- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino, illus. by Steven Kellogg
- In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
- The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- A River of Words by Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet
- Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework by Nadja Spiegelman, illus. by Trade Loeffler
- World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky, illus. by Frank Stockton
- Baby Animals: In the Jungle by Editors at Kingfisher
- The Cabinet of Earths by Anne Nesbet