Magic Thinks Big by Elisha Cooper
2005
Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s by Michael L. Cooper
2005
William Shakespeare's Hamlet by Bruce Coville
2005
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
2005
The Neighborhood Mother Goose by Nina Crews
2005
Duck for President by Doreen Cronin
2005
How Many Miles To Bethlehem? by Kevin Crossley-Holland
2005
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
2005
Space Cat by Doug Cushman
2005
A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake by S. Foster Damon
2005
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies
2005
Once In A Blue Moon Volume 1 by Nunzio DeFilippis
2005
The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey by Demi
2005
Boy O'Boy by Brian Doyle
2005
Supermarket! by Charlotte Doyle
2005
BooBoo by Olivier Dunrea
2005
Always and Forever by Alan Durant
2005
Papa's Latkes by Michelle Edwards
2005
Pie in the Sky by Lois Ehlert
2005
The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis
2005
Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak by Deborah Ellis
2005
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue by Karen English
2005
Speak to Me: (And I Will Listen between the Lines) by Karen English
2005
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
2005
The Oracle Betrayed: Book One of The Oracle Prophecies by Catherine Fisher
2005
Who Am I Without Him? by Sharon G. Flake
2005
Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman
2005
The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine by Judith Bloom Fradin
2005
From Me to You by Anthony France
2005
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
2005
T. Rex: Read and Wonder by Vivian French
2005
Spinning Through the Universe by Helen Frost
2005
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman
2005
Aldabra, The Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare by Silvana Gandolfi
2005
I Believe In...Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Young People Speak About Their Faith by Pearl Fuyo Gaskins
2005
Doodler Doodling by Rita Golden Gelman
2005
Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems by Kristine O'Connell George
2005
Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse by Lindsay Barrett George
2005
Time for Ballet by Adèle Geras
2005
Leaf Jumpers by Carole Gerber
2005
Secrets of The Sphinx by James Cross Giblin
2005
Rickie and Henri by Jane Goodall
2005
Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems by John Grandits
2005
Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop by Jan Greenberg
2005
In the Land of Words: New and Selected Poems by Eloise Greenfield
2005
One Little Lamb (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards)) by Elaine Greenstein
2005
One LIttle Seed (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards)) by Elaine Greenstein
2005
What is Goodbye? by Nikki Grimes
2005
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
2005
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Virginia Hamilton
2005
Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
2005
Going North by Janice N. Harrington
2005
Sweet Jasmine, Nice Jackson: What It's Like To Be 2--And To Be Twins! (Growing Up Stories: What It's Like to Be a Baby) by Robie H. Harris
2005
Godless by Pete Hautman
2005
Mermaid Mary Margaret by Lynn E. Hazen
2005
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
2005
The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
2005
Guess Who, Baby Duck! by Amy Hest
2005
Whose Garden Is It? by Mary Ann Hoberman
2005
Merlin and the Making of the King by Margaret Hodges
2005
God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday
2005
Skin Again by bell hooks
2005
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip M. Hoose
2005
Christmas Presents: Holiday Poetry (I Can Read Book 2) by Lee Bennett Hopkins
2005
Hanukkah Lights: Holiday Poetry (I Can Read Book 2) by Lee Bennett Hopkins
2005
Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) across the Plains by Deborah Hopkinson
2005
A Packet of Seeds by Deborah Hopkinson
2005
A Monkey Among Us by Dave Horowitz
2005
Voices of the Trojan War by Kate Hovey
2005
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe
2005
Olly and Me by Shirley Hughes
2005
Don't Get Lost! by Pat Hutchins
2005
La La Rose by Satomi Ichikawa
2005
Baby Brains by Simon James
2005
Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing by Paul B. Janeczko
2005
Daffodil by Emily Jenkins
2005
Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
2005
Bird by Angela Johnson
2005
Hot City by Barbara Joosse
2005
Hoop Kings by Charles R. Smith Jr.
2005
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2005
Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley
2005
Don Quixote and the Windmills by Eric A. Kimmel
2005
Wonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion by Eric A. Kimmel
2005
Sky Dancers by Connie Ann Kirk
2005
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg
2005
My Name Was Hussein by Hristo Kyuchukov
2005
Good Dog, Paw! by Chinlun Lee
2005
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
2005
Our Nest by Reeve Lindbergh
2005
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
2005
Pippin The Christmas Pig by Jean Little
2005
Ruby Lu, Brave and True by Lenore Look
2005
The Kids Book of the Night Sky by Ann Love
2005
Messenger by Lois Lowry
2005
Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon
2005
Bittle by Patricia MacLachlan
2005
No Dogs Allowed! by Sonia Manzano
2005
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
2005
Old Hickory:Andrew Jackson and the American People by Albert Marrin
2005
Leap Day by Wendy Mass
2005
Fish by L. S. Matthews
2005
T Is for Terrible by Peter McCarty
2005
Squirrel and John Muir by Emily Arnold McCully
2005
Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Alison McGhee
2005
Indigo's Star by Hilary McKay
2005
The Conquerors by David McKee
2005
A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 by Diane McWhorter
2005
Luther's Halloween by Cari Meister
2005
I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
2005
Swing, Otto, Swing! (The Adventures of Otto) by David Milgrim
2005
The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery
2005
The Year Of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
2005
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
2005
Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
2005
Say Something by Peggy Moss
2005
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers
2005
Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom by Ted Naifeh
2005
Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
2005
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
2005
The Best Cat in the World by Leslea Newman
2005
Dinah!: A Cat Adventure by Kae Nishimura
2005
Is This Forever, or What? Poems and Paintings from Texas by Naomi Shihab Nye
2005
If the Walls Could Talk: Family Life at the White House by Jane O'Connor
2005
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
2005
The Bremen Town Musicians: And Other Animal Tales from Grimm by Doris Orgel
2005
The Firekeeper's Son by Linda Sue Park
2005
Blueberries for the Queen by Katherine Paterson
2005
Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude
2005
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
2005
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
2005
The Young Man And The Sea by Rodman Philbrick
2005
Sky by Pamela Porter
2005
Chloë's Birthday... and Me by Giselle Potter
2005
If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky
2005
A Good Day's Fishing by James Prosek
2005
A new history of Leviathan; essays on the rise of the American corporate state. by Ronald Radosh
2005
What Does Peace Feel Like? by Vladimir Radunsky
2005
Free at Last!: Stories and Songs of Emancipation by Doreen Rappaport
2005
Circle Unbroken by Margot Theis Raven
2005
Tiger on a Tree by Anushka Ravishankar
2005
Anne Elizabeth's Diary: A Young Artist's True Story by Anne Elizabeth Rector
2005
O Holy Night: Christmas with the Boys Choir of Harlem by Faith Ringgold
2005
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson
2005
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman
2005
Come to My Party and Other Shape Poems by Heidi Bee Roemer
2005
If You Want to See a Caribou by Phyllis Root
2005
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
2005
Art Against the Odds: From Slave Quilts to Prison Paintings by Susan Goldman Rubin
2005
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford
2005
Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan
2005
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
2005
So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez
2005
Cave Paintings to Picasso: The Inside Scoop on 50 Art Masterpieces by Henry M. Sayre
2005
The Biggest Soap by Carole Lexa Schaefer
2005
Arrowhawk by Lola M. Schaefer
2005
Grass Angel by Julie Schumacher
2005
A Glorious Day by Amy Schwartz
2005
Things I Learned in Second Grade by Amy Schwartz
2005
Science Verse by Jon Scieszka
2005
Poles apart : why penguins and polar bears will never be neighbors by Elaine Scott
2005
Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
2005
Mom and Mum are Getting Married by Ken Setterington
2005
Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
2005
Age of Bronze Volume 2: Sacrifice by Eric Shanower
2005
Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Sheth
2005
A Drop of Blood by Paul Showers
2005
Trembling Earth by Kim L. Siegelson
2005
The Train of States by Peter Sís
2005
Are We Alone? Scientists Search for Life in Space by Gloria Skurzynski
2005
Bottle Houses: The Creative World of Grandma Prisbrey by Melissa Eskridge Slaymaker
2005
Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop: A Tale of a Very Greedy Cat by Meilo So
2005
Tales from Gizzard's Grill by Jeanne Steig
2005
The Shadows of Ghadames by Joelle Stolz
2005
Can't Get There from Here by Todd Strasser
2005
Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants by Sam Swope
2005
Sweet Music in Harlem by Debbie A. Taylor
2005
Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics by Catherine Thimmesh
2005
Polar Bear Night by Lauren Thompson
2005
Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog by Pamela S. Turner
2005
Federico and the Magi's Gift: A Latin American Christmas Story by Beatriz Vidal
2005
Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables by Helen Ward
2005
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy by Andrea Warren
2005
A Pride of African Tales by Donna L. Washington
2005
If I Were a Lion by Sarah Weeks
2005
The Sunbird by Elizabeth Wein
2005
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
2005
Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta by Lisa Wheeler
2005
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
2005
Calavera Abecedario: A Day of the Dead Alphabet Book by Jeanette Winter
2005
Elsina's Clouds by Jeanette Winter
2005
September Roses by Jeanette Winter
2005
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods
2005
Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
2005
Coming On Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson
2005
Orphea Proud by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
2005
Albert, the Dog Who Liked to Ride in Taxis by Cynthia Zarin
2005

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