Themes and subjects
ABC books
Banned books
Dinosaurs
Epic fantasies
Mother Goose books
Robin Smith's favorite second-grade
     read-alouds
South Asian books
Thrillers that sent chills up our spines

Books by . . .
Quentin Blake
Nicolas Debon
Olivier Dunrea
Madeleine L'Engle
Anne Fine
Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Michael Morpurgo
Elizabeth Partridge
Susan Patron
Sara Pennypacker
Lynne Rae Perkins
Chris Raschka
Michael Rosen
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
David Wiesner
Jacqueline Wilson

Individual titles
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger
King and King by Linda de Haan
      and Stern Nijland
Odd Man Out by Sarah Ellis
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round
     Things by Carolyn Mackler
George and Martha by James Marshall
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
      by J. K. Rowling
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Series
Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman