The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Micki Freeny, Director of Children and Youth Services at the D.C. Public Library, Heidi Powell, Manager of the Children and Teens Department at Politics and Prose, and Alex Greenhill, The Omnivorous Reader for Young D.C.,share their picks for the best summer reads in children's books.

Micky Freeny's Picks:

Birth - 4 years

RRRalph

by Lois Ehlert

Beach Lane Books

The Tiger's Wife: A Novel

by Tea Obreht

Random House

Fortune Cookies

by Albert Bitterman

Beach Lane Books

Press Here

by Herve Tullet

Chronicle Books

5 – 7 years

Me . . . Jane (Mcdonnell, Patrick)

by Patrick McDonnell

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps

by Jeanette Winter

Schwartz & Wade

The Runaway Wok: A Chinese New Year Tale

by Ying Chang Compestine

Dutton Juvenile

Should I Share My Ice Cream? (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

by Mo Willems

Hyperion Book CH

7 – 10 years

The Secret River

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Lost and Found: Three by Shaun Tan (Lost and Found Omnibus)

by Shaun Tan

Arthur A. Levine Books

Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic

by Robert Burleigh

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis

by Matt de la Pena

Dial

10 – 14 years

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

by Jeanne Birdsall

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Junonia

by Kevin Henkes

Greenwillow Books

The Trouble with May Amelia

by Jennifer L. Holm

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Inside Out and Back Again

by Thanhha Lai

HarperCollins

Heidi Powell's Picks:

Fiction

Blue Chameleon

by Emily Gravett

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku

by Lee Wardlaw

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

The Secret River

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

I Broke My Trunk! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

by Mo Willems

Hyperion Book CH

Dodsworth in Rome (A Dodsworth Book)

by Tim Egan

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

Anna Hibiscus

by Atinuke

Walker Books Ltd

Invisible Inkling

by Emily Jenkins

Balzer + Bray

Horton Halfpott: Or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset

by Tom Angleberger

Amulet Books

Inside Out and Back Again

by Thanhha Lai

HarperCollins

Camo Girl

by Kekla Magoon

Aladdin

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

by John Green, David Levithan

Speak

Non-fiction

Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero

by Marissa Moss

Abrams Books for Young Readers

How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

by Georgia Bragg, Kevin O'Malley

Walker Childrens

This is Washington, D.C.

by Miroslav Sasek

Universe

Bugs by the Numbers

by Sharon Werner, Sarah Forss

Blue Apple Books

Alex Greenhill's Picks:

Blue Chameleon

by Emily Gravett

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College

by Andrew Ferguson

Simon & Schuster

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

by

Grand Central Publishing

The Hunger Games (Book 1)

by Suzanne Collins

Scholastic Press

Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware (Pals in Peril)

by M.T. Anderson

Beach Lane Books

The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, Book 1)

by Rick Riordan

Hyperion Book CH

Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

by

New Press, The

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

by David Hajdu

Picador

Who Goes There?: The Novella That Formed The Basis Of "The Thing"

by John W Campbell, William F Nolan

Rocket Ride Books

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)

by George R.R. Martin

Bantam

Robopocalypse: A Novel

by Daniel H. Wilson

Doubleday

Mythology

by Edith Hamilton

Back Bay Books

Leviathan

by Scott Westerfeld

Simon Pulse