Thanks to Brian Feinblum for this interview on Book Marketing Buzz Blog! I was glad that his questions let me highlight the good work of We Need Diverse Books while also naming picture books I’ve used in recent storytimes and those that I am anticipating this year. I’ll name them here, too:
Picture Books Used in Recent WBA Storytimes and Trainings:
- My Father Is Taller than a Tree, by Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin
- Freight Train by Donald Crews
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de LaPeña, illustrated by Christian Robinson
- Hush, Little Baby: A Folk Song with Pictures by Marla Frazee
- Waiting by Kevin Henkes
- Shhh! We Have a Plan by Chris Houghton
- Big Red Lollipop Rukhsana Khan, illustrated by Sophie Blackall
- This Is Not My Hat by John Klassen
- A Crow of His Own by Megan Dowd Lambert, illustrated by David Hyde Costello
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr., illustrated by Eric Carle
- Just a Minute! A Trickster Counting Book by Yuyi Morales
- This Is Sadie by Sara O’Leary, illustrated by Julie Morstad
- The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
- Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
- Bully; Green; and I Used to Be Afraid by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
- Roger Is Reading a Book by Koen Van Biesen
Anticipating in 2016:
- Thunder Boy, Jr. by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Yuyi Morales
- Worm Loves Worm by J.J. Austrian, illustrated by Mike Curato
- Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super Stream of Ideas by Chris Barton, illustrated by Don Tate
- The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart, illustrated by Sydney Smith
- Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood by F. Isabel Campoy, illustrated by Rafael Lopez
- Blocks by Irene Dickson
- Old Dog Baby Baby by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Chris Raschka
- When Green Becomes Tomatoes by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Julie Morstad
- In Plain Sight by Richard Jackson, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- Real Sisters Pretend by Megan Dowd Lambert illustrated by Nicole Tadgell
- Emma and Julia Love Ballet by Barbara McLintock
- School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex, illustrated by Christian Robinson
- There Is a Tribe of Kids by Lane Smith
- Ideas Are All Around and Samson in the Snow by Philip C. Stead
- Sing with Me! by Nakao Stoop
- Home At Last by Vera B. Williams, illustrated by Chris Rashka
As I look at these lists, I am sure I am leaving out wonderful ones, so I hope readers will regard them as starting points. And, yes, I did include my own picture books in a bit of shameless self-promotion but also to highlight to work of my amazing illustrators.
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