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BKLYN BookMatch 2016 Challenge: Read Through the Decades - Children's Books

Challenge yourself in 2016! Read a children's book from each decade from 1900 to the present day. This list was created by librarians with the Brooklyn Public Library as a 2016 Reading Challenge. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit BKLYN BookMatch here: www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/readers-advisory

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Bronzeville boys and girls
by Gwendolyn Brooks ; illustrated by Faith Ringgold.
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1950s (published 1956)

Charlotte's web
by E. B. White ; pictures by Garth Williams.
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1950s (published 1952)

The snowy day
Ezra Jack Keats.
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1960s (published in 1962)

Harriet the spy
written & illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh.
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1960s (published 1964)

Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Judith Viorst ; illustrated by Ray Cruz.
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1970s (published 1972)

Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep.
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1970s (published 1975)

A chair for my mother
by Vera B. Williams.
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1980s (published 1982)

Ramona Quimby, age 8
Beverly Cleary ; illustrated by Alan Tiegreen.
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1980s (published 1981)

Yo! Yes?
by Chris Raschka.
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1990s (published 1998)

Walk two moons
by Sharon Creech.
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1990s (published 1994)