Texas Reading Programs

2023 Texas 2×2 List

• A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis

• Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty, illustrated by David Roberts

• Bear Has a Belly by Jane Whittingham

• Berry Song by Michaela Goade

• Big Truck Little Island by Chris Van Dusen

• Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhymeby Avery Monsen, illustrated by Abby Hanlon

• Counting to Bananas: A Mostly Rhyming Fruit Book by Carrie Tillotson, illustrated by Estrela Lourenço

• Endlessly Ever After: Pick YOUR Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings! by Laurel Snyder, illustrated by Dan Santat

• I Was Born a Baby by Meg Fleming, illustrated by Brandon James Scott

• I’m Hungry/ ¡Tengo hambre! by Angela Dominguez

• Mina by Matthew Forsythe

• Odd Birds: Meet Nature’s Weirdest Flock by Laura Gehl, illustrated by Gareth Lucas

• Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray

• Pizza! A Slice of History by Greg Pizzoli

• Powwow Day by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight

• Solitary Animals: Introverts of the Wild by Joshua David Stein, illustrated by Dominique Ramsey

• Somewhere in the Bayou by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey

• That’s Not My Name by Anoosha Syed

• Vámonos/ Let’s Go! by Cynthia Weill

• Where in the World Are You? by Marie G. Rohde

Here is the list, alphabetized by title:

1. Black Boy Joy edited by Kwame Mbalia (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House)

2. Blue by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Illustrated by Daniel Minter (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House)

3. Gladys the Magic Chicken by Adam Rubin. Illustrated by Adam Rex (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House Publishers)

4. Haven: A Small Cat’s Big Adventure by Megan Wagner Lloyd (Candlewick Press)

5. Indelible Ann by Meghan P. Browne. Illustrated by Carlynn Whitt (Random House Studio, an imprint of Penguin Random House)

6. Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez. Illustrated by Gabriela Epstein (Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic)

7. Leave it to Plum! by Matt Phelan (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

8. Once Upon a Tim by Stuart Gibbs. Illustrated by Stacy Curtis (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

9. Solimar: The Sword of the Monarchs by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Disney Hyperion)

10. Tales to Keep You Up At Night by Dan Poblocki. Illustrated by Marie Bergeron (Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House)

11. The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo. Illustrated by Sophie Blackall (Candlewick Press)

12. The Dirt Book: Poems About Animals That Live Beneath Our Feet by David L. Harrison. Illustrated by Kate Cosgrove (Holiday House)

13. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza by Mac Barnett. Illustrated by Shawn Harris (Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

14. The Last Beekeeper by Pablo Cartaya. Illustrated by C. Vélez Aguilera (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

15. The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)

16. The Legend of Gravity by Charly Palmer (Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers)

17. The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton (Henry Holt and Company, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers)

18. The Polter-Ghost Problem by Betsy Uhrig (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster BYR)

19. Thirst by Varsha Bajaj (Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House)

20. Unbound: The Life + Art of Judith Scott by Joyce Scott with Brie Spangler, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House)