Sharing Some of My Favorite New Books

The following books are some of my most favorite titles from the last year or so. They are are listed in any particular order. 

Picture Book Picks: 

  

The Book With No Pictures by B. J. Novak

Bully written & illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Exclamation Mark! by Amy Krause Rosenthal, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld

Hooray for Hat! written & illustrated by Brian Won

I'm My Own Dog written & illustrated by David Ezra Stein

   

A Library Book for Bear written by Bonny Becker, illustrated by Kady McDonald Denton

Mustache Baby written by Bridget Heos, illustrated by Joy Ang

   

Spakry! written by Jenny Offill, illustrated by Chris Appelhans

  

Peanut Butter and Jellyfish by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The Pigeon Needs a Bath written & illustrated by Mo Willems 
  
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli 

When You Wander by Margarita Engle

Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes written bt Nicola Davies, illustrated by Emily Sutton

Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library written by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by John O'Brien

Beavers by Gail Gibbons 
 
Things That Float and Things That Don't written by David Adler, illustrated by Anna Raff

Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell

Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention written by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by S.D. Schindler


My Pet Book by Bob Staake 

Are the Dinosaurs Dead, Dad? written by Julie Middleton, illustrated by Russell Ayto 

Nugget and Fang: Friends Forever - or Snack Time? written by Tammi Sauer, illustrated by Michael Slack

Bear and Bee by Sergio 

Found by Salina Yoon

Jack by Tomie DePaola

Maple by Lori Nichols

Elephant's Story by Tracey Campbell Pearson

Sophie's Squash written by Pat Zietlow, illustrated by Ann Wilsdorf

Number One Sam by Greg Pizzoli

Bear Has a Story to Tell written by Phillip Stead, illustrated by Erin Stead


Blizzard by John Rocco


Dusk by Uri Shulevitz

Fox Forgets by Suzanne Bloom

Chukfi Rabbit's Big Bad Bellyache: A Trickster Tale told by Greg Rogers, illustrated by Leslie Stall Widener

You Are Not My Friend, But I Miss You by Daniel Kirk

Flashlight by Lizi Boyd

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown

Construction written by Sally Sutton, illustrated by Brian Locvelcok

The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water Gemma Merrino 

Middle Grade Must Reads:

The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

Duke by Kirby Larson

    

El Deafo by Cece Bell

Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein

Gingersnap by Patricia Reilly Giff

Grumbles From the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices With a Twist Written by Jane Yolen & Rebecca Kai Dotlich, illustrated by Matt Mahurin 

The Legend of the Jersey Devil by Trinka Hakes Noble

 Pluto’s Secret by Margaret Weitekemp

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus written by Jen Bryant,

illustrated by Melissa Sweet

    

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtiff

The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Cynthia Rylant

Celebrating ALA's 2015 Youth Media Awards

Let's celebrate some of 2015's award-winning books!


The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend,illustrated and written by Dan Santat and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.


 The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually , to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

 The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus,  illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant, and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Winner of . . . 

The Sibert Medal
 
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year. The award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. 

AND  

a Caldecott Honor Medal

The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually , to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

Visit author Jen Bryant's webpage here.


Brown Girl Dreaming, written by Jacqueline Woodson, is the King Author Book winner. The book is published by Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.
 
The Coretta Scott King Author Medal

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award is administered by the American Library Association's Ethnic and Multicultural Exchange Round Table


AND  

A Newbery Honor Medal

AND

A Sibert Honor Medal

Listen to Ms. Woodson read from her book.

 

El Deafo by Cece Bell, illustrated by Cece Bell and published by Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS. 

A Newbery Honor Medal

 

Listen to Ms. Bell talk about her experiences as a child and why she wrote El Deafo.