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Choosing Good Books for Children
with Ginny Moore Kruse
October 2000
Starting to think about holiday gift-giving already? Yikes, it's almost that time of year. Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles are always searching for the newest and best children's books, so here's a head start on your browsing.
Midmorning welcomes Ginny Moore Kruse, the director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She recently appeared in the Twin Cities to speak about how to choose good books for children and offered some advice to guest host Melanie Sommer.
Ginny Moore Kruse's Recommended Books
General interest
• I Was a Rat, by Phillip Pullman
• When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry, by Molly Bang
• The Birch Bark House, by Louise Erdich
• Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle, by David A. Adler
• Betsy Tacy Books, by Maud Hart Lovelace
• Jane Gibbs: The Little Bird that was Caught, by Ann E. Neuberger
• Chasing Bears, by Earl Fleck
• Freddie the Pig Series, by Walter R. Brooks
• On the Day You Were Born, by Debra Frasier
Adventures, mysteries, and sports
• Skellig and Kit's Wilderness, by David Almond
• Holes, by Lewis Sachar
• Harry Potter books, by J. K. Rowling
Chapter books for young readers
• Zooman Sam, and other novels about Sam, by Lois Lowry.
• The Henry and Mudge series or the Mr.Putter and Tabby series, by Cynthia Rylant
Short stories
• Dorothy & Mikey, by Keiko Kasza
Books for reading aloud
• The Troll With No Heart in His Body and Other Troll Tales from Norway, by Lise Lunge-Larsen
• Search for Delicious or Tuck Everlasting or any other book by Natalie Babbitt.
Science fiction
• Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry
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