Our Picks for Best Children’s Books of 2014
In time for holiday reading and gift giving, here are our picks for best children’s books of 2014, in no particular order:
Juvenile Non Fiction:
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights / Steve Sheinkin
Brown Girl Dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek / Van Wagenen
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse / Patricia MacLachlan
Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth / Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus / Jennifer Bryant
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker / Patricia Hruby Powell
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands / Katherine Roy
The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond / Patrick Dillon
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos / Stéphanie Roth Sisson
The Noisy Paint Box / Barb Rosenstock
Strike! The Farm Workers’ Fight for Their Rights / Larry Dane Brimner
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems / Paul B. Janeczko
Gus and Me: the Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar / Keith Richards
I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World / Malala Yousafzai
Picture Books:
My Grandfather’s Coat / Jim Aylesworth
The Baby Tree / Sophie Blackall
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas / Lynne Cox
Extraordinary Jane / Hannah E. Harrison
The Lion and the Bird / Marianne Dubuc
The Farmer and the Clown / Marla Frazee
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole / Mac Barnett
Adventures of Beekle / Dan Santat
I’m My Own Dog / David Ezra Stein
Princess Sparkle Heart Gets a Makeover / Josh Schneider
J and YA Fiction
West of the Moon / Margi Preus
Five, Six, Seven, Nate! / Tim Federle
Half a World Away / Cynthia Kadohata
Saving Lucas Biggs / Marisa de los Santos and David Teague
Arcady’s Goal / Eugene Yelchin
The Glass Sentence / S. E. Grove
The Great Greene Heist / Varian Johnson
The Crossover / Kwame Alexander
The Madman of Piney Woods / Christopher Paul Curtis
My Heart is Laughing / Rose Lagercrantz
The Fourteenth Goldfish / Jennifer L. Holm
The Iron Trial / Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
Graphic Novels
Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust / Loïc Dauvillier
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War / Matt Faulkner
The Graveyard Book / P. Craig Russell
This One Summer / Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Comics Squad: Recess! / Various Authors
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