• Big
  • Author: Vashti Harrison
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young...
  • Filled with truth, beauty, joy, and acceptance, this is a tour de force from bestselling and award-winning creator Vashti Harrison. . The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning and creator Vashti Harrison traces a child's journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With...
  • Hot Dog ...
  • Author: Doug Salati
  • Publisher: Knopf Books for Young...
  • From a critically acclaimed creator comes this summery picture book featuring an overheated - and overwhelmed - pup who finds his calm with some sea, sand, and fresh air."An utter joy from beginning to end!" - Sophie Blackall, two-time Caldecott Medal winnerIt's summer in the city, and this hot dog has had enough!...
  • Watercress
  • Author: Andrea Wang
  • Publisher:
  • Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. Grabbing an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail covered watercress as they can. At first,...
  • We Are Water Protectors
  • Author: Carole Lindstrom
  • Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
  • Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, Carole Lindstrom's bold and lyrical picture book We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguarding the Earth's water from harm and corruption.Water is the first medicine.It affects and connects us all . . .When a black snake...
  • The Undefeated
  • Author: Kwame Alexander
  • Publisher: Versify
  • The Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire...
  • Hello Lighthouse
  • Author: Sophie Blackall
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young...
  • A lavish new picture book from Caldecott-winner Sophie Blackall that will transport readers to the seaside in timeless, nautical splendor!Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around. Inside, the daily life of a lighthouse keeper and his family...
  • Wolf in the Snow
  • Author: Matthew Cordell
  • Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
  • Winner of the 2018 Caldecott MedalA girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf cub is lost, too. How will they find their way home?Paintings rich with feeling tell this satisfying story of friendship and trust. Here is a book set on a wintry night that will spark imaginations and warm hearts, from Matthew Cordell, author of Trouble...
  • Radiant Child: The Story of Young...
  • Author: Javaka Steptoe
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young...
  • Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator AwardJean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books...
  • Finding Winnie: The True Story...
  • Author: Lindsay Mattick
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young...
  • "Finding Winnie introduces young readers to the fascinating world of nonfiction with a Caldecott Medal winning story of the bear that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. " - Seira Wilson, Amazon EditorA #1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal about the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired...
  • The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary...
  • Author: Dan Santat
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young...
  • . Dan Santats Caldecott Medal-winning The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend is a humorous and thoughtful celebration of friends.This magical story begins on an island far away where an imaginary friend is born. He patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child, but when he is overlooked time and again,...
  • Locomotive
  • Author: Brian Floca
  • Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson...
  • The Caldecott Medal Winner, Sibert Honor Book, and New York Times bestseller Locomotive is a rich and detailed sensory exploration of America's early railroads, from the creator of the "stunning" (BOOKLIST ) Moonshot.It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling...
  • This Is Not My Hat
  • Author: Jon Klassen
  • Publisher: Candlewick
  • The 2013 Caldecott Medal winner!From the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning I Want My Hat Back comes a second wry tale.When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly) , trouble could be following close behind. So it's...
  • A Ball for Daisy
  • Author: Christopher Raschka
  • Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
  • Winner of the 2012 Randolph Caldecott MedalThis New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Best Illustrated Book relates a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her favorite ball is destroyed by a bigger...
  • A Sick Day for Amos McGee
  • Author: Philip Christian Stead
  • Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
  • The Best Sick Day Ever and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book debut. Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee's case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin...
  • The Lion & the Mouse
  • Author: Jerry Pinkney
  • Publisher: Little
  • In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's trap. With vivid depictions...
  • The House in the Night
  • Author: Susan Marie Swanson
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
  • 2009 Caldecott Medal Winner A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this Caldecott Medal-winning bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing to preschoolers - a key, a bed, the moon - this timeless book illuminates...
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret
  • Author: Brian Selznick
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press
  • Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious...
  • Flotsam
  • Author: David Wiesner
  • Publisher: Clarion Books
  • A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam - anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater...
  • The Hello, Goodbye Window
  • Author: Chris Raschka
  • Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
  • This is a love song devoted to that special relationship between grandparents and grandchild. The kitchen window at Nanna and Poppy's house is, for one little girl, a magic gateway. Everything important happens near it, through it, or beyond it. Told in her voice, her story is both a voyage of discovery and a celebration...
  • Kitten's First Full Moon
  • Author: Kevin Henkes
  • Publisher: Greenwillow Books; 1 edition
  • What a night! The moon is full. Kitten is hungry and inquisitive and brave and fast and persistent and unlucky . . . then lucky! What a night!
  • The Man Who Walked Between The Towers
  • Author: Mordicai Gerstein
  • Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
  • In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings...
  • My Friend Rabbit
  • Author: Eric Rohmann
  • Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
  • Rabbit saves the day in a most ingeneous way.When Mouse lets his best friend, Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind. From Caldecott Honor award winner Eric Rohmann comes a brand-new picture book about friends and toys and trouble, illustrated in robust, expressive prints.My Friend Rabbit...
  • The Three Pigs
  • Author: David Wiesner
  • Publisher: Clarion Books
  • This Caldecott Medal-winning picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. But the wolf's huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story . . . and into the realm of pure imagination. The transition...
  • So You Want to Be President?
  • Author: Judith St. George
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books...
  • So you want to be President! Why not? Presidents have come in every variety. They've been generals like George Washington and actors like Ronald Reagan, big like William Howard Taft and small like James Madison, handsome like Franklin Pierce and homely like Abraham Lincoln.From the embarrassment of skinny-dipping John Quincy...