• The Legend of Holly Claus , by Brittney Ryan
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas , by Dr. Seuss
• A Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens
• Nutcracker , by E.T.A. Hoffmann
• A Child's Christmas in Wales , by Dylan Thomas
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus , by L. Frank Baum
• The Snow Queen / The Little Match Girl , by Hans Christian Anderson
• The Snowman , by Raymond Briggs
• Moominland Midwinter , by Tove Jansson
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , by C. S. Lewis

part 1 - children's book

• Winnie-the-Pooh & The House at Pooh Corner , by A. A. Milne
• The Penderwicks series, by Jeanne Birdsall
• The Secret Garden , by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Anne of Green Gable , by L. M. Montgomery
• Peter Pan , by J. M. Barrie
• Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass , by Lewis Carroll
• The Neverending Story , by Michael Ende

part 2

• Elitist Readers
• Obvious foreshadowing
• Love at fist sight
• Whitewashing YA covers
• Abusive boyfriends pegged as "best boyfriends in the world"
• Too many brands
• Romantic plot taking over otherwise non-romantic novel
• Too many hot guys in YA fiction
• Out-of-character actions to further the plot
• Unnecessary epilogues

top ten bookish pet peeves [http://thewoodlandlibrary.blogspot.com/2...]

• The Hunger Games series, by Suzanne Collins
• The Uglies series, by Scott Westerfeld
• The Giver , by Lois Lowry
• Unwind , by Neal Shusterman
• The Books of Ember series, by Jeanne DuPrau
• The Maze Runner , by James Dashner
• The Choas Walking series, by Patrick Ness
• Incaceron , by Catherine Fisher
• Ship Breaker , by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Inside Out , by Maria V. Snyder

• Jellicoe Road , by Melina Marchetta
• The Book Thief , by Markus Zusak
• Tomorrow, When the War Began , by John Marsden
• The Spell Book of Listen Taylor , by Jaclyn Moriarty
• Sabriel , by Garth Nix
• Magic or Madness , by Justine Larbalestier
• Tender Morsels , by Margo Lanagan
• Thursday's Child , by Sonya Hartnett
• A Little Wanting Song , by Cath Crowley
• Obernewtyn , by Isabelle Carmody

• Ice , by Sarah Beth Durst (East O' the Sun, West O' the Moon
• White As Snow , by Tanith Lee (Snow White)
• Briar Rose , by Jane Yolen (Sleeping Beauty)
• Wildwood Dancing , by Juliet Marillier (Twelve Dancing Princesses)
• East , by Edith Pattou (East O' the Sun, West O' the Moon)
• The Goose Girl , by Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)
• A Curse Dark As Gold , by Elixabeth C. Bunce (Rumpelstiltskin)
• _Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine (Cinderella)
• Fables , by Bill Wilingham (comic book series with several fairy tales)
• The Bloody Chamber , by Angela Carter (short stories, several fairy tales)

• *** = favorites

June

• The Penderwicks at Pointe Mouette , by Jeanne Birdsall ***
• Playing With the Grown-Ups , by Sophie Dahl
• The Secret Circle trilogy, by L. J. Smith
• Enchanted Ivy , by Sarah Beth Durst

July

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children , by Ransom Riggs
• Are All the Giants Dead? , by Mary Norton
• Ella Minnow Pea , by Mark Dunn ***
• The Blue Castle , by L. M. Montgomery ***
• The Woman in Black , by Susan Hill

August

• Except the Queen , by Jane Yolen & Midori Snyder
• The Girl With Glass Feet , by Ali Shaw
• Hardboiled & Hard Luck , by Banana Yoshimoto
• The Waves , by Virginia Woolf ***

• Voldemort - Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling
• Moriarty - Sherlock Holmes series, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The One Ring - The Lord of the Rings trilogy, by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Mrs. Coulter - _His Dark Material_s trilogy, by Philip Pullman
• Dolores Umbridge - Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling
• Hook - Peter Pan , by J. M. Barrie
• The Nothing - The Neverending Story , by Michael Ende
• The White Witch - The Chronicles of Narnia , by C. S. Lewis
• President Snow/The Capitol (and every other government in dystopian fiction) - The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
• The Unraveller Rakoth Maugrim - The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, by Guy Gavriel Kay

top ten villains [http://thewoodlandlibrary.blogspot.com/2...]

• Princess of Glass , by Jessica Day George
• Bound , by Donna Jo Napoli
• Just Ella , by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• The Rough-Face Girl , by Rafe Martin
• Confession of an Ugly Stepsister , by Gregory Maguire
• Ash , by Malinda Lo
• Bella at Midnight , by Diane Stanley
• The Coachman Rat , by David Henry Wilson
• Before Midnight , by Cameron Dokey
• Godmother , by Carolyn Turgeon

• Daughters of the Witching Hill , by Mary Sharratt
• A Break With Charity , by Ann Rinaldi
• Witch Child , by Celia Rees
• The Minister's Daughter , by Julie Hearn
• The Heretic's Daughter , by Kathleen Kent
• The Crucible , by Arthur Miller (play)
• The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane , by Katherine Howe
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond , by Elizabeth George Speare
• Wicked Girls , by Stephanie Hemphill
• The Betrayal of Maggie Blair , by Elizabeth Laird

• Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories , by Lauren Groff
• Magic For Beginners , by Kelly Link
• Fragile Things , by Neil Gaiman
• Waifs & Strays , by Charles de Lint
• The Bloody Chamber , by Angela Carter
• St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves , by Karen Russell
• The Green Man , ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
• Ventriloquism , by Catherynne M. Valente
• My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me , ed. by Kate Bernheimer
• Geektastic: Stories From the Nerd Herd , ed. by Holly Black & Cecil Castellucci

• A Series of Unfortunate Event , by Lemony Snicket
  • Book the 10th -- The Slippery Slope
  • Book the 11th -- The Grim Grotto
  • Book the 12th -- The Penultimate Peril
  • Book the 13th -- The End
• The Moomin series, by Tove Jannsson
  • The Moomins & the Great Flood
  • Comet in Moominland
  • Finn Family Moomintroll
  • Moominpappa's Memoirs
  • Moominsummer Madness
  • Moominland Midwinter
  • Tales From Moominvalley
  • Moominpappa at Sea
  • Moominvalley in November
• The Grimm Sisters series, by Michael Buckley
  • #4 Once Upon a Crime
  • #5 Magic & Other Misdemeanors

• Serafina Pekkala - His Dark Meterial series, by Philip Pullman
• The Childlike Empress (Moonchild) - The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
• Meriadoc Brandybuck - The Lord of the Rings trilogy, by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Weasley family - Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling
• Baba Yaga - Deathless, by Catherynne M. Valente
• Frau Totenkinder - Fables series (comics), by Bill Willingham
• Neville Longbottom - Harry Potter series, by J. K. Rowling

top ten minor characters [http://thewoodlandlibrary.blogspot.com/2...]

• Quicksilver , by Stephanie Spinner
• Goddess of Yesterday , by Caroline B. Cooney
• The Firebrand , by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Nobody's Princess , by Esther M. Freisner
• Oh. My. Gods. , by Tera Lynn Childs
• The Percy Jackson series, by Rick Riordan
• Lost in the Labyrinth , by Patrice Kindl
• The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break , by Steven Sherrill
• The Penelopiad , by Margaret Atwood
• Till We Have Faces , by C.S Lewis

• The Lost Garden , by Helen Humphrey
• The Secret Garden , by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• In the Night Garden (the Orphan's Tales #1), by Catherynne Valente
• The Forgotten Garden , by Kate Morton
• A Child's Garden of Verses , by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens , J. M. Barrie
• Poems for Gardeners , ed. by Germaine Greer
• Garden Spells , by Sarah Addison Allen
• Elizabeth and her German Garden , by Elizabeth von Arnim
• The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady , Edith Holden

• Addie & Meryl, from The Two Princesses of Bamarre , by Gail cArson Levine
• Sinda & Nalia, from The False Princess , by Eilis O'Neal
• Sara Crewe, from A Little Princess , by Frances Hodgson Brunett
• Princess Anidori-Kiladra, from The Goose Girl , by Shannon Hale
• Princess Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne of Phantasmorani, Amy for short, from The Ordinary Princess , by M. M. Kaye
• Cimorene, from Dealing With Dragons , by Patricia C. Wrede
• Eilonwy, from The Prydain Chronicles , by Lloyd Alexander
• Rosie, from Spindle's End , by Robin McKinley
• Rain, from The Foretelling , by Alice Hoffman
• Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, from The Icemark Chronicles , by Stuart Hill