2/2/2018 0 Comments The Nowhere Box2013, Written & Illustrated by Sam Zuppardi The Nowhere Box is the story of a little boy named who uses his imagination to create an imaginative world in a cardboard box. Annoyed by his two little brothers, George wants to escape into a world they cannot follow. So he uses a giant box to make his escape....
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1/25/2018 0 Comments Sizing Up Winter (Math in Nature)2013, Written by Lizann Flaty, Illustrated by Ashley Barron Sizing Up Winter is a picturebook that explores how math can be found in the natural winter world.
5/7/2017 0 Comments Nimona2015, Written & Illustrated by Noelle Stevenson National Book Award Finalist (2015) Nimona follows the titular character, Nimona, a shape shifter who becomes the evil Lord Blackheart’s sidekick. Together, their goal is to prove to the kingdom that the Institute of Law Enforcement and Heroics along with the hero (and Lord Blackheart’s nemesis) Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin are not as heroic as everyone thinks they are.
2012, Written by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2013), Stonewall Book Award (2013), Pura Belpré Award (2013), Lamda Literary Award Winner (2013) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is a wonderful novel about two Mexican-American boys finding both themselves and each other in 1980's El Paso.
2016, Written & Illustrated by Rachel Ignotofsky "What is this?" "Where did this come from?" "How does this work?" "I have an idea." Crack open any history book and it is easy to think that these vital STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) questions were only ever asked by men. This beautiful picturebook seeks to change that perception, asserting that women are not only a part of scientific history, but were a necessary part.
5/5/2017 0 Comments The Birchbark House1999, Written & Illustrated by Louise Erdrich National Book Award Finalist (1999), American Indian Youth Literature Award (2006) Omakayas is a strong, plucky seven-year-old Ojibwe girl living in 1847. When Omakayas was a baby, she was the sole survivor of a smallpox epidemic on her home of Spirit Island. Rescued by a fearless woman named Tallow, Omakayas is adopted by an Ojibwa family on Madeline Island. As Omakayas partakes in the rhythms of daily life on the island—from making birchbark houses and tanning moose hides, to picking berries and harvesting wild rice—she forges stronger connections both with her family and with unexpected friends. But when the dreaded smallpox returns to Omakayas’ life, she has to find a talent and inner strength that she did not know she had.
4/22/2017 0 Comments Freedom in Congo Square2016, Written by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Gregory Christie, Foreword by Freddie Williams Evans Caldecott Honor Book (2017), Coretta Scott King Honor for Illustrator (2017), Charlotte Zolotow Award (2017) Set in Louisiana during the height of slavery, Freedom in Congo Square is a colorful, rhyming picturebook showing the slaves' ability to find joy and freedom, even in a world that denies it to them.
2014, Written by Joyce Sidman, Illustrated by Rick Allen Minnesota Book Award for Children's Literature (2015), Claudia Lewis Award for Younger Readers (2015), Riverby Award (2015) Written and illustrated by two Minnesotans, Winter Bees is a beautiful picturebook that explores what local animals do in the cold winter.
2013, Written by Roseanne Greenfield Thong, Illustrated by John Parra Round is a Tortilla is a wonderful picturebook depicting the different shapes two Mexican children see in their everyday world.
4/22/2017 0 Comments I Have Heard of a Land1998, Written by Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper Coretta Scott King Award (1999) I Have Heard of a Land is a historical fiction tale of a single black woman who makes her home on the Oklahoma countryside in the late 19th century.
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