This Goodly Land
A Year of Alabama Books: Children
Expanded List for Children and Younger Teens
January
- Children: When Winter Comes, Nancy Van Laan (winter)
- Teens: I Have a Dream: The Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.,Jim Haskins (Martin Luther King, Jr., Day)
- Teens: A Cool Moonlight, Angela Johnson (Lunar New Year)
February
- Children: I Am Rosa Parks, Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins (Black History Month)
- Teens: John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement, Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson (Black History Month)
- Children: Wind Flyers, Angela Johnson (Black History Month)
- Children: If You Were My Valentine, Charles Ghigna (Valentines’s Day)
- Teens: One More River to Cross: The Story of Twelve Black Americans,Jim Haskins (Black History Month)
March
- Children: Seven Brave Women, Betsy Hearne (Women’s History Month)
- Teens: Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life, Mae Jemison (Women’s History Month)
- Children: The Jolly Mon, Jimmy Buffett (Music in Our Schools Month)
- Children: Violet’s Music, Angela Johnson (Music in Our Schools Month)
- Teens: Hard Times for Jake Smith, Aileen Kilgore Henderson (Women’s History Month)
- Teens: Lizard, Dennis Covington (World Theater Day)
April
- Children: Animal Tracks: Wild Poems to Read Aloud, Charles Ghigna(National Poetry Month)
- Teens: The Other Side: Shorter Poems, Angela Johnson (National Poetry Month)
- Children: Animal Trunks: Silly Poems to Read Aloud, Charles Ghigna(National Poetry Month)
May
- Children: Richard Wright and the Library Card, William Miller (Children’s Book Week)
- Teens: Dancing on the Edge, Han Nolan (National Dance Week)
- Children: Full Steam Ahead, Faye Gibbons (National Train Day)
- Children: I Dream of Trains, Angela Johnson (National Train Day)
- Teens: Horace King: Bridges to Freedom, Faye Gibbons (anniversary of Horace King’s death)
June
- Children: Mountain Wedding, Faye Gibbons (weddings)
- Teens: The First Part Last, Angela Johnson (Father’s Day)
- Children: Just Like Josh Gibson, Angela Johnson (summer/baseball)
- Teens: Summer of the Bonepile Monster, Aileen Kilgore Henderson(summer)
July
- Children: Trosclair and the Alligator, Peter Huggins (summer)
- Teens: An Abundance of Katherines, John Green (summer)
- Children: Joshua and Bigtooth, Mark Childress (summer)
- Teens: The Incredible Deborah: A Story Based on the Life of Deborah Sampson, Cora Cheney (Independence Day)
August
- Children: Going North, Janice N. Harrington (summer)
- Teens: Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions, James Haskins (National Inventors Month)
- Children: The Real McCoy: Life of an African-American Inventor, Wendy Towle (National Inventors Month)
September
- Children: When I Am Old with You, Angela Johnson (National Grandparents Day)
- Teens: Love, Ruby Lavender, Deborah Wiles (National Grandparents Day)
- Teens: Mighty Close to Heaven, Faye Gibbons (National Grandparents Day)
- Teens: Toning the Sweep, Angela Johnson (National Grandparents Day)
October
- Children: 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh (Halloween)
- Teens: Hauntings: And Other Tales of Danger, Love, and Sometimes Loss, Betsy Hearne (Halloween)
- Children: Night in the Barn, Faye Gibbons (Halloween)
- Children: Halloween Night: Twenty-one Spooktacular Poems, Charles Ghigna (Halloween)
- Teens: Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam (anniversary of Sputnick launch)
November
- Children: Wolf Dog of the Woodland Indians, Margaret Zehmer Searcy (Native American Heritage Month)
- Teens: World of the Southern Indians, Virginia Pounds Brown and Laurella Owens (Native American Heritage Month)
- Children: Tiny Bat and the Ball Game, Margaret Searcy (Native American Heritage Month)
- Teens: Southern Indian Myths and Legends, Virginia Pounds Brown and Laurella Owens (Native American Heritage Month)
- Teens: The Thanksgiving Visitor, Truman Capote (Thanksgiving)
December
- Children: Christmas Is Coming!, Charles Ghigna and Deborah Ghigna (Christmas)
- Teens: A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote (Christmas)
- Teens: It’s Christmas!, Kathryn Tucker Windham (Christmas)