Children Booklists
Show Me Readers Award
(Grades 1-3) Final Nominees 2023
- Scaredy Snacks
Terry Border
- A Walk in the Words
Hudson Talbott
- Be Strong
Pat Zietlow Miller
- Hugo and the Impossible Thing
Renée Felice Smith
- I Eat Poop.: A Dung Beetle Story
Mark Pett
- Invasion of the Unicorns
David Biedrzycki
- Negative Cat
Sophie Blackall
- Norman Didn’t Do It!: (Yes, He Did.)
Ryan T. Higgins
- Thankful
Elaine Vickers
- The Bruce Swap
Ryan T. Higgins
- What Can You Do With a Rock
Pati Zietlow Miller
Building Block Awards
Current Nominees 2023
- The Book of Rules
Brian Gehrlein
- Cows Go Boo!
Steve Webb
- Don’t Eat Bees: Life Lessons from Chip the Dog
Dev Petty
- I’m a Unicorn
Helen Yoon
- I’m Terrified of Bath Time
Simon Rich
- Lou
Breanna Carzoo
- Mel Fell
Corey R. Tabor
- One Sheep, Two Sheep
Tammi Sauer
- People Are Wild
Margaux Meganck
- Shhh! The Baby’s Asleep
JaNay Brown-Wood
Mark Twain Readers Award
(Grades 4-6) Final Nominees 2023-2024
- A Place to Hang the Moon
Kate Albus
- Linked
Gordon Korman
- Nightingale
Deva Fagan
- Once Upon a Camel
Kathi Appelt
- One Kid’s Trash
Jamie Sumner
- Pony
R.J. Palacio
- Six Feet Below Zero
Ena Jones
- Tangled Up in Luck
Merrill Wyatt
- The Hidden Knife
Melissa Marr
- The Lion of Mars
Jennifer L. Holm
- The Night Ride
J Anderson Coats
- Worst-Case Collin
Rebecca Caprara
Reading for Change
Picture books by Black authors
- M is for Melanin
Tiffany Rose
- That is my Dream!: A Picture Book of Langston Hughes‘ ’Dream Variation"
Langston Hughes
- What’s the Difference? Being Different is Amazing
Doyin Richards
- Saturday
Oge Mora
- Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
Derrick Barnes
- Just Like Me
Vanessa Brantley Newton
- Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration
Samara Cole Doyon
- I Am Enough
Grace Byers
- Sulwe
Lupita Nyong’o
- Hey Black Child
Useni Eugene Perkins
- You Matter
Christian Robinson
- The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander
