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West Side Story is set in the mid 1950's, when many Puerto Ricans moved to NYC. The Jets are from Manhattan. They have ruled their "turf" for years, after defeating the Emeralds. The Sharks are from Puerto Rico. They have just recently come to NY, and want a "turf" of their own.

Who wrote West Side Story:

West Side Story is based on a conception by Jerome Robbins. Book by Arthur Laurents Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Music by Leonard Bernstein Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins Orchestrations by Leonard Bernstein with Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal Film Version: Directed by: Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins Screenplay: Ernest Lehman Choreography: Jerome Robbins

When was West Side Story written:

Jerome Robbins' proposed the idea for writing a musical based on Romeo and Juliet to Leonard Bernstein in January of 1949 (working title: East Side Story, set in the slums at the coincidence of Easter-Passover celebrations). In August of 1955, a meeting with Arthur Laurents produced another idea -- two teen-age gangs as the warring factions, one of them newly-arrived Puerto Ricans, the other self-styled "Americans." In November, 1955 Stephen Sondheim joined the project as lyricist. A year and a half later, rehearsals began for the Broadway premiere of West Side Story.

DIRECTED BY

Jerome Robbins

Robert Wise

WRITING CREDITS

Lehman ...(screenplay)

Arthur Laurents ...(book)

Jerome Robbins ...(play)

William Shakespeare ...(play) (uncredited)

CAST (IN CREDITS ORDER)

Natalie Wood ... Maria

Richard Beymer ... Tony

Russ Tamblyn ... Riff

Rita Moreno ... Anita

George Chakiris ... Bernardo

Simon Oakland ... Schrank

Ned Glass ... Doc

William Bramley ... Krupke

Tucker Smith ... Ice

Tony Mordente ... Action

David Winters ... A-rab

Eliot Feld ... Baby John

Bert Michaels ... Snowboy

David Bean ... Tiger

Robert Banas ... Joyboy

Anthony 'Scooter' Teague ... Big Deal (as Scooter Teague)

Harvey Evans ... Mouthpiece (as Harvey Hohnecker)

Tommy Abbott ... Gee-Tar

Susan Oakes ... Anybodys

Gina Trikonis ... Graziella

Carole D'Andrea ... Velma

Jose De Vega ... Chino

Jay Norman ... Pepe

Gus Trikonis ... Indio

Eddie Verso ... Juano

Jaime Rogers ... Loco

Larry Roquemore ... Rocco

Robert E. Thompson ... Luis (as Robert Thompson)

Nick Navarro ... Toro (as Nick Covacevich)

Rudy Del Campo ... Del Campo

Andre Tayir ... Chile

Yvonne Wilder ... Consuelo (as Yvonne Othon)

Suzie Kaye ... Rosalia

Joanne Miya ... Francisca

REST OF CAST LISTED ALPHABETICALLY:

John Astin ... Glad Hand (uncredited)

Francesca Bellini ... Debby, Snowboy's Girlfriend (uncredited)

Elaine Joyce ... Hotsie, Tiger's Girlfriend (uncredited)

Priscilla Lopez ... Child Extra (uncredited)

Marni Nixon ... Playback vocalist for Natalie Wood (uncredited)

Olivia Perez ... Margarita, Rocco's Girlfriend (uncredited)

Lou Ruggiero ... Police Officer #3 (uncredited)

Penny Santon ... Madam Lucia (uncredited)

Luci Stone ... Estella, Loco's Girlfriend (uncredited)

Pat Tribble ... Minnie, Baby John's Girlfriend (uncredited)

Gary Troy ... Dancer (uncredited)

Produced by Saul Chaplin ...associate producer

Walter Mirisch ...executive producer (uncredited)

Robert Wise ...producer (uncredited)

MUSIC BY

Leonard Bernstein

Irwin Kostal ...(uncredited)

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY

Daniel L. Fapp ...director of photography

FILM EDITING BY

Thomas Stanford ...film editor

PRODUCTION DESIGN BY

Boris Leven ...(production designed by)

SET DECORATION BY

Victor A. Gangelin ...(as Victor Gangelin)

COSTUME DESIGN BY

Irene Sharaff ...(costume designed by)

MAKEUP DEPARTMENT

Emile LaVigne ...makeup (as Emile La Vigne)

Alice Monte ...hairdresser

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

Allen K. Wood ...production manager

Hubert Fröhlich ...production manager (uncredited)

SECOND UNIT DIRECTOR OR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Robert E. Relyea ...assistant director

Jerome M. Siegel ...second assistant director

Ridgeway Callow ...assistant director (uncredited)

ART DEPARTMENT

Sam Gordon ...property

Maurice Zuberano ...production artist (as M. Zuberano)

Leon Harris ...production illustrator (uncredited)

William Maldonado ...construction coordinator (uncredited)

SOUND DEPARTMENT

Fred Lau ...sound

Gilbert D. Marchant ...sound editor

Murray Spivack ...sound

Vinton Vernon ...sound

Richard Gramaglia ...sound mixer (uncredited)

Fred Hynes ...sound recording supervisor (uncredited)

Gordon Sawyer ...sound supervisor (uncredited)

VISUAL EFFECTS BY

Saul Bass ...visual consultant

Linwood G. Dunn ...photographic effects (as Linwood Dunn)

STUNTS

Eli Bo Jack Blackfeather ...stunts (uncredited)

CAMERA AND ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT

Linwood G. Dunn ...title photographer (uncredited)

John Finger ...camera operator: title sequence (uncredited)

Ernst Haas ...still photographer (uncredited)

Jerome H. Klein ...electrician (uncredited)

Louis Kulsey ...dolly grip: title sequence (uncredited)

Tom May ...grip (uncredited)

Phil Stern ...still photographer (uncredited)

COSTUME AND WARDROBE DEPARTMENT

Bert Henrikson ...wardrobe

Editorial Department

Marshall M. Borden ...assistant editor

MUSIC DEPARTMENT

Leonard Bernstein ...music by

Richard Carruth ...music editor

Saul Chaplin ...musical supervisor

Johnny Green ...music conductor / musical supervisor

Irwin Kostal ...musical supervisor / orchestrator

Sid Ramin ...musical supervisor / orchestrator

Stephen Sondheim ...lyrics by

Robert Tucker ... vocal coach (as Bobby Tucker)

Betty Walberg ...musical assistant

Pete Candoli ...musician (uncredited)

Jack Dumont ...musician: saxophone (uncredited)

Walter A. Gest ...production music playback operator (uncredited)

Shelly Manne ...musician (uncredited)

Red Mitchell ...musician (uncredited)

Uan Rasey ...musician: trumpet soloist (uncredited)

Albert T. Viola ...musician (uncredited)

OTHER CREW

Tommy Abbott ...dance assistant

Margaret Banks ...dance assistant

Saul Bass ...titles

Robert E. Griffith ...based upon the play produced on the stage by

Howard Jeffrey ...dance assistant

Tony Mordente ...dance assistant

Harold Prince ...based upon the play produced on the stage by (as Harold S. Prince)

Jerome Robbins ...choreography by / stage play: director / stage play: orchestrator

Stanley Scheuer ...script supervisor (as Stanley K. Scheuer)

Roger L. Stevens ...by arrangement with

Hal Bell ...assistant choreographer (uncredited)

Jimmy Bryant ...singing voice: Tony (uncredited)

Kit Culkin ...dancer (uncredited)

John Flynn ...script supervisor (uncredited)

Gerald Freedman ...assistant: Mr. Robbins (uncredited)

Peter Gennaro ...co-choreographer (uncredited)

Maria Henley ...Shark dancer Teresita (uncredited)

Eliot Hyman ...production executive (uncredited)

Howard Jeffrey ...assistant choreographer: Mr. Robbins (uncredited)

Elaine Joyce ...dancer (uncredited)

George Lake ...assistant stage manager: stage production (uncredited)

Harold Mirisch ...production executive (uncredited)

Marvin Mirisch ...production executive (uncredited)

Howard Newman ...press representative (uncredited)

Arthur Rubin ...assistant stage manager: stage production (uncredited)

Wallace Siebert ...assistant: Mr. Gennaro (uncredited)

Ray Stark ...production executive (uncredited)

Lee Theodore ...assistant choreographer (uncredited) / dancer (uncredited)

Roxanne Tunis ...dancer (uncredited)

Betty Wand ...singing voice: Anita - "A Boy Like That/I Have a Love" (uncredited)

The Academy Award for Best Picture of 1961 went to the movie version of WSS. It earned a total of ten Oscars. Although Bernstein did not suffer the indignity of the mayhem perpetrated on his score in the movie of On The Town, the movie of WSS did make some minor alterations. I Feel Pretty was transferred to an earlier scene, the bridal shop. The location of Gee, Officer Krupke was interchanged with Cool. Sondheim also wrote new lyrics for America, performed by all the Sharks and their girls (in the stage version it is presented by four girls only).

These changes were judged to be necessary to sustain an on-rushing sense of doom. After all, the movie was not interrupted by an intermission during which an audience could recover form the devastation wrought by the danced Rumble. On stage, the bubbly I Feel Pretty, at the beginning of Act II, was a kind of extension of intermission babble. Good theater, but not good movie.

Despite this film being an update of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet", one of, if not the most famous element from that story is different here, in that both of the leads do not die at the end. Tony dies, but Maria survives.

Timeline: The process of the movie

6 JANUARY 1949

New York, NY

Jerome Robbins sets the West Side Story concept in motion.

25 AUGUST 1955

Beverly Hills, CA

A meeting with Arthur Laurents produces another idea: two teen-age gangs as the warring factions, one of them newly-arrived Puerto Ricans, the other self-styled "Americans."

14 NOVEMBER 1955 "A young lyricist named Stephen Sondheim came and sang us some of his songs today. What a talent! I think he's ideal for this project, as do we all. The collaboration grows."

-Leonard Bernstein

8 JULY 1957

New York, NY

Rehearsals begin.

20 AUGUST 1957

Washington D.C.

West Side Story opens in Washington D.C.

26 SEPTEMBER 1957

New York, NY

West Side Story opens on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre, runs for 732 performances.

1957

Original Broadway Cast Recording

13 APRIL 1958

Tony Awards

Best Choreographer (Jerome Robbins)

Best Scenic Designer (Oliver Smith)

18 OCTOBER 1961

United Artists motion picture released:

Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins

Starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris

1961

Film Soundtrack Recording

Reviews and Articles of West Side Story

THE NEW YORK TIMES

27 September 1957

Theatre: "West Side Story," The Jungles of the City

By BROOKS ATKINSON

Although the material is horrifying, the workmanship is admirable.

Gang warfare is the material of "West Side Story," which opened at the Winter Garden last evening, and very little of the hideousness has been left out. But the author, composer and ballet designer are creative artists. Pooling imagination and virtuosity, they have written a profoundly moving show that is as ugly as the city jungles and also pathetic, tender and forgiving.

Arthur Laurents has written the story of two hostile teen-age gangs fighting for supremacy amid the tenement houses, corner stores and bridges of the West Side. The story is a powerful one, partly, no doubt, because Mr. Laurents has deliberately given it the shape of "Romeo and Juliet." In the design of "West Side Story" he has powerful allies. Leonard Bernstein has composed another one of his nervous, flaring scores that capture the shrill beat of life in the streets. And Jerome Robbins, who has directed the production, is also its choreographer.

Since the characters are kids of the streets, their speech is curt and jeering. Mr. Laurents has provided the raw material of a tragedy that occurs because none of the young people involved understands what is happening to them. And his contribution is the essential one. But it is Mr. Bernstein and Mr. Robbins who orchestrate it. Using music and movement they have given Mr. Laurents' story passion and depth and some glimpses of unattainable glory. They have pitched into it with personal conviction as well as the skill of accomplished craftsmen.

In its early scenes of gang skirmishes, "West Side Story" is facile and a little forbidding -- the shrill music and the taut dancing movement being harsh and sinister. But once Tony of the Jets gang sees Maria of the Sharks gang, the magic of an immortal story takes hold. As Tony, Larry Kert is perfectly cast, plain in speech and manner; and as Maria, Carol Lawrence, maidenly soft and glowing, is perfectly cast also. Their balcony scene on the firescape of a dreary tenement is tender and affecting. From that moment on, "West Side Story" is an incandescent piece of work that finds odd bits of beauty amid the rubbish of the streets.

Everything in "West Side Story," is of a piece. Everything contributes to the total impression of wildness, ecstasy and anguish. The astringent score has moments of tranquility and rapture, and occasionally a touch of sardonic humor. And the ballets convey the things that Mr. Laurents is inhibited from saying because the characters are so inarticulate. The hostility and suspicion between the gangs, the glory of the nuptials, the terror of the rumble, the devastating climax -- Mr. Robbins has found the patterns of movement that express these parts of the story.

Most of the characters, in fact, are dancers with some images of personality lifted out of the whirlwind -- characters sketched on the wing. Like everything also in "West Side Story," they are admirable. Chita Rivera in a part equivalent to the nurse in the Shakespeare play; Ken Le Roy as leader of The Sharks; Mickey Calin as leader of The Jets; Lee Becker as a hobbledehoy girl in one gang -- give terse and vigorous performances.

Everything in "West Side Story" blends -- the scenery by Oliver Smith, the costumes by Irene Sharaff, the lighting by Jean Rosenthal. For this is one of those occasions when theatre people, engrossed in an original project, are all in top form. The subject is not beautiful. But what "West Side Story" draws out of it is beautiful. For it has a searching point of view.

THE DAILY NEWS

27 September 1957

(Originally published by the Daily News on September 27, 1957. This story was written by John Chapman.)

‘West Side Story’ premieres on Broadway in 1957

BY JOHN CHAPMAN

The American theatre took a venturesome forward step when the firm of Griffith & Prince presented "West Side Story" at the Winter Garden last evening.

This is a bold new kind of musical theatre - a juke-box Manhattan opera. It is, to me, extraordinarily exciting. In it, the various fine skills of show business are put to new tests, and as a result a different kind of musical has emerged.

The story is, roughly, Shakespeare's recounting of the love and deaths of Romeo and Juliet. But the setting is today's Manhattan, and the manner of telling the story is a provocative and artful blend of music, dance and plot - and the music and the dancing are superb.

Superb Score

In this present-day version of the theatre's greatest romance, the Montagus and Capulets become young New York gangs, one white, the other Puerto Rican. The Romeo is a white boy, the Juliet a Puerto Rican girl. In the big fight switch-blade knives are used instead of swords. The apothecary who gave Romeo his fateful potion now is a mild druggist who mans his soda fountain and wonders what the younger generation is coming to. And the younger generation, even if it does indulge in one rumble which results in murder, is not nearly as blackhearted as current news stories might make us believe.

The music of "West Side Story" is by Leonard Bernstein, and it is superb - and splendidly played by an orchestra directed by Max Goberman. In it there is the drive, the bounce, the restlessness and the sweetness of our town. It takes up the American musical idiom where it was left when George Gershwin died. It is fascinatingly tricky and melodically beguiling, and it marks the progression of admirable composer.

The story, about the fundamentally innocent hoodlums of our town, is by Arthur Laurents, and it is a lovely and moving one. But Laurents is not alone in telling this story, for his collaborator is Jerome Robbins, the choreographer. Robbins and his superb young dancers carry the plot as much as the spoken words and lyrics do.

The lyrics, by Stephen Sondheim, have simple grace, and there is a lovely tribute by the sidewalk Romeo to his dusky girl, Maria. There is a really beautiful scene in which the boy and the girl go through a make believe wedding in a shop for bridal clothing. And there is an uproariously funny one in which a so-called juvenile delinquent gets a going-over by all the authorities whose problem he is - the cop, the judge, the social worker and the psychiatrist. This young hoodlum manages to make his elders look pretty silly.

Wonderful Cast

The cast of "West Side Story" is, next to the music, the best part of the production. It is composed of young people of whom few have been heard. Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert carry the love story with effortless simplicity, and they sing beautifully. There are other engaging performances by Chita Rivera, Mickey Calin, Ken Le Roy and Art Smith (the druggist). But the company itself is the star of the show. These boys and girls sing, dance and act with such skill and sincerity that they bring the audience out of its seats and up on the stage with them - and the stage is not a stage but this fascinating and fearful town of Manhattan.

And the settings by Oliver Smith and the costumes by Irene Sharaff are a perfect part of a perfect production.

NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

27 September 1957

New York Herald Tribune, 9/27/57

Theater critic Walter Kerr wrote the following review of West Side Story for the New York Herald Tribune on September 27, 1957: The radioactive fallout from "West Side Story" must still be descending on Broadway this morning. Director, choreographer, and idea-man Jerome Robbins has put together, and then blasted apart, the most savage, restless, electrifying dance patterns we've been exposed to in a dozen seasons. The curtain rises on a silence, and a pause. It is the last silence and the last pause. Against an empty-eyed background of warehouse windows five or six blue-jacketed young delinquents, with the tribal-mark "Jets" scrawled across their taut shoulders, are lounging, waiting for the first faint whisper of violence. Their impatience comes to life in their fingers. A snapping rhythm begins to tap out a warning of mayhem to come. Knees begin to itch, and move, under the lazy, overcast mid-summer sky in Puerto-Rican New York. The Sharks--equally young, equally sick with very old hatreds--appear from the alleyways in twos and threes. There is a sneer, a hiss, a tempting and tantalizing thrust of an arm, and then--with a powerhouse downbeat from the orchestra pit--the sorry and meaningless frenzy is on. From this moment the show rides with a catastrophic roar over the spider-web fire-escapes, the shadowed trestles, and the plain dirt battlegrounds of a big city feud. Mr. Robbins never runs out of his original explosive life-force. Though the essential images are always the same--two spitting groups of people advancing with bared teeth and clawed fists upon one another--there is fresh excitement in the next debacle, and the next. When a gang leader advises his cohorts to play it "Cool," the intolerable tension between and effort at control and the instinctive drives of these potential killers is stingingly graphic. When the knives come out, and bodies begin to fly wildly through space under buttermilk clouds, the sheer visual excitement is breathtaking. .[Robbins] has almost sacrificially assisted in this macabre and murderous onslaught of movement by composer Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Bernstein has permitted himself a few moments of graceful, lingering melody: in a yearning "Maria," in the hushed falling line of "Tonight," in the wistful declaration of "I Have a Love." But for the most part he has served the needs of the onstage threshing machine, setting the fierce beat that fuses a gymnasium dance, putting a mocking insistence behind taunts at a policeman, dramatizing the footwork rather than lifting emotions into song. When hero Larry Kert is stomping out the visionary insistence of "Something's Coming" both music and tumultuous story are given their due. Otherwise it's the danced narrative that takes urgent precedence.

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March 25, 2017: The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Marianna Mayer & KY Craft; Princess Tales by Grace Maccarone & Gail de Marcken

March 26, 2017: The Snow Princess by Ruth Sanderson; The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Ruth Sanderson; Where Have the Unicorns Gone? By Jane Yolen & Ruth Sanderson

March 31, 2017: Skin Again by bell hooks & Chris Raschka; Would You Rather be a Princess or a Dragon? By Barney Saltzberg; Little Wing Learns to Fly by Calista Brill & Jennifer A Bell

April 1 – 2, 2017: Which Witch? By Eva Ibbotson

April 1 - 3, 2017: 4000 Years of Uppity Women by Vicki Leon

April 1 – 7, 2017: The Myrtles Plantation by Frances Kermeen

April 3 - 6, 2017: Goose Chase by Patrice Lidl

April 7, 2017: Outrageous Women of the Middle Ages by Vicki Leon

April 8, 2017: Voices of the Trojan War by Kate Hovey & Leonid Gore; A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan

April 8 - 20, 2017: Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon

April 10, 2017: Alice in Wonderland Down the Rabbit Hole by Joe Rhatigan & Charles Nurnberg & Eric Puybaret; Alice in Wonderland The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party by Joe Rhatigan & Charles Nurnberg & Eric Puybaret

April 13, 2017: Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen & Ming Li

April 14, 2017: Happy Birthday The Story of the World’s Most Popular Song by Nancy Kelley Allen & Gary Undercuffler; Claire and the Unicorn Happy Ever After by BG Hennessy & Susan Mitchell; You Make Me Happy by An Swerts & Jenny Bakker; The Happy Troll by Max Bolliger & Peter Sis; Happy with Me by Leo Timmers

April 16, 2016: Enchanted Pony Academy All That Glitters by Lisa Ann Scott

April 18, 2017: Sloppy Wants a Hug by Sean Julian

April 19, 2017: Melanie by Carol Carrick & Alisher Dianov; Happy by Emma Dodd; Crow by Leo Timmers; Happy Dreamer by Peter H. Reynolds

April 21: Happy Birthday, Monster by Scott Beck; The Wild Swans by Ken Setterington & Nelly&Ernst Hofer

April 25, 2017: A Mud Pie for Mother by Scott Beck; The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

April 26, 2017: Komodo! by Peter Sis; Enchanted Pony Academy Wings That Shine by Lisa Ann Scott

April 27, 2017: A Friend Like You by Andrea Schomburg & Barbara Rotten & Sean Julian; Pepito the Brave by Scott Beck; Together by Emma Dodd; Monsters Sleepover by Scott Beck; Always by Emma Dodd; Wish by Emma Dodd; Love by Emma Dodd; When I Grow Up by Emma Dodd; Enchanted Pony Academy Let It Glow by Lisa Ann Scott; Enchanted Pony Academy Dreams That Sparkle by Lisa Ann Scott

April 28, 2017: Everything by Emma Dodd; The Entertainer by Emma Dodd

April 29, 2017: My Best Friends by Anna Nilsen & Emma Dodd

April 30 – May 2, 2017: Nailed Ten Christian Myths that Show Jesus Never Existed at All by David Fitzgerald

May 6, 2017: Turtle Tug to the Rescue by Michael Slack; Forever by Emma Dodd; When You Were Born by Emma Dodd

May 6 – June 19, 2017: So High a Blood The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor That Time Forgot by Morgan Ring

May 6 – June 26, 2017: She-Wolves The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor

May 12, 2017: My Dad by Steve Smallman & Sean Julian; My Family Is a Zoo by KA Gerrard & Emma Dodd; What Do You Like to Wear? By Hannay Reidy & Emma Dodd; Bear Can’t Sleep by Marni McGee & Sean Julian

May 12 – June 1, 2017: From Eden to Exile Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible by Eric H. Cline

May 15, 2017: Foxy by Emma Dodd; I Love Bugs by Emma Dodd; Sea Monster and the Bossy Fish by Kate Messner & Andy Rash; A Donkey Reads by Muriel Mandell & Andre Letria

May 16, 2017: Kubla Khan The Emperor of Everything by Kathleen Krull & Robert Byrd

May 17, 2017: Foxy in Love by Emma Dodd; My Life as a Chicken by Ellen A Kelly & Michael Slack; The Little Wing Giver by Jacques Taravant & Peter Sis; Pirasaurs by Josh Funk & Michael Slack; Monkey Truck by Michael Slack; Elecopter by Michael Slack; Big brothers don’t take naps by Louise Borden & Emma Dodd; Nugget and Fang by Tammi Sauer & Michael Slack

May 19, 2017: The Monster Diaries by Luciano Saracino & Poly Bernatene

May 20, 2017: Giraffe Meets Bird by Rebecca Bender

May 20 – 22, 2017: Okapis by Christy Steele

May 23, 2017: Dirty Joe the Pirate a True Story by Bill Harley & Jack E. Davis; Tales of the Mushroom Folk by Signe Aspelin; Escargot by Dashka Slater & Sydney Hanson; King O’ the Cats by Aaron Shepard & Kristin Sorra

May 24, 2017: My Beautiful Birds by Suzanne Del Rizzo; Pandora by Victoria Turnbull; Cinderellaphant by Dianne de Las Casas & Stefan Jolet; The Blue Songbird by Vern Kousky

Mary 25, 2017: The Fox Wish by Kimiko Aman & Komako Sakai; Pretty Salma a Little Red Riding Story from Africa by Niki Daly; All Birds Have Anxiety by Kathy Hoopman

May 28, 2017: Twelve Dancing Unicorns by Alissa Heyman & Justin Gerard; The Moon Dragons by Dyan Sheldon & Gary Blythe; The Cajun Cornbread Boy by Dianne de Las Casas & Marita Gentry

May 30, 2017: Sleeping Bobby by Will Osborne & Mary Pope Osborne & Giselle Potter; Cinderella by Max Eilenberg & Niamh Sharkey; Little Red Riding Hood by Lari Don & Celia Chauffrey & Imelda Staunton; Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton; How Robin Saved Spring by Debbie Ouellet & Nicoletta Ceccoli; The Princess and the Pig by Jonathan Emmett & Poly Bernatene; The Cloud Spinner by Michael Catchpool & Alison Jay; The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson & Paul Howard; I’m Not Sleepy by Jane Chapman; Me Too, Grandma by Jane Chapman; Bedtime in the Forest by Kazuo Iwamura; Waking Beauty by Leah Wilcox & Lydia Monks; Prince Ribbit by Jonathan Emmett & Poly Beratene; Otto the Owl Who Loved Poetry by Vern Kousky; Hoot and Holler by Alan Brown & Rimantas Rolla; Yard Sale by Mitra Modarressi; The Little White Owl by Tracey Corderoy & Jane Chapman; Taking Care of Mama by Mitra Modarressi; Little Owl’s Day by Divya Srinivasan; Little Owl’s Night by Divya Sirinivasan; Seven Fathers by Ashley Ramsden & Ed Young; Little Red by Bethan Woollvin; Puss in Boots by Joy Cowley & Sam-hyeon Kim

May 31, 2017: The BFG by Roald Dahl; The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Mary Hoffman & Miss Clara

June 1, 2017: Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep by Gail Carson Levine

June 7, 2017: Scowl by Steve Smallman & Richard Watson; Because I Had a Teacher by Kobi Yamada & Natalie Russell

June 7 – July 17, 2017: Helping Children Succeed What Works and Why by Paul Tough; Poverty and Schooling in the US Contexts and Consequences by Sue Books

June 8, 2017: The Gigantic Turnip by Aleksei Tolstoy & Niamh Sharkey; The Sons of the Dragon King by Ed Young; Moon Mother by Ed Young; The Magical Snow Garden by Tracey Corderoy & Jane Chapman; If Kisses Were Colors by Janet Lawler & Alison Jay; White Wave A Chinese Tale by Diane Wolkstein & Ed Young; Hoot and Peep by Lita Judge; Owl Sees Owl by Laura Godwin & Rob Dunlavey; Timothy Tugbottom Says No by Anne Tyler & Mitra Modarressi; Sleeping Bunny by Emily Snowell Keller & Pamela Silin-Palmer; Yeh-Shen A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie & Ed Young

June 9, 2017: Hooray for Spring by Kazuo Iwamura; The Very Noisy Night by Diana Hendry & Jane Chapman; Hooray for Fall by Kazuo Iwamura; Hooray for Snow by Kazuo Iwamura

June 10, 2017: The Not-So Scary Snorklum by Paul Bright & Jane Chapman

June 12, 2017: Big Red and the Little Bitty Wolf by Jeanie Franz Ransom & Jennifer Zivoin; Sidney & Norman a tale of two pigs by Phil Vischer & Justin Gerard; Once Upon a Time, the End by Geoffrey Kloske & Barry Blitt; The Frog Prince Saves Sleeping Beauty by Charlotte Guillam & Dan Widdowson; October Smiled Back by Lisa Westberg Peters & Ed Young; The First Song Ever Sung by Laura Krauss Melmed & Ed Young; Desert Song by Tony Johnston & Ed Young; The Cat from Hunger Mountain by Ed Young; Lon Po Po a Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young; The Best Gift of All by Jonathan Emmett & Vanessa Cabban; Beyond the Great Mountains a Visual Poem about China by Ed Young; Clever Katya a Fairy Tale from Old Russia by Mary Hoffman & Marie Cameron; Hooray for Summer by Kazuo Iwamura; Hooray for Today by Brian Won; Moon Bear by Brenda Z Guiberson & Ed Young

June 14, 2017: Listen, Listen by Phillis Gershator & Alison Jay; Crabs, Crayfishes, and Their Relatives by Beth Blaxland

June 15, 2017: Sun, Moon, and Stars by Mary Hoffman & Jane Ray

June 18, 2017: Cats Are Cats by Nancy Larrick & Ed Young; For Biddle’s Sake by Gail Carson Levine; The Princess Test by Gail Carson Levine; The Fairy’s Mistake by Gail Carson Levine

June 19, 2017: The Fairy’s Return by Gail Carson Levine

June 22, 2017: Cinderellis and the Glass Hill by Gail Carson Levine

June 23, 2017: Gooseberry Goose by Claire Freedman & Vanessa Cabban; Down in the Woods at Sleepytime by Carole Lexa Schaefer & Vanessa Cabban; Where There’s a Bear, There’s Trouble by Michael Catchpool & Vanessa Cabban; Hooray for Hat by Brian Won

June 24, 2017: Hurry Hurry Have You Heard by Laura Krauss Melmed & Jane Dyer; Jumbo’s Lullaby by Laura Krauss Melmed & Henri Sorensen; Through the Heart of the Jungle by Jonathan Emmett & Elena Gomez; Twelve Terrible Things by Marty Kelley; The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Jerry Pinkney; Breezier, Chessier, Newest, and Bluest by Brian P. Cleary & Brian Gable; A Chocolate Moose for Dinner by Fred Gwynne; Under, Over, By the Clover by Brian P Cleary & Brian Gable; Twenty Heartbeats by Dennis Haseley & Ed Young

June 25, 2017: Warhorses by Yusef Komunyakaa

June 26, 2017: The Last Unicorn the Lost Version by Peter S. Beagle

June 26 – June 30, 2017: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George

June 27, 2017: Betsy Who Cried Wolf by Gail Carson Levine & Scott Nash; The Hunter by Mary Casanova & Ed Young; The Princess and the Frogs by Veronica Bartles & Sara Palacios; Betsy Red Hoodie by Gail Carson Levine & Scott Nash

June 29, 2017: Georgie’s Best Bad Day by Ruth Chan; The Cat Book by Silvia Borando; The Tortoise & the Hare by Jerry Pinkney

June 30, 2017: Beauty and the Beast by H. Chuku Lee & Pat Cummings; Beauty and the Beast by Ursula Jones & Sarah Gibb; The Seal Mother by Mordicai Gerstein

July 1, 2017: Feet and Puppies, Thieves and Guppies by Brian P. Cleary & Brian Gable; Yaks Yak by Linda Sue Park & Jennifer Black Reinhardt; Pete with No Pants by Rowboat Watkins; Where’s My Truck by Karen Beaumont & David Catrow; The Catawampus Cat by Jason Carter Eaton & Gus Gordon; Puss in Boots by Jerry Pinkney; A Most Mysterious Mouse by Antony Shugaar, Giovanna Zoboli, & Lisa D’Andrea; Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling & Jerry Pinkney; Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack & Jerry Pinkney; Three Little Kittens by Jerry Pinkney; Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Jerry Pinkney; Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon & Jerry Pinkney; The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney

July 1 - 3 2017: Katherine Howard A New History by Conor Byrne

July 3, 2017: Home Place by Crescent Dragonwagon & Jerry Pinkney; Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins; The Ugly Duckling by Jerry Pinkney; The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart & Sydney Smith; Ideas Are All Around by Philip C. Stead; The Grasshopper & the Ants by Jerry Pinkney; Bear Has a Story to Tell by Philip C. Stead & Erin E. Stead

July 4, 2017: Otto the Book Bear by Katie Cleminson

July 7, 2017: Hotel Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins; Sidewalk Flowers by Jon Arno Lawson & Sydney Smith; Rude Cakes by Rowboat Watkins; Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole; Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Crescent Dragonwagon & Jerry Pinkney; Sometimes It’s Storks by LJR Kelly & the Brothers Hilts; A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston; Big and Small, Room for All by Jo Ellen Bogart & Gillian Newland; Pinduli by Janell Cannon; Magic Box by Katie Cleminson; All the Awake Animals are almost asleep by Crescent Dragonwagon & David McPhail; Bringing Down the Moon by Jonathan Emmett & Vanessa Cabban; The Third Gift by Linda Sue Park & Bagram Ibatoulline

July 7 - 8, 2017: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

July 8, 2017: The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers; The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers; Clovis Crawfish and His Friends by Mary Alice Fontenot & Keith Graves; A Bat Cannot Bat, a Stair Cannot Stare by Brian P Cleary & Martin Goneau; Clovis Crawfish and Fedora Field Mouse by Mary Alice Fontenot & Scott R Blazek; Be Quiet by Ryan T Higgins; The Dragon Prince by Laurence Yep & Kam Mak; The Shell Woman & the King by Laurence Yep & Yang Ming-Yi; Verdi by Janell Cannon; Wilfred by Ryan Higgins; Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz & Sydney Smith; The Boy Who Swallowed Snakes by Laurence Yep & Jean&Mou-Sien Tseng; The Khan’s Daughter by Laurence Yep & Jean&Mou-Sien Tseng

July 10, 2017: Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers; Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers; This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers; Cuddle Up, Goodnight by Katie Cleminson; Cat Knit by Jacob Grant

July 13, 2017: The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers; Bad Boys by Margie Palatini & Henry Cole; Chicken Big by Keith Graves; Stuck by Oliver Jeffers; How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers; Jack’s Garden by Henry Cole; Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer & Oliver Jeffers

July 14, 2017: Three Nasty Gnarlies by Keith Graves; The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers; Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance by Keith Graves; Livingstone Mouse by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole; Rosie’s Roses by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole; Puppy by Keith Graves; Armadillo Tattletale by Helen Ketterman & Keith Graves; Desert Rose and Her Highfalutin Hog by Alison Jackson & Keith Graves; Dinorella a Prehistoric Fairy Tale by Pamela Duncan Howard & Henry Cole; The Worrywarts by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole

July 15 - 26, 2017: Edward II the Unconventional King by Kathryn Warner

July 24, 2017: A Very Curious Bear by Tony Mitton & Paul Howard; Little Bird’s Bad Word by Jacob Grant; Scaredy Kate by Jacob Grant; While the World Is Sleeping by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Daniel Kirk

July 27, 2017: Hook by Ed Young; Diamond in the Snow by Jonathan Emmett & Vanessa Cabban; If… by Sarah Perry; The Girl Who Loved the Wind by Jane Yolen & Ed Young; All of You Was Singing by Richard Lewis & Ed Young; The Lost Horse by Ed Young; Petrouchka by Elizabeth Cleaver

July 28, 2017: A Strange Place to Call Home by Marilyn Singer & Ed Young; The Blue Songbird by Vern Kousky; A Ladder to the Stars by Simon Puttock & Alison Jay; The Rainbabies by Laura Krauss Melmed & Jim LaMarche

July 29, 2017: Nailheads & Potato Eyes by Cynthia Basil & Janet McCaffery; The Girl’s Like Spaghetti by Lynne Truss & Bonnie Timmons; This for That by Verna Aardema & Victoria Chess; All Ducks Are Birds (But Not All Birds Are Ducks) by Tara Michele Zrinski; Eats, Shoots, & Leaves by Lynne Truss & Bonnie Timmons

July 31, 2017: Tony by Ed Galing & Erin E. Stead

August 1, 2017: What If… by Anthony Browne; Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne; Twenty-Odd Ducks by Lynne Truss & Bonnie Timmons; A Cat Named Swan by Holly Hobbie; Into the Forest by Anthony Browne; The Seven Chinese Sisters by Kathy Tucker & Grace Lin

August 11, 2017: Nursery Tales Around the World by Judy Sierra & Stefano Vitale

August 11-12, 2017: I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew by Dr. Seuss

August 13, 2017: I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano; The Wisdom of Owls by Debbie Mumm; The Butterfly’s Treasure by Schim Schimmel

August 13 – 14, 2017: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving & Will Moses

August 14 – 15, 2017: Blackwater by Eve Bunting

August 15, 2017: The Red Tree by Shaun Tan; The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan; Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan; The Owl and the Lemming by Roselynn Akulukjuk & Amanda Sandland; The Butterfly Boy by Laurence Yep & Jeanne M. Lee

August 16 – 17, 2017: Weird but True by Leslie Gilbert Elman

August 18, 2017: Jeremiah Learns to Read by Jo Ellen Bogart & Laura Fernandez & Rick Jacobson; Princess Sophie and the Six Swans by Kim Jacobs; Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan; The Rabbits by John Marsden & Shaun Tan

August 21, 2017: the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace

August 22 – 26, 2017: The Clockwork Teddy by John J. Lamb

August 22 – 29, 2017: Choice Words by Peter H. Johnston;

August 25 – October 24, 2017: Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design Choosing Among Five Approaches by John W. Creswell & Cheryl N. Poth

August 30, 2017: Someday by Eileen Spinelli & Rosie Winstead; An Octopus Followed Me Home by Dan Yaccarino; Unlovable by Dan Yaccarino; The Little Bad Little Pig by Margaret Wise Brown & Dan Yaccarino; Cat Talk by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan Charest; Your Moon, My Moon by Patricia MacLachlan & Bryan Collier

September 3 - 9, 2017: The Mournful Teddy by John J. Lamb

September 9 -20, 2017: The False-Hearted Teddy by John J. Lamb

September 14, 2017: Painting the Wind by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan & Katy Schneider; I Am A Story by Dan Yaccarino; I Didn’t Do It by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan Charest & Katy Schneider; The Best Story by Eileen Spinelli & Anne Wilsdorf; What You Know First by Patricia MacLachlan & Barry Moser; The Moon’s Almost Here by Patricia MacLachlan & Tomie dePaola; A Squiggly Story by Andrew Larsen & Mike Lowery; The Word Collector by Sonja Wimmer; Someone Like Me by Patricia MacLachlan & Chris Sheban; Lala Salama A Tanzanian Lullaby by Patricia MacLachlan & Elizabeth Zunon

September 15, 2017: The Color of Home by Mary Hoffman & Karin Littlewood; Tell Me What to Dream About by Giselle Potter

September 16, 2017: The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles by Michelle Cuevas & Erin E. Stead

September 20 - 25, 2017: The Crafty Teddy by John J. Lamb

September 21, 2017: The Women at the Well by Grace Bauer; Bittle by Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan & Dan Yaccarino; Kate and the Beanstalk by Mary Pope Osborne & Giselle Potter; That Book Woman by Heather Henson & David Small; The Year I Didn’t Go to School by Giselle Potter; Cecil the Pet Glacier by Matthea Harvey & Giselle Potter; Crush by Richard Siken

September 21 – October 3, 2017: 1491 New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

September 21 – October 19, 2017: The Poems of Emily Dickinson ed. by R.W. Franklin

September 25 - 30, 2017: The Treacherous Teddy by John J. Lamb

September 28, 2017: Playing from the Heart by Peter H. Reynolds; Happy Dreamer by Peter H. Reynolds; The Water Princess by Susan Verde & Peter H. Reynolds; I watched you disappear by Anya Krugovoy Silver

September 30, 2017: Trail of Stones by Gwen Strauss; Classic Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm by Francesca Rossi; Six Blind Mice and an Elephant by Jude Daly

October 1 - 5, 2017: Treasures in Dust by Tracey Porter

October 4 - 7, 2017: How To Write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia

October 5, 2017: The Town In the Library by E. Nesbit; The Last of the Dragons by E. Nesbit & Peter Firmin; The Rainforest Grew All Around by Susan K. Mitchell & Connie McLennan; Melisande by E. Nesbit & PJ Lynch; The Mysterious Traveler by Mal Peet, Elspeth Graham, & PJ Lynch; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by PJ Lynch; Jack and the Beanstalk by E. Nesbit & Matt Taveres; Louisiana Through My Lens by Chad Guidry & Yvette Naquin; The King of Ireland’s Son by Brendan Behan & PJ Lynch; Lionel and the Book of Beasts by E. Nesbit & Michael Hague; Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth by Douglas Wood & PJ Lynch; Llama Llama Time to Share by Anne Dewdney

October 6 - 8, 2017: Quotes That Will Change Your Life ed. by Russ Kick

October 6, 2017: Tashi and the Forbidden Room by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, & Kim Gamble; Who Said by Jennifer Michael Hecht; From Nothing by Anya Krugovoy Silver; Catkin by Antonia Barber & PJ Lynch; Splat Says Thank You by Rob Scotton; The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler; Hey That’s My Monster by Amanda Noll & Howard McWilliam

October 7, 2017: Tashi by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, & Kim Gamble; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Jon Erickson & Jan Morgensen; Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Cynthia Rylant & Jen Corace; The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy; Transformations by Anne Sexton; My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett & Ruth Chrisman Gannett; Elmer and the Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett & Ruth Chrisman Gannett; The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett & Ruth Chrisman Gannett

October 8 - 27, 2017: Voodoo Queen the Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward

October 12, 2017: The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Adrian Mitchell & Jonathan Heale; There Once Was a Boy Called Tashi by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, & Kim Gamble; Russel’s Christmas Magic by Rob Scotton; Love, Splat by Rob Scotton; The Straw Maid by Anita Lobel; Splish, Splash, Splat by Rob Scotton; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Joohee Yoon; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Thomas Di Grazia

October 13, 2017: Splat the Cat and the Late Library Book by Cari Meister & Robert Eberz; Russell and the Lost Treasure by Rob Scotton; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Paul Galdone; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Rachel Isadora

October 17, 2017: The Frog Princess by Elizabeth Isle & Michael Hague

October 18 – 19, 2017: The Swan’s Stories by Hans Christian Anderson, Brian Alderson, & Chris Riddell

October 19, 2017: The Crucible by Arthur Miller; Eve’s Red Dress by Diane Lockward; Poisoned Apples Poems for You My Pretty by Christine Heppermann; Voices of the Trojan War by Kate Hovey & Leonid Gore; the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace

October 21, 2017: The Foxwood Surprise by Cynthia & Brian Paterson; The Foxwood Smugglers by Cynthia & Brian Paterson; The Fairies by William Allingham & Michael Hague; Calendarbears by Kathleen & Michael Hague; The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Fred Marcellino & To Seidler; The Unicorn Alphabet by Marianna Meyer & Michael Hague; Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton; Michael Hague’s Treasury of Christmas Carols; Splat and the Cool School Trip by Rob Scotton; Robbery at Foxwood by Cynthia & Brian Paterson; The Foxwood Kidnap by Cynthia & Brian Paterson; The Foxwood Regatta by Cynthia & Brian Paterson

October 23, 2017: Speaking of Art Colorful Quotes by Famous Painters ed. by Bob Raczka; Secret Agent Splat by Rob Scotton; Marilyn’s Monster by Michelle Knudsen & Matt Phelan; The Foxwood Treasure by Cynthia & Brian Paterson

October 24, 2017: Into the Dark & Emptying Field by Rachel McKibbens; Argus by Michelle Knudson & Andrea Wesson; Rainbow in the Cloud the Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou

October 25, 2017: Quotes Every Man Should Know ed. Nick Mamatas

October 27, 2017: A Birthday for Bear by Bonny Becker & Kady MacDonald Denton; Druthers by Matt Phelan; Flora’s Very Windy Day by Jeanne Birdsall & Matt Phelan; Cloud Country by Noah Klocek & Bonny Becker; What Are You Waiting For? By Scott Menchin & Matt Phelan; The New Girl by Jacqui Robbins & Matt Phelan; Have a Look, Says Book by Richard Jackson & Kevin Hawkes; The Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen & Kevin Hawkes; Always by Ann Stott & Matt Phelan; The Christmas Crocodile by Bonny Becker & David Small; I’ll Be There by Ann Stott & Matt Phelan; Dogosaurus Rex by Anna Staniszewski & Kevin Hawkes; A Library Book for Bear by Bonny Becker & Kady MacDonald Denton; The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky & Kevin Hawkes; How the End Begins by Cynthia Cruz

November 1, 2017: The Sniffles for Bear by Bonny Becker & Katy MacDonald Denton; Just a Minute by Bonny Becker & Jack E Davis; A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young by Halfdan Rasmussen, Marilyn Nelson, Pamela Espeland, & Kevin Hawkes; Very Hairy Bear by Alice Schertle & Matt Phelan; A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker & Kady MacDonald Denton; Xander’s Panda Party by Linda Sue Park & Matt Phelan; A Bedtime for Bear by Bonny Becker & Kady MacDonald Denton

November 2, 2017: Dreamland by Roni Schotter & Kevin Hawkes; Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch by Anne Isaacs & Kevin Hawkes; This Beautiful Day by Richard Jackson & Suzy Lee; Bartleby Speaks by Robin Cruise & Kevin Hawkes; When Giants Come to Play by Andrea Beaty & Kevin Hawkes; Me, All Alone at the End of the World by MT Anderson & Kevin Hawkes; In Plain Sight by Richard Jackson & Jerry Pinkney

November 3, 2017: Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison & Kevin Hawkes

November 6 - 8, 2017: Wunderkammer by Cynthia Cruz

November 8, 2017: The Library of Alexandria by Kelly Trumble & Robina MacIntyre Marshall; Ruin by Cynthia Cruz

November 9, 2017: Averno by Louisa Gluck; The Land of Froud ed. by David Larkin; Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman & Kevin Hawkes; And to Think that We Thought that We’d Never Be Friends by Mary Ann Hoberman & Kevin Hawkes; A Thanksgiving Comedy Turk and Runt by Lisa Wheeler & Frank Ansley; Over There by Steve Pilcher; All Ears, All Eyes by Richard Jackson & Katherine Tillotson

November 10, 2017: What’s the Hurry, Fox? And Other Animal Stories

November 10 - 14, 2017: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

November 16, 2017: Humble Pie by Jennifer Donnelly & Stephen Gammel; Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman & Divya Srinivasn; Little Rabbit’s New Baby by Harry Horse; Here She Is! By Catherine LeBlanc & Eve Tharlet

November 17, 2017: Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back by Joseph Bruchac, Jonathan London, & Thomas Locker

November 20, 2017: blinking with fists by Billy Corgan

November 20 – 21, 2017: Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy

November 21, 2017: If Animals Kissed Goodnight by Ann Whitford Paul & David Walker; Anything for You by John Wallace & Harry Horse; Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; Dragons Love Tacos 2 The Sequel by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; A Friend for Little Bear by Harry Horse; Aida by Leontyne Price, Leo Dillon, & Diane Dillon; Little Rabbit Goes to School by Harry Horse; Will You Still Love Me If…? By Catherine Leblanc & Eve Tharlet; Little Rabbit Lost by Harry Horse; Big Bad Bubble by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; One for All, All for One by Brigitte Weninger & Eve Tharlet; Little Rabbit Runaway by Harry Horse; A Ball for All by Brigitte Weninger & Eve Tharlet; Little Rabbit’s Christmas by Harry Horse; A Promise Is a Promise by Knister & Eve Tharlet

November 22, 2017: Last Psalm at Sea Level by Meg Day; A Child Is a Child by Brigitte Weninger & Eve Tharlet; Dear Dragon by Josh Funk & Rodolof Montalvo; Human Rights by Joseph Lease; A Man In My Position by Norman MacCaig

November 22 - 26, 2017: 24 Stories for Advent by Brigitte Weninger & Eve Tharlot

November 23, 2017: where the apple falls by Samiya Bashir

November 24, 2017: Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines by Natalie Wee; The Spring Rabbit by Joyce Dunbar & Susan Varley; She Persisted 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger; The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse by Miriam Norton & Garth Williams

November 25, 2017: Uppity Women Speak Their Minds by Vicki Leon

November 28, 2017: Grumbles from the Forest Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist by Jane Yolen, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, & Matt Mahurin; This Book Will Not Be Fun by Cirocco Dunlap & Olivier Tallec; The Elf’s Hat by Brigitte Weninger & John A. Rowe; Ragged Bear by Brigitte Weninger & Alan Marks; Lumina by Brigitte Weninger & Julie Wintz-Litty; Bye-Bye Binky by Brigitte Weninger & Yusuke Yonezu; Goodnight Nori by Brigitte Weninger & Yusuke Yonezu; Don’t Blink by Tom Booth;

November 28 - 30, 2017: War of the Foxes by Richard Siken

November 29, 2017: Imagine That How Dr. Seuss Wrote the Cat in the Hat by Judy Sierra & Kevin Hawkes; Apex Predators by Steve Jenkins

November 29 - 30, 2017: Heroines Great Women Through the Ages by Rebecca Hazell

November 30 – December 2, 2017: Garfield at Large by Jim Davis

December 2, 2017: Sister Day by Lisa Mantchev & Sonia Sanchez; Meet the Dullards by Sara Pennypacker & Daniel Salmieri; The Whisper by Pamela Zagarenski; Henry & Leo by Pamela Zagarenski; Someday, Narwhal by Lisa Mantchev & Hyewon Yum; Happy Birthday, Cupcake by Terry Border; Milk Goes to School by Terry Border

December 3, 2017: Peanut Butter & Cupcake by Terry Border; Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue & Pamela Zagarenski; Red Sings from Treetops A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman & Pamela Zagarenski

December 4 - 7, 2017: A Book about Names by Milton Meltzer & Mischa Richter

December 5, 2017: The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken; Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Mantchev & Taeeun Yoo; Temple Cat by Andrew Clements & Kate Kiesler

December 7, 2017: The Christmas Teddy Bear by Ivan Gantschev; Those Darn Squirrels by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; Those Darn Squirrels and the Cat Next Door by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; Those Darn Squirrels Fly South by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri; Anklet for a Princess a Cinderella Story from India by Lila Mehta, Meredith Brucker, & Youshan Tang; The Jade Necklace by Paul Yee & Grace Lin; If the Shoe Fits Voices from Cinderella by Laura Whipple & Laura Beingessner; This Is Just to Say Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman & Pamela Zagarenski; Cinderella by Diane Goode; Cinderella by Amy Ehrlich & Susan Jeffers; Something about a Bear by Jackie Morris

December 8, 2017: The Gospel Cinderella by Joyce Carol Thomas & David Diaz; The Red Thread an Adoption Fairy Tale by Grace Lin; Mariana and the Merchild by Caroline Pitcher & Jackie Morris; The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo & Ruth Heller; Sun and Moon Folk Tales by Various Artists; Cinderella by Sarah L. Thomson & Nicoletta Ceccoli; The Cat and the Fiddle a Treasure of Nursery Rhymes by Jackie Morris; I Am Cat by Jackie Morris; Lord of the Forest by Caroline Pitcher & Jackie Morris; The Snow Leopard by Jaackie Morris; The Seal Children by Jackie Morris; The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin; The Gift by Carol Ann Duffy & Rob Ryan; Cinderella by Paul Galdone; Cinderella by Peter Elwell & Jada Rowland; The Time of the Lion by Caroline Pitcher & Jackie Morris

December 8 - 12, 2017: Out of the Ark Stories from the World’s Religions by Anita Ganeri & Jackie Morris

December 12, 2017: Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris; The Sea King's Daughter by Aaron Shepard & Gennady Spirin; Song of the Golden Hare by Jackie Morris; The Bad Seed by Jory John & Pete Oswald; Savitri a Tale of Ancient India by Aaron Shepard & Vera Rosenberry; The Ice Bear by Jackie Morris; A Small Book of Unicorns by Jay Burch & Josephine Bradley; King o’ the Cats by Aaron Shepard & Kristin Sorra; Silence by Lemniscates

December 12 - 20, 2017: Hatching Magic by Ann Downer

December 13, 2017: Sweet Dreams, Bruno by Knister & Eve Tharlot; Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry; The Seal Mother by Mordicai Gerstein; Abadeha The Philippine Cinderella by Myrna J. de la Paz & Youshan Tang; The Princess Mouse a Tale of Finland by Aaron Shepard & Leonid Gore; One-Eye! Two-Eyes! Three-Eyes! A Very Grimm Fairy Tale by Aaron Shepard & Gary Clement; The Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo & Robert Florczak; The Magic Brocade a Tale of China by Aaron Shepard & Xiaojun Li; The Crystal Heart a Vietnamese Legend by Aaron Shepard & Joseph Daniel Fiedler

December 14, 2017: Cendrillon A Cajun Cinderella by Sheila Hebert Collins & Patrick Soper; Blanchette et les Sept Petits Cajuns A Cajun Snow White by Sheila Hebert Collins & Patrick Soper; How the Stars Fell into the Sky A Navajo Legend by Jerrie Oughton & Lisa Desimini; Older Brother, Younger Brother A Korean Folktale by Nina Jaffe & Wenhai Ma; The Magic Weaver of Rugs A Tale of the Navajo by Jerrie Oughton & Lisa Desimini; Penguin Problems by Jory John & Lane Smith; I Love You Already by Jory John & Benji Davies; The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems by Jackie Morris; A Treasury of Mermaids Mermaid Tales from around the World by Shirley Climo and Jean&Mou-sien Tseng; Kongi and Potgi A Cinderella Story from Korea by Oki S. Han; The Golden Flower a Taino Myth from Puerto Rico by Nina Jeffe & Enrigue O. Sanchez; The First Strawberries a Cherokee Story by Joseph Bruchac & Anna Vojteck; Thumbelina by Brian Pinkney; Jolie Blonde and the Three Heberts by Sheila Hebert Collins & Patrick Soper; The Korean Cinderella by Shirley Climo & Ruth Heller; One Cheetah, One Cherry by Jackie Morris; Quit Calling Me a Monster by Jory John & Bob Shea; Princess Furball by Charlotte Huck & Anita Lobel; Wilfred by Ryan Higgins; Cendrillon a Caribbean Cinderella by Robert D. San Souci & Brian Pinkney; The Story of the Milky Way a Cherokee Tale by Joseph Bruchach, Gayle Ross, & Virginia A. Stroud; Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss; The Magic Fish by Freya Littledale & Winslow Pinney Pels; The Lost Dinosaur Bone by Mercer Mayer; Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs by Freya Littledale & Susan Jeffers; The Monster Bed by Jeanne Willis & Susan Varley; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett & Ron Barrett; The Unicorn of the West by Alma Flor Ada & Abigail Pizer

December 15, 2017: Scrambled Eggs Super by Dr. Seuss; The Dream Collector by Troon Harrison and Alan&Lea Daniel; Bear Feels Scared by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman; The Antlered Ship by Dashka Slater & The Fan Brothers; Ike’s Incredible Ink by Brianne Farley

December 16 - 19, 2017: Twelfth Night by Shakespeare

December 17, 2017: Know-It-Alls Wolves; We Are Wolves by Molly Grooms & Lucia Guarnotta; The Tale of the Three Trees by Angela Elwell Hunt & Tim Jonke; The Legend of the Three Trees by Catherine McCafferty & Gene ‘n Geppy Productions; The Penguin Who Wanted to Sparkle by Kath Smith & Sophie Groves; Antarctic Antics a Book of Penguin Poems by July Sierra, Jose Aruego, & Ariane Dewey; Mary, Did You Know? By Mark Lowry & Phil Boatwright; Clovis Crawfish and His Friends by Mary Alice Fontenot & R. A. Keller

December 17 - 18, 2017: The Word Play Almanac by O. V. Michaelsen

December 18, 2017: The Little Drummer Boy by Katherine Davis, Henry Onoratt, Harry Simone, & Kristina Rodanas; Kiviuq and the Mermaids by Noel McDermott & Toma Feizo Gas; hello sunshine a little book of happy by Freya Ete; The Legend of the Jersey Devil by Trinka Hakes Noble & Gerald Kelley; The Frog Prince by Paul Galdone; The Drummer Boy by SooHyeon Min & Peggy Nille; The Turtle and the Monkey by Paul Galdone; King of the Birds by Shirley Climo & Ruth Heller; Nobody Rides the Unicorn by Adrian Mitchell & Stephen Lambert; The Sea Serpent and Me by Dashka Slater & Catia Chien; Kamik an Inuit Puppy Story by Donald Uluadluak & Qin Leng; Hansy’s Mermaid by Trinka Hakes Noble; The People of Twelve Thousand Winters by Trinka Hakes Noble & Jim Madsen

December 19, 2017: Antigonick by Sophokles translated by Anne Carson; Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus translated by George Thomson; Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish & Fritz Siebel; Amelia Bedelia and the Baby by Peggy Parish & Lynn Sweat; Good Work, Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish & Lynn Sweat; Monster Goose by Judy Sierra & Jack E. Davis; Once Upon a Mouse by Lockie Holt & Amye Rosenberg; This Great Unknowing Last Poems by Denise Levertov; milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

December 19 - 21, 2017: Sisters of Glass by Stephanie Hemphill; Fooling around with Shakespeare by Glenda Richmond Slater & Dale Goss Mozley

December 20, 2017: Can You Guess My Name? by Judy Sierra & Stefano Vitale; Squids Will Be Squids by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith

December 21, 2017: The Christmas House by Carol Bullman & Jim Madsen; The King’s Tea by Trinka Hakes Noble; Tuko and the Birds a Tale from the Philippines by Shirley Climo & Francisco X. Mora; When I Was Little Like You by Jill Paton Walsh & Stephen Lambert; It’s a Book by Lane Smith; A Perfect Day by Lane Smith; Tuki and Moka a Tale of Two Tamarins by Judy Young & Jim Madsen; Grandpa Green by Lane Smith; Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam & Lane Smith; There Is a Tribe of Kids by Lane Smith; Fly by Night by June Crebbin & Stephen Lambert

December 21 – 22: Louisa the Poisoner by Tanith Lee

December 22, 2017: Day Dreamers a Journey of Imagination by Emily Winfield Martin; The Little Drummer Boy by Katherine Davis, Henry Onoratt, Harry Simone, & Ezra Jack Keats; The Littlest Family’s Big Day by Emily Winfield Martin; Sam & Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen; Dream Animals a Bedtime Journey by Emily Winfield Martin; The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin

December 22 - 24, 2017: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl; A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

December 23, 2017: Ariel The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath; Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst & Lane Smith; Glasses who needs ‘em? By Lane Smith; The Crossing by Donna Jo Napoli & Jim Madsen; Brother Wolf a Seneca Tale by Harriet Peck Taylor; The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka & Steve Johnson; Triangle by Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen; That’s Me Loving You by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Teagan White; Princess Hyacinth (the Surprising Tale of a Girl who Floated) by Florence Parry Heide & Lane Smith; The Big Pets by Lane Smith; Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies by Harriet Peck Taylor; Coyote Places the Stars by Harriet Peck Taylor; Cowboy & Octopus by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith

December 23 - 29, 2017: The Bhagavad-Gita Krishna’s Counsel in Time of War translated by Barbara Stoler Miller

December 24, 2017: Sarah’s Unicorn by Bruce&Katherine Coville; How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers; Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers; The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers; The Velveteen Rabbit the Classic Edition by Margery Williams Bianco & Charles Santore; East of the Sun & West of the Moon by Mercer Mayer; The Beastly Visits by Mitra Modarressi; The Last Bit Bear by Sandra Chisholm Robinson & Ellen Ditzler Meloy; Dear Children of the Earth a Letter from Home by Schim Schimmel; Monster Stew by Mitra Modarressi; Children of the Earth… Remember by Schim Schimmel; The Family of Earth by Schim Schimmel; Owlet’s First Flight by Mitra Modarressi; Stone Soup by Ann Mcgovern & Winslow Pinney Pels; Oddfellow’s Orphanage by Emily Winfield Martin

December 24 – 28, 2017: Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin

December 25, 2017: A Treasury of Peter Rabbit and Other Stories by Beatrix Potter; Petrouchka the Story of the Ballet by John Collier & Vivian Werner; The Random House Book of Stories from the Ballet by Geraldine McCaughrean & Angela Barrett; A Ring of Tricksters Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa by Virginia Hamilton & Barry Moser

December 26, 2017: Zoe’s Cats by Zoe Stokes; This Morning I Held a Rose by Tina Hacker & Anne Jaeschke; a couple of local boys by George Rodrigue & Gus Well; Constellations by Larry Sessions; Singing Away the Dark by Caroline Woodward & Julie Morstad; Swan the Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder & Julie Morstad; The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris van Allsburg; Just a Dream by Chris van Allsburg; While You Were Napping by Jenny Offill & Barry Blitt; Boo Who? By Ben Clanton; We Are the Dinosaurs by Laurie Berkner & Ben Clanton; The Table Sets Itself by Ben Clanton; It Came in the Mail by Ben Clanton; Adventures with Barefoot Critters An ABC Book by Teagan White; Bunny Roo, I Love You by Melissa Marr & Teagan White; Counting with Barefoot Critters by Teagan White; Something Extraordinary by Ben Clanton

December 27, 2017: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz & Robert Byrd

December 27 – 28, 2017: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

December 28, 2017: Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman; Bruce’s Big Move by Ryan T. Higgins; Bertolt by Jacques Goldstyn; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Randall Jarrell & Nancy Ekholm Burkert; Draw the Line by Kathryn Otoshi; Big Wolf & Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec; The Grumpy Pets by Kristine A. Lombardi; Hurricane by David Wiesnir; Sunday Chutney by Aaron Blabey; Good night, laila tov by Laurel Snyder & Jui Ishida; The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams & Graham Percy; Inside the Slidy Diner by Laurel Snyder & Jaime Zollars; Lovey Bunny by Kristine A. Lombardi; Found You, Little Wombat! By Angela McAllister & Charles Fuge; Good Day, Good Night by Margaret Wise Brown & Loren Long; Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea; The Nutcracker in Harlem by TE McMorrow & James Ransome; Beauty and the Beast by Jan Brett; The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone; Twinkle, Twinkle An Animal Lover’s Mother Goose by Bobbi Fabian; Rumpelstiltskin by Paul Galdone; Sometimes We Think You Are a Monkey by Johanna Skibsrud, Sarah Blacker, & Julie Morstad; Two Bad Ants by Chris van Allsburg; Letters to a Prisoner by Jacques Goldstyn; Big Wolf & Little Wolf the Little Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec; Franklin’s Flying Bookshop by Jen Campbell & Katie Harnett; Hedgehugs by Steve Wilson & Lucy Tapper; Hedgehugs Autumn Hide-and-Squeek by Steve Wilson & Lucy Tapper; Jumanji by Chris van Allsburg; Hedgehugs and the Hattiepillar by Steve Wilson & Lucy Tappers; Big Wolf & Little Wolf Such a Beautiful Orange by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec; Thelma the Unicorn by Aaron Blabey

December 28 - 30, 2017: Trickster Native American Tales a Graphic Collection; Disenchantments An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry ed. by Wolfgang Mieder

December 29, 2017: Sky Sisters by Jan Bourdeau & Brian Deines; Thumbelina by James Riordan & Wayne Anderson; When Green Becomes Tomatoes Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano & Julie Morstad; Art Up Close from Ancient to Modern by Clair d’Harcourt; The Mare’s Egg by Carole Spray & Kim La Fave; The Black Geese a Baba Yaga Story from Russia by Alison Lurie & Jessica Souhami; Yeh-Shen a Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling’Louie & Ed Young; Rapunzel by Amy Ehrlic & Chris Waldherr; The Elves and the Shoemaker by Margaret Walty; The Trojan Horse by Warrick Hutton; The Princess and the Pea by Paul Galdone; A Frog Prince by Alix Berenzy; Puss in Boots by Paul Galdone; The Three Little Pigs by James Marshall; Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman; Hansel and Gretel by James Marshall; Otto Runs for President by Rosemary Wells; Kindergators Miracle Melts Down by Rosemary Wells; Jack and the Beanstalk by Rosemary Wells & Norman Messenger; Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells; Bamboo for Me, Bamboo for You by Fran Manushkin & Purificacion Hernandez; The Forgotten Pumpkin by Hugh G Earnhart & Susan Ertel; Mouse by Zebo Ludvicek; You’re All Kinds of Wonderful by Nancy Tillman; Elmer and the Tune by David McKee; I Can’t Sleep! By Owen Hart & Caroline Pedler; Where, oh where, is baby bear? By Ashley Wolf; Platypus by Sue Whiting & Mark Jackson; The King and the Magician by Jorge Bucay & Gusti; Knitty Kitty by David Elliot & Christopher Denise; Sometimes I Like to Curl up in a Ball by Vicki Churchill & Charles Fuge; Moonlight by Helen V Griffith & Laura Dronzek; C is for City by Nikki Grimes & Pat Cummings; Wolf Won’t Bite! By Emily Gravett; Zathura by Chris van Allsburg; Who Goes There? By Karma Wilson & Anna Currey; A Frog in the Bog by Joan Rankin & Karma Wilson; June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner; Mr. Wuffles by David Wiesner; Tuesday by David Wiesner; The Three Pigs by David Wiesner; Mama, Why? By Karma Wilson & Simon Mendez; The Longest Night a Passover Story by Laurel Snyder & Catia Chien

December 30, 2017: The Pretext by Rae Armantrout; The Enemies of Leisure by John Gery; Dance of the Swan a Story about Anna Pavlova by Barbara Allman & Shelly O. Haas; Sparky by Jenny Offill & Chris Appelhans; Sylvia Plath Drawings; Richard Scarry’s The Animals’ Merry Christmas; Charlie & Mouse by Laurel Snyder & Emily Hughes; Sammy the Classroom Guinea Pig by Alix Berenzy; The Man Who Loved Books by Jean Fritz & Trina S Hyman; The Ice Cream King by Steve Metzger & Julie Downing; The Snow Angel by Angela McAllister & Claire Fletcher; One Winter’s Day by M Christina Butler & Tina Macnaughton; The Winter Fox by Timothy Knapman & Rebecca Harry; First Snow by Peter McCarty; The Not So Quiet Library by Zachariah Ohora; The Brave Little Seamstress by Mary Pope Osborne & Giselle Potter; The Forest by Claire A Nivola; Dinosaur Christmas by Jerry Pallotta & Howard McWilliam; Thumper’s Little Sisters by Walt Disney; Anna Is Our Babysitter by Brittany Candua & the Disney Storybook Art Team; Snowy Valentine by David Petersen; Animals Aboard by Andrew Fusek Peters & Jim Coplestone; October Smiled Back by Lisa Westberg Peters & Ed Young; The No-No Bird by Andrew Fusek Peters, Polly Peters, & Jim Coplestone; Little Flower by Gloria Rand & RW Alley; Scaredy Cat by Joan Rankin; I am so Handsome by Mario Ramos; Buddy and Earl go to School by Maureen Fergus & Carey Sookocheff; The Sandwich Swap by Rania Al Abdullah, Kelly DiPucchio, & Tricia Tusa; Our Kid by Tony Ross; I Don’t Want to be a Frog by Dev Petty & Mike Boldt; I Don’t Want to be Big by Dev Petty & Mike Boldt; Tricky by Kari Rust; Odd One Out by Danille Chaperon & Iris; The Best Tailor in Pinbaue by Eymard Toledo; Here Is Big Bunny by Steve Henry; Many the Diversity of Life on Earth by Nicola Davies & Emily Sutton; Theophobia by Bruce Beasley; It’s Happy Bunny What’s Your Sign? By Jim Benton; Confessions to My Mother by Cathy Guisewite; The Soul Bird by Michal Snunit; Delivered by Sarah Gambito; Partially Kept by Martha Ronk; And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou; I Am Phoenix by Paul Fleischman & Ken Nutt; Night by Etel Adnan; The 13th Sunday after Pentecost by Joseph Bathanti

December 31, 2017: Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park; Shane by Jack Schaefer; Animal Farm by George Orwell; precis by Jose Felipe Alvergue; Lullaby (with Exit Sign) by Hadara Bar-Nadav; Tales of the Mushroom Folk by Signe Aspelin; Lessons of a Turtle (the little book of life) by Sandy Gingras; Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry; Trio the Tale of a Three-legged Cat by Andrea Wisnewski; Minty a Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Ala Schroeder & Jerry Pinkney; Next Year Hope in the Dust by Ruth Vander Zee & Gary Kelley; The Boy and the Whale by Mordicai Gerstein; Tobor by Guido van Genechten

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MODERN AMERICAN CINEMA began with a series of lies. D. W. Griffith turned Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 novel The Clansman into 1915’s The Birth of a Nation, a masterpiece of technical achievement and racist propaganda. Together, the novel and film popularized lies about the aims of Reconstruction (if only the federal government had seized the land of former slave-owners at the conclusion of the Civil War) and the “nature” of the formerly enslaved. In Dixon and Griffith’s imaginations, American slaves are freed to overthrow the government of white Southerners and rape white women, and the Ku Klux Klan emerge as heroes. Such is the power of film that every black filmmaker since, starting with Oscar Micheaux and his 1920 film Within Our Gates, has been charged with combating these lies.

We don’t normally refer to these images, outright, as lies. Narrative filmmaking isn’t meant to be beholden to a strict accounting of history. But what film does, at its best, is tell the truth through the creation of myth. That is, it starts from an honest accounting of an event/idea/emotion, and no matter what world it goes on to build, it keeps that truth at its core. Griffith’s film shows the failure of tying an emotional honesty to historical inaccuracy. For all of its pioneering editing techniques and use of music, the narrative doesn’t hold because nothing he depicts, save Lincoln’s assassination, has even a bit of truth to it, no matter how much Griffith felt that it did.

But he wasn’t alone. The Birth of a Nation was a massive commercial success. White Americans bought into the myth because it confirmed their racist notions of black people. Black Americans were put in the position of attempting to defend themselves against these myths, on the screen and off.

On the screen, black actors chose, when they could, to portray characters that defied the myth. Throughout the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, black performers like Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Earle Hyman, and Isabel Sanford made names for themselves by refusing the minstrel-made roles available to their predecessors and opting for films they felt offered more complexity, humanity, and dignity to black characters. While it constitutes a noble cause, this often meant the roles could feel sanitized; instead of reaching for an honest humanity, black actors needed to embody their most upstanding selves, lest they lend any credence to the growing body of racist lies that kept the myth of black inferiority humming.

A new generation of filmmakers emerged in reaction to these sanitized images, choosing to create larger-than-life myths that grew out of the worlds their dignified contemporaries dared not touch. The blaxploitation era of filmmakers rooted their stories in the dark realities of black life. It’s not to suggest that the stories of the previous era were untrue, but their unwillingness to stray too far from respectable depictions of black life meant they were put at a distance to the truth of most black Americans. Shaft, Super Fly, Foxy Brown, The Mack, Black Caesar, Trouble Man, Cleopatra Jones, and a host of other films of the 1970s, typically helmed by black writers and directors, created black superheroes out of controversial figures. Were we meant to celebrate pimps, drug dealers, outlaws, and killers because their ultimate objective was defeating The Man? It’s a question still not totally settled, though it must be said that an even greater flaw of these films, with very few exceptions, is that they center around an idea of reclaiming masculinity from racist myth-making by trafficking in sexist myth-making. Combating one lie with another only compounds the lie.

It speaks to the general unfairness of racism that black filmmakers are even put in this position. “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction,” Toni Morrison said in an address from 1975, “It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being.” Art should help to explain our reason for being. Where black art is concerned, the distraction of racism has meant that stories about black people are only ever allowed to contend with the struggle to undo racist lies. There has never emerged a consensus on the best approach.

In the early 1990s, a generation of filmmakers, inspired by hip-hop, and more specifically gangsta rap (itself inspired by the blaxploitation era of film and music), created a subgenre of “hood films,” a term deployed derisively and descriptively depending on your feeling toward them. Beginning with John Singleton’s 1991 classic Boyz n the Hood, “hood films” became a place for depictions of black male life in the post–Civil Rights era of Reaganomics and the crack epidemic. Their major themes were gangbanging, drug-related violence, police brutality, poverty, and survival.

Boyz is the most celebrated of these films; writer/director John Singleton earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director (he was the first African-American director to be nominated in this category, and remains one of only four) and Best Original Screenplay, and in 2002 it was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

But it isn’t the best “hood film” from that period. That honor belongs to Menace II Society, the 1993 directorial debut of Allen and Albert Hughes. The two films are, fairly or not, forever linked and will be endlessly compared (and I’m obviously part of the problem). But Menace, even as the superior of the two, will always lose out.

It’s not surprising, given that the overall message of Boyz fits right alongside the kind of liberal politics that emerged during the 1980s and ’90s. The film opens with title cards with statistics about black men killing black men, and then none too subtly zeroes in on bright red “STOP” sign. Its chief concern is “black-on-black” violence (narrowly understood here as black male gun violence committed against other black males), reflecting similar concerns from the Civil Rights establishment and politicians that would soon be validating the fear of “superpredators.” This alone isn’t condemnable, but Boyz hammers home a non-solution to the problem of intraracial violence with an earnestness that often has the look and feel of a sophisticated after-school special. (Eazy-E may have largely meant this as a diss to his former N.W.A. groupmate, Ice Cube, who starred as the drug-dealing/gangbanging Doughboy, but he wasn’t wrong.) Nearly a dozen times, Singleton gets close-up on a character’s face while they deliver lectures instead of dialogue, and an overly sentimental jazz saxophone plays in the background. The worst offense is when Furious Styles, played by Laurence Fishburne, says to his son Tre, “Your friends, they don’t have anybody looking after them. You gonna see how they turn out.” It’s not so much foreshadowing as it is major spoiler: Tre’s friends will not survive South Central Los Angeles because they are young black men who do not have fathers.

There are some more radical moments sprinkled in (a 10-year-old boy flips off a “Reagan/Bush ’84” campaign poster; an older Tre, played by Cuba Gooding Jr., rails against black men joining the army), but it is suffused with the conservative notion of the return of the vaunted patriarch with the ability to fix what ails black communities.

Menace doesn’t have this problem. It opens on Caine and O-Dog, played by Tyrin Turner and Larenz Tate respectively, entering a Korean-owned convenience store to purchase malt liquor. They’re followed by one of the store owners, which leads to a profanity-laced back and forth about whether or not they intend to pay for their 40 ounces. They do, but just as they’re exiting, the man who rang them up mutters under his breath, “I feel sorry for your mother,” at which point O-Dog, the more volatile of the two, approaches him with his gun out and shoots him as if the ability to pull the trigger were second nature. While Caine panics, O-Dog takes the other owner in the back to retrieve the security camera footage of shooting, and then shoots her as well. Tape in hand, he goes back behind the register and takes whatever money he can find. Caine and O-Dog run away before any police arrive.

From the jump, Menace puts us into a world of anti-blackness and asks us to consider the consequences. This first scene plays out almost as a revenge fantasy for the real-life killing of Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old black girl killed by Soon Ja Du, then a 51-year-old convenience store owner, after it was assumed that Harlins was stealing an orange juice.

What follows is the story of how a gangster is created. The Hughes Brothers crib heavily from Martin Scorsese’s 1990 classic Goodfellas, from the use of voice-over to the sweeping camera movements, but they also share narrative DNA: each tells the story of the rise, and fall, of a gangster. But unlike Henry Hill, who reflects early on that “as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster,” Caine has no such desire. For him, an 18-year-old black boy growing up in 1980s–’90s Watts, the choice to become a gangster is not a choice at all. It’s the only reality available to him.

Before we get into Caine’s life, we see footage of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, the aftermath of which, we’re told, is when the drugs started flowing into the black community, and with the drugs increased violence. We’re transported to the late 1970s, where we witness Caine witnessing his father kill a man for the first time. This is followed by footage of Los Angeles erupting in a rebellion unlike any they had seen since Watts, in the wake of the verdict that allowed four LAPD officers to walk free after their vicious beating of Rodney King. And then there’s Caine, listless in a high school classroom, more interested in the beeper that connects him to the world of drugs he inherited from his father and everyone else around him.

In an essay for Artforum from 1993, Arthur Jafa recalls telling a friend, “[Menace II Society] makes Boyz in the Hood seem like The Cosby Show.” The level of violence alone is enough to make that distinction. The Hughes Brothers’ camera repeatedly takes us right up to where we don’t want to be. When Caine is shot for the first time and goes into shock, we are on the ground with him, as though we’re coughing up the same blood. Bullets have consequences.

But what Jafa was also getting at is the preciousness of Boyz in comparison to Menace. Boyz n the Hood’s sense of tragedy is meant as a cautionary tale to black men making poor choices. We grieve because those choices mean the wrong people sometimes get shot and killed, or because good people get mixed up in bad situations created by bad people.

In Menace, tragedy is ubiquitous to the point of meaninglessness. Contrary to Roger Ebert’s assessment at the time, the message of Menace is not that “[m]any victims of street violence are a great loss to society, their potential destroyed by a bankrupt value system”; nor does it avoid blaming “the easy target of white racism” for the level of violence depicted. It’s possible that the esteemed film critic drew these conclusions because it is only recently that black filmmakers have been (somewhat) freed of the expectation that their work explicitly state its own purpose. But by creating a world in which violence and death are constant occurrences, where murder is undertaken without much thought, and everyone, no matter their level of goodness and respectability, can be subject to it, Menace pushes us to consider how the environment became rotten, rather than the individuals.

When Caine’s grandfather asks him, “Do you care if you live or die?” he pauses for an awkward amount of time before finally answering, limply, “I don’t know.” He is attempting to figure out how his life could have any meaning given the circumstances under which he’s been reared.

In Boyz, Tre is the only one of his friends to survive because he had a father to teach him how to be a man and make good decisions, the ultimate message of the movie. In Menace, Caine dies, but he dies alongside his friend Sharif, a Muslim convert with a strong father figure. No one is protected by their individual choices. Tre, we are told at the end of Boyz, leaves South Central to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, escaping the horrors he has witnessed. In Menace, Caine’s love interest, Ronnie, played by Jada Pinkett, suggests he come with her to Atlanta where she’s found a new job. He responds: “You act like Atlanta ain’t in America.”

There is a hopelessness to Menace that could be a turn-off, but that hopelessness is precisely its strength. It’s an honest emotion, but unlike with The Birth of a Nation, it is not born of a false reality. It does, however, suffer from the great flaw of its blaxpoitation-era progenitors, where it allows the stories of black women to recede into the background as it narrows in on black men, rendering every black woman character flat and uninteresting. But Menace II Society’s greatest contribution is that it unburdens itself from struggling against the racist lies of cinematic history. Caine is not dignified. He is not respectable. But he isn’t a heroic gangster, either. He is no more than a black boy trying to survive in the United States, and that becomes reason enough to tell his story. Of course, Menace is subject to its own bits of hokey sermonizing, the worst offender being Charles S. Dutton’s admonishment, “The hunt is on! And you’re the prey.” But the sermons are not saviors, because Menace doesn’t believe any of those exist. Twenty-five years ago it was bold to be so bleak. It was a different kind of black filmmaking, to neither offer solutions for defeating racist lies, nor for the film to position itself as one of those solutions. And black artists are better off for it.

Mychal Denzel Smith is the New York Times best-selling author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching and a fellow at The Nation Institute.

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Immortalized in a number of films, songs, folklore, and even video games, the American Wild West has become famous for its cowboys, gunslingers, and outlaws. Though the most notorious outlaws of the Wild West were considered enemies of the state, today they are often spoken of as heroes and trailblazers. Regardless of what you think of them though, no one can argue that these are definitely the 25 most notorious outlaws of the wild west.

#1 Doc Holliday In the 125-year plus years since his death, his legend lives on as debates continue about the exact crimes that John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday committed. He earned a DDS degree in dentistry before he became a renowned gambler and gunfighter. He moved to the southwest when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis at age 15, which is where he took up gambling and acquired a reputation as a deadly gunman.

#2 Thomas Edward Ketchum Black Jack was a cowboy who later turned to a life of crime after leaving Texas in 1890. He joined several other outlaws of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, which focused on robbing trains and ranches. He was hanged in 1901 after being caught during one of the train robberies.

#3 John Joshua Webb A noted lawman before he turned to being a gunfighter and an outlaw, Webb was a high profile criminal who used his connections to his advantage. He was convicted for murder and after an unsuccessful jail break attempt; he fled to Texas and changed his name to Samuel King, where he died of smallpox in 1882.

#4 Hoodoo Brown Born Hyman G. Neil, the leader of the Dodge City Gang that terrorized Las Vegas, New Mexico from 1879 to early 1880 was considered to be the ‘baddest cowboy of them all. He used his high ranking political position to cover up most of the gang’s crimes, but the citizens of Las Vegas had enough of his corruption and they organized vigilantes to overthrow him in the summer of 1880.

#5 Cherokee Bill Born Crawford Goldsby, Cherokee Bill was a 19th century outlaw who was known to have a quick trigger finger. He and his gang terrorized the Indian Territory for over two years before he was hanged on March 17, 1896 at the age of 20. His crime spree began when he was just 18 years old after shooting Jake Lewis for beating up his younger brother. He joined with outlaws Jim and Bill Cook and began terrorizing Oklahoma until his apprehension.

#6 Isaac “Ike” Black An outlaw in Kansas and Oklahoma, he first got into trouble with the law for stealing cattle in Kansas, though he became more notorious for teaming with the outlaw fugitive Zip Wyatt in early 1890’s. The pair formed a gang and made numerous robberies in the area including the well known post office in Arapaho and the Hightower Store.

#7 Henry Newton Brown Both lawman and outlaw during his life, he rode with Billy the Kid’s gang as they rustled cattle. After the Kid returned to Mexico, he decided to stay in Texas and took a job as a deputy sheriff in Oldham County. He was later fired for picking fights with drunks and was hired as an assistant marshal in Caldwell. He cleaned the tough town quickly, which gave him the title, ‘one of the quickest men on the trigger in the Southwest.’ However, he reverted back to his old outlaw ways and was involved in a shootout during a bank robbery. He was lynched by an angry mob in 1884.

#8 The Bloody Espinosas A gang made up of cousins led by brothers Felipe and Jose, they were feared by the residents of the Colorado Territory in 1863. They all came from Vera Cruz, Mexico where they had witnessed the killings of six of their family members when their town was shelled during the Mexican-American War. They also claimed their land grant was not being honored due to an increasing number of white settlers squatting in their property. Eventually, they resorted to horse stealing and murdering white settlers. They were later killed after being tracked down by the US Cavalry.

#9 William “Curly Bill” Brocius A gunman, rustler and an outlaw cowboy in Cochise County, he was called ‘Curly Bill’ due to his thick, curly head. He became a leader in one of the Cowboy gangs of cattle rustlers in Tombstone, Arizona. He was also a heavy-drinker and while working as a tax collector has accidentally killed Marshal Fred White. He was acquitted and even Wyatt Earp testified at his defense. However, he later shot and killed him in retaliation for the death of his brother, Morgan Earp.

#10 Sam Bass An American train robber and outlaw, he started out as an honest man who ran away from an abusive uncle and went to Mississippi to work in a saw mill before becoming a cowboy in Texas. In 1876, he and a rough character named Joel Collins were supposed to drive a herd of longhorns up north where they fetched higher prices, but they stole them and split the $8,000 profit between themselves and spent it on gambling. They also got into stagecoach and train robberies where they netted $60,000 from the gold train, the largest robbery of the Union Pacific. He was wounded by a Texas Ranger during one of their heists and died two days later on his 27th birthday.

#11 James Averell An alleged cattle rustler, he was unjustly hanged along with ‘Cattle Kate Wilson’ by a faction of cattle barons, which has become one of the many incidents that led to the Johnson County War. He was a military man who was initially assigned to Fort Douglas, Utah and Fort McKinley, Wyoming, near Buffalo. While in Buffalo, he shot and killed a man, but was never convicted. He later became a homestead owner who defied large cattle baron, Albert J. Bothwell. As the dispute lingered into months, he and Cattle Kate were branded as outlaws and eventually killed.

#12 Thomas Coleman Younger An American Confederate guerilla-turned outlaw, he became a member of the James-Younger gang along with his younger siblings, Jim, John and Bob with Jesse and Frank James. He joined the Confederate Army after the murder of his father, but became one of the suspects in the 1868 robbery of Nimrod Long & Co. in Kentucky. Besides banks, they also robbed stage coaches and trains but their luck ran out in a botched bank robbery on September 7, 1876. He and his brothers pleaded guilty to avoid the death sentence and were later paroled.

#13 Zip Wyatt Born Nathaniel Ellsworth Wyatt, Zip was also known for his other aliases, Wild Charlie and Dick Yeager. His father who was frequently arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct was known in Guthrie, Oklahoma as ‘Old Six-Shooter Bill;’ while his older brother, Nim, a professional gambler, was known as ‘Six-Shooter Jack.’ His life as an outlaw started on June 3, 1891 when he shot up the town of Mulhall and wounded two citizens. While evading arrests, he became involved in a life of crimes including a number of robberies and other crimes.

#14 James Miller Known as Deacon Jim because he regularly attended the Methodist church and did not smoke or drink, he was also a paid assassin with a going rate of $150 to $2000. He ambushed his victims at night wearing a black frock coat, so as not to be easily detected. He was also credited for killing 12 people during gunfights, but was eventually lynched by angry mobs for killing a former Deputy US Marshal.

#15 Bonnie and Clyde If there were outlaws that became legends for living fast and dying young, the duo of Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Champion Barrow takes the cake as shown in the 1967 film ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’ They formed the band the Barrow Gang, along with Clyde’s brother and sister-in-law Buck and Blanche as they went on a robbing and killing spree across Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. They were killed in Louisiana by police rangers while attempting to evade arrest.

#16 Fred Waite A Chickasaw cowboy, he joined Billy the Kid’s gang, the Regulators, but later quitted to return to his people. As a gunfighter for the gang he killed a number of people including several sheriffs. After he left the gang, he became a prominent politician among the Chickasaw nation until his death at the age of 42, before he could start serving as their governor.

#17 The Sundance Kid Also known as Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, he was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch Gang, which was known for the longest strings of successful train and bank robberies in history. He got his moniker when he was caught and convicted for horse thievery in Sundance, Wyoming. He and Robert LeRoy Parker formed a gang after he was released from prison in 1896 and it was believed that he was killed in a shootout in Bolivia, though his family members refuted it.

#18 Pearl Hart A Canadian-born American outlaw, her career as a stage coach robber was short-lived. She drifted into bad company after her abusive husband left her to fight in the Spanish-American War. She and Joe Boot, a gambler, planned a robbery so she could return to her dying mother in Canada, but they were captured and imprisoned. She charmed her way out of prison, but was recaptured and served only two years out of five in a male prison. She was pardoned by the governor upon learning that she was pregnant.

#19 Butch Cassidy Born Robert Leroy Parker, Butch Cassidy was the leader of the Wild Bunch Gang who became notorious for robbing trains and banks in the American West. His last name, Cassidy, was a tribute to his friend and mentor Mike Cassidy who taught him how to shoot. He and three others robbed $21,000 from the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride in 1889, where he used his share to buy the infamous ‘Hole-in-the-Wall’ ranch, which was believed to be a cover for his illegal activities.

#20 Belle Starr The Bandit Queen was born Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr before becaming a notorious outlaw. She lived a spoiled, rich girl life, having been brought up from a well-to-do family. Her life changed, however, when the Kansas-Missouri War broke out and residents were forced to take sides. Her marriage to the outlaw Jim Reed also made her a notorious bandit, whose life was immortalized in the novel, ‘Bella Starr, the Bandit Queen.’

#21 John Wesley Hardin Named after the founder of the Methodist church, Hardin was just 14-year-old when he stabbed another boy who was taunting him. He then spent the majority of his life being pursued by the law until he was captured in 1878. This American outlaw and gunfighter claimed to have killed 42 men, though the newspapers attributed only 27 killings. He wrote his autobiography and studied law while in prison, but was shot dead a year after he was released in 1894 by John Selman Jr. in the Acme Saloon in El Paso, Texas.

#22 Geronimo Geronimo was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache, who was also known for his Chiricahua name, Goyathlay or Goyahkla or ‘one who yawns’. After an attack by a company of Mexican soldiers on his camp in 1858 where his mother, wife and three children were killed, he became a fierce Indian warrior, joining the Chiricahua in their numerous raids in northern Mexico and across the US borders. He surrendered in 1886 and became a celebrity as he appeared in fairs, a decision that he regretted because he was never allowed to return to the land of his birth.

#23 Jesse James Jesse Woodson James was already a celebrity when he was alive, and has became even more legendary after his death. One of the most famous members of the James-Younger Gang, he became a criminal for robbing banks, stage coaches and trains. He was shot in the back of his head on April 3, 1882 in his own home by his trusted friend, Robert Ford, who was hoping to collect the reward money.

#24 The Apache Kid Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl or ‘the tall man destined to come to a mysterious end,’ was better known as the Apache Kid who was said to have been the fiercest Apache next only to Geronimo. A notorious outlaw of the late 19th century in Arizona and New Mexico, he was first enlisted as an Apache scout to fight off the numerous raiding bands of the Apaches that harassed the early settlers before he became a renegade. The Apache Kid character of the Marvel comics was named after him, though their stories were not connected.

#25 Billy the Kid Also known as William H. Bonney or Henry Antrim, Billy the Kid is a legendary outlaw of the American Old West whose life has become sensationalized in movies, songs, and books. He became notorious for supposedly killing 21 people for each year of his life, although factual evidence suggests he only killed 4 in his lifetime. Though he was depicted as a cold-bloodied killer, those who knew him believed that he became an outlaw out of necessity.

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