2018-2019 Georgia Children’s Picturebook (Gr. K-4) Award

Top Twenty

Alexander, Kwame. (2017). Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets (Illus. Ekua Holms). Somerville, MA: Candlewick. Lexile = NP Aston, Diana Hutts. (2016). A Beetle is Shy (Illus. Sylvia Long). San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. Lexile = NC1070L Beaty, Andrea. (2016). Ada Twist, Scientist (Illus. David Roberts). New York, NY: Abrams Books for Young Readers. Lexile = AD550L Brown, Lisa. (2016). The Airport Book. New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press. Lexile (not available)

Choldenko, Gennifer. (2017). Dad and the Dinosaur (Illus. Dan Santat). New York, NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Lexile = AD560L Corey, Shana. (2016). The Secret Subway (Illus. Red Nose Studio). New York, NY: Schwartz & Wade. Lexile = AD810L Deedy, Carmen Agra. (2017). ¡El gallo que no se callaba! / The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet (Illus. Eugene Yelchin). New York, NY: Scholastic Press. Lexile = AD530L

Fleming, Candace. (2016). Giant Squid (Illus. Eric Rohmann). New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press. Lexile = 990L Goldsaito, Katrina. (2016). The Sound of Silence (Illus. Julia Kuo). New York, NY: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Lexile = AD700L

Leannah, Michael. (2017). Most People (Illus. Jennifer E. Morris). Thomaston, ME: Tilbury House Publishers. Lexile (not available) Keating, Jess. (2017). Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist (Illus. Marta Álvarez Miguéns). Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. Lexile = 730L Mantchev, Lisa. (2015). Strictly No Elephants (Illus. Taeeun Yoo). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Lexile = AD490L McCormick, Patricia. (2017). Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero (Illus. Iacopo Bruno). New York, NY: Balzer & Bray. Lexile = 780L Naberhaus, Sarvinder. (2017). Blue Sky, White Stars (Illus. Kadir Nelson). New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers. Lexile = NP Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux. (2015). The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Illus. R. Gregory Christie). Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books. Lexile = 630L

Pizzoli, Greg. (2016). Good Night Owl. New York, NY: Hyperion. Lexile = 410L Potter, Giselle (2016). This is My Dollhouse. New York, NY: Schwartz & Wade. Lexile = AD560L Santat, Dan. (2017). After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again). New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press. Lexile = AD550L Sima, Jessie. (2017). Not Quite Narwhal. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Lexile = AD590L Yaccarino, Dan. (2016). I Am a Story. New York, NY: HarperCollins. Lexile (not available)

Recommended

(These books are not included on the GCBA ballot but are highly recommended.)

Alko, Selina. (2015). The Case for Loving (Illus. Sean Qualls and Selina Alko). New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books. Lexile = AD720L Markel, Michelle. (2017). Balderdash! John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books (Illus. Nancy Carpenter). San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. Lexile = AD850L Watt, Mélanie. (2015). Bug in a Vacuum. Toronto, Canada: Tundra Books. Lexile (not available)