Notable Children's BookYounger Readers2020

Given by Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)

Other Names: Notables, ALA Notable Children's Book
60 Works 11,082 Books 902 Reviews 4.2
Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the Notables Criteria, "notable" is defined as: show more Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding. As applied to children's books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways. show less
Categories:
All, ALA Notable Books for Children (1), All Ages (39), Middle Readers (161), Older Readers (173), Younger Readers (232), Zelinsky Edition (1), [2017], All Ages, 2017 (1), illustration (1), No Category (2,154)
Years:
All, 2024 (40), 2020 (60), 2019 (37), 2017 (26), 2016 (54), 1995 (15)
WorkYear
How to Read a Book by Kwame Alexander
2020
Across the Bay by Carlos Aponte
2020
B is for Baby by Atinuke
2020
Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot! by Cece Bell
2020
The Balcony by Melissa Castrillon
2020
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré by Anika Aldamuy Denise
2020
A New Home by Tania de Regil
2020
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle
2020
Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe
2020
The Last Peach by Gus Gordon
2020
Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me by Eloise Greenfield
2020
Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home by Guojing
2020
Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido De Lemon Grove/A Ballad of Lemon Grove (Spanish and English Edition) by Christy Hale
2020
Field Trip to the Moon by John Hare
2020
Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson
2020
¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market (World of ¡Vamos!) by Raul Gonzalez Iii
2020
Art This Way by Tamara Shopsin Jason Fulford
2020
My Grandma and Me by Mina Javaherbin
2020
Let's Scare Bear by Katakawa Yuko 片川優子
2020
The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh by Supriya Kelkar
2020
When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-bae Lee
2020
Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist by Julie Leung
2020
A Big Bed for Little Snow by Grace Lin
2020
Luca's Bridge/El Puente de Luca by Mariana Llanos
2020
Double Bass Blues by Andrea J. Loney
2020
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
2020
Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons
2020
Sing a Song: How "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons
2020
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear
2020
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come by Sue Macy
2020
Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet by Curtis Manley
2020
Firefighters' Handbook by Meghan McCarthy
2020
What Is Given from the Heart by Patricia C. Mckissack
2020
Grandpa's Top Threes by Wendy Meddour
2020
Saturday by Oge Mora
2020
Flubby Is Not a Good Pet! by J. E. Morris
2020
Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris
2020
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad
2020
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard
2020
Dinosaur Feathers by Dennis Nolan
2020
Nya's Long Walk: A Step at a Time by Linda Sue Park
2020
Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border by Mitali Perkins
2020
My Footprints by Bao Phi
2020
The Book Hog by Greg Pizzoli
2020
Hey, Water! by Antoinette Portis
2020
My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero
2020
The Bell Rang (ALA Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) by James E. Ransome
2020
Do Fish Sleep? by Jens Raschke
2020
One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller by Kate Read
2020
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom by Teresa Robeson
2020
The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs by Fiona Robinson
2020
Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons by Laura Purdie Salas
2020
Why? by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
2020
Small in the City by Sydney Smith
2020
At the Mountain's Base by Traci Sorell
2020
Moth: An Evolution Story by Isabel Thomas
2020
Brown by Håkon Øvreås
2020
A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel
2020
Stop! Bot! by James Yang
2020
A Map into the World by Kao Kalia Yang
2020

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