Awards search:Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

by Kate DiCamillo
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Newbery, mouse, mice, princess, animals, bravery
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

Single Shard (01) by Park, Linda Sue [Hardcover (2001)]

by LindaSuePark
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Newbery, AAPI central character, historical fiction, Korea
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

Olivia

by Ian Falconer
Board book, 2004
Tags
animals, creativity
Collection
Board books
Series
Olivia (1)
Status
Available

How do dinosaurs say goodnight?

by Jane Yolen
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
dinosaurs, bedtime, rhyming
Collection
Picture books
Series
How Do Dinosaurs...?
Status
Available

Joey Pigza Loses Control (Joey Pigza, 2)

by Jack Gantos
Paperback, 2014
Tags
ADHD, neurodivergence, Newbery
Collection
chapter books
Series
Joey Pigza (book 2)
Status
Available

Flotsam

by David Wiesner
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
wordless, fantasy, water, ocean, sea, photography
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Henry's freedom box

by Ellen Levine
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
slavery, Underground Railroad, freedom, historical fiction, Black history, biography, civil rights, social justice
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Ivy & Bean (Book 1)

by Annie Barrows
Paperback, 2007
Tags
girls, neighbors, friends
Collection
chapter books
Series
Ivy + Bean (1)
Status
Available

The golden rule

by Ilene Cooper
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
religion, kindness, philosophy, compassion
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman
Paperback, 2010
Tags
death, fantasy, ghosts, Newbery
Collection
YA
Status
Available

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

by Kadir Nelson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Black history, civil rights, social justice, slavery
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Extra Yarn

by Mac Barnett
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
creativity, knitting, kindness, generosity, sharing, Caldecott
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

by Kate DiCamillo
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Newbery, animals, squirrels, friendship, divorce, fantasy
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Poetry, memoir, Ohio, Newbery, autobiography, Black central character, Black history, BIPOC central character(s)
Collections
YA, Favorites
Status
Available

The day the crayons came home

by Drew Daywalt
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
crayons, feelings, writing
Collection
Picture books
Series
The Crayons (2)
Status
Available

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

by Carole Boston Weatherford
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Caldecott, civil rights, Black central character, Black history
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Freedom in Congo Square

by Carole Boston Weatherford
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Black history, slavery, US history, freedom
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

School's First Day of School

by Adam Rex
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
feelings, perspective, POV, school, first day of school, starting school, nervous
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal)

by Kelly Barnhill
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Newbery, fantasy, magic, friendship, dragons, girls
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

March : Book three

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2016
Tags
graphic novel, John Lewis, civil rights
Collections
graphic novels, YA
Series
March (3)
Status
Available

They all saw a cat

by Brendan Wenzel
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
perspective, cats, nature, Caldecott
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her mark

by Debbie Levy
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
biography, non-fiction, Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, law, women, history, feminism, women's rights, civil rights, social justice
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The wolf, the duck & the mouse

by Mac Barnett
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
adventure, birds, mice, wolf
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)

by Bao Phi
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
refugees, immigration, fishing, parents, fathers, AAPI central character, Caldecott
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

by Joyce Sidman
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Germany, non-fiction, butterflies, nature, biography
Collection
YA
Status
Available

The wall in the middle of the book

by Jon Agee
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
fear
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Fry bread : a native American family story

by Noble Maillard
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
family, food, Indigenous, baking, tradition, recipes, trauma
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The proudest blue : a story of hijab and family

by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Hijab, Muslim central character, Islam
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Series
The Proudest Blue (1)
Status
Available

Small in the city

by Sydney Smith
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
lost, cats, snow, city, winter
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way

by Kyo Maclear
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
art, social justice, Japanese internment
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

A stone sat still

by Brendan Wenzel
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
perspective, nature, change
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Pokko and the drum

by Matthew Forsythe
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
music
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Ohana Means Family

by Ilima Loomis
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
family, tradition, farming, AAPI central character, Native Hawaiian central character, Hawaii, poetry
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

We are water protectors

by Carole Lindstrom
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
clean water, water protectors, activism, Indigenous
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

Black is a rainbow color

by Angela Joy
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Black history, diversity, colors, race, self-esteem, social justice
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

If you come to Earth

by Sophie Blackall
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
earth, people, nature
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

I Dream of Popo

by Livia Blackburne
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
grandparents, food, immigration, illness, travel
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Fred Gets Dressed

by Peter Brown
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
gender nonconforming, clothes, dressing up, parents, LGBTQIA2S+
Collection
Picture books
Status
Checked out

A Day With No Words

by Tiffany Hammond
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
autism, family, nonspeaking, communication, BIPOC central character(s), Black central character
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available
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