Picture Book Lists: Award Winners

Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper. (description provided by publisher)

A little kitten comes ashore on a beautiful island. (description from catalog)

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her. (description from catalog)

Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. (description from catalog)

A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. (description from catalog)

A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries. (description from catalog)

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. (description from catalog)

A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. (description from catalog)

Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow. (description from catalog)

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family. (description from catalog)

When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it. (description from catalog)

Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye. (description from NoveList K-8 Plus)

A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene. (description from catalog)

Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption. (Description from catalog.)

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear. (description from catalog)

A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost. (description from catalog)

A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.

Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend. (description from catalog)

"A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air" (description provided by publisher)

Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests. (description from catalog)

In a moment of fright Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again. (description from catalog)

Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light. (description from catalog)

Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game. (description from catalog)

Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep. (description from catalog)