Amelia Bloomer Project Book List

The Amelia Bloomer Project (a Feminist Task Force committee) 2009 list is now available.

The Amelia Bloomer Project is a committee which creates a recommended book list of newly published books with significant feminist content for youth readers, ages birth through age 18. Part of the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association, the Amelia Bloomer Project publishes a list during ALA Midwinter meetings.


You can find it on their blog: http://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/.

They can also be found on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/amelia_bloomer_project

It will soon also appear on the FTF website: http://libr.org/ftf/bloomer.html

Picture Books on Colors

A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin
Color by Ella Doran
Color Surprises: A Pop-up Book by Chuck Murphy
Colors by Heidi Goennel
Counting Colors: Seek & Find by Roger Priddy
Freight Train by Donald Crews

Newbery/Caldecott Winners 2009

Caldecott Winner
The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson and Beth Krommes

Newbery Winner
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Caldecott Honor Books
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A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee
How I learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Melissa Sweet

Newbery Honor Books
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The Underneath by Kathi Applet
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle For Freedom by Margarita Engle
Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson


If you are looking for past Newbery or Caldecott winners try the ALA website: