PICTURE BOOKS
Catchpole, Lucy and James. You’re so amazing! Being singled out doesn’t always feel amazing.
Illus. Karen George. NY: Little Brown, 2023. (2025 Schneider Family book award)
Coppe, Marianna. A brave cat. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle books, 2022.
Engle, Margarita. Eloisa’s musical window. Illus. John Parra. NY: Atheneum BFYR, 2024.
(2025 Golden Kite illustration award, Notable social studies trade books for young
people.)
Jeffers, Oliver. There’s a ghost in this house. NY and Great Britain: Philomel books/
HarperCollins, 2021. (Oversize book with transparent inserts which place ghosts
onto the illustrations.)
Kane, Karen and Jonaz McMillon. Monster Hands. Illus. Dion Mbd/ NY: Nancy Paulson Books/
Penguin Random House, 2024. (2025 ALA Schneider honor book) (sign language)
Kurpiel, Sarah. A little like magic. NY: Rocky Pond books/ Penguin Random house, 2024.
(2025 Schneider book award) (wheelchair bound/ Ice show)
Maclear, Kyo. Noodles on a bicycle. Illus. Gracey Zhang. NY: Random house studio, 2024.
(2025 Caldecott Honor book)
Matias, Carlos. Emergency Quarters. Illus. Gracey Zhang. NY: Katherine Tegen Books/
HarperCollins, 2024. (2025 Ezra Jack Keats Honor book)
McGinty, Alice. Bathe the cat. Illus. David Roberts. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle books, 2021.
MO, Cherry. Home in a lunchbox. NY: Penguin workshop/ Penguin Random, 2024.
(2025 Caldecott Honor book.)
Newman, Leslea. Joyful Song, a naming story. Illus. Susan Gal. Montclair: Levine Querido/
Chronicle Books, 2024. (2025 Sydney Taylor picture book honor award)
Robinson, Casey. Small things mended. Illus. Nancy Whitesides. NY: Rocky Pond Books/
Penguin Random House, 2024. (2025 Golden Kite award finalist)
Rogers, Andrea. Chooch helped. Illus. Rebecca Lee Kunz. Montclair: Levine Querido,
2024. (2025 Caldecott Medal)
Rubin, Adam. Robo-sauce. Illus. Daniel Salmier. NY: Dial BFYR/ Penguin books, 2015.
(Evidently the special part of this book are large fold-out pages, which are missing. The
last few pages needing to be read back to front and upside down – also confusing.)
Seales, Stephanie. My daddy is a cowboy. Illus. C.G. Espenamza. NY: Abrams, 2024.
(Darkly illustrated in deep blues, I never did figure out how her daddy is a cowboy.
Lyrically written, they just take a ride through city streets in the early morning. It’s the
illustrations that won the award - 2025 Caldecott Honor Book.)
Suddendorf, April. Wacky witches and their peculiar familiars. Zurich, Switzerland: NordSug
Verlag, 2023. (NY: NorthSouth Books, 2023.) (2025 Sydney Taylor picture book honor
award)
Underwood, Deborah. A mouse family Christmas. Illus. Leah Hong. NY: Little Brown, 2024.
The man who didn’t like animals. Illus. LeUyen Pham. NY: Clarion books/ HaperCollins,
2024. (before there was Old Macdonald, there was…) (Golden Kite Award)
Wedlick, Seina. Night Market. Illus. Briana Mukodiri Uchendu. NY: Random House studio,
2024. (2025 Golden Kite award, author award)
NONFICTION PICTURE BOOKS
J 560.922 Kurtz, Jane. The Bone Wars, the true story of an epic battle to find dinosaur
fossils. Illus. Alexander Vidal. NY: Beach Lane Books, 2023.
(CBC / NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book)
J 629.1 Roth, Jonathan. Almost Underwear, how a piece of cloth traveled from Kitty
Hawk to the moon and mars. NY: Christy Ottaviano Books/ Little, Brown and Co, 2024.
(2025 ALSC Notable Book award, Junior Library Guild nonfiction award)
J 973.4 Albee, Sarah. The painter and the president, Gilbert Stuart’s brush with George
Washington. Illus Stacy Innerst. (2025 Golden Kite Award honor)
PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHIES:
JB Abzug Aronson, Sarah. Abzuglutely! Battling, bellowing Bella Abzug. NY: Calkins
Creek/ Astra Books for young readers, 2024.
JB Baldwin. Meadows, Michelle. Jimmy’s rhythm & blues – the extraordinary life of James
Baldwin. Illus. Jamiel Law. NY: HarperCollins, 2024.
(2025 Coretta Scott King award, and the John Steptoe New talent illustrator award)
JB Googoosh Westergaard, Azadeh. The one and only Googoosh, Iran’s beloved superstar.
NY: Viking, 2024. (2025 Golden Kite Award for Illustration)
JB Herschel. Turner, Pamela. Comet Chaser, the true Cinderella story of Caroline Herschel,
the first professional woman astronomer. Illus. Vivien Mildenbergr. San Francisco, CA:
Chronicle books, 2024. (2025 Golden Kite Award honor)
JB Lewis. Cline-Ransome, Lisa. Fighting with Love, the legacy of John Lewis. Illus. James
E. Ransome (her husband who illustrates many of her books). NY: Simon & Schuster
books for young readers, 2024. (2025 Golden Kite Finalist)
JB Mills Mills, Billy and Donna Janell Bowman. Wings of an Eagle. Illus. S.D. Nelson.
NY: Little, Brown and Co, 2024. (2025 Robert F. Sibert Honor book, ALSC Notable
books, and American Indians in children’s literature award.)
JB Rumi Khelriyeh, Rashin. Rumi, poet of joy and love. North/South books, 2023, 2024.
(2025 Golden Kite Award)
JB Tabei. Vasuda, Anita. Up, up, ever up! Junko Tabei a life in the mountains. Illus. Yuko
Shimizu. NY: Clarion/ HarperCollins, 2024. (2025 Caldecott Honor book)
JB Wells Johnson, Dinah. Ida B. Wells marches for the vote. Illus. Jerry Jordan.
NY: Christy Ottaviano Books/ Little Brown & Co. 2024. (2025 Golden Kite honor)
I CAN READ
J – FICTION :
Arnold, Elana. Harriet tells the truth. NY: HarperCollins/ Waldon Books Press, 2024.
(2025 Sid Fleischman Humor Award.)
Bow, Erin. Simon sort of says. NY, CA: Disney/ Hyperion, 2023.
(2024 Newbery Honor, Schneider family book award honor, National Book
Award longlist.)
Fagan, Deva. A game of noctis. NY: Atheneum BFYR, 2024. (Texas Lone Star reading list)
Kelly, Erin Entrada. The first state of being. NY: Greenwillow books, 2024.
(2025 Newbery award. A great time travel book, much better than the previous time
travel Newbery, which was: When you reach me by Rebecca Stead. Keeping in mind that
different Newbery Award committees have different tastes in books.)
Gardner, PJ. The Great Zoodini. Illus David Mottram. NY: Balzer+Bray/
HarperCollins, 2024. (2025 Sid Fleischman Humor Award.)
Harrier, Ash. The Deadly Daylight. NY: Holiday House, 2024.
(first published in Australia in 2022.)
Knudson, Michelle. Into the Wild Magic. Summerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2025.
Mendez, Yamile Saied. The Reel Wish. NY: Tu Books/ Lee & Low books, 2025.
Nayeri, Daniel. The Teacher of Nomad Land, a World War II story. Montclair: Levine Querido,
2025. (2025 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.)
Rundell, Katherine. Impossible Creatures. Illus. Ashley Mackenzie. NY: Knopf, 2023.
Sepetys, Ruta and Steve Sheinkin. The Bletchley Riddle , a house of secrets, a war of codes.
NY: Viking/ Penguin Randomhouse, 2024.
(based on the real breaking of the German codes during WW2. Jointly written from a
girl’s and a boy’s point of view in alternate chapters.)
Smith, Cynthia Leitich. On a wing and a tear. NY: Heartdrum/ HarperCollins, 2024.
(2025 Sid Fleischman Award for humor.) (Internet friend from the 1990s, Vermont
College Faculty member, and Native American writer/editor)
Underwood, Deborah. The fairy tale fixers – Cinderella. (Graphic Novel) Illus. Jorge Lacera.
NY: Clarion/ Harper Collins, 2025.
Yee, Lisa. The misfits – a copycat conundrum.(book 2) Illus. Dan Santat. NY: Random House,
2025.
YA FICTION:
Collins, Suzanne. Sunrise on the Reaping. NY: Scholastic Press, 2025
(Haymitch’s story – how he won the The Second Quarter Qwell, the 50th year of the
‘games’ when FOUR are chosen from each district to kill each other in the arena.)
Springer, Nancy. Enola Holmes and the mark of the Mongoose. NY: Wednesday Books/
St. Martin’s Publishing group, 2023.
J and Y NONFICTION
J 510.92 Wallmark, Laurie. Numbers in motion, Sophie Kowalevski, queen of mathematics.
Illus. Yevgenia Nayberg. Berkley, CA: Creston Books, 2020.
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