This was originally posted on our heritage blog PS We’re Reading on 8 February 2015
The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) released its annual list during the opening of the 2015 Midwinter meeting of the American Library Association. Among the books touted on the new list are several from our own publishers:
- Gecko’s The Day My Father Became a Bush, written and illustrated by Joke Van Leeuwen
- Pajama Press’ Graffiti Knight, by Karen Bass
- Kids Can’s Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin, by Chieri Uegaki and illustrated by Qin Leng
- Kids Can’s If…: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers, by David J. Smith, with illustrations by Steve Adams
- Gecko’s My Heart Is Laughing, by Rose Lagercrantz and illustrated by Eva Eriksson
- Lemniscaat’s Surprise, written and illustrated by Mies Van Hout
- Inhabit Media’s Sweetest Kulu, by Celina Kalluk, with illustrations by Alexandria Neonakis
