Part girl-power, part cautionary tale, The Hunt (5 &amp; up) depicts a young girl who builds and rebuilds a rock sculpture despite the efforts of two hunters to shoot her creation to bits. The girl persists, her sculpture taking shape and becoming a testament to the creative spirit and a condemnation of violence.

The Hunt

Children's Books

Othats, Margaux

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Penny Candy Books

A Gift from Greensboro (Ages 5 &amp; up) is at once an elegy, a celebration of the magic of childhood friendship, and a meditation on growing up in the wake of the sit-ins that ushered in the Civil Rights Movement. Paired with intricate, layered illustrations, this poem recognizes that true friendship knows no boundaries and that love drives positive change.

A Gift From Greensboro

Lansana, Quraysh Ali

Literature & Fiction

In this heartwarming adoption story, the Seeks set out to start a family but soon discover it's not gong to be easy. Traveling through desert, mountainside, and jungle, to find their child, Mrs. Seek brings home a memento from each place, but no baby. In the end, Mr. and Mrs. Seek discover that they didn’t have to travel so far and so wide to find a child to love after all.

The Not In Here Story

Zeeck, Tracey

Somewhere A Bell Is Ringing

Nye, Barbara

A man who doesn’t quite fit in arrives in a city full of busy people who don’t have much time for him. One day, he asks so many questions that they form a giant pool in the middle of the city. Eventually, the man gathers up the courage to dive into the pool looking for answers, but what will he find ? The Blue Pool of Questions underscores the importance of curiosity, the necessity of asking questions, and the courage required to break free from the status quo.

The Blue Pool of Questions

Al-Hayyat, Maya Abu

The Day We Lost Pet

Chuck Young

Animals

With its attention-grabbing, hand-painted paper collages and rhyming couplets, Barbara Nye’s bedtime story asks readers to see themselves as part of the global ecosystem and urges us to remember that we’re all connected on our one-and-only planet.

Part creation myth, part fairy tale, The Day We Lost Pet tells the story of a balloon family that comes together to mourn the death of their beloved Pet. These endearing balloon characters harness the language of poetry, science, and nature in order to understand one of life’s most difficult moments. For anyone who has lost a beloved pet family member, this is an imaginative resource to help with explaining loss and the feelings of grief.

Young, Chuck

Sobieski, Aniela

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina offers a fresh perspective of young men of color by depicting thirteen views of everyday life: young boys dressed in their Sunday best, running to catch a bus, and growing up to be teachers, and much more. Each of Tony Medina’s tanka is matched with a different artist―including recent Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Award recipients.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy

Medina, Tony

Biographies

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Books by Penny Candy Books

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The Hunt

A Gift From Greensboro

The Not In Here Story

Somewhere A Bell Is Ringing

The Blue Pool of Questions

The Day We Lost Pet

The Blue Pool of Questions

Somewhere A Bell Is Ringing

The Day We Lost Pet

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy