Award-Winning Children’s Books Every Young Reader Needs

🏆 Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List 🏆

🏆 CT Nutmeg Children's Book Award Winner 

You’re Never Too Young to Fight Censorship! In Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, a fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don’t mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books that will make you laugh and pump your fists as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every single book in the library to make a point, and take a stand against censorship. Ban This Book is a stirring defense against censorship that’s perfect for middle grade readers. Let kids know that they can make a difference in their schools, communities, and lives!

🏆 Caldecott Medal Winner 🏆

🏆 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winner 🏆

Water is the first medicine.
It affects and connects us all . . .

When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth
And poison her people’s water, one young water protector
Takes a stand to defend Earth’s most sacred resource.

🏆 Nonfiction Text for Young Readers Winner award in 2023 🏆

Meet Earth. Planet Awesome! And your awesome home! Actually, Earth is home to all the plants and all the animals in the solar system, including nearly eight billion people. Humans have accidentally moved Earth's climate change into the fast lane, and she need your help to put on the brakes. Earthlings need Earth, and Earth needs Earthlings, so let’s save Earth together!

🏆 Virginia Readers' Choice Winner 🏆

 🏆 Oregon Beverly Cleary Children's Choice A Master List Named  🏆

Oliver Olson's teacher is always saying that one person with a big idea can change the world. But how is Oliver supposed to change the world when his parents won't let him do anything on his own—not his class projects or even attending activities such as the space sleepover at school. Afraid he will become an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, Oliver decides to take control of his corner of the universe!

🏆 Caldecott Medal Winner 🏆

🏆 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books Winner 🏆

🏆 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video Winner 🏆

The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and--in two dramatic foldout spreads-- the vertiginous drama of Petit's feat.

🏆 A New York Times bestseller! 🏆

Each act, big or small, can make a difference – or at least help a friend.

What does it mean to be kind? When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving and thoughtful story explores what a child can do to be kind.

🏆 A NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller! 🏆

Double the twins, double the holiday trouble. When bold, Broadway-bound Aviva meets quiet dreamer Holly at pageant tryouts, they discover a shocking secret: they’re identical twins separated at birth. Eager to explore each other’s holiday traditions, they secretly swap places to experience a whole new world. But as homes, families, and age-old customs mix, their master plan quickly turns into festive chaos. A heartwarming, pitch-perfect holiday twin-swap by Marissa Meyer.

🏆 SCIBA Book Award 🏆

🏆 Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award 🏆

Mr. Fish and all his friends, love to play down at the park.
But that ends when they’re bullied, by a misbehaving shark!
Mr. Fish wants to help, he knows bullying is wrong!
But he’s just one fish, is he really that strong?

In this board book conversion of the jacketed hardcover, the New York Times–bestselling Pout-Pout Fish teaches a bully shark about kindness and being a friend.