2024 Award Winners for Young Children

"Kara and Amanda are cousins and best friends. But then Kara's family moves from the city to the Rez. Now everything feels different to both girls -- school starting, powwows, holidays. After a long year apart, it's time for the family reunion on the Rez. Each girl wonders if the other will be happy to see her. Is it possible that they've forgotten how to be together? This Native family story with universal themes highlights the ongoing impact of...

"Picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem, Remember"--

"First grader Jo Jo Makoons knows how to do a lot of things, like jumping rope, hiding her peas in her milk, and being helpful in her classroom. But there's one thing Jo Jo doesn't know how to do: be fancy. She has a lot to learn before her aunt Anne's wedding!"--

"Brought to life with lavish and ornate illustrations, The Truth About Dragons follows a child on a journey guided by his mother's bedtime storytelling. He begins a quest into two very different forests as his grandmothers help him discover two different, but equally enchanting, truths about dragons. Eastern and Western mythologies coexist and enrich each other in this warm celebration of mixed cultural identity." --

From critically acclaimed illustrator of The Lost Package comes a bold nonfiction story following a day in the life of a backyard jumping spider - meticulously researched and utterly charming.

"Fox has a not-so-new problem, and every possible solution leads to more problems for the other animals, until they all come together with the ultimate fix"--

A worm and a caterpillar are best friends. When one of them is about to go through a big change, they both learn what is inside is what counts.

Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.

"A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson"-- From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, this is a story of a people's struggle and strength, horror and hope. This is the story of American slavery, a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us. A testament...

Sam is fascinated by her new neighbors and their ability to talk with their hands, and when she meets Mai, she starts to learn Filipino sign language so they can communicate. Includes dictionary of Philippine signs.