Holiday Giving Project Children’s Book List

Posted on March 9, 2016 by HS/HSL
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As a result of the combined efforts of the staff of the Health Sciences & Humans Services Library (HS/HSL) and the UMB campus community, over 75 children’s books are now on the shelves of the UMB Community Engagement Center located at the BioPark.

The HS/HSL asked the campus to let us know which children’s books were most beloved or were simply fun to read, inspirational, encouraging, influential or memorable. That the recommendations were appropriate for books for children from infancy through middle school was the only guideline.

Response from the UMB campus was enthusiastic – providing over 400 suggestions of favorite children’s books! Due to the number of inquiries, the HS/HSL Holiday Giving Project was expanded to receive book donations from the campus community. The books purchased by the library staff were selected from the list of books most often recommend by the UMB community.

Of the donation, Ashley Valis, Executive Director of Community Initiatives and Engagement, states, “We are absolutely thrilled with the generosity of the Health Sciences & Human Services Library staff and affiliates. We host a toddler playgroup at the UMB Community Engagement Center weekly, and until now, didn’t have nearly the selection of age appropriate books to peek the children’s interest. With this donation to the UMB CEC, we will be able to offer our old books to the community free of charge for their home bookshelves, as well as offer our visitors a selection of amazing new children’s books for their enjoyment.”

The HS/HSL staff is delighted to help spark a love for reading while helping to increase the literacy skills of children visiting the new UMB Community Engagement Center.

Children’s Book Lists

The following books received multiple votes from the UMB Campus Community:

  • A Little Princess
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day
  • Amazing Grace
  • Amelia Bedelia
  • Are You My Mother?
  • Bread and Jam for Frances
  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Charlotte’s Web
  • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
  • Corduroy
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • Frog and Toad
  • Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
  • Harold and the Purple Crayon
  • Harry Potter Series
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
  • Junie B. Jones Series
  • Little Blue Truck
  • Little House on the Prairie
  • Little Women
  • Make Way for Ducklings
  • Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters)
  • The Rainbow Fish
  • The BFG
  • The Book of Three
  • The Box Car Children Series
  • The Chronicles of Narnia
  • The Giving Tree
  • The Little Engine that Could
  • The Magic School Bus series
  • The Secret Garden
  • The Velveteen Rabbit
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Where the Wild Things Are

Additional book titles may be found under the list of Donated Books.

  • A Letter for Amy
  • A Light in the Attic
  • Adventures of Isabel
  • Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day
  • Amazing Grace
  • Anansi the Spider
  • Animal Strike at the Zoo. Its’ True!
  • Animalia
  • Ant and Bee
  • Are you my Mother?
  • Ask Me
  • Bedtime for Frances
  • Berenstain Bear books
  • Berenstain Bears No Girls Allowed
  • Bill Peet books
  • Blueberries for Sal
  • Book with No Pictures
  • Bread and Jam for Frances
  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
  • Chadwick the Crab
  • Chester’s Way
  • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
  • Clifford the Big Red Dog
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  • Cooper’s Lesson
  • Corduroy
  • Crankenstein
  • Curious George books
  • David Wiesner books
  • Don’t Let the Pigeon series
  • Don’t Wake Up Mama (A Five Little Monkeys Story)
  • Dr.Seuss books
  • Duck for President
  • Eric Carle books
  • Encounter
  • Falling Up
  • Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
  • Four Fur Feet
  • Frog & Toad
  • George and Martha
  • George Shrinks
  • Gerald & Piggie books by Mo Willems
  • Good Dog Carl
  • Good Night Moon
  • Grandfather Twilight
  • Green Eggs and Ham
  • Harold and the Purple Crayon
  • Have You Filled A Bucket Today?
  • Henry’s Freedom Box
  • Hey, Al
  • I Am a Bunny!
  • I am Jazz
  • I Can Teach my Dog 100 Words
  • I Had Trouble In GettingTo Solla Sollew
  • I Love You Stinky Face
  • I Love You This Much
  • I Love You Through and Through
  • If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
  • If You Give A Pig a Pancake
  • I’ll Love you Forever
  • In the Night Kitchen
  • Jane Hissey’s Old Bear Series
  • January’s Sparrow
  • Jez Alborough books,
  • Joey the Jack-o-lantern
  • King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
  • Knuffle Bunny
  • Little Blue Truck
  • Make Way for Ducklings
  • Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match
  • Meet Chadwick & His Bay Friends
  • Moonbear series
  • More Spaghetti, I Say!
  • Mr. Brown Can Moo
  • Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
  • My Buddy Slug
  • My Princess Boy
  • My Teacher Is a Monster
  • My Teacher Sleeps in School
  • Not a Box
  • Of Thee I Sing
  • Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
  • Olivia
  • Once Upon a Cloud
  • One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
  • Paddington Bear
  • Perfect Pumpkin Pie
  • Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Button
  • Piggie Pie
  • Piggins
  • Polar Express
  • Put Me in the Zoo
  • Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book
  • Santa Mouse
  • Scaredy Squirrel
  • Seven Diving Ducks
  • Sheep in a Jeep
  • Shel Silverstein books
  • Sing a Song of Popcorn (anthology of poetry)
  • Splat the Cat
  • Spot
  • Stellaluna
  • Strega Nona
  • Susan Middleton Elya bopoks
  • The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
  • The Bear Books by Karma Wilson
  • The Day the Crayons Quit
  • The Fire Cat
  • The Flea’s Sneeze
  • The Giant Jam Sandwich
  • The Girl and the Bicycle
  • The Giving Tree
  • The Kissing Hand
  • The Little Engine that Could
  • The Little Red Hen
  • The Lorax
  • The Mitten
  • The Mommy Book
  • The Napping House
  • The Pirate Cruncher
  • The Pokey Little Puppy
  • The Rainbow Fish
  • The Seamstress of Salzburg
  • The Seven Chinese Brothers
  • The Sneetches
  • The Snowy Day
  • The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
  • The Story of Ferdinand
  • The Story of Ruby Bridges
  • The Velveteen Rabbit
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • The year of the book
  • There’s a Monster at the End of this Book
  • There’s a Nightmare in my Closet
  • This is Not My Hat
  • Thornton Burgess – any books by author
  • Tuesday
  • Twig
  • Waiting is Not Easy!
  • We’re Going On A Bear Hunt
  • What to do with an Idea
  • Where The Sidewalk Ends
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • Where’s My Teddy?
  • Whistle for Willie
  • Winnie the Pooh
  • Yoko
  • You are my Miracle
  • Zin Zin Zin a Violin

Additional book titles may be found under the list of Donated Books.

  • A Little Princess
  • A Light in the Attic
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • About Average
  • Addie on the Inside
  • Addy – American Girl book series
  • Amelia Bedelia books
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • Are You There God?  It’s me, Margaret
  • Archer’s Goon
  • Baby-sitters Club book series
  • Beezus and Ramona
  • Berenstain Bear books
  • Big Hair, Don’t Care
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy’s Big Blue Ocean
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy’s Great Big Book of Tiny Germs
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy’s Great Big Dinosaur Dig
  • Charlie Joe Jackson book series
  • Charlotte’s Web
  • Chasing Vermeer
  • Chronicles of Narnia book series
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series
  • Dr. Seuss books
  • Ella Enchanted
  • Emi’s Curly Coily Cotton Candy Hair
  • Encounter
  • Ender’s Game
  • Every Time a Rainbow Dies
  • Falling Up
  • L. Frank Baum – Oz books
  • Goosebumps books
  • Grace Lin books
  • Harriet the Spy
  • Harry Potter book series
  • Heidi
  • Holes
  • Homer Price
  • Hope for the Flowers
  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
  • I Love My Hair
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins
  • Jacqueline Woodson books
  • James and the Giant Peach
  • John Bellairs books
  • John Green books
  • Julie of the Wolves
  • Junie B. Jones series
  • Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Little House on the Prairie book series
  • Little Women
  • Lone Bean
  • Love That Dog
  • Magic School Bus book series
  • Magic Tree House book series
  • Matilda
  • Misty of Chincoteague
  • Nancy Drew Mysteries series
  • Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
  • Oz books
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympian book series
  • Ramona the Pest
  • Redwall
  • Roald Dahl books
  • Sabriel
  • Shel Silverstein books
  • Shiloh
  • Stargirl
  • Stuart Little
  • Suzy Lee books
  • Tears of a Tiger
  • The BFG
  • The Book of Three
  • The Borrowers
  • The Box Car Children book series
  • The Chronicles of Narnia book series
  • The Chronicles of Prydain
  • The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh
  • The Dark is Rising book series
  • The Egypt Game
  • The Fledgling
  • The Giver
  • The Giving Tree
  • The Hobbit book series
  • The Outsiders
  • The Phantom Tollbooth
  • The Secret Garden
  • The Twits
  • The Witches
  • The Westing Game
  • The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur.
  • The Year of the Book
  • Tuesday
  • The Wind in the Willows
  • Wayside School book series
  • When Kayla Was Kyle
  • When We Were Very Young
  • Where The Sidewalk Ends
  • Winnie the Pooh
  • Wonder
  • 5 Very Little Pumpkins
  • A Kissing Hand*
  • A Little Prairie House (Little House on the Prairie)*
  • ABC (Seuss)
  • Amazing Grace*
  • Amelia Bedelia*
  • Animal Alphabet – Elmo’s’ Learning Adventure
  • Baby! Talk!
  • Barnyard Dance
  • Bear Wants More  (The Bear Books)*
  • Berenstain Bears – Moving Day
  • Better Nate Than Ever
  • Bread and Jam for Frances*
  • Can I Play Too? (An Elephant & Biggie Book)*
  • Cars & Trucks & Things That Go*
  • Charlotte’s Web
  • Clifford the Big Red Dog
  • Cloudette
  • Corduroy*
  • Corduroy Lost & Found
  • Curious George Visits the Library
  • Dinosaur Adventure
  • Do Your ABC’s, Little Brown Bear
  • Five, Six, Seven, Nate
  • Fox in Socks
  • Go to Sleep, Little Farm
  • Go, Thomas, Go
  • Goodnight Moon Grover’s Farm
  • Helping Hands
  • Hey Diddle, Diddle
  • How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head*
  • I am Malala
  • I can Help!
  • I Love My Hair!*
  • If You Give a Mouse a Cookie*
  • It’s Time to Sleep, My Love*
  • Junie B. First Grader (at Last!)*
  • Little Firefly
  • Little Blue Truck*
  • Make Way for Ducklings*
  • Max’s Snowsuit
  • Moonbear’s Shadow*
  • Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters*
  • My Cuddly Friends: Baby Animals
  • My Little Animal Book
  • Olivia
  • Olivia Cooks Up a Surprise
  • One Fish, Two Fish… (Seuss)
  • Pinkalicious books
  • Pirates Past Noon (Magic Tree House Series)*
  • Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young (Prelutsky)*
  • Rio2 Blu’s Wild Journey
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Santa is Coming to Maryland
  • Shape of Me & Other Stuff (Seuss)
  • Splat the Cat. I Scream for Ice Cream
  • The Little Engine that Could*
  • The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear*
  • The Mouse & The Mill
  • The Day the Crayons Came Home
  • The Magic School Bus Science Chapter
  • The Magic School Bus Knowledge Pack
  • The Magic School Bus Flies with the Dinosaurs*
  • The Misfits
  • The Rainbow Fish*
  • The Secret Garden (Penguin Young Reader)*
  • The Snowy Day
  • The Velveteen Rabbit*
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar*
  • Too Hot to Hug!
  • Totally Joe
  • Waiting is Not Easy! (An Elephant & Biggie Book)*
  • What Grandma’s Can’t Do
  • Who’s Under the Hat?
  • Zoe’s First Book of Seasons

*donated by the HS/HSL Staff

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