MORE '31-DAYS-31-LISTS' POSTS
A new category! It's easy to praise picture books with complex ideas and wordplay. Today, we honor those books that do something much more difficult: Create wonderful literature for our youngest readers through simple texts.
Let's take it down a notch today with this lovely little listing of a whole slew of picture book readalouds. Which ones will work best in your storytime?
Separating out the baby board books from the toddler/preschooler ones, we kick off the 31 Days, 31 Lists with one of our true favorites.
It's coming! Each year I make a list of my favorite children's books of the year. Not just a single list, though, but one for every day in December. I've done it for a number of years now, and 2022 is no exception.
Today's list represents just a handful of the titles published this year. This is some, but surely not all, of the finest. If you need a starting place where you can get a sense of what the year entailed, use this list.
We don't go halfsies on the comics around here. Here is what may well be called an epic post of comics published for kids in the year 2021.
Today, I'm tipping a hat to the audiobooks I discovered in 2021 that really just knocked it out of the park. Each and every last one of them, a star.
These are the Nonfiction Picture Books of the year that I just feel went above and beyond the call of duty. Many you've seen on previous lists. Some will be entirely new to you.
Here's a brief smattering of some of the books that I think are deserving of your time and attention. If you know a kid that loves their informational texts, something on this list is bound to whet their whistle.
It's Biography Day! Here are the books that I feel did the greatest justice to their subjects. You'll see some familiar faces and some folks you've never even heard of. As it should be.