Children Booklists
Show Me Readers Award
(Grades 1-3) Final Nominees 2020-2021
- A Place For Pluto
Stef Wade
- DOLL-E 1.0
Shanda McCloskey
- Friends Stick Together
Hannah E. Harrison
- Giraffe Problems
Jory John
- Love, Z
Jessie Sima
- Max Explains Everything: Grocery Store Expert
Stacy McAnulty
- Natsumi!
Susan Lendroth
- The Epic Adventures of Huggie and Stick
Drew Daywalt
- The Remember Balloons
Jessie Oliveros
- We Don’t Eat Our Classmates
Ryan T. Higgins
Building Block Awards
Current Nominees 2020-2021
- Dandy
Ame Dyckman
- Duck!
Meg McKinlay
- Everybody Says Meow
Constance Lombardo
- Fear the Bunny
Richard T. Morris
- I Can Only Draw Worms
Will Mabbitt
- Octopants
Suzy Senior
- Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas
Aaron Blabey
- Pokko and the Drum
Matthew Forsythe
- Shake the Tree!
Chiara Vignocchi and Paolo Chiarinotti
- What Does an Anteater Eat?
Ross Collins
Mark Twain Readers Award
(Grades 4-6) Final Nominees 2020-2021
- 24 Hours in Nowhere
Dusti Bowling
- Amal Unbound
Aisha Saeed
- Blended
Sharon M. Draper
- Captain Superlative!
J.S. Puller
- Front Desk
Kelly Yang
- Squint
Chad Morris and Shelly Brown
- The Ambrose Deception
Emily Ecton
- The Doughnut Fix
Jessie Janowitz
- The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani
- The Science of Breakable Things
Tae Keller
- The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
Leslie Connor
- The Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair
Amy Makechnie
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
