Reading Suggestions for Kids

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Alex’s Recommendations

Picture Books

This Book Just Ate My Dog by Richard Byrne

The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone

When You Go to Dragon School by Chelsea M. Campbell (Author), Charlene Chua (Illustrator)

The Wild Robot on the Island by Peter Brown

Kids

Chickenpox by Remy Lai ; color by Ninakupenda Gaillard

Gabby Torres gets a billion followers by Angela Dominguez

2025 Newbery Medal & Honor Books

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar

2025 Caldecott Medal & Honor Books

Chooch Helped by Andrea L Rogers (text) & illus. by Rebecca Lee Kunz

Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo (text) & illus. by Cherry Mo

2025 Coretta Scott King Award & Honor Books

My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales (text) & illus. by C.G. Esperanza

Black Star by Kwame Alexander

Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King by Coretta Scott King. illus. by Ekua Holmes

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller by Breanna J McDaniel. illus. by April Harrison

Kwame Crashes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer

One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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