Award-Winning Books with Gentle Content

Ella Sarah gets dressed

Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Higher! Higher! (Leslie Patricelli board books)

Leslie Patricelli

Owl Moon

Jane Yolen

Planting a Rainbow

Lois Ehlert

Annie and Snowball and the Teacup Club (Annie and Snowball Ready-to-Read)

Jean Little

Billy Tartle in Say cheese!

Michael Townsend

Dexter Bexley and the Big Blue Beastie

Joel Stewart

Down on the funny farm

P. E. King

Emma's Turtle

Eve Bunting

Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night

Peter Spier

Frederick (Step Into Reading, Step 3)

Leo Lionni

Giant Meatball

Robert Weinstock

Green Eyes

Abe Birnbaum

Happy Birthday, Monster!

Scott Beck

Houndsley and Catina and Cousin Wagster

James Howe

I Lost My Tooth In Africa

Penda Diakite

Ishi

Akiko Yabuki

Jabari Jumps

Gaia Cornwall

Jabari jumps

Gaia Cornwall

Joseph

Anna Fienberg

No Sword Fighting in the House

Susanna Leonard Hill

One Fine Day (Stories to Go!)

Nonny Hogrogian

Pedro

Leo Politi

Princess Cora and the crocodile

Laura Amy Schlitz

Rainy day!

Patricia Lakin

Sock Monkey Rides Again

Cece Bell

Southwest Sunrise

Nikki Grimes

Take care, Good Knight

Shelley Moore Thomas

That's what Friends are for

Valeri Gorbachev

The Little House Book and CD (Read-Along)

Virginia Lee Burton

The paw

Natalie Jane Prior

The rainbirds

David Metzenthen

The shrunken head

Denys Cazet

Trainstop

Barbara Lehman

Trolls on Vacation (Troll Trouble)

Alan MacDonald

We Are in a Book! (Elephant & Piggie)

Mo Willems

William & the missing masterpiece

Helen Hancocks

Windows

Julia Denos

This Is Not My Hat

Unknown

A Birthday for Cow!

Jan Thomas

A Blue So Blue

Jean-FranCois Dumont

A Day On Skates

Hilda van Stockhum

A Horse in the House and Other Strange but True Animal Stories

Gail Ablow

A Seed Is Sleepy

Dianna Hutts Aston

A library for Juana

Pat Mora

A man for all seasons

Stephen Krensky

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

Leo Lionni

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

Leo Lionni

Anatole

Eve Titus

Around the world

John Coy

Autopsies

Gary Jeffrey

Baby Brains and RoboMom (Baby Brains)

Simon James

Ballet for Martha

Jan Greenberg

Black and White

David Macaulay

Bones and the Birthday Mystery (Bones)

David A. Adler

Bravo, Tavo!

Brian Meunier

Cork and Fuzz

Dori Chaconas

Cowpie Corgi

Randi Yocum

Dinosaur Mountain

Deborah Kogan Ray

Duck

Randy Cecil

Erased by a tornado!

Jessica Rudolph

Finding Home

Sandra Markle

Fine Feathered Friends

Wong Herbert Yee

Great Big Guinea Pigs

Susan L. Roth

Half of an elephant

Gustavo Rosemffet

Hansel and Gretel/Hansel y Gretel

Elisabet McClellen

Henry the Dog with No Tail (Paula Wiseman Books)

Kate Feiffer

Home on the range

Deborah Hopkinson

Hotel deep

Kurt Cyrus

Houndsley and Catina and the Birthday Surprise

James Howe

House That Jack Built

Antonio Frasconi

I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean!

Kevin Sherry

Little lost bat

Sandra Markle

Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend / Lupe Vargas y su super mejor amiga

Amy Costales

Mammoths and Mastodons Titans of the Ice Age

Cheryl Bardoe

Mercury

Hope Larson

Mesmerized

Mara Rockliff

Mo and Jo

Dean Haspiel

Monster Hands

Karen Kane

Old Wood Boat

Nikki McClure

On My Papa's Shoulders

Niki Daly

Ox, House, Stick

Don Robb

Refugees

David Miller

School

KIDSLABEL

Spider and the Fly

Tony DiTerlizzi

Spring Rain Winter Snow

Edward Rielly

Starring Miss Darlene

Amy Schwartz

Strong

Rob Kearney

Super Swifts

Justin Anderson

The Anne Frank Case

Susan Goldman Rubin

The House in the Night

Susan Marie Swanson

The life and times of corn

Charles Micucci

Tiny Dino

Deborah J. Freedman

Trainman

Stefan Kavan

Treasure

Bloom, Suzanne

Triangle

Mac Barnett

Tuesday

David Wiesner

Ty's Travels

Kelly Starling Lyons

We Are Starlings

Robert Furrow

When Randolph Turned Rotten

Charise Mericle Harper

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road

Tedd Arnold, Harry Bliss, David Catrow, Marla Frazee, Jerry Pinkney, Chris Raschka, Judy Schachner, David Shannon, Mo Willems Jon Agee

¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge

Raúl the Third, Raúl the, III

Little i

Michael Hall red

Kyle's Little Sister

BonHyung Jeong

A funny little bird

Jennifer Yerkes

Abracadabra! Magic with Mouse and Mole

Wong Herbert Yee

Baby goes to market

Atinuke

Dino-Hockey (Carolrhoda Picture Books)

Lisa Wheeler

In a Blue Room

Jim Averbeck

Looking for a Moose

Phyllis Root

Sergio Makes a Splash

Edel Rodriguez

The Cot in the Living Room

Hilda Eunice Burgos

A Girl, a Boy, and a Monster Cat

Gail Gauthier

A ghost of a chance

Nette Hilton

Any questions?

Marie-Louise Gay

Dodsworth in New York

Tim Egan

Good masters! Sweet ladies!

Laura Amy Schlitz

Harry Miller's run

David Almond

Heavenly Tenants

William Maxwell

Heroes of baseball

Robert Lipsyte

How to spot a sasquatch

J. Torres

Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig (Mercy Watson)

Kate DiCamillo

Mother Goose First Puzzles

Clare Beaton

Mother Goose Remembers (Nursery Rhymes)

Clare Beaton

Mouse and Mole, secret valentine

Wong Herbert Yee

My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett

Nikki and Deja

Karen English

Olivia Forms a Band

Ian Falconer

Owen Foote, Mighty Scientist

Stephanie Greene

Pig Pickin' (Moose and Hildy)

Stephanie Greene

Song of the Trees

Mildred D. Taylor

The Magic Rabbit

Annette Leblanc Cate

The Puzzle of the Platypus

Jack Myers

The Story of Buildings

Patrick Dillon

The adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great

Gerald Morris

The case of the missing action figure & other mysteries

Janet Tashjian

The hive detectives

Loree Griffin Burns

The infamous Ratsos

Kara LaReau

The little blue parcel

Norma Spaulding

To Dance

Siena Cherson Siegel

To dance

Siena Cherson Siegel

Waiting for Normal

Leslie Connor

When dinosaurs came with everything

Elise Broach

Wild horses

Kelly Milner Halls

Willy the Scrub

James McEwan

Winning Words

Charles R. Jr Smith

Andy Shane and the pumpkin trick

Jennifer Jacobson

Binky The Space Cat

Ashley Spires

The twilight zone

Mark Kneece

Big Wolf & Little Wolf

Nadine Brun-Cosme

Brave Red, smart frog

Emily Jenkins

In the Night Kitchen

Maurice Sendak

Strawberry girl.

Lois Lenski

The Hello, Goodbye Window

Norton Juster

The Wolves Are Back

Jean Craighead George

The man who walked between the towers

Mordicai Gerstein

Toys go out

Emily Jenkins

The three little pigs

Mercè Escardó i Bas

The skin I'm in

Sharon G. Flake

Little lost bat

Sandra Markle

The Little House

Wait for me

An Na

Charlotte's Web

E. B. White

Agnes Parker... Keeping Cool in Middle School (Agnes Parker)

Kathleen O'Dell

America through the lens

Martin W. Sandler

And Nobody Got Hurt 2!

Len Berman

Anonymous noise

Ryōko Fukuyama

Antonio S. & the mysterious Theodore Guzman

Odo Hirsch

Binky The Space Cat

Ashley Spires

Bird Lake moon

Kevin Henkes

Calvin Coconut

Graham Salisbury

Chiggers

Hope Larson

Cover-up

John Feinstein

Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo

Drew Weing

Cyberpals According to Kaley

Dian Curtis Regan

Deep in the Mountains

Terrence Cheng

Django

Bonnie Christensen

Do-Wrong Ron

Steven Herrick

Doggone town

Stefan Petrucha

Double fake

Rich Wallace

Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case

Donald J. Sobol

Gabriel's Journey (Racing to Freedom)

Alison Hart

Gabriel's triumph

Alison Hart

I can't talk now, I'm busy writing nothing!

Jeff Fluharty

Jim & me

Dan Gutman

Just this side of normal

Elizabeth K. Gerlach

Keena Ford, Troublemaker of the Second Grade

Melissa Thomson

Kids Fight Climate Change

Martin Dorey

Kodi (Book 1)

Jared Cullum

Lay-ups and long shots

Joseph Bruchac

Linda Brown, you are not alone

Joyce Carol Thomas

Make Way for Ducklings

Robert McCloskey

Masterpiece

Elise Broach

Medusa Jones

Ross Collins

Middle school is worse than meatloaf

Jennifer L. Holm

Missing Magic

Emma Laybourn

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Richard Atwater

Mysterious messages

Gary L. Blackwood

Neandertals

Yvette La Pierre

Njunjul the sun

Meme McDonald

Notorious Nora

Kelly Jones

Overheard in a Tower Block

Joseph Coelho

Petronella saves nearly everyone

Dene Low

Roanoke

Lee Miller

Secret Time Machine and the Gherkin Switcheroo

Simone Lia

Shadow of a Bull

Maia Wojciechowska

Shadow of a Bull

Maia Wojciechowska

Shooting the Moon

Frances O'Roark Dowell

Something weird about Mr. Foster

Ken Catran

Sophie Hartley, On Strike

Stephanie Greene

The Buddha's Diamonds

Carolyn Marsden

The Great Race

Gary Blackwood

The Great Wheel

Robert Lawson

The Whipping Boy (Chivers Children's Audio Books)

Sid Fleischman

The World According To Kaley

Dian Curtis Regan

The boy book

E. Lockhart

The sign of the beaver

Elizabeth George Speare

The stupendous dodgeball fiasco

Janice Repka

Throwing Heat

Fred Bowen

Train I ride

Paul Mosier

Tree Shaker

BILL KELLER

Ugly

Donna Jo Napoli

When You Reach Me

Rebecca Stead

Wild animals of the south

Dieter Braun

Yo-kai watch

Noriyuki Konishi

Pizza for the queen

Nancy F. Castaldo

Pippo the Fool

Tracey E. Fern

Fly on the wall

E. Lockhart

Perfect timing

Patsi B. Trollinger

Baseball Crazy

Nancy Mercado

The boy book

E. Lockhart

Lost and Found (w.t.)

Andrew Clements

What they found

Walter Dean Myers

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney

Greg Rules

Jeff Kinney

A Snake Falls to Earth

Darcie Little Badger

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The long winter

Laura Ingalls Wilder

LITTLE TOWN ON THE PRAIRIE

W

Casey Back at Bat

Dan Gutman

Child of the civil rights movement

Paula Young Shelton

Migrant

Maxine Trottier

Room one

Andrew Clements

Shield of Stars (The Shield, Sword, and Crown)

Hilari Bell

Words with wings

Nikki Grimes

Cave detectives

David L. Harrison

In the Coils of the Snake

Clare B. Dunkle

Just the right size

Nicola Davies

11 birthdays

Wendy Mass

A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Linda Urban

A Tail of Camelot

Julie Leung

A pup called trouble

Bobbie Pyron

Alphabet of Dreams

Susan Fletcher

An Abundance of Katherines

John Green

Antonio S. and the Secret Room

Odo Hirsch

Avion My Uncle Flew

Cyrus Fisher

Caddie Woodlawn

Carol Ryrie Brink

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham

Confessions of a Closet Catholic

Sarah Darer Littman

Dark sons

Nikki Grimes

Day of the assassins

Johnny O'Brien

Don't make me laugh

Leonard S. Marcus

Dragonwings

Laurence Yep

Dream Factory

Brad Barkley

Ernest Hemingway

Catherine Reef

Evie Brooks is marooned in Manhattan

Sheila Agnew

Frizzy

Claribel A. Ortega

Goth Girl and the ghost of a mouse

Chris Riddell

Louisiana's way home

Kate DiCamillo

Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess

Shari Green

Mogo, the Third Warthog

Donna Jo Napoli

One-Handed Catch

M. J. Auch

Only Alien on the Planet

Kristen Randle

Parkland

Victor Kelleher

Pigs might fly

Nick Abadzis

Shelby Holmes

Elizabeth Eulberg

Solomon Snow and the Stolen Jewel

Kaye Umansky

Something Rotten

Alan Gratz

Squirm

Carl Hiaasen

Stony heart country

David Metzenthen

Swindle

Gordon Korman

Teen, Inc.

Stefan Petrucha

The Bronze Pen

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Callender papers

Cynthia Voigt

The Humming of Numbers

Joni Sensel

The Magic Half

Annie Barrows

The Perfect Hamburger and Other Delicious Stories

Alexander McCall Smith

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

Eric Berlin

The Silver Donkey

Sonya Hartnett

The Unmaking of Duncan Veerick

Betty Levin

The animal book

Steve Jenkins

The girl from the sea

James Aldridge

The little grey men

"BB,"

The loud silence of Francine Green

Karen Cushman

The tale of Angelino Brown

David Almond

The wand in the word

Leonard S. Marcus

Up close

James Sutherland

Vanishing act

John Feinstein

Westing Game

Ellen Raskin

What I Call Life

Jill Wolfson

Who am I without him?

Sharon G. Flake

John Muir

Kathryn Lasky

The little grey men

"BB,"

A dog for life

L. S. Matthews

Magic Raincoat

Ryan David

The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg

W. R. Philbrick

The Dumpster Diver

Janet S. Wong

The Unvisibles

Ian Whybrow

Wild dogs

Kelly Milner Halls

A Drowned Maiden's Hair

Laura Amy Schlitz

Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back! (Adam Canfield of the Slash)

Michael Winerip

Boy Lost in the Maze

Joseph Coelho

Bulu, African wonder dog

Dick Houston

Change-up

John Feinstein

I Am The Messenger

Markus Zusak

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Wendy Mass

Jumping-Off Place

Marian Hurd McNeely

Larklight

Philip Reeve

Mare's war

Tanita S. Davis

Moon over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool

Sacrifice

Cindy Pon

The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley

The Hero and the Crown

Robin McKinley

The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow

Kaye Umansky

The hidden treasure of Glaston

Eleanore Myers Jewett

The last of the high kings

Kate Thompson

Wednesday Wars

Gary Schmidt

Wild Cats

John Becker

Dinosaur mummies

Kelly Milner Halls

Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

The murder of Bindy MacKenzie

Jaclyn Moriarty

The new policeman

Kate Thompson

This full house

Anthony Euwer

The little people of Flores Island

Linda Goldenberg Atkinson