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2020 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner: Dancing Hands
Awards, Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|Winner of the 2020 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, Dancing Hands tells the extraordinary tale of a young Venezuelan girl whose musical talents helped people find respite amidst the tumult of life.
2020 APALA Picturebook Winner for Literature
Awards, Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Nonfiction Picture Books
|As the 2020 picturebook winner of the APALA Award for Literature, Queen of Physics is a rich source of teaching ideas and invitations for your ELA, social studies, and STEM curricula.
Each year, the announcement of the American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards gives us occasion to celebrate the many awards in the field of children's and young adult literature. Below you will find links to the 2020 ALA award-winning, honor books, and authors that we blogged about, as well as links to other books we blogged about in the past that have won some of the most prestigious awards and honors in the field for 2020.
The titular question of this picturebook is one that anyone who appears or sounds different in a given social community has probably heard. Though simple in its phrasing, the implications for asking and answering “Where are you from?” are anything but simple.
Discover a creative nonfiction tale that explores the notions of contrast, evolution, and perseverance within the natural world--all through the unlikely hero of the moth.
To continue celebrating the new school year, treat your students with humorous twists on these familiar characters and beloved series books.
In this Boston Globe-Horn Book award-winning picturebook, a young girl celebrates one of the most simple, yet powerful, facets of childhood—creativity.
As you and your students celebrate the end of the school year, we offer you a collection of links designed to keep you and the children and young adults in your life happily reading over the next several months.
“When you look toward the stars, do you wonder if anyone is looking back? Is Earth the only planet with intelligent life? Is it the only planet with life at all?” Curtis Manley’s new nonfiction picturebook, Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet, tackles these complex wonderings with aplomb through the existence of exoplanets—that is, extrasolar planets that orbit the countless stars across the universe.
Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride
Fictionalized Biography, Nonfiction, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|“Have you ever been told you are not enough?” With this opening line, author-cartoonist Joel Christian Gill grabs the attention of readers of all ages and introduces us to the legendary Bessie Stringfield, the first African American woman to ride solo across the United States on a motorcycle.
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