Awards search:Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Kids

Waiting for the Biblioburro

by Monica Brown
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Latinx, Latinx central character, library, reading, literacy, writing, Colombia, animals, donkeys, BIPOC central character(s)
Collection
Picture books
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

The One and Only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate
Paperback, 2015
Tags
friendship, Newbery, elephants, gorillas, zoo
Collection
chapter books
Series
The One and Only Ivan (1)
Status
Available

Extra Yarn

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

The day the crayons quit

by Drew Daywalt
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
crayons, writing, feelings
Collection
Picture books
Series
The Crayons (1)
Status
Available

Steam train, dream train

by Sherri Duskey Rinker
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
bedtime, trains, transportation, animals
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

This is the rope : a story from the Great Migration

by Jacqueline Woodson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
civil rights, history US
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Counting by 7s

by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Paperback, 2014
Tags
neurodivergence, orphans
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

The adventures of Beekle : the unimaginary friend

by Dan Santat
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
imagination, friends, imaginary friend, adventure, belonging
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The Baby Tree

by Sophie Blackall
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
babies, new baby, siblings, reproduction, sex education
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Maple

by Lori Nichols
Board book, 2019
Tags
tree, new baby, siblings
Collection
Board books
Status
Checked out
Due 2024-04-20

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Irma S and James H Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature (Awards))

by Mac Barnett
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
nature, digging, friends, dogs, observation
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors

by Roseanne Greenfield Thong
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Spanish, bilingual, colors
Collection
Picture 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 Red Pencil

by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Black central character, refugees, refugee story
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

Little Melba and her big trombone

by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
music, civil rights
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Dory Fantasmagory

by Abby Hanlon
Paperback, 2015
Tags
imagination, siblings, silly, fantasy, chapter book
Collection
chapter books
Series
Dory Fantasmagory (1)
Status
Available

If You Plant a Seed

by Kadir Nelson
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
kindness, sharing, selfishness, animals, planting, vegetables
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Checked out
Due 2024-04-20

Last stop on Market Street

by Matt de la Peña
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
bus, poverty, socioeconomics, community, neighbors, Newbery, Caldecott
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Chasing freedom : the life journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, inspired by historical facts

by Nikki Grimes
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
historical fiction, slavery, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, freedom, biography, women's rights, civil rights, Black history
Collection
Picture books
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

They all saw a cat

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

A Family Is a Family Is a Family

by Sara O'Leary
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
foster children, adoption, family, LGBTQIA2S+
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

Hello, Universe

by Erin Entrada Kelly
Paperback, 2020
Tags
Newbery, AAPI central character, Filipino central character, deaf, deafness
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

After the fall (how Humpty Dumpty got back up again)

by Dan Santat
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Humpty Dumpty, courage, nursery rhymes, fear, bravery, determination, perseverance, anxiety
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

by Karina Yan Glaser
Paperback, 2017
Tags
siblings, community, neighbors, biracial, mystery, romance, BIPOC central character(s)
Collection
YA
Series
Vanderbeekers (1)
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 antlered ship

by Dashka Slater
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
animals, adventure, ocean, pirates
Collection
Picture books
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

Alfie

by Thyra Heder
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
pets, birthdays, POV, BIPOC central character(s), turtles
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Let the children march

by Monica Clark-Robinson
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
civil rights
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Mae Among the Stars

by Roda Ahmed
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
space, biography, Black history, Black central character, persistence
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

They Say Blue

by Jillian Tamaki
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
seasons, nature, trees, AAPI central character
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

Julian is a mermaid

by Jessica Love
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
grandparents, gender nonconforming, BIPOC central character(s), LGBTQIA2S+
Collection
Picture books
Series
Julián (1)
Status
Checked out

The day you begin

by Jacqueline Woodson
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
school, fitting in, self-esteem, self-acceptance
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

by Meg Medina
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Newbery, Cuba, middle school, school, Alzheimer's, Latinx central character, Latinx
Collection
chapter books
Series
Merci Suárez (1)
Status
Available

We don't eat our classmates!

by Ryan T. Higgins
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
starting school, feelings, self-regulation
Collection
Picture books
Series
Penelope Rex (1)
Status
Available

Thank you, Omu!

by Oge Mora
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
community
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Hey, wall : a story of art and community

by Susan Verde
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
creativity, neighbors, community, imagination
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Another

by Christian Robinson
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
cats, pets, BIPOC central character(s), perspective, POV
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

New Kid

by Jerry Craft
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Black central character, friendship, graphic novel, Newbery, school, middle school
Collections
chapter books, graphic novels
Series
New Kid (1)
Status
Available

Song for a Whale

by Lynne Kelly
Paperback, 2019
Tags
whales, deaf, deafness, disability, friendship, animals, chapter book, grief, communication
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

Hair love

by Matthew A. Cherry
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
hair, BIPOC central character(s), illness, fathers, mothers
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Vamos! Let's go to the market

by Ra the Third,
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
food, Spanish, market, Latinx, life, wrestling, bilingual
Collection
Picture books
Series
World of ¡Vamos!
Status
Available
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