Diana Hutts Aston / James Howe / Julie Paschkis / Rafael Lopez / Samantha R. Vamos / Gary Schmidt / Barry Root / Lucy Wu / Barry Moser / Denise Fleming / Patrick Ness / Mary Lynn Ray / Monica Brown / Laura Purdie Salas / Jack Gantos / Kadir Nelson / Tracy Smiles / Linda Urban / Pablo Neruda / Lee Wardlaw / Kate Messner / Carmen Agra Deedy / Katherine Hannigan / Bob Raczka / Marla Frazee / Eugene Yelchin / Barbara Ward / Shane W. Evans / Melissa Sweet / Yoo Kyung Sung / Sarah Sullivan / Anne Ursu / Maggie Stiefvater / Wendy Wan-long Shang / Candace Fleming / Pat Schmatz / Nancy Roser / Paul Janezko / Christopher Silas Neal / Amelia Earhart / Randall Wright / Floyd Cooper / Kirby Larson / Patrick McDonnell / Margaret H. Mason / Patricia Bandre / Amelia Lost / Sylvia Long / /
2012 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts A Butterfly Is Patient, by Diana Hutts Aston, illustrated by Sylvia Long, published byChronicle Books. A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness,published byCandlewick. Addie