BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF 2019

Presented by:

Amy Schardein

Jill Burket Ragase

• Identify New Trends in Publishing for Children

• Become familiar with new and recommended titles in the following categories:

• Board Books

• Picture Books

• Beginning Readers

• Nonfiction

• Gain new ideas for using recommended materials in programs for children

TODAY’S OBJECTIVES

BEST OF: BOARDS BOOKS

Recommended 2019 titles

include:

• B is for Baby by Atinuke

• Look, There’s a Helicopter by

Nosy Crow

• Love Makes a Family by Sophie

Beer

• Little Penguins by Cynthia Rylant

BEST OF: BOARD BOOKS

Recommended 2019 Board Books include:

• Farm the Farm by Sarah Lynn Reul

• Dragons are Real by Holly Hatam

• Peek-a-Who, too? By Elsa Mroziewicz

• Paper Peek: Colors by Chihiro Takeuchi

BEST OF: BOARD BOOKS

2019 Recommended Titles include:

• My Best Friend is a Unicorn by Rachael McLean

• Littles and How They Grow by Kelly DiPucchio

• I Thought I Saw A Bear by Templar Books

• Colors with Little Fish by Lucy Cousins

BEST OF: BOARD BOOKS

2019 Recommended Titles include:

• Jump by Tatsuhide Matsuoka

• I Love all of Me by Lorie Ann Grover

• Mary Had a Little Lamb by Jarvis

• I Am by Alice Melvin

2019 INDESTRUCTIBLES!

TREND:

• Who Wet My Pants by Bob Shea

• How to Give Your Cat A Bath in Five Easy Steps by Nicola Winstanley

• Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug by Jonathan Stutzman

TREND ALERT: SEASONAL BOOKS CONTINUE TO AMAZE

2019 Recommended Titles Include:

• I Wish It Would Snow by Sarah Dillard

• Mr. Pumpkin’s Tea Party by Erin Barker

• Rainbow: A First Book by Pride by Michael Genhart

• Dasher by Matt Tavares

SKELETONS, NOT THE CREEPY KIND

• Skulls! By Blair Thornbaugh

• Give Me Back my Bones by Kim Norman

TREND ALERT: OUTSTANDING CONCEPT BOOKS

We began to notice a dramatic improvement in the quality of concept books in 2018, and it continues to bring us great titles in 2019 including:

• Pitter Pattern by Joyce Hesselberth

• A Million Dots by Sven Volker

• One Dark Bird by Liz Scanlon

BEST OF: PICTURE BOOKS

• The Best Kind of Bear by Greg Gormley

• Truman by Jean Reidy

• A Little Chicken by Tammi Sauer

BEST OF: PICTURE BOOKS

Transportation is a tried and true topic in picture books and 2019 was no exception. Recommended Titles include:

• Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown

• Vroom! By Barbara McClintock

• My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

MARGARET WISE BROWN

• Two Little Trains

• Walk With Me

BRITTA TECKENTRUP

• Fish Everywhere

• Grande y pequeño/Big and Small

• Rápido y lento/ Fast and Slow

BEST OF: PICTURE BOOKS

• Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard

• Hair Love by Matthew Cherry

• Except When They Don’t by Laura Gehl

BEST OF: PICTURE BOOKS

• Daniel’s Good Day by Micha Archer

• Saturday by Oge Mora

• Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe

• The Little Guys by Vera Brosgol

BEST OF: PICTURE BOOKS

• A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel

• Llama Destroys the World by Jonathan Stutzman

• Stormy: A Story about Finding a Forever Home by Guojing

• Another by Christian Robinson

BEST OF: BEGINNING READERS • Recommended Titles Include:

• Who is the Mystery Reader? By Mo Willems

• An Elephant and Pigige Biggie: Volume 2 by Mo Willems

BEST OF: BEGINNING READERS

• Hi, Jack by Mac Barnett

• Jack Blasts off

• 4 more on the way for 2020

BEST OF: NONFICTION

• Totem: Spirit Animals of Ancient Civilizations by Mia Cassany

• The Who Was? History of the World by Paula Manzanero

• Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World’s Greatest Adventures by Nellie Huang

• Just Ask! Be Brave, Be Different, Be You by Sonya Sotomayor

BEST OF: PICTURE BOOK BIOS

Trend: There is no end in sight to the tsunami of outstanding picture book biographies. Recommended 2019 titles include:

• Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines by Sarah Aronson

• The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett

• A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein

• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander

BEST OF: (ANIMAL) NONFICTION

Trend Alert: Outstanding Animal Books for Recreational Reading. Recommended Titles Include:

• The Sea Book by Charlotte Milner

• The Frog Book by Steve Jenkins

• Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Sabina Radeva

BEST OF: NONFICTION

• Colors by Shelley Rotner

• From Summer Green to Autumn Gold by Mia Posada

BEST OF: NONFICTION SEEDLINGS

• Transportation Series

• Snowplows by Quinn Arnold

• New in Paperback

• Rabbits by Lori Dittmer

• Squirrels by Quinn Arnold

BEST OF: NATURE NONFICTION PLUS ONE MORE ITEM…

• Recommended Nature Titles Include:

• Nesting by Henry Cole

• Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys by Mike Unwin

• The Wonders of Nature by Ben Hoare

• Did you Burp? By April Pulley Sayre

QUESTIONS