Category Archives: Children

Apr. – Jun. 2022: Your Top Children’s Books

Children

Check out the top circulating items during the second quarter of the year!

Early Readers

Let’s Go For a Drive! by Mo Willems
Attack of the 50-foot Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold

There is a Bird on Your Head! by Mo Willems
I am Invited to a Party! by Mo Willems

We are in a Book! by Mo Willems

A Big Guy Took My Ball! by Mo Willem

I Broke my Trunk! by Mo Willems

Picture Books

The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! by Mo Willems
Creepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron Reynolds
Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo Willems
The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? by Mo Willems
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems
Your Birthday Was the Best! by Maggie Hutchings
Oona and the Shark by Kelly DiPucchio

Chapter Books

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney
Miss Daisy is Crazy! by Dan Gutman
Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
The Bad Guys in Cut to the Chase by Aaron Blabey

Graphic Novel

Mothering Heights by Dav Pilkey
Kristy and the Snobs by Chan Chau
Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye by Gabriela Epstein
Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose by Dav Pilkey
Lord of the Fleas by Dav Pilkey
Logan Likes Mary Anne! by Gale Galligan
Claudia and the New Girl by Gale Galligan
Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives by Dav Pilkey 

Disability Pride Month – July 2022

Children

July is Disability Pride Month. The titles below explore a wide range of disability experiences for children of all ages.

Picture Books

Can Bears Ski? by Raymond Antrobus
This Beach is Loud! by Samantha Cotterill7
Best Day Ever! by Marilyn Singer
Talking is Not My Thing by Rose Robbins
Juan Has the Jitters by Aneta Cruz
My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay by Cari Best
Hello Goodbye Dog by Maria Gianferrari
I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott
It Was Supposed to Be Sunny by Samantha Cotterill

Juvenile Fiction

Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen by Sarah Kapit
Lila and Hadley by Kody Keplinger
Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
A Bird Will Soar by Alison Green Myers
The Chance to Fly by Ali Stroker
The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes
Wink by Rob Harrell

Nonfiction

All the Way to the Top : How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel
You are Enough : a Book About Inclusion by Margaret O’Hair
I Am Not a Label : 34 Disabled Artists, Thinkers, Athletes and Activists From Past and Present by Cerrie Burnell
How to Build a Hug : Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine by Amy Guglielmo
El Deafo by Cece Bell
This Kid Can Fly : it’s About Ability (Not Disability) by Aaron Philip

Oceans of Possibilities

Children

This year’s Summer Reading theme is Oceans of Possibilities! Here are some titles that feature the ocean and the creatures living in them!

Picture Books

Little Houses by Kevin Henkes
Oona by Kelly DiPucchio
Don’t Worry, Little Crab by Chris Haughton
Shawn Loves Sharks by Curtis Manley
A Is for Anemone by Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd
Hey! A Colorful Mystery by Kate Rea

Shine! by Patrick McDonnell
The heart of a whale by Anna Pignataro
Field trip to the Ocean Deep
by Hare, John

Juvenile Fiction

The Flooded Earth
by Mardi McConnochie
Gone to Drift by Diana McCaulay
Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eagar
Saltwater Secrets by Cindy Callaghan
Willa and the Whale by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown
The 8th Continent by Matt London

Non-Fiction

Ocean! : Waves For All! by Stacy McAnulty
The Big Book of the Blue by Yuval Zommer
Ocean Soup : Tide Pool Poems by Stephen R. Swinburne
I Am the Shark by Joan Holub
Whales by Gail Gibbons
Swimming With Sharks : the Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark by Heather Lang

Let’s Read – Pride Month

Adult Children

Our book list comes from the Committee of the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association. For more information and for additional lists (and books for older children) please visit their website: https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/. We thank the librarians who have taken the time to select these titles each year.

Picture Books and Books for Lower Elementary Age

Calvin by JR and Vanessa Ford
Grandad’s Camper
by Harry Woodgate
Born Ready
by Jodie Patterson

Daddy & Dada by Ryan Brockington & Isaac Webster
Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown
The Little Library by Margaret McNamara

Chapter Books & Middle-Grade

The Anti-Book
by Raphael Simon
Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo
The Deepest Breath by Meg Grehan
Frankie & Bug by Gayle Forman
Meow or Never by Jazz Taylor
Too bright to See by Kyle Lukoff.

The Insiders by Mark Oshiro
Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake
Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow

Books for Teens

Zara Hossain is Here by Sabina Khan
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
The taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
Each of Us a Desert
by Mark Oshiro
Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz
The Darkness Outside Us
by Eliot Schrefer.
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
Last night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Books for Adults

The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

Lambda Literary Awards 2022 Finalists

The Five Wounds
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Blue Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures & Pieces by Courtney Cook
Girlhood by Melissa Febos

Lamda Literary Awards

Books for Kids: Jewish American Heritage Month

Children

May is Jewish Heritage Month. Check out some of these titles to celebrate throughout the month!

Picture Books

Koala Challah by Laura Gehl
Big Dreams, Small Fish by Paula Cohen
Bubbe and Bart’s Matzoh Ball Mayhem by Bonnie Grubman
Klezmer! by Kyra Teis.
Gittel’s Journey by Leslea Newman

Beautiful Yetta: the Yiddish Chicken by Daniel Pinkwater

Middle Grade Fiction

A Ceiling Made of Eggshells by Gail Carson Levine
Chunky
by Yehudi Mercado
How to find what you’re not looking for by Veera Hiranandani
Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar.
No Vacancy by Tziporah Cohen
Eddie Whatever by Lois Ruby.

Non-Fiction & Biographies

The Language of Angels: a Story about the Reinvention of Hebrew by Richard Michelson
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes her Mark by Debbie Levy

The People’s Painter : How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson

Nicky & Vera: a Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sís
Osnat and Her Dove : the True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi by Sigal Samuel
The Book Rescuer : How a Mensch From Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come by Sue Macy

Children’s Books for AAPI Heritage Month

Children

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Check out some books celebrating these cultures!

Picture Books

Juvenile Fiction & Graphic Novels

Nonfiction & Biographies

Jan. – Mar. 2022: Your Top Children’s Books

Children

Check out the top circulating items during the first quarter of the year!

Early Readers

I Broke My Trunk! by Mo Willems
Let’s Go For A Drive! by Mo Willems

There is a bird on your head! by Mo Willems
We are in a book! by Mo Willems
Listen to my trumpet! by Mo Willems

Picture Books

Creepy Pair of Underwear!
by Aaron Reynolds
Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet by Jane O’Connor
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems

The Smart Cookie by Jory John
Redlocks and the Three Bears by Claudia Rueda
The Book of Rules by Brian Gehrlein

Chapter Books

Big Shot by Jeff Kinney
Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney 
Azmina the Gold Glitter Dragon by Maddy Mara 
Eva sees a Ghost by Rebecca Elliott 
The Wildwood Bakery by Rebecca Elliott
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

Graphic Novels

Kristy and the Snobs by Chan Chau
Logan likes Mary Anne! by Gale Galligan 

Mothering Heights by Dav Pilkey
The Truth about Stacey by Raina Telgemeier 
Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey

Books to Celebrate Earth Day

Children

Perfect for your budding environmentalist, these books celebrate the Earth and discuss how everyone can help take care of it!

Picture Books

Nonfiction

Books in Verse & Books that Rhyme

Children

April is National Poetry Month! Here are some books to get you started!

Bedtime Ballet by Kallie George
I’m Growing Great by Mechal Renee Roe
David Jumps In by Alan Woo
The Tantrum That Saved the World by Megan Herbert and Michael E. Mann
Night Train, Night Train by Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor.

I Am the Rain by John Paterson
Clackety Track : Poems About Trains by Skila Brown
Dear Treefrog by Joyce Sidman
Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Legacy : Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
Bright Brown Baby : a Treasury by Andrea Davis Pinkney
The Day the Universe Exploded My Head : Poems to Take You into Space and Back Again by Allan Wolf
Golden Girl by Reem Faruqi
Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Garvey’s Choice by Nikki Grimes
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac.
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson.

Let’s Leap into Spring!

Children

Happy Spring! Check out some some of our spring themed books for children!

Stella Keeps the Sun Up by Clothilde Ewing
The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates
Eeny Up Above by Jane Yolen
First Notes of Spring by Jessica Kulekjian

Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham
Happy Springtime! by Kate McMullan
Robins! How they grow up by Eileen Christelow
Hummingbird by Nicola Davies
Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris
Hello, Rain! by Kyo Maclear & Chris Turnham
The Weather’s Bet by Ed Young
The Hidden Rainbow by Christie Matheson