2011 Summer Reading
Alameda County Library staff picks by format for your listening, viewing and reading pleasure!
PICTURE BOOKS
All the Water in the World by George Ella Lyon
At This Very Moment
by Jim Arnosky
Fortune Cookies
by A. Bitterman
How I Learned Geography
by Uri Shulevitz
I Call My Grandpa Papa
by Ashley Wolff
LaRue Across America: Postcards From the Vacation
by Mark Teague
My Cold Went on Vacation
by Molly Rausch
My Little Round House
by Helen Mixter
My Name is Sangoel
by karen Lynn Williams
Perfect Gift
by J. Samia Mair
The Runaway Wok
by Ying Chang Compestine
Silent Music: a story of Baghdad
by James Rumford
Story of the Leprechaun
by Katherine Brown Tegen
Tell Me the Day Backwards
by Albert Lamb
Three Bully Goats
by Leslie Kimmelman
Ugly Vegetables
by Grace Lin
Won-ton: a cat tale told in Haiku
by Lee Wardlaw
The Year of the Rabbit: tales from the Chinese Zodiac
by Oliver Chin
EARLY READERS
Berenstain Bears. All Aboard!
by Jan Berenstain
Fancy Nancy: my family history
by Jane O’Connor
I Am Going!
by Mo Willems
Little Bear and the Marco Polo
by Elsie Holmelund Minarik
Moving Day
by Fran Manushkin
Mr. Putter and Tabby Clear the Decks
by Cynthia Rylant
Olivia Takes a Trip
by Ellie O’Ryan
Race Around the World
CHILDREN’S FICTION
Almost Zero
by Nikki Grimes
Bink and Gollie
by Kate DiCamillo
Extra Credit
by Andrew Clements
How Tia Lola Learned to Teach
by Julia Alvarez
CHILDREN’S NONFICTION
CHILDREN’S BIOGRAPHY
JUST LISTEN
African Dreamland
Putumayo World Music
CD J781.582 AFRICAN
Al Capone Shines My Shoes WORLDLY VIEWS
Diego Saves the World (Go, Diego Go!)
DVD J GO
Families of Afghanistan (Families of the World series)
DVD J306.85095 FAMILIES
Hachi: a dog’s tale
DVD J HACHI
DVD J MADELINE








