Each year, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee reads all books published for young readers, and grants three awards, one in fiction, one in nonfiction, one in poetry. Here they are! Best in Fiction: The War that Saved my Life…
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The Best of the Best Books: ILA Notable Books for a Global Society
The top 25 books selected as ILA- Notable Books for a Global Society are engaging, many-layered, and amazing. The variety of topics extends from bullying (RED) to women’s rights told in picture-book form (DRUM DREAM GIRL) and novel-in-verse (AUDACITY) and…
J. L. Power’s AMINA named 2016 USBBY Outstanding International Book
AMINA, (Through My Eyes series), published in Australia, a story set in Somalia, has been recognized by USBBY – United States Board on Books for Young People – as one of the top international books for middle-grade readers. In this…
TWO WHITE RABBITS
TWO WHITE RABBITS, written by Jairo Buitrago, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng, and translated by Elisa Amado, is the story told through the perspective of a little girl as she travels with her father day and night, day and night, with…
DRUM DREAM GIRL — How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music
DRUM DREAM GIRL I share with you a new picture book by Newbery Honor Winner, Margarita Engle, DRUM DREAM GIRL, How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music, illustrated by Rafael Lopez. This book rocks with rhythm and tropical color,whispers a lyrical…
GIVING THANKS
We are here because of the friendship of the first people. This month of November has been appropriately designated as American Indian Heritage Month. I give thanks for excellent, authentic and accurate books written for children by authors and artists…
ROMANCING THE DARK IN THE CITY OF LIGHT
Ever consider suicide? How many teens have considered this option and have given serious thought to it? Ann Jacobus has written a page-turning story set in the romantic city of Paris that hits upon the many important issues in young…
WATER — Learn, Care, Conserve …even Dance
Water is life. A simple idea but the enormous importance of the water, that water is a limited resource, is often not appreciated. We learn about the water cycle – rain falls, puddles form, mud oozes down into the earth,…
EITHER THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF THE WORLD
“I don’t need a mother,” I say. “Where’s yours?” Silence. Then, “By her phone. I’m killing her.” From EITHER THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF THE WORLD Author Terry Farish weaves a taut web of colliding threads in this young…
FREEDOM’S PRICE the Dred Scott decision
FREEDOM’S PRICE the Dred Scott decision The name Dred Scott name is familiar to most of us but what exactly was the decision and why was it so important at the time in pre-Civil War America? FREEDOM’S PRICE by co-authors…