• The Circus Ship by Chris VanDusen
  
  
• An Eye for Color: the Story of Josef Albers by Natasha Wing and Julia Breckenreid
  
  
• Hurry Up and Slow Down by Layn Marlow
  
  
• The Imaginary Garden by Andrew Larsen and Irene Luxbacher
  
  
• Lousy, Rotten Stinkin' Grapes by Margie Palatini
  
  
• My Name is Sangoel by Karen Lynn Williams, Khadra Mohammed and Catherine Stock
  
  
• Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson by Sharon Robinson
  
  
• Tsunami by Kimiko Kajikawa
  
  
• Under the Snow by Melissa Stewart

• Winnie Finn, Worm Farmer by Carol Brendler
  
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The following titles were on the Committee's short list for consideration for 2011:

• The Beckoning Cat: based on a Japanese Folktale by Koko Nishizuka, illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger
• The Birthday Pet by Ellen Javernick, illustrated by Kevin O'Malley
• Chicken Little by Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley
• Clever Rachel by Debby Waldman, illustrated by Cindy Revell
• Crow Call by Lois Lowry, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
• The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
• Dog Biscuit by Helen Cooper
• Down, Down, Down: a Journey to the Bottom of the Sea by Steve Jenkins
• Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrations by Tom Lichtenheld
• Hook by Ed Young
• I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll
• In the Trees, Honeybees by Lori Mortensen, illustrated by Cris Arbo
• Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty
• Let's Do Nothing! by Tony Fucile
• The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
• The Lion's Share by Matthew McElligott
• Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm, illustrated by Molly Bang
• The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree by Anne Shelby
• My Uncle Emily by Jane Yolen
• One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh
• Orangutan Tongs: Poems to Tangle Your Tongue by Jon Agee
• Otis by Loren Long
• Princess Hyacinth: the Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated by Florence Parry Heide
• Read It, Don't Eat It! by Ian Shoenherr
• Redwoods by Jason Chin
• What Bluebirds Do by Pamela F. Kirby
• A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: a Forest of Poems by Deborah Ruddell, illustrated by Joan Rankin
• You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah Winter, illustrations by Andre Carrilho