1. Best of the Best Children’s Books of 2012

2. Linda Mullen The Baldwin School Bryn Mawr, PA

3. A Home for Bird by Philip C. Stead (1)

4. And Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano illustrated by Erin E. Stead (2)

5. Bear Has a Story to Tell by Philip C. Stead illustrated by Erin E. Stead (3)

6. The Bear in the Book by Kate Banks illustrated by Georg Hallensleben (4)

7. Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds illustrated by Peter Brown (9)

8. Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (14)

9. Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Byrd (36)

10. In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz illustrated by Hugh D’Andrade (39)

11. Sadie and Ratz by Sonya Hartnett illustrated by Ann James (44)

12. Kelly Grimmett Friends Seminary New York, NY

13. Machines Go to Work in the City by William Low (20)

14. One Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo illustrated by David Small (26)

15. Penny and Her Doll by Kevin Henkes (27)

16. Fifty Cents and a Dream by Jabari Asim illustrated by Bryan Collier (37)

17. I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. illustrated by Kadir Nelson (38)

18. Twelve Kinds of Ice by Ellen Bryan Obed illustrated by Barbara McClintock (52)

19. Wonder by R.J. Palacio (55)

20. Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl (64)

21. Julie Tomer Andrew Mellon Middle School Pittsburgh, PA

22. Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words by Leda Schubert illustrated by Gerard DuBois (21)

23. Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck Close (35)

24. Little White Duck: A Childhood in China by Na Liu illustrated by Andrés Vera Martinez (42)

25. The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver illustrated by Bruno Iacopo (45)

26. Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (46)

27. Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (50)

28. Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead by Rebecca L. Johnson (56)

29. Fairy Ring: Or, Elsie and Frances Fool the World by Mary Losure (61)

30. No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (67)

31. Marti Trzepacz Strath Haven Middle School Wallingford, PA

32. I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes illustrated by Bryan Collier (16)

33. Island: A Story of the Galapagos by Jason Chin (40)

34. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate illustrated by Patricia Castelao (49)

35. Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson (51)

36. Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport (58)

37. Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (59)

38. One Times Square by Joe McKendry (68)

39. Son by Lois Lowry (70)

40. Catherine Stuart Rosemont School of the Holy Child

41. Cold Snap by Eileen Spinelli illustrated by Marjorie Priceman (8)

42. National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry by J. Patrick Lewis (22)

43. Nighttime Ninja by Barbara DeCosta illustrated by Ed Young (23)

44. The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis (48)

45. Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole (53)

46. Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure by Martin W. Sandler (63)

47. Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead (65)

48. Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal (71)

49. Martha Lambertsen Wallingford Elementary School Wallingford, PA

50. Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson illustrated by E.B. Lewis (11)

51. Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett illustrated by Jon Klassen (12)

52. Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems (13)

53. Jimmy the Greatest by Jairo Buitrago illustrated by Rafael Yockteng (17)

54. Oh, No! by Candace Fleming illustrated by Eric Rohmann (25)

55. Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (32)

56. Lulu and the Duck in the Park by Hilary McKay illustrated by Priscilla Lamont (43)

57. Who Could That be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket illustrated by Seth (54)

58. Diana Lamey Cheltenham School District Retired

59. Boot and Shoe by Marla Frazee (5)

60. Charley’s First Night by Amy Hest illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (7)

61. Just Ducks by Nicola Davies illustrated by Salvatore Rubbino (18)

62. Step Gently Out by Helen Frost illustrated by Rick Lieder (29)

63. It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw by Don Tate illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (41)

64. Drama by Raina Telgemeier (60)

65. Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip M. Hoose (66)

66. Summer of the Gypsy Moths by Sara Pennypacker (72)

67. Lynne Rudolph Cheltenham School District Retired

68. Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team by Audrey Vernick illustrated by Steven Salerno (6)

69. Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale (10)

70. Homer by Elisha Cooper (15)

71. Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski (28)

72. This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen (30)

73. Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems by Kate Coombs illustrated by Meilo So (31)

74. Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin (47)

75. Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney (62)

76. Carol Kennedy Garnet Valley School District, Retired

77. Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle by Claire A. Nivola (19)

78. Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm illustrated by Molly Bang (24)

79. A Black Hole is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano illustrated by Michael Carroll (33)

80. The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins (34)

81. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman (57)

82. The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano (69)

83. The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity by Elizabeth Rusch (73)

84. We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Y. Levinson (74)