Bank Street College of Education Educate The Center for Children's Literature 4-6-2018 The Best Children's Books of the Year [2018 edition] Bank Street College of Education. Children's Book Committee Follow this and additional works at: https://educate.bankstreet.edu/ccl Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Bank Street College of Education. Children's Book Committee (2018). The Best Children's Books of the Year [2018 edition]. Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved from https://educate.bankstreet.edu/ccl/ 7 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by Educate. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Center for Children's Literature by an authorized administrator of Educate. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Best Children’s Books of the Year 2018 Edition Books Published in 2017 BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018 EDITION OFBOOKS THE PUBLISHED YEAR IN 2017 SELECTED BY THE CHILDREN’S BOOK COMMITTEE THE CHILDREN’S BOOK COMMITTEE Jina Miharu Accardo Ann Levine Marilyn Ackerman Elizabeth (Liz) Levy Rita Auerbach Muriel Mandell Alice Belgray Roberta Mitchell Sheila Browning Barbara Morris Allie Bruce Caitlyn Morrissey Christie Clark Karina Otoya-Knapp Mary Clark Kathryn Payne Deb Cohen Susan Pine Linda Colarusso Jaïra Placide Ayanna Coleman Ellen Rappaport Carmen Colón Martha Rosen Becky Eisenberg Elizabeth C. Segal Gillian Engberg Dale Singer Margery Fisher Susan Stires Helen Freidus Hadassah Tannor Dee Gantz Jane Thompson Alex Grannis Margaret Tice Melinda Greenblatt Morika Tsujimura Linda Greengrass Leslie Wagner Todd Jackson Cynthia Weill Andee Jorisch Rivka Widerman Mollie Welsh Kruger Shara Zaval Patricia Lakin Todd Zinn Caren Leslie MEMBERS EMERITI Margaret Cooper Lisa Von Drasek MEMBERS ON LEAVE OR AT LARGE Beryl Bresgi Laurent Linn TIPS FOR PARENTS • Share your enjoyment of books with your child. • Talk over your reading. • Continue to read aloud to your child even after he or she reads independently. • Encourage your child to choose a book to read aloud to someone else. • Broaden your child’s horizons by helping to select books from a wide range of subjects • Encourage your child to read whatever he or she enjoys even if it appears to be too easy or too hard. • Let your child see your enjoyment of your own reading. • Find time for your child to visit and browse in libraries and bookstores KEY Outstanding Merit Board Book Mature Content (4–6) Age Range Graphic Format Read Aloud 2018 AWARDS The Josette Frank Award for a work of fiction of outstanding literary merit for young readers in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) The Claudia Lewis Award for the best poetry book of the year for young readers One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes and others, illustrated by 15 prominent artists (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for a nonfiction book that serves as an inspiration to young readers Hawk Mother: The Story of a Red-Tailed Hawk Who Hatched Chickens written and photographed by Kara Hagedorn (Web of Life Children’s Books) 4 CONTENTS UNDER FIVE ..................................................1 Ecology ............................................................. 38 Concept Books ...................................................... 8 Health .............................................................. 38 Holidays and Religion .......................................... 10 History ............................................................. 38 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) .......... 10 Law and Justice ................................................ 39 FIVE TO NINE .............................................. 11 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) ....... 39 Fiction .................................................................. 11 TWELVE TO FOURTEEN .................................42 Adventure and Mystery ..................................... 11 Fiction ................................................................. 42 Animals ............................................................. 11 Adventure and Mystery .................................... 42 Anthologies and Collections ..............................12 Anthologies and Collections ............................. 42 Beginning Readers .............................................12 Coming of Age .................................................. 42 Coming of Age ...................................................12 Fantasy ............................................................ 44 Concept Books ...................................................13 Folklore and Fairy Tales .................................... 45 Fantasy .............................................................13 Historical Fiction .............................................. 45 Folklore and Fairy Tales .....................................14 Humor .............................................................. 46 Historical Fiction ...............................................15 Magical Realism ............................................... 46 Humor ...............................................................15 Science Fiction .................................................. 46 Today.................................................................16 Sports Stories ....................................................47 Poetry...................................................................18 Today.................................................................47 Information Books ...............................................19 Poetry.................................................................. 48 Activities ...........................................................19 Information Books .............................................. 49 Arts ...................................................................19 Arts .................................................................. 49 Biography and Memoir ..................................... 20 Biography and Memoir ..................................... 49 Ecology ..............................................................22 History ............................................................. 50 History ..............................................................22 Language ..........................................................51 Holidays and Religion ........................................23 Law and Justice .................................................51 Parenting ...........................................................23 Religion .............................................................51 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) ........23 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) ........51 World ............................................................... 26 World ................................................................52 NINE TO TWELVE .........................................27 FOURTEEN AND OLDER ................................53 Fiction ..................................................................27 Fiction ..................................................................53 Adventure and Mystery .....................................27 Adventure and Mystery .....................................53 Coming of Age ...................................................27 Anthologies and Collections ..............................53 Fantasy ............................................................ 30 Coming of Age ...................................................53 Historical Fiction ...............................................31 Fantasy .............................................................57 Humor ...............................................................32 Folklore and Fairy Tales .................................... 58 Magical Realism ................................................33 Historical Fiction .............................................. 58 Science Fiction ...................................................33 Magical Realism ............................................... 59 Sports Stories ................................................... 34 Science Fiction ..................................................60 Today................................................................ 34 Today.................................................................61 Poetry...................................................................35 Information Books .............................................. 63 Information Books .............................................. 36 Biography and Memoir ..................................... 63 Activities .......................................................... 36 History ............................................................. 64 Animals ............................................................ 36 Law and Justice ................................................ 64 Arts .................................................................. 36 Reference ......................................................... 64 Biography and Memoir ..................................... 36 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) .. .... 65 UNDER FIVE Anywhere Farm Big Machines: The Story