The Notable Children’s Books committee is pleased to announce the last set of public discussions for the year. The NCB committee’s charge is “to select, annotate, and present for publication annually a list of notable children’s books published during the preceding year within the terms, definitions, and criteria governing the list.” The committee meets two times during the year for public discussion meetings.

This year’s final set of discussions will take place on the following dates.

• Tuesday, Jan 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM EST
• Wednesday, Jan 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM EST
• Thursday, Jan 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM EST
• Friday, Jan 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM EST

Please register in advance to listen in on this online open discussion using this registration link. The titles to be discussed are:

Fiction

• Answers to Dog by Pete Hautman
• Anzu and the Realm of Darkness by Mai K. Nguyen
• Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang
• The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
• Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp
• Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste
• Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan
• Code Name Kingfisher by Liz Keller
• Crushed by Melanie Conklin
• Deep Water by Jamie Sumner
• Deer Run Home by Anne Clare LeZotte
• Dinner at the Brake Fast by Renee Beauregard Lute
• The Ghostkeeper by Johanna Taylor 
• The Hotel Balzaar by Kate DiCamillo
• How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
• Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge
• Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
• Kyra, Just for Today by Sara Zarr
• The Last Apple Tree by Claudia Mills
• The Last Dragon on Mars by Scott Reintgen
• A Little Bit Super: With Small Powers Come Big Problems edited by Leah Henderson & Gary D. Schmidt
• Lone Wolf Goes to School by Kiah Thomas
• Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller
• Murray Out of Water by Taylor Tracy
• Not Nothing by Gayle Forman
• One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome
• Onyx & Beyond by Amber McBride
• Pearl by Sherri L. Smith
• Popcorn by Rob Harrell
• Quagmire Tiarello Couldn’t Be Better by Mylisa Larsen
• Red Bird Danced by Dawn Quigley
• The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon
• Sona and the Golden Beasts by Rajani LaRocca
• The Things We Miss by Leah Stecher
• The Underdogs of Upson Downs by Craig Silvey
• Ultraviolet by Aida Salazar
• We Are Big Time by Hena Kahn
• Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr.

Nonfiction

• Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars by Jonathan Roth
• The Bard and the Book: How the First Folio Saved the Plays of William Shakespeare from Oblivion by Ann Bausum
• Before the Ships: The Birth of Black Excellence by Maisha Oso
• Bounce! A Scientific History of Rubber by Sarah Albee
• Brave Baby Hummingbird by Sy Montgomery
• City of Leafcutter Ants: A Sustainable Society of Millions by Amy Hevron
• Club Microbe by Elise Gravel
• Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by Coretta Scott King
• Daughter of the Light-Footed People: The Story of Indigenous Marathon Champion Lorena Ramírez by Belen Medina
• Dive! By Chris Gall
• Dive, Dive Into the Night Sea by Thea Lu
• Evidence! : How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera by Deborah Hopkinson
• The Fabulous Fannie Farmer: Kitchen Scientist and America’s Cook by Emma Bland Smith
• ​​Fighting With Love: the Legacy of John Lewis by Lesa Cline-Ransome
• Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge by Elizabeth Partridge
• The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure by Barb Rosenstock
• Growing Up Under a Red Flag by Ying Chang Compestine
• Guts for Glory: The Story of Civil War Soldier Rosetta Wakeman by Joanna Lapati
• My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story by George Takei
• Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic by Candace Fleming
• Nothing: John Cage and 4’33” by Nicholas Day
• The Painter and the President: Gilbert Stuart’s Brush with George Washington by Sarah Albee
• A Stinky History of Toilets by Olivia Meikle and Katie Nelson
• This Book Is Full of Holes by Nora Nickum
• Thomas Jefferson’s battle for science : bias, truth, and a mighty moose! by Beth Anderson
• Up, Up, Ever Up! : Junko Tabei, A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda
• Uprooted: A Memoir about What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan
• Volcanoes by Nell Cross Beckerman
• Water: Discovering the Precious Resource All Around Us by Olga Fadeeva
• We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court by Mia Wenjen
• What is Color? by Steven Weinberg
• What Makes Us Human by Victor D. O. Santos
• The Wolf Effect by Rosanne Parry

Picture Books

• Adela’s Mariachi Band by Denise Vega
• Aloha Everything by Kaylin Melia George
• Barnaby Unboxed by Terry Fan
• Be Careful, Xiao Xin! by Alice Pung
• Between My Hands by Mitali Perkins
• The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood
• Built to Last by Minh Lê
• Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers
• Desert Song by Laekan Zea Kemp
• The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston
• Drawn Onward by Daniel Nayeri
• The Elephant and the Sea by Ed Vere
• Emergency Quarters by Carlos Matias
• Exactly As Planned by Tao Nyeu
• The Ever-Changing Earth by Grahame Baker-Smith
• Everyone Gets a Turn by Marianne Dubuc
• The First Week of School by Drew Beckmeyer
• Gaga Mistake Day by Emma and Susan Straub
• Gather Round by David Covell
• Go and Get with Rex by David Larochelle
• Gray by Laura Dockrill
• The Greatest by Veera Hiranandani
• Heatwave by Lauren Redniss
• Hello Day by Charlie Mylie
• Hello Hello Colors by Brendan Wenzel
• Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo
• Homegrown by DeAnn Wiley
• How to Pee Your Pants by Rachel Michelle Wilson
• I Know How to Draw an Owl by Hilary Horder Hippely
• I’m Sorry You Got Mad by Kyle Lukoff
• Joyful Song by Leslea Newman
• Just Like Millie by Lauren Castillo
• Just What to Do by Kyle Lukoff
• Legend of Tiger and Tail-Flower by Lee Gee Eun
• Let’s Go! haw êkwa! By Julie Flett
• Life Is Beautiful by Winsome Bingham
• A Little Like Magic by Sarah Kurpiel
• Lost by Bob Staake
• Mama in the Moon by Doreen Cronin
• Mango Tree (La Mata De Mango)  by Edel Rodriquez
• Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden by Christy Mandin
• Monster Hands by Karen Kane and Jonaz McMillan
• My Daddy is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales
• My Olive Tree by Hazar Elbayya
• The Noisy Puddle: A Vernal Pool Through the Seasons by Linda Booth Sweeney
• Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Maclear
• One Day This Tree Will Fall by Leslie Barnard Booth
• One Light by Christie Matheson
• A Pinecone by Helen Yoon
• Rising by Sidura Ludwig
• A Star Shines Through by Anna Desnitskaya
• This Wolf Was Different by Katie Slivensky
• Two Together by Brendan Wenzel
• Up High by Matt Hunt
• Ursula Upside Down by Corey R. Tabor
• We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang
• We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian America by Joanna Ho
• When the Rain Came Down by Leslie Helakoski
• Why We Dance: A Story of Hope and Healing by Deidre Havrelock
• The Wrong Book by Drew Daywalt

Poetry

• I Heard: An American Journey by Jaha Nailah Avery
• I See Color: An Affirmation and Celebration of Our Diverse World by Valerie Bolling and Kailei Pew
• Mistakes that Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets by Irene Latham & Charles Waters
• Poetry Comics by Grant Snider

Tom Bober, chair of the Notable Children’s Books Committee, invites you to attend and hear about these great titles from 2024. All are welcome! Don’t forget to register in advance!

This ALSC blog post addresses the following Core Competency: IV Collection Knowledge and Management

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 The Notable Children’s Books committee is pleased to announce the last set of public discussions for the year. The NCB committee’s charge is “to select, annotate, and present for publication annually a list of notable children’s books published during the preceding year within the terms, definitions, and criteria governing the list.” The committee meets two times during the year for public discussion meetings. This year’s final set of discussions will take place on the following dates. Please register in advance to listen in on this online open discussion using this registration link. The titles to be discussed are: Fiction Nonfiction Picture Books Poetry Tom Bober, chair of the Notable Children’s Books Committee, invites you to attend and hear about these great titles from 2024. All are welcome! Don’t forget to register in advance! This ALSC blog post addresses the following Core Competency: IV Collection Knowledge and Management
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