Children's/MG Book Reviews

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick

*Caldecott Award Medal (Picture Book)

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McKloskey

*CLASSIC

This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen

*MY CHOICE (Picture Book)

Three Samurai Cats by Eric Kimmel

*FOLKTALE

The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell

*VARIANT

The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pickney

*Caldecott Award (Traditional)

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback

*MY CHOICE (Traditional)

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

*AWARD WINNING POETRY

Footprints on the Roof by Marilyn Singer

The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle

*NOVEL IN VERSE

This is Just to Say by Joyce Sidman

*MY CHOICE (Poetry)

Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson

*AWARD WINNING NONFICTION

Down Down Down by Steve Jenkins

The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson by Russell Freeman

*BIOGRAPHY

We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

*MY CHOICE (NONFICTION)

Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

*HISTORICAL NOVEL

Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina by Rodman Philbrick

*MY CHOICE (HISTORICAL FICTION)

Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

*AWARD WINNING HISTORICAL FICTION

Grump: The (Fairly) True Story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Liesel Shurtliff

*FANTASY FICTION

Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

*GRAPHIC NOVEL

Lu: Track Series #4 by Jason Reynolds

*REALISTIC FICTION

Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

*GRAPHIC NOVEL