Notable Children's BookYounger Readers

Given by Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)

Other Names: Notables, ALA Notable Children's Book
232 Works 63,246 Books 4,765 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, 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)
Announced:
January 24: 2024 Recent
WorkYear
Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo
2024
I'm Going to Build a Snowman by Jashar Awan
2024
Henry, Like Always: Book 1 by Jenn Bailey
2024
What a Map Can Do by Gabrielle Balkan
2024
Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
2024
In the Night Garden by Carin Berger
2024
If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall
2024
Evergreen by Matthew Cordell
2024
Our Pool by Lucy Ruth Cummins
2024
Okra Stew: A Gullah Geechee Family Celebration by Natalie Daise
2024
Beneath by Cori Doerrfeld
2024
Dim Sum Palace by X. Fang
2024
Cicada Symphony by Sue Fliess
2024
In Every Life by Marla Frazee
2024
Big by Vashti Harrison
2024
Tumble by Adriana Hernández Bergstrom
2024
A River of Dust: The Life-Giving Link Between North Africa and the Amazon by Jilanne Hoffmann
2024
Cape by Kevin Johnson
2024
Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan
2024
Nat the cat takes a nap by Jarrett Lerner
2024
The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung
2024
Scroll by Hui Li
2024
Benita and the Night Creatures by Mariana Llanos
2024
Tomfoolery! Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children's Books by Michelle Markel
2024
Elena Rides by Juana Medina
2024
They Hold the Line: Wildfires, Wildlands, and the Firefighters Who Brave Them by Dan Paley
2024
The Only Way to Make Bread by Cristina Quintero
2024
Hornbeam All In (The Hornbeam Books) by Cynthia Rylant
2024
In Between by April Pulley Sayre
2024
Peek-A-Boo Haiku: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Danna Smith
2024
The Artivist by Nikkolas Smith
2024
Maribel’s Year by Michelle Sterling
2024
Fox Has a Problem (My First I Can Read) by Corey R. Tabor
2024
The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic by Jennifer Thermes
2024
Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo
2024
Later, When I’m Big by Bette Westera
2024
Worm and Caterpillar Are Friends: Ready-to-Read Graphics Level 1 by Kaz Windness
2024
When You Can Swim by Jack Wong
2024
Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter
2024
Have You Seen My Invisible Dinosaur? by Helen Yoon
2024
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 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 (English and Spanish Edition) 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 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
The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee
2019
How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable by Barbara J. Atwater
2019
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
2019
King & Kayla and the Case of the Lost Tooth by Dori Hillestad Butler
2019
Lena's Shoes Are Nervous: A First-Day-of-School Dilemma by Keith Calabrese
2019
Bowwow Powwow by Brenda J. Child
2019
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke
2019
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
2019
Imagine! by Raul Colon
2019
The Fox on the Swing by Evelina Daciute
2019
Islandborn by Junot Díaz
2019
Good Rosie! by Kate DiCamillo
2019
You and Me by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
2019
In the Past: From Trilobites to Dinosaurs to Mammoths in More Than 500 Million Years by David Elliott
2019
A Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes
2019
Night Job by Karen Hesse
2019
All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah by Emily Jenkins
2019
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun
2019
I Walk with Vanessa: A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness by Kerascoët
2019
The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
2019
Black Bird Yellow Sun by Steve Light
2019
A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
2019
Drawn Together by Minh Lê
2019
Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
2019
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
2019
See Pip Flap (The Adventures of Otto) by David Milgrim
2019
Don't Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller
2019
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
2019
Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
2019
Fox & Chick: The Party: and Other Stories by Sergio Ruzzier
2019
Jerome By Heart by Thomas Scotto
2019
Blue by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
2019
Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick
2019
Fox the Tiger by Corey R. Tabor
2019
Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
2019
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
2019
Saturday Is Swimming Day by Hyewon Yum
2019
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie
2017
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
2017
Leave Me Alone! by Vera Brosgol
2017
A Hungry Lion, or, A Dwindling Assortment of Animals by Lucy Ruth Cummins
2017
When Andy Met Sandy (An Andy & Sandy Book) by Tomie dePaola
2017
Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln? by Kate DiCamillo
2017
Horrible Bear! by Ame Dyckman
2017
The Night Gardener by Terry Fan
2017
Old Dog Baby Baby by Julie Fogliano
2017
Coyote Moon by Maria Gianferrari
2017
Over the Ocean by Tarō Gomi
2017
The Great Pet Escape (Pets on the Loose!) by Victoria Jamieson
2017
Fabulous Frogs by Martin Jenkins
2017
We Are Growing! by Laurie Keller
2017
We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen
2017
Go, Otto, Go! (The Adventures of Otto) by David Milgrim
2017
Rudas: Niño's Horrendous Hermanitas by Yuyi Morales
2017
Good Night Owl by Greg Pizzoli
2017
Best Frints in the Whole Universe by Antoinette Portis
2017
School's First Day of School by Adam Rex
2017
Before Morning by Joyce Sidman
2017
Counting (DK Braille) by Fleur Star
2017
Oops, Pounce, Quick, Run!: An Alphabet Caper by Mike Twohy
2017
Weekends with Max and His Dad by Linda Urban
2017
A Piece of Home by Jeri Watts
2017
Puddle by Hyewon Yum
2017
Don't Throw It to Mo! by David A. Adler
2016
The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy by Beatrice Alemagna
2016
Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
2016
Boats for Papa by Jessixa Bagley
2016
Leo: A Ghost Story by Mac Barnett
2016
The Skunk by Mac Barnett
2016
The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton
2016
I Yam a Donkey! by Cece Bell
2016
Flop to the Top! by Eleanor Davis
2016
Red by Jan De Kinder
2016
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
2016
Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman
2016
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle
2016
A Pig, a Fox, and a Box (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) by Jonathan Fenske
2016
The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea by Brenda Z. Guiberson
2016
Waiting by Kevin Henkes
2016
Tiptoe Tapirs by Kim Han-min
2016
Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson
2016
Written and Drawn by Henrietta by Ricardo Siri Liniers
2016
Hippos are Huge! by Jonathan London
2016
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick
2016
Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina
2016
Mr. Squirrel and the Moon by Sebastian Meschenmoser
2016
Float by Daniel Miyares
2016
If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson
2016
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
2016
Detective Gordon: The First Case by Ulf Nilsson
2016
A Chicken Followed Me Home!: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl by Robin Page
2016
Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales by Julie Paschkis
2016
Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle by Miranda Paul
2016
The Moon is Going to Addy's House by Ida Pearle
2016
The Grasshopper & the Ants by Jerry Pinkney
2016
Wait by Antoinette Portis
2016
Piper Green and the Fairy Tree by Ellen Potter
2016
My Tata's Remedies / Los remedios de mi Tata by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford
2016
Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution by Mara Rockliff
2016
An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns (Millbrook Picture Books) by Betsy R. Rosenthal
2016
The Popcorn Astronauts: And Other Biteable Rhymes by Deborah Ruddell
2016
Two Mice by Sergio Ruzzier
2016
Supertruck by Stephen Savage
2016
Raindrops Roll by April Pulley Sayre
2016
Woodpecker Wham! by April Pulley Sayre
2016
The Totally Secret Secret by Bob Shea
2016
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder
2016
Lenny & Lucy by Philip C. Stead
2016
Special Delivery by Philip C. Stead
2016
Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village by Fang Suzhen
2016
Who Done It? by Olivier Tallec
2016
Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! by Todd Tarpley
2016
Growing Up Pedro: How the Martinez Brothers Made It from the Dominican Republic All the Way to the Major Leagues by Matt Tavares
2016
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson
2016
Roger is Reading a Book by Koen Van Biesen
2016
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter
2016
Moving Blocks (Yonezu Board Book) by Yusuke Yonezu
2016
The Golly Sisters Ride Again by Betsy Byars
1995
Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming
1995
Tough Boris by Mem Fox
1995
The Rattlebang Picnic by Margaret Mahy
1995
Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolen
1995
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman
1995
Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
1995
The Surprise Family by Lynn Reiser
1995
How Now, Brown Cow? by Alice Schertle
1995
Hi by Ann Herbert Scott
1995
Don't Fidget a Feather! by Erica Silverman
1995
A Hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke
1995
Too Tired by Ann Turnbull
1995
Going Home by Margaret Wild
1995
Our Granny by Margaret Wild
1995

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