Atheneum Books For Young Readers: 719 books

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by George Ella Lyon
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011

Doubles are good for lots of things—double scoops of ice cream, double features at the movies. But double vision is NOT a good kind of double. In fact, it can make kindergarten kind of hard. Ginny sees double chairs at reading circle and double words in her books. She knows that only half of what...
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Planes Fly!

with audio recording

by George Ella Lyon
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013

From the author of Trucks Roll!, an up-in-the-clouds exploration of all things airplane. World’s mighty big but there’s just one sky and it’s yours to travel. Planes fly! Take to the skies with this fun, rhyming book about all that planes do! From jet planes to puddle jumpers,...
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How the Cookie Crumbled

The True (and Not-So-True) Stories of the Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie

by Gilbert Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

In this unique and clever picture book, Gilbert Ford sheds a little light on everyone’s favorite sweet treat—the chocolate chip cookie—and reminds readers everywhere that just because a story is told doesn’t mean it’s true. Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Mmmmm! Everyone loves chocolate...
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by William Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017

Way up high in the Rolie Polie Sky is a little round planet of a really swell guy… Follow along as Olie and Zowie Polie go on fantastical adventures in this classic picture book-turned-beloved-TV-show from the brilliant mind that brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Rolie...
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by Alice Dalgliesh
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012

In this festive Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, Alice Dalgiesh brings to life the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday for readers of all ages. Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things...
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by Tom Chapin, Michael Mark
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

What’s the best way to cure a gloomy day? A trip to the library! Based on the hit song by Tom Chapin and Michael Mark, here is an affectionate, exuberant, uproarious celebration of books, reading, and—SHHH!—libraries! The rain is pouring, Dad is snoring, and the same old stuff is on TV—boring. What...
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The Music of Life

Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano

by Elizabeth Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Rusch and two-time Caldecott Honor–recipient Marjorie Priceman team up to tell the inspiring story of the invention of the world’s most popular instrument: the piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori coaxes just the right sounds from the musical instruments he makes....
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Who Built the Stable?

with audio recording

by Ashley Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

Who built the stable where Jesus lay? Multiple Coretta Scott King Award–winner Ashley Bryan has a very good idea in this beautiful and moving new layer to the nativity story. Riding in an open Jeep across the plains of Africa, beloved and nationally acclaimed author and illustrator Ashley...
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by William Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

A singing frog reluctantly babysits a duck egg in this sweetly hilarious picture book from the brilliant mind that brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. While egg-sitting for his friend Kack Kack the duck, Bently Hopperton the frog is so bored that he cannot resist...
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Jazz Age Josephine

Dancer, singer--who's that, who? Why, that's MISS Josephine Baker, to you! (with audio recording)

by Jonah Winter
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012

A picture book biography that will inspire readers to dance to their own beats! Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She lived by her own rules and helped to shake up the status quo with wild costumes and a you-can’t-tell-me-no attitude...
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by William Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

Three kids venture to the North Pole to help Santa defeat an army of evil elves in this holiday classic from the brilliant mind that brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Art Atchinson Aimesworth—inventor, crime fighters, and all-around whiz kid—journeys north with...
Cover of Snowie Rolie
by William Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

Way up high in the Rolie Polie Sky is a little round planet of a really swell guy… Olie’s Rolie Polie world has turned snowy! But when the sun turns back on, what will happen to Olie’s new buddy, Mr. Snowie? Find out in this classic picture book-turned-beloved-TV-show from the brilliant...
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Buddy

Based on the True Story of Gertrude Lintz

by William Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

Get to know the gorilla who was raised like a human in this “captivating” (School Library Journal) picture book classic inspired by a true story from the brilliant mind that brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Gertrude Lintz loved animals. And she had dozens,...
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Albert's Halloween

The Case of the Stolen Pumpkins (with audio recording)

by Leslie Tryon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Someone has stolen eighteen pumpkins from Patsy Pig's Pleasant Valley Pumpkin Patch! Chief Detective Albert and his pals (see below) are hot on the trail of the Pumpkin Thief -- but they need your help, or there may be no jack-o'-lanterns this Halloween! Follow along as theygo from clue to clue until...
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