princeton public library's staff picks

Staff Picks

Holiday gift suggestions from the Princeton Public Library

Staff

Picture BooksA Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee

Chicken Little by Ed and Rebecca Emberley

Dog and Bear series by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Everywhere Babies by Susan Perkins

Fancy Nancy series by Jane O’Connell

Fox Walked Alone by Barbara Reid

Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo

The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson

Jungle Grapevine by Alex Beard

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

The Winter Visitors by Karel Hayes

Easy Reader’s Chapter BooksBallet Sisters series

by Jan OrmerodCowgirl Kate and Cocoa series

by Erica Silverman

Elephant and Piggie seriesby Mo Willems

Fancy Nancy Chapter Books by Jane O’Connell

Fly Guy series by Tedd Arnold

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins

Pop-Up BooksABC-3D

by Marion BatailleBig Frog Can’t Fit In: A Pop Out

Book by Mo Willems

Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive

Pop-Up by Robert Sabuda

How to Find Flower Fairies

by Cicely Mary Barker

Children’s Fiction BooksThe 39 Clues

by a variety of authorsA Crooked Kind of Perfect

by Linda Urban

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis

Everything for a Dog by Ann M. Martin

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

The Mysterious Benedict Society series by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan

Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo When You Reach Me

by Rebecca Stead

Children’s Non-FictionCharles and Emma: The Darwin’s

Leap of Faithby Deborah Heiligman

Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson

One Million Things: A Visual Dictionary DK Publishing

Science on the Loose-Amazing Activities and Science Facts You’ll Believe by Helaine Becker

Why Pi? How Math Applies to Everyday

Life by Johnny Ball

The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark

Twain in the Wild, Wild West

by Sid Fleischman

Future Tech : from personal robots to motorized monocycles by Charles Piddock

The NEW Way Things Workby David Macaulay

The Way We Workby David Macaulay

Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary

by David West, James Luceno

Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide by Daniel Wallace and

Ryder Windham

Young Adult FictionThe Hunger Games and Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks

by E. Lockhart

Impossible by Nancy Werlin

The Possibilities of Sainthoodby Donna Freitas

Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Airborne, Skybreaker and Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel

Young Adult Non-FictionShow Me How-500 Things

You Should Know by Derek Fagerstrom

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

by Elizabeth Royte

Do Not Open by John Farndon

Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt by Megan Nicolay

FictionLittle Bee

By Chris CleaveThe Help

by Kathryn Stockett

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

Manhood for Amateursby Michael Chabon

The Kurt Wallander Stories by Henning Mankell

The Lineup: the World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Too Much Happinessby Alice Munro

Books For Foodies

Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the GlobeNational Geographic

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girlby Ree Drummond

Mike Colameco's Food Lover's Guide to New York Cityby Mike Colameco

Non-FictionZeitoun

by Dave EggersOutliers: The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

The World According to Twitter by David Pogue

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

The Power of Art by Simon Schama

Coffee Table Books

Who Shot Rock & Roll : a photographic history, 1955 to the present by Gail Buckland

The World's Greatest Wine Estates : a modern perspective by Robert M. Parker, Jr

The Oxford Companion to Wine edited by Jancis Robinson ; assistant editor, Julia Harding

Architecture Now! : Houses by Philip Jodidio

Architecture Now! : Restaurants & bars by Philip Jodidio

Railroads Across North America : an illustrated history by Claude Wiatrowski

Heavenly Vaults : from Romanesque to Gothic in European architecture by David Stephenson

Thank you and Happy Holidays

from the Princeton Public

Library Staff