Book Counts by Month 2023

Read roughly 134 pieces of writing in the month of January. This includes articles, newsletters, etc. It also includes a great many Caldecott's. Cannot get an exact count, as I sometimes forget to include dates. 12 ROOTS; 26 NEWBERY's; 55 CALDECOTT's.

Grown-up Novels:
Vanity Fair
Torpedoed
The Winter of our Discontent
Haven
Middlemarch
The Convenient Marriage

ROOTS:
Great Expectations - root
A Tale of Two Cities - root
When Christ And His Saints Slept - virtual root
Rip Van Winkle - re-read - bs
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - reread - bs
Tuesdays At The Castle
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew - root
100 Cupboards - Root
David And The Phoenix - Root
Beezus And Ramona - root
Moorchild -NB
Moccasin Trail - NB

YOUTH:
What Came From The Stars -NBA
Nuts To You 2x
Oddling Prince
Austenland - NBA
The Penderwicks At Point Mouette
Jennifer Murdley's Toad
Mary Moon is Missing - NBA
Eleven - NBA
Kidnap At Catfish Cafe - NBA
A House of Tailors - NBA
Maggie's Door - NBA
The Lily Pond
Fanny For Change
Book Scavenger

PICTURE BOOKS:
When Peter Rabbit Went To School
What Time Is It Peter Rabbit?
Gardening With Peter Rabbit
The Pobble Who Has No Toes
The Jumblies
Hilary Knight's Cinderella
Good Tidings
Christmas Carols
The Little Brown Horse
A World of Words - an ABC of quotations

NEWBERY HONOR:
The Voyagers - Being Legends And Romances - NB
Piecing Me Together
Lily's Crossing
Where The Mountain Meets The Moon
The Winged Girl of Knossos
Hoot
Annie And The Old One
The War That Saved My Life- 2x
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley And Me - 2x
Ramona Quimby Age 8
Nicholas A Manhattan Christmas Story
Red Sails To Capri
The Light At Tern Rock
New Land
Ella Enchanted
One-Eyed Cat
All Alone
Knee Knock Rise
Swords of Steel
Headless Cupid
Inside Out And Back Again
Clearing Weather
Wednesday Wars
Belle Prater's Boy

CALDECOTT:
green eyes
when will the world be mine?
the storm book
feather mountain
the relatives came
free fall
anansi the spider
Barkis
Seven Simeons
Just Me
The Happy Day
small rain
dash and dart
in my mother's house
April's Kitten
Wee Gillis
the stray dog
the judge - an untrue tale
mister penny's race horse
ilse plume
in the small, small pond
goggles
two reds
bartholomew and the oobleck
my mother is the most beautiful woman in the world
in the forest
snow white and the seven dwarfs freely translated by wanda gag
a child's good night book
mighty hunter
juanita
sing in praise
timothy turtle
you can write chinese

SHORT STORIES:
The Govenor And the Notary
the adventure of the mason
the devil and tom walker
the adventure of the german story
the specter bridegroom

FEBRUARY 2023:

321 on February 25th; will update in three days.

This includes mostly Caldecott as I finished all, but a handful this month; 8 Newbery Honors; normal books for adults (go figure); a few classics; and several essays/articles/blogs etc that usually tie into other reading projects.

Final count - 339. Unlikely to start a book, today

Grown-up Novels:
Nicholas Nickleby
The Radium Girls
Counting on Grace
The Council of Animals
The One Man
Nathaniel's nutmeg - How one man's courage changed the course of history

SHORT STORIES:
Summer

CALDECOTT:
America's Ethan Allen
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Locomotive
Knight Owl
Grand Canyon
The Right Word
Finding Winnie
Going Down Home With Daddy
Martin's Big Words
Unspeakable
Trombone Shorty
The Adventures of Beekle
This is not My Hat
A Ball For Daisy
A Sick Day For Amos McGee
The Lion And The Mouse
The House In The Night
The Hello Goodbye Window
Wolf In The Snow
Radiant Child
Fables
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears
Arrow To The Sun
Duffy And The Devil
One Fine Day
A Story, A Story
The Fool of The World And The Flying Ship
May I Bring A Friend?
Time of Wonder
The Biggest Bear
Finders Keepers
Song of The Swallows
The Little Island
Smoky Night
Grandfather's Journey
Mirette On The High Wire
Tuesday
Black And White
Song And Dance Man
Hey Al
The Glorious Fight
Jumanji
Kitten's First Full Moon
My Friend Rabbit
So You Want To Be President?
joseph had a little overcoat
officer buckle and gloria
when i was young in the mountains
frederick
ain't burned all the bright
coming on home soon
noah's ark
casey at the bat
the ugly duckling

YOUTH:
The Song That Moves The Sun
A Long Walk To Water - grandchildren
The Hurricane Mystery - NBA
Shadow over Winding Ranch - NBA
On The Horizon - NBA
The War I Finally Won - NBA
This is My Heritage
Okay For Now - NBA
Liar And Spy - NBA
Tilley's Moonlight Garden
The Light Princess
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
White Fang
Detective Dinosaur - grandchildren
The Wishing Spell
myths of the world

ROOTS:
MARY POPPINS
Mrs Piggle-Wiggle
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Jungle Book
Howl's Moving Castle
We Are Water Protectors
The Fast Sooner Hound -bs
The Yellow Wallpaper - re-read - bs
Hitty - Her First Hundred Years - NB - bs

NEWBERY/ HONOR:
The Glory of The Seas
The Undefeated
The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo
Watercress
Brown Girl Dreaming
Lily's Crossing
Lily's Crossing re-read - NB
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, And Me re-read - NB
The War That Saved My Life -re-read - NB

PICTURE BOOKS - NOT CALDECOTT:
it's me marva
harlem renaissance party
twenty yawns
kadir nelson
God got a dog
How Much?
flying frogs and walking fish
it's mine
zombelina school days
the mouse and the lion
duckling
preaching to the chickens
alphabet song
thank you and goodnight
love you forever
the snowman
lauren ford's christmas book
how the left behind beasts built ararat
when the root children wake up
gray kes
the story of mrs lovewright and purrless her cat
how i became a pirate
duck on bike
mugambi's journey

My record for one day was 75 Caldecotts - a minimum of 2100 pages

(these are not the 75- just February Caldecott's)

CALDECOTT:
Pierre Pidgeon
Nothing At All
The Ageless Story
Cock a Doodle Doo
The Wild Birthday Cake
sing mother goose
little lost lamb
the christmas anna angel
the song of robin hood
roger and the fox
bambino the clown
pedro the angel of olvera street
rain drop splash
where buffaloes begin
ten, nine, eight
the village of round and square houses
alphabatics
rumplestiltskin
mufaro's beautiful daughters
mirandy and brother wind
color zoo
grandpa green
this one summer
when sophie gets angry
sector 7
the talking eggs
red leaf yellow leaf
the red book
song of the water boatman
me and mama
the wall
mel fell
the dinosaurs of waterhouse hawkins
thank you Omu
a big mooncake for little star
leave me alone
nana in the city
a couple of boys have the best week ever
gone wild
a celebration of the seasons
freedom in congo square
wonder walkers
a place inside of me
double bass blues
voice of freedom
a river of words
moses - when harriet tubman led her people to freedom
rosa
good luck horse
an american ABC
the forest pool
crow boy
frog went a courtin
the thanksgiving story
green eyes
five little monkeys
waiting
ella sarah gets dressed
henry's freedom box
the noisy paint box
interrupting chicken
different pond
dave the potter
hondo and fabian
extra yarn
hot air
the day we saw the sun come up
gillespie and the guards
fish in the air
mother goose
du iz tak?
first the egg
zen shorts
sam and dave dig a hole
creepy carrots
all the world - X2
alma and how she got her name
the rough patch
bear came along
going down home with daddy
the cat man of aleppo
have you seen a flower
berry song
choosing brave
viva frida
crown - an ode to the fresh cut
journey
mr wuffles
no, david
freight train
alexander and the wind up mouse
a chair for mother
anatole
one is one
three jovial huntsmen
anatole and the cat
lion
houses from the sea
the fox went out on a chilly night
all in the morning early
swimmy
the sun is a golden earring

MARCH 2O23:
93 pieces of writing; 4 Honors; a few classics; not so many picture books; a few essays/articles/blogs etc that usually tie into other reading projects; 8 ROOTS

ROOTS:
Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglas
The Good Earth - root
Skipper John's Cook
Hilary Knight's The Owl And The Pussycat - virtual root

Grown-up Novels:
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Babbitt
The Winthrop Woman
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
It Can't Happen Here
The Jungle
Phantom Of The Opera
Riders Of The Purple Sage

NON-FICTION:
Before Austen Comes Aesop
Tradition - A Feeling For The Literary Past
Children's Literature - A Reader's History
The History Of The Book In 100 Books - The Complete Story From Egypt To e-book
Orbis Pictus
Orbis Sensualium Pictus - A World of Things Obvious To The Senses - Drawn In Pictures
About Spices

YOUTH:
When The Sea Turned To Silver -NBA
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane-NBA
Ember Falls
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise
The Voyages And Travels of Sindbad The Sailor - Giving A Full Account of His Seven Wonderful Voyages

NEWBERY HONOR:
Codfish Musket
Spice And The Devil's Cave
Tod of The Fens
The Voyagers - Being Legends And Romances of Atlantic Discovery - NB

CALDECOTT:
Rapunzel
Golem

APRIL 2023:
Total: 30

NB Honor: 5
The Last Mapmaker
Runaway Papoose
Downright Dencey
The Forgotten Daughter
Ogress And The Orphans

ROOTS:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - re-read - NB
The Age of Innocence
The Adventures of Odysseus And The Tale of Troy - re-read
I finally got ROOTS organised into the ROOTS group.

20TH Century Novels: -2
East of Eden
Carry On Jeeves

Individual Poems: -2

Economics: -1
A Splendid Exchange

Young Adult:
The Lost Year

NON-FICTION:
D'aulaires' Greek Myths - Teacher Guide - root

a handful of re-read children's; articles etc; teacher's manuals

a very slow month full of complications.

MAY:

33 so far
20 roots

This is proving to be a difficult month. Whereas, I was reading a book a day, I cannot seem to get one done in a week. ( I did finally finish two yesterday, because, I couldn't sleep. Still have a stack from the library that I have not finished. Holy cow!

King Solomon's Mines
Conquerors - How Portugal forged the first Global Empire - NF
The Three Hostages
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Island of Sheep
Lady Susan
The Diary of an Isle Royale School Teacher

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE:
Nicholas And The Golden Goose - NBA
Daughter of The Seine - NB
The Hundred Dresses - NB
The mysterious Benedict Society and the prisoner's dilemma
Half Magic
All Thirteen - NB
The Reluctant Dragon
tik tok of oz

ROOTS:
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy Winkle
The Tale of The Pie And The Patty-Pan
The Tale of Mr Tod
The Tale of Tom Kitten
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding
The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher
The Tale of Pigling Bland
The Tale of Ginger And Pickles
The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
The Tale of Johnny Town-mouse
The Moffats - re-read
The Enchanted Castle -
The Lost Prince
Owl Moon

Articles etc:
La Marseillaise -lyrics to the French National Anthem, while reading on the French Revolution.

JUNE:
37 Total (two items not listed here)
17 roots (one not listed)

NEWBERY / HONOR:
A Snake Falls To Earth - NB
Pran of Albania - NB
Red White Whole - NB
Freewater - NB
Show Way - NB
BOX - Henry Brown Mails Himself To Freedom - NB
The Voice That Challenged a Nation - Marian Anderson And The Struggle For Equal Rights -
My Father's Dragon - NB - root
The Wondersmith And His Son - NB - re-read - root
Indian Captive - The Story of Mary Jemison - NB - root
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales - NB

ROOTS:
The Sword In The Stone - Roots
The Scarlet Pimpernel - root
The Bridge To Terabithia - NB - re-read
American Tall Tales - root
Tales From King Arthur - Wordsworth Classics - Selected Stories - root

YOUTH:
The Case of the Girl in Grey
Quicksand Pond - NBA
Christina's Ghost
The Unseen Guest
The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
Esther Wheelwright - Indian Captive
Elmer and the Dragon
Mary Jemison - Indian Captive
Son - NBA - sequel

OTHER:
The Elusive Pimpernel-sequel
The Window At The White Cat - PublisherWeeklyBestSeller
The Witch In The Wood - sequel
The Ill Made Knight-sequel
Children playing before a statue of Hercules
Mystery Mile
Stormbreaker
Around The World in Eighty Days
800 Leagues On The Amazon
Journey To The Center of The Earth

JULY:

57 Readings: One Short Story; One Afterword - not included in original title; two articles; 28 Roots

ROOT:
Down Down the Mountain - root
Pride And Prejudice - re-read
Persuasion - re-read
The Pilgrim Primer
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Story Of Thomas Alva Edison
The Box-Car Children - The Original 1924 Edition
The Boxcar Children. #1 - 1980's version
Sense And Sensibility
Island of The Blue Dolphins - NB - re-read
The Moon of The Fox Pups
I Houdini
Sense And Sensibility - re-read
Northanger Abbey - re-read
Ivanhoe

NEWBERY HONOR:
Jumping Off Place - NB
Little Blacknose - NB
Queer Person - NB
El Deafo - NB
Ood Le Uk The Wanderer - NB
Feathers
Shadrach
Sing Down The Moon
Nothing But The Truth - A Documentary Novel
The Fledgling
Vaino
Afterword
The Dark Star of Itza - The Story of a Pagan Princess

YOUTH:
The Swords of the Vikings - Stories from the Works of Saxo Grammaticus - NBA
When She Came Home from College - NBA
Tall Tales from the High Hills
Andy And The Circus
The House of Delight
A Wizard of Earthsea - NBA
Pax
The Dragons of Blueland
Orphan Island
Camilla - NBA
The Unbreakable Code
Full of Beans - NBA

OTHER:
The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet - **
Much Ado About Nothing
Sonnets
Richard II
The Land That Time Forgot
Antony And Cleopatra
We Die Alone - A WWII Epic of Escape And Endurance
D-Day Girls - The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
I Am Malala - The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban
Messenger of Truth
The Korean War
Neptune's Inferno
Good Wives
Go Set A Watchman
The Man Who Died Twice
The Death of a Soldier

AUGUST:

34 + readings; at least 4 essay/article/newsletter/etc

ROOTS:
Civil Disobedience
Eragon
Mr Popper's Penguins - NB
The Three Musketeers
Squirrel Nutkin Re-read - grandson
Up In The Sky
Brave Monk
The Blind Men and the Elephant
Basil of Baker Street

NEWBERY HONOR:
Floating Island
Mountains Are Free
Li Lun - Lad of Courage
Boy of The South Seas
Jane's Island
Along Came A Dog
Somewhere In The Darkness

YOUTH:
The Phoenix Endangered
Kenny And The Dragon
The Missing Chums
My Father's Dragon - a recent re-read for me, but my grandson's first time
Robot Ranger - Rob And The Robots (A Grandson's Original Writing)
Kenny And The Dragon - re-read again with Grandson
Anatole in Italy
Jazz
The Little Broomstick

OTHER:
The King's Deception
Winning Out
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Secret Adversary
In The Garden of Beasts - Love Terror And An American Family In Hitler's Berlin
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Unabridged - Unknown Translator - Different Translation
Tuck
The Winter War
A wake-up call for schools : a new order in public education

SEPTEMBER:

49+
an intentionally slow month designed to catch up on other projects

ROOTS:
James Monroe - Young Patriot
Young Mark Twain
Andrew Jackson - Frontier Patriot
Toussaint L'Ouverture - Lover of Liberty
The Pilgrim Fathers
The Village - Life In Colonial Times
Belling The Tiger
Jim Beckwourth - Adventures of A Mountain Man
Jim Thorpe - Young Athlete
John Adams - Brave Patriot
10

Sequoyah - Cherokee Hero
Black hawk Frontier Warrior
The Day It Rained Forever - A Story Of The Johnstown Food
Picture Book of South Carolina
The story of the Boston Tea Party
The Story of The Salem Witch Trials
The Story of the Nineteenth Amendment
The Story of Valley Forge
Hot Dog
19

NEWBERY/HONOR:
Out Of The Flame
BOMB - The Race To Build And Steal The World's Most Dangerous Weapon
22

YOUTH:
Squanto - The Pilgrim Adventure
Narcissa Whitman - Brave Pioneer
Lewis and Clark
Young Harriet Tubman
Little Indian Basket Maker
This For That
Bear Cub
The Desert People
Along Sandy Trails
31

OTHER:
Retribution
A Higher Call - An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Malcolm X - By Any Means Necessary - A Biography
Hellcats - The Epic Story of World War II's Most Daring Submarine Raid
The Green Mamba
The Man in The Passage
The Burglar
Rose Gold
Dead wake - The last crossing of the Lusitania
Bright-sided - How positive Thinking Is Undermining America
42

ESSAYS ETC:
Why Andrew Jacksons Legacy Is So Controversial
National Academy Of Sciences - Warder Allee - 1885-1955 - A Biographical Memoir By Karl Patterson Schmidt
Remembering King Henri - A smelly philanderer who won France's heart
40 Years Later The Cruelty of Papillon Is A Reality In U S Prisons
Review - The Railroad To Freedom - The Journal of Negro History - APR 1933 - VOL 18 - NO 2 - pp 213-214
The Gypsy Rose Blanchard Case Gets Another Twist in The Novel ‘Darling Rose Gold’
The Forgotten Father of the Underground Railroad

OCTOBER:

17 Books this month/ 25 readings including essays etc.

NEWBERY/HONOR:
The Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy
The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War
Roller Girl
Swift Rivers
Children of the Soil

YOUTH:
Citizen Of The Galaxy
Nicholas St. North and the battle of the Nightmare King
The First Book of The Oregon Trail
The Seminole
Kite To Freedom - The Story of A Kite-Flying Contest - The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge - And The Underground Railroad

OTHER:
The Negro Revolution
The Broken Girls
Assassin's Club
Thornyhold
Touch Not The Cat
The Moon-Spinners
Underground Railroad

SHORT PIECES RELATED TO NEWBERY PROJECT:
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Go Down Moses
Review - The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon
Book Review - The Railroad to Freedom - World Affairs - VOL 95 - Issue 3 - 1932 1932
Book Review - Swift Rivers

OTHER SHORT PIECES:
On That Day Began Lies
U.S. Students’ Academic Achievement Still Lags That Of Their Peers In Many Other Countries
October SOTT - 2023

NOVEMBER:

56 Total; 24 Roots; 16 youth; 9 non-youth; 5 reviews; 4 essays

ROOTS:
Little Red Riding Hood - Bernadette Watts
The Bremen Town Musicians - Bernadette Watts
The Wednesday Witch
What The Pine Tree Heard
Wednesdays in the Tower
The Ivy Tree
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler - Knud Pedersen And The Churchill Club
Madam - Will You Talk?
The White Stag
Carol From The Country
Billy Budd - Sailor
A Doll's House
Baree - Son of Kazan
The Golden Basket
An Alphabet of Ancient Greece - Book One - Early Days
The Apprentice of Florence
Kiki Skates
The Chimes - A Goblin Story
The Dickens Trilogy
An Acceptable Time
The Indian in the Cupboard
Young Fredle
My Ántonia
Sugaring Time

YOUTH:
Harvey Hare - Postman Extraordinaire
A Mouse Mess
Madeline's Christmas
House in the Cerulean Sea
Sunshine - A Story About the City of New York
Rosebud
Louie!
Noodle
Frankenstein - A Monstrous Parody
Chrysanthemum
Lilly's Chocolate Heart
oh
Squirrel The Hare And Little Grey Rabbit
Hare and Guy Fawkes
Wise Owl's story
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

OTHER:
Beyond Repair - The Decline And Fall Of The CIA
Nine Coaches Waiting
The Case of The Tragedies In The Greek Room
Chimes
Hachette's Illustrated French Primer
Bound For Canaan - The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of America
Van Loon - Popular Historian - Journalist and FDR Confidant
The Outsiders

REVIEWS:
Books with American Settings by Cornelia Meigs
Book Review - Clearing Weather
Burglon - Nora (1900-1976) - Everett Writer - Artist - Teacher
Book Review - A Critical History of Children's Literature - Survey of Children's Books in English from Earliest Times to the Present - Prepared in Four Parts Under the Editorship of Cornelia Meigs
Book Review - The Apprentice of Florence by Anne D. Kyle

ESSAYS ETC:
Training the Next Generation of Reformers
The School Of Athens - Moments In The History Of An Idea
Declaration of Sentiments Of The American Anti-Slavery Society
November SOTT - 2023

FINAL TALLIES:

Firstly, I have enormous difficulty with tracking/ counting. Should be so simple. When I joined Roots, it included a "ticker" - but after some time I began to forget to update. Then I started, adding to the List Books Read 2023 - but that didn't include essays, reviews, and other non-book reading. My stupendously large book count this year, owes primarily to the Caldecotts.

DISAPPOINTMENTS: Although capable of reading one Newbery Honor a day, I did not. Toward the end, I plotted a final goal to finish all the Honor books through 1939. I did not.

CAVEAT: Some books were read twice - but that can't be counted in lists.

Here are my final counts as of 26 NOV 2023: I have no definitive plan for reading in the month of December.

ROOTS TICKER: - 521
BOOK LIST 2023: - 763
2023 FOLDER: - 920
TABLE FOR ONE: - 890+
CALDECOTT/HONOR: - 350
NEWBERY/HONOR: - 109

DECEMBER:

ROOTS:
Another Brooklyn
The World According to Dog - Poems and Teen Voices
First Boy
Pay Attention Carter Jones
Straw Into Gold
Trouble
Tuck Everlasting
Oliver Twist
The Story of Appleby Capple
A Fine White Dust
Calico Bush
Kilmeny Of The Orchard
Orbiting Jupiter
The Big Tree of Bunlahy - Stories of My Own Countryside
Pageant of Chinese History
Thursdays With The Crown
Prince Of The Pale Mountains
Red Sky Over Rome
Watch Honeybees With Me
The Houdini Box - What Secrets Does It Hold?
A Little Singing Bird
Partners In Crime
My Brother Sam Is Dead
The Year of Billy Miller
Iveliz Explains It All
The Wish Giver
The Perilous Road
Olive's Ocean
Too Bright To See
One Crazy Summer
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Surviving the Applewhites
We Dream of Space
What Hearts

YOUTH:
Geronimo Weil
Tales From The Greek Legends
The Argonauts Of Faith - The Adventures Of The "Mayflower" Pilgrims
ON THE NIGHT YOU WERE BORN
The Great Christmas Kidnaping Caper
War Horse

OTHER:
A Cup Of Christmas Tea
Naomi's Gift - An Amish Christmas Story
Christmas with Tucker
To The Bright Edge Of The World

ESSAYS:
What Does Jesus Have to Do with STEM?
HMATPF
ITTE
WTBTC
CLFU
HTAS
TCSOC-WSIB
CFAI
LFTGCCU
Adolph Hitler's Medical Care
Review - Far From Well
SOTT

COUNTS:

ROOTS TICKER: 564
BOOK LIST: 806
2023 FOLDER: 977
TABLE FOR ONE: 947+
CALDECOTT: 350
NEWBERY/HONOR: 135