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児童書

絵本

The Eleventh Hour
by Graeme Base

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi Barrett

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
by Bill Martin, Jr.

The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
by Helen Oxenbury

I Spy
series by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick(言葉がないから)

GOING-TO-BED BOOK
by Sandra Boynton

The Hat
by Jan Brett

Extra Yarn
by Jon Klassen

The Jolly Postman
by Allen and Janet Ahlberg

Interrupting Chicken
by David Ezra Stein

How to Catch a Star
by Oliver Jeffers

Library Lion
by MIchelle Knudsen, Kevin Hawkes

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
by William Steig

How I Learned Geography
by Uri Shulevitz

Flotsam by David Wiesner

Are You My Mother? By P.D. Eastman

What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? By Steve Jenkins

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk

Olivia by Ian Falconer

Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall

Is your Mama a Llama? – Deborah Guarino

Mama, Do You Love Me – Barbara M. Joosee

Picture books by Bill Peet

 

児童文学(SFや冒険/スリラーを含む)

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

A Separate Peace (1951) by John Knowles

My Side of the Mountain (1959) by Jean Craighead George

Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958) by Philippa Pearce

The Adventures Of The Bailey School Kids by Debbie Dadey

The Ink Drinker by Eric Sanvoisin

The American Girls series by Valerie Tripp and other authors

Classic Goosebumps by R. L. Stine

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

The Absent Author (A to Z Mysteries) by Ron Roy

CAM Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds by David
A. Adler

The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy (Book 1) by Dori
Hillestad Butler

Nancy Drew: All New Girl Detective by Carolyn Keene

Poppy(The Poppy Stories) by Avi(同著者の他の作品を選んだため)

Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror
by Chris Priestley

 

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien(最後まで悩んだ作品)

Wayside School series (同著者の Holesを選んだため)

The Wind Boy
 by Ethel Cool Eliot

Tatsinda

The Blue Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang

Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil

Esther

Max and Ruby series

Each Peach Pear Plum

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke(この本から洋書を読み続けるようになるほどの魅力はない)

Leon and the Spitting Image by Allen Kerzweil

Monster

Z for Zachariah – Robert C. O’Brien

My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, Ruth Chrisman
Gannett

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds

Forever . . . by Judy Blume(Blumeは、小学生用の本を選択したので)

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Anna and French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Feed by M. T. Anderson

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Interrupting Chicken
by David Ezra Stein

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs(素晴らしいクラシックだが、絵のみで文章がないので、この本には不適切と判断)

Ella Enchanted
by Cail Carson Levine

The Maggie B by Irene Haas(絵本)
Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler, S.D. Schindler
Dav Pilkey(Captain Underpants シリーズ)

The Thief (The Queen’s Thief, Book 1) by Megan Whalen Turner

Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Big Red by Jim Kjeilgaard

Emily Windsnap series by Liz Kessler