This Land is Your Land:
Selected Best Children's Picture Books for 2001
List compiled by Susan P. Bloom,
Director Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College, Boston

Handel Who Knew What He Liked
by M.T. Anderson, illus. by Kevin Hawkes
Candlewick Press

Milo's Magic Hat Trick
written & illus. by Jon Agee
Hyperion

Crossing
by Philip Booth, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline
Candlewick Press

Ten Seeds
written & illus. by Ruth Brown
Knopf

Two Little Trains
by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Leo & Diane Dillon
HarperCollins

Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People
written & illus. by Bonnie Christensen
Knopf

Olivia at the Circus
written & illus. by Ian Falconer
Atheneum

Ride
written & illus. byStephen Gammell
Harcourt

"Let's Get a Pup," Said Kate!
written & illus. by Bob Graham
Candlewick Press

The Mouse and His Child
by Russell Hoban; illus. by Davis Small
Levine/Scholastic

Five Creatures
by Emily Jenkins.illus by Tomek Nogacki
Foster/Farrar

Everywhere Babies
Susan Myers; illustrations by Maria Frazee

Four In All
by Nina Payne, illus. by Adam Payne
Front Street

Awful Ogre's Aweful Day
by Jack Prelutsky, illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky
HarperCollins

Martin's Big Words
by Doreen Rappaport, illus. by Bryan Collier
Hyperion

The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
written & illus. by James Rumford
Houghton Mifflin

The Stray Dog
written & illus. by Marc Simont
HarperCollins

A Gift from Zeus
by Jeanne Steig, illus. by William Steig
HarperCollins

The Three Pigs
written & illus. by David Weisner
Clarion

Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
written & illus. by Vera Williams
Greenwillow

Some from the Moon, Some from the Sun
written & illus. by Margot Zemach
Farrar