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Illustrator

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Awards

April and Esme, Tooth Fairies

Bob Graham

On their first assignment, two young tooth fairy sisters journey night into the huge world of humans to collect a young boy's tooth and fly it safely home

Back of the Bus

Aaron Reynolds

Floyd Cooper

A young boy and his mother take a familiar ride on a city bus unaware of the historic event they are about to witness: passenger Rosa Parks refuses to move from her seat

Big Red Lollipop

Rukhsana Khan

Sophie Blackall

Rubina’s excitement over an invitation to a birthday party is dimmed her mother’s insistence that she take her younger sister Sana with her

Bink and Gollie

Kate DiCamillo & Alison McGhee

Tony Fucile

Dissimilar, yet steadfast friends, celebrate the ups and downs of their daily escapades in three lively chapters that explore compromise, asserting independence, and jealousy

Geisel Award Book

Chalk

Bill Thomson

Bill Thomson

In this wordless picture book, three young children arrive at the park to find a bag of colored chalk that turns their imaginary drawings into something very real

City Dog, Country Frog

Mo Willems

Jon J. Muth

Unleashed on his visit to the country, a dog meets a new friend in frog and together they experience the seasons and the cycle of life

Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin

Duncan Tonatiuh

Duncan Tonatiuh

The universality of childhood experiences is shown through the lives of two cousins, one in the United States and one in Mexico

Belpré Illustrator Honor Book

Fiesta Babies

Carmen Tafolla

Amy C órdova

The simple rhyme scheme is embellished colorful illustrations of multicultural babies and toddlers celebrating at a local fiesta

Belpré Illustrator Honor Book

Grandma’s Gift

Eric Velasquez

Eric Velasquez

This personal tale is based on the author’s special relationship with his grandmother, who influenced his dream of becoming an artist

Belpré Illustrator Award

Hip-Pocket Papa

Sandra Markle

Alan Marks

The papa hip-pocket frog from Australia, who carries his babies in his hip pocket, is introduced with attractive watercolor illustrations

Interrupting Chicken

David Ezra Stein

David Ezra Stein

This hilarious story presents Little Chicken and her long-suffering papa, who just wants to get through a bedtime story without his daughter’s met fictive disruptions

Caldecott Honor Book

In the Wild

David Elliott

Holly Meade

A joyful collection of brief poems paired with dynamic woodblock prints celebrates favorite animals from every continent

Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!

Grace Lin

Grace Lin

Six vignettes chronicle the daily adventures of identical twins as they get haircuts, make dumplings, perform magic and take a trip to the library

Geisel Honor Book

LMNO Peas

Keith Baker

Keith Baker

Tiny green peas take readers on a fun, whimsical tour of the alphabet

Pecan Pie Baby

Jacqueline Woodson

Sophie Blackall

Unlike her friends and relatives, Gia is not looking forward to the birth of her first sibling, "that ding-dang baby"

Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes

Salley Mavor

Salley Mavor

Familiar and lesser known nursery rhymes, illustrated with superb needlework and appliqué, create a charming dollhouse of a book

The Quiet Book

Deborah Underwood

Renata Liwska

Quiet comes in many varieties, from “Sleeping sister quiet” to “First snowfall quiet” to “Right before you yell ‘SURPRISE’ quiet”

Rubia and the Three Osos

Susan Middleton Elya

Melissa Sweet

A bouncy, rhyming story about a little golden-haired niña who helps herself to everything in the house of the three bears

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Philip C Stead

Erin E. Stead

Zookeeper Amos McGee gets the sniffles and receives a surprise visit from his caring animal friends

Caldecott Medal

Tuck Me In!

 Dean Hacohen

Sherry Scharschmidt

Readers interact with this deceptively simple good-night book, tucking sweet animals into bed.

We Are in a Book!

Mo Willems

Mo Willems

Elephant and Piggie discover that someone, the reader, is looking at them in this hilarious, interactive story about the joys of reading and being read.

Geisel Honor Book

Yucky Worms

Vivian French

Jessica Ahlberg

While digging with Grandma in the garden, a child learns why earthworms are so important in helping plants grow

Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

Brian Floca

Making Appalachian Spring – Spare, dramatic text and uncluttered watercolors relay the story of the collaborative creation of a classic American ballet

Sibert Honor Book

The Bat Scientists

Mary Kay Carson

Tom Uhlman

Exceptional photography and clear text capture the lives of bats and explore the myths and threats to these amazing mammals

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave

Laban Carrick Hill

Bryan Collier

Poetic text and lush illustrations tell the true story of an extraordinary artist living in 19th-century South Carolina

Caldecott Honor Book & ALA Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester

Barbara O’Connor

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

In this summer adventure, Owen is enthralled his conviction that something amazing has fallen from a train

Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature

Sarah C Campbell

Sarah and Richard P

Crisp design and clear photography introduce and depict Fibonacci patterns in nature

Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys

Bob Raczka

Peter H. Reynolds

Six haiku for each season of the year, celebrating the interaction of boys and nature, combine with loose, expressive cartoons to make a winning combination

The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe

Loree Griffin Burns

Ellen Harasimowicz

After beekeepers discover the strange abandonment of hundreds of hives, scientists seek to understand this catastrophic phenomenon

How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships

Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

Steve Jenkins

Animal partnerships often defy explanation; Jenkins and Page explore and clarify these relationships in concise text and glorious torn-paper collage

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot

Sy Montgomery

Nic Bishop

Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot – This book documents the successes and failures of a rescue effort in New Zealand dedicated to saving a species of flightless parrots numbering fewer than 100

Sibert Medal

Me, Frida

Amy Novesky

David Diaz

This story of newlywed artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in 1930 San Francisco is accompanied paintings resembling Kahlo’s folkloric style

Belpré Illustrator Honor Book

Nic Bishop Lizards

Nic Bishop

Nic Bishop

Using photographs so vivid and sharply focused that one can see a bit of dry scale on a glass lizard’s skin, Bishop treats readers to new appreciations of the diversity within the lizard world

The Night Fairy

Laura Amy Schlitz

Angela Barrett

Flory loses her wings after a bat attack and struggles to adapt to life as a day fairy

Ninth Ward

Jewell Parker Rhodes

In this story of survival, twelve-year-old Lanesha and her adopted grandmother have little choice but to stay in New Orleans and weather Hurricane Katrina

ALA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

¡Ole! Flamenco

George Ancona

George Ancona

In this nonfiction introduction to Spanish flamenco, the art form is described in easy, understandable language

Belpré Author Honor Book

One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

Harper/Amistad

Three sisters find adventure when they are sent to Oakland in 1968 to meet their estranged poet-mother, who prints flyers for the Black Panthers

Newbery Honor Book

Ruth and the Green Book

Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Gwen Strauss

Floyd Cooper

Using the Green Book, a guide to find welcoming places for African-Americans, Ruth's family travels through the segregated South of the 1950s

Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light

Tim Tingle

Karen Clarkson

This picture book autobiographical vignette shows a modern Choctaw family enduring and supporting each other with love, courage, and fortitude

Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down! How Elvis Shook Up Music, Me and Mom

Mark Alan Stamaty

An autobiography in graphic novel format shows how Stamaty’s love of Elvis and rock and roll, at first drove his mother crazy but ultimately made her proud

Smile

Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier and Stephanie Yue

Through artwork showing the details, the reader shares Raina’s pain as the angst of middle school is exacerbated her disfiguring dental mishap

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

Tom Angleberger

In this hilarious tale, Tommy and his sixth grade friends must decide if the advice of an origami finger puppet can be trusted

A Tale Dark and Grimm

Adam Gidwitz

As dark and bloody as the title suggests, these six retellings tweak the classic fairy tale as Hansel and Gretel embark on an epic journey of self-discovery

Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection

 Edited Matt Dembicki

This collaborative effort more than 40 writers and artists presents 21 Native American trickster tales in graphic novel format

Turtle in Paradise

Jennifer L Holm

Sassy eleven-year-old Turtle finds her life turned on end when she is sent to live with her aunt during Depression

Newbery Honor Book

Enrique Flores-Galbis

Roaring Brook

The author’s experience, as one of 14,000 children moved from Cuba to a refugee camp in Miami in 1961, is told through engaging, fast-paced writing and well-developed characters

Belpré Author Honor Book

Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story

S.D. Nelson

This handsome, large-format volume combines archival photographs, original acrylic paintings and powerful first-person narrative to present the devastating story of the painful changes in life forced upon the Lakota people

Countdown

Deborah Wiles

A “documentary novel” set in the 1960’s Cold War era; this title captures a girl’s fears about the world around her

Departure Time

Truus Matti

Nancy Forest-Flier

An eleven-year-old mourns the death of her father in chapters that alternate between the real world and a dreamlike hotel staffed odd creatures

Batchelder Honor Book

The Dreamer

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Peter Sís

In language inspired the Nobel Prize-winner’s own poetry, Muñoz Ryan tells the stunning tale of young Pablo Neruda’s self-discovery and the development of his ideologies and artistic voice

Belpré Author Award

Fever Crumb

Philip Reeve

A lone girl sets out on a mission to retrieve lost technology in a bleak and irrational London of the future

The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba

Margarita Engle

A plantation owner’s daughter conspires with Swedish feminist Fredrika Bremer to secure the freedom of an African-born slave

Belpré Author Honor Book

Heart of a Samurai

Margi Preus

This swashbuckling adventure is based on the true story of Manjiro, the young fisherman believed to be the first Japanese person to visit America, who against all odds, became a samurai

Newbery Honor Book

Lafayette and the American Revolution

Russell Freedman

This compelling biography of Lafayette looks at the whole of his life and illuminates the role he played in the American Revolution

Sibert Honor Book

Mockingbird

Kathryn Erskine

Ten-year-old Caitlin who struggles with Asperger’s Syndrome seeks closure following the murder of her brother

Moon Over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool

Random/Delacorte

Alternating between World War I and the Great Depression, this tale of the eclectic people and mysteries of Manifest, Kansas is told through a mix of letters, newspaper articles, and a fortune teller’s tales

Newbery Medal

Nothing

Janne Teller

Martin Aitken Atheneum

As classmates struggle to convince a friend that life has meaning, they force each other to prove and provide meaning, with consequences that are deep, dark, and disastrous

Batchelder Honor Book & YALSA Printz Honor Book

Ship Breaker

Paolo Bacigalupi

Nailer, a teenage scavenger, works to take apart ancient oil tankers in a future world where he must choose between harvesting riches or saving a girl

YALSA Printz Medal

They Called Themselves the K K K

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The Birth of an American Terrorist Group The Ku Klux Klan’s rise from a club of restless young men into the largest domestic terrorist organization in American history is documented with archival photographs and other primary source material

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

A Time of Miracles

Anne-Laure Bondoux

A young refugee searches for identity, safe haven and truth in a journey from war-torn Caucasus to the freedom of France

Batchelder Award

Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors

Joyce Sidman

Beckie Prange

Three books in one! This amazing book of poetry is also a beautiful picture book and a nonfiction tribute to the adaptability of life on earth

We Shall Overcome: A Song that Changed the World

Stuart Stotts

Terrance Cummings

This iconic song, handsomely illustrated here, serves as the framework for new understandings of the Civil Rights Movement

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

G. Neri

Randy DuBurke

 Based on true events, this graphic novel, told through the eyes of a younger boy, tells the story of Robert (Yummy) as he tries to navigate the dangerous world of a Chicago neighborhood

ALA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

Steve Jenkins

Steve Jenkins

Collage illustrations support exploration and comparison of various human and animal skeletons, from fingers to skulls

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

Joyce Sidman

Rick Allen

 welve elegantly crafted poems celebrating the night are accompanied prose pieces about nocturnal flora and fauna

Newbery Honor Book

Farm

Elisha Cooper

Elisha Cooper

 Experience life on a very real farm with very real farmers through the muddy month of March until the next winter

Meanwhile

Jason Shiga

Jimmy explores the lab of a mad scientist in this “Choose Your Own Adventure” style graphic novel

Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse

Marilyn Singer

Josée Masse

What fun! Read the poem in one direction and it tells the folktale from one point of view. Read it in the opposite direction and the point of view is reversed

Shadow

Suzy Lee

Suzy Lee

A young girl's imagination morphs dark attic shadows into a fantastic jungle scene in this wordless book