Every year, the Children's Department compiles a list of our favorite books for our teacher newsletter. This year, we would like to share those titles with everyone! It's a pretty long list, so we decided to break it down into 3 posts: picture books, fiction books, and nonfiction books. And now . . . our favorite picture books of 2009!

All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon
Bears on Chairs by Shirley Parenteau
The Birthday Pet by Ellen Javernick
A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na
But Who Will Bell the Cats? by Cynthia von Buhler
Can You Make a Scary Face? by Jan Thomas
Chef Creole by Johnette Downing
Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black
The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The Frogs and Toads All Sang by Arnold Lobel
Grandmother, Have the Angels Come? by Denise Vega
Guess Again by Mac Barnett
Harry and Horsie by Katie Van Camp
Hello, My Name Is Bob by Linas Alsenas
Here Comes Gosling! by Sandy Asher
Here Comes the Big, Mean Dust Bunny! by Jan Thomas
How to Win Friends and Influence Creatures by Deborah Zemke
I Don't Want a Posh Dog by Emma Dodd
If a Monkey Jumps Onto Your School Bus by Jean M. Cochran
Let's Do Nothing! by Tony Fucile
Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
The Little Green Pea by Alison Barber
A Mighty Fine Time Machine by Suzanne Bloom
Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli by Barbara Jean Hicks
Mortimer's First Garden by Karma Wilson
Mouse Was Mad by Linda Urban
My Uncle Emily by Jane Yolen
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems
Never Ask a Bear by Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud
Oddly by Joyce Dunbar
Ophelia by Ingrid Schubert
Otis by Loren Long
Pouch! by David Ezra Stein
Pretty Pru by Polly Dunbar
Princess Bess Gets Dressed by Margery Cuyler
Read It, Don't Eat It by Ian Schoenherr
Ready for Anything! by Keiko Kasza
Silly Tilly by Eileen Spinelli
The Sleepy Little Alphabet by Judy Sierra
The Strange Case of the Missing Sheep by Mircea Catusanu
The Three Little Gators by Helen Ketteman
Tough Chicks by Cece Meng
Two at the Zoo by Danna Smith