From Our Bookshelves 2014

If you haven't tired of lists yet, we have one more for you to peruse--our favorites.  These are 2014 books that we read, re-read, shared, and bought for our personal library shelves.  Every title is a keeper!

Picture Books:

• Have You Seen My Dragon? by Steve Light
• Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan
• Shh! We Have Plan by Chris Haughton
• Take Away the A by Michael Escoffier, illustrated by Kris Di Giacomo
• The Storm Whale by Benji Davies
• Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen
• My Grandfather's Coat by Jim Aylesworth, illustrated Barbara McClintock

Fiction:

• Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee
• Revolution by Deborah Wiles
• The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
• The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm

Nonfiction:

• The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
• He Has Shot the President!: April 14, 1865: The Day John Wilkes Booth Killed President Lincoln by Don Brown
• Gravity by Jason Chin
• The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant, illustrated Melissa Sweet

Poetry:

• How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Hadley Hooper
• Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko, illustrated Melissa Sweet
• On the Wing by David Elliott, illustrated by Becca Stadlander