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Best Books of 2024

January 17, 2025 by Betsy Bird

Newbery/Caldecott 2025: Final Prediction Edition

I'm not talking about what I want to win, necessarily, but what I think WILL win. So buckle up and enjoy this crazy ride . . .

December 31, 2024 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: Best Picture Books of 2024

Our final list! Enjoy what is inarguably a lovely list of books. And thank you for reading my lists this month!

December 30, 2024 by Betsy Bird

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Come and enjoy this eclectic collection of some of the most memorable fiction for older readers out in 2024.

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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Nonfiction Books for Older Readers

December 29, 2024 by Betsy Bird

As with any list of longer titles, I have to say right off the bat that what you'll find here is more of a representative sample of the great older fiction of 2024 than what was actually the "best".

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Nonfiction Picture Books

December 28, 2024 by Betsy Bird

I consider these the best of the best. The ones you cannot miss. See if you can find one you missed before now.

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Blueberry Award Contenders (Celebrating A Love of Nature and the Environment)

December 27, 2024 by Betsy Bird

The Blueberry Awards are given to, "honor children’s literature that strengthens kids’ connections with nature and fosters action for the planet." Essentially these are nature and climate books with an eye to instilling a love of the natural world

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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Biographies for Kids

December 26, 2024 by Betsy Bird

This may look like an ample list, and it is, but all thirty of these individuals are just a small slice of the pie that was biography in 2024. Read them in good health.

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Science and Nature Books for Kids

December 25, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Today, consider this post my present to all those nonfiction and informational book fans out there. It's just FULL of titles that won't really get their day in the sun unless we promote the bloody heck out them.

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Gross Books for Kids

December 24, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Consider this one for the kiddos. If it's gross, it's gonna be here.

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Informational Fiction for Kids

December 23, 2024 by Betsy Bird

They can be some of the most creative books of the year (and are a nightmare to catalogers everywhere). Take a gander at books that meld fact and fiction with aplomb.

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