We Love New York!
Take a bite out of the Big Apple with these great books for kids!
YOUNGER READERS:
Fiction
- Averill, Esther. Jenny's birthday book
- Avi. Silent movie
- Barracca, Debra and Sal. The adventures of taxi dog
- Bartone, Elisa.
American too &
Peppe the lamplighter
- Bildner, Phil. Twenty-one elephants
- Buehner, Caralyn and Mark. The escape of Marvin the ape
- Burleigh, Robert. Lookin' for Bird in the big city
- Collier, Bryan. Uptown
- DeSaix, Frank. Hilary & the lions
- Dorros, Arthur. Abuela
- Drummond, Allan. Liberty!
- Egan, Tim. Dodsworth in New York
- Egielski, Richard. The gingerbread boy
- Enderle, Judith Ross. Where are you, little Zack?
- Freeman, Lydia and Don. Pet of the Met
- Fromental, Jean-Luc. Broadway chicken
- Godwin, Laura. Central Park serenade
- Goode, Diane.
Most perfect spot &
Tiger trouble!
- Greenberg, Melanie. Mermaids on Parade
- Hall, Bruce Edward. Henry and the kite dragon
- Hest, Amy. When you meet a bear on Broadway
- High, Linda Oatman. Under New York
- Jacobs, Paul DuBois. My subway ride
- Johnson, Stephen T. Alphabet city
- Kalman, Maira. Next stop, Grand Central
- Khalsa, Dayal Kaur. How pizza came to Queens
- Konigsburg, E.L. Amy Elizabeth explores Bloomingdale's
- Lobel, Arnold. On the day Peter Stuyvesant sailed into town
- Low, William. Chinatown
- McGinley, Phyllis. The horse who lived upstairs
- Miranda, Anne. The elephant at the Waldorf
- Priest, Robert. The old pirate of Central Park
- Rael, Elsa. What Zeesie saw on Delancey Street
- Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach
- Roth, Susan L. It's a dog's New York
- Scieszka, Jon. Seen Art?
- Singer, Marilyn. City lullaby
- Sis, Peter. Madlenka
- Sorel, Edward. The Saturday kid
- Stevenson, James. Howard
- Swift, Hildegarde H. The little red lighthouse and the great gray bridge
- Taylor, Debbie A. Sweet music in Harlem
- Thompson, Kay. Eloise: a book for precocious grown ups
- Torres, Leyla. Subway sparrow
- Uhlberg, Myron. Flying over Brooklyn
- Waber, Bernard. The house on East 88th Street
- Weitzman, Jacqueline Preiss. You can't take a balloon into the Metropolitan Museum
- West, Jim. The dog who sang at the opera
- Wiesner, David. Sector 7
- Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale
Non-Fiction
- Brown, Don. Kid Blink beats The World
- Crews, Nina. The neighborhood Mother Goose
- Curlee, Lynn.
The Brooklyn Bridge
& Liberty
- Gerstein, Mordicai. The man who walked between the towers
- Goodman, Susan E. On this spot: an expedition back through time
- Hopkinson, Deborah. Sky boys: how they built the Empire State Building
- Hughes, Langston. The block: poems
- Jakobsen, Kathy. My New York
- Kalman, Maira. Fireboat: the heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey
- Low, William. Old Penn Station
- Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Museum 123 &
Museum ABC
- Munro, Roxie. The inside-outside book of New York City
- Myers, Walter Dean. Harlem: a poem
- Quackenbush, Robert. Pop! goes the weasel and Yankee Doodle
- Sasek, M. This is New York
- Schulman, Janet. Pale Male: citizen hawk of New York City
- Shapiro, Mary J. How they built the Statue of Liberty
- Spier, Peter. The legend of New Amsterdam
- Steig, William. When everybody wore a hat
- Sweet, Melissa. Balloons Over Broadway
- Talbott, Hudson. River of dreams: the story of the Hudson River
- Weber, Paige. New York
- Ziefert, Harriet.
Lights on Broadway: a theatrical tour from A to Z
OLDER READERS:
Middle Grade Fiction
- Averill, Esther. Jenny and the Cat Club
- Avi. The seer of shadows
- Blume, Judy. Tales of a fourth grade nothing
- Bowdish, Lynea. Brooklyn, Bugsy, and me
- Broach, Elise. Masterpiece
- Cohen, Barbara. Thank you, Jackie Robinson
- Cohen, Miriam. Mimmy and Sophie: all around the town
- Davis, Lavinia R. Island city: adventures of old New York
- Enright, Elizabeth. The Saturdays
- Estes, Eleanor.
The Alley &
The lost umbrella of Kim Chu
- Fox, Paula. Monkey island
- Giff, Patricia Reilly.
A house of tailors,
Lily's crossing &
Water Street
- Gray, Luli. Falcon's egg
- Greenwald, Sheila. Rosy Cole's worst ever, best yet tour of New York City
- Hesse, Karen. Brooklyn Bridge: a novel
- Hest, Amy. Love you, soldier
- Hurwitz, Johanna.
The adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein,
Baseball fever,
Park Pals &
Riverside Kids
- Konigsburg, E.L. From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Kroll, Steven. When I dream of heaven: Angelina’s story
- Lasky, Kathryn. Dreams in the golden country: the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl
- Levine, Gail Carson. Dave at night
- Lord, Bette Bao. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
- Merrill, Jean. The pushcart war
- Moskin, Marietta. Day of the blizzard
- Napoli, Donna Jo. The king of Mulberry Street
- Neville, Emily.
It's like this, Cat &
The Seventeenth-Street gang
- Osborne, Mary Pope. Blizzard of the blue moon
- Park, Linda Sue. Keeping score
- Peck, Richard. Voices after midnight: a novel
- Sachs, Marilyn. Call me Ruth
- Sawyer, Ruth. Roller skates
- Scieszka, Jon. 2095
- Selden, George. The cricket in Times Square
- Snyder, Carol. Ike & Mama and the once-in-a-lifetime movie
- Stead, Rebecca. When you reach me
- Stevens, Carla. Anna, Grandpa, and the big storm
- Taylor, Sydney. All-of-a-kind family
- Tripp, Valerie.
Happy birthday, Samantha! A springtime story &
Changes for Samantha: a winter story
- Van Leeuwen, Jean. The great Googlestein museum mystery
- Weston, Carol. Melanie in Manhattan
- Winthrop, Elizabeth. The Red-Hot Rattoons
Young Adult Fiction
Non-Fiction
- Bailin, Mindy. Fodor’s Around New York City with kids
- Bial, Raymond.
Ellis Island: coming to the land of liberty &
Tenement: immigrant life on the Lower East Side
- Bierman, Carol. Journey to Ellis Island: how my father came to America
- Doherty, Craig A. and Katherine M. The Empire State Building
- DuTemple, Lesley A. The New York subways
- Emerson, Caroline Dwight. New York City, old and new
- Faxon, Lavinia. A young explorer's New York: maps of Manhattan
- Fineberg, Roberta. City riders: a story of riding and friendship
- Flippin, Alexis Lipsitz. Frommer’s New York City with kids
- Fradin, Dennis B. The New York colony
- Getzinger, Donna. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
- Goodman, Michael.
The history of the New York Mets &
The history of the New York Yankees
- Grabowski, John F. The New York Yankees
- Holland, Gini. The Empire State Building
- Hopkinson, Deborah. Shutting out the sky: life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924
- Hults, Dorothy Niebrugge. New Amsterdam days and ways: the Dutch settlers of New York
- Jagendorf, M.A. The Ghost of Peg-Leg Peter, and other stories of old New York
- Lang, Glenna. Genius of common sense: Jane Jacobs and the story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Levine, Ellen. If your name was changed at Ellis Island
- Macaulay, David. Unbuilding
- Mann, Elizabeth. The Brooklyn Bridge: a wonders of the world book
- Marcus, Leonard S. Storied city: a children's book, walking-tour guide to New York City
- Marx, Trish. Steel drumming at the Apollo: the road to super top dog
- Matsen, Brad. Go wild in New York City
- Mercer, Charles. Statue of Liberty
- Murphy, Jim. Blizzard! The storm that changed America
- Myers, Walter Dean. Here in Harlem: poems in many voices
- New York Times. A nation challenged: a visual history of 9/11 and its aftermath
- Rector, Anne Elizabeth. Anne Elizabeth's diary: a young artist's true story
- Rust, Claude. The burning of the General Slocum
- Sandler, Martin W.
Island of hope: the story of Ellis Island and the journey to America &
Secret subway: the fascinating tale of an amazing feat of engineering
- Siegel, Beatrice. George and Martha Washington at home in New York
- St. George, Judith. The Brooklyn Bridge: they said it couldn't be built
- Thoms, Annie, ed. With their eyes: September 11th, the view from a high school at Ground Zero
- Zoehfeld, Kathleen W. Wild lives: a history of the people & animals of the Bronx Zoo
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