Children's Starred Reviews - 23 Nov 2022
CHILDREN’S STARRED REVIEW ANNUAL
A new imprint to nourish the hearts and minds of children and adults.
COMING SOON:
Children’s Starred Reviews 2022
Middle Grade
Picture Books
Comics
Early Readers & Chapter Books
Best Books 2022
Artist: Felicita Sala
Young Adult
All of Our Stars
PW’S BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS 2022
All of Our Stars
Also
All from a Walnut
Armadillo Antics
Baby Squeaks
Because Claudette
Berry Song
The Baker by the Sea
The Best Gift for Bear
Baby Squeaks
Black Gold
Big Truck Little Island
Blaze and the Castle Cake for Bertha Daye
The Blanket Where Violet Sits
Blurp’s Book of Manners
Boney
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
Book of Questions
Bright Brown Baby
Caves
Chester van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme
Bright Brown Baby
Bye Bye, Binary
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
The Circles in the Sky
SUPER STARS IN 2022
The Coquíes Still Sing: A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding
A Day for Sandcastles
Clover
Dark on Light
The Circles in the Sky
Don’t Worry, Murray
Does a Bulldozer Have a Butt?
Drawing Outdoors
Digestion! The Musical
Dress-Up Day
Everything in Its Place: A Story of Books and Belonging
Farmhouse
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice
Dress-Up Day
SOPHIE BLACKALL ON FARMHOUSE
Feathers Together
Finding Fire
Fire Chief Fran
Firefighter Flo! (Big Jobs, Bold Women)
Frances in the Country
A Gift for Nana
Fire Chief Fran
Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book
H Is for Harlem
The Great Zapfino
Happy Sloth Day!
Hello, Puddle!
Happy Sloth Day!
Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black Children
Hot Dog
How Old Is Mr. Tortoise?
Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese-American Poet Khalil Gibran
How to Say Hello to a Worm: A First Guide to Outside
How to Party Like a Snail
I Am Golden
Hundred Years of Happiness
How to Say Hello to a Worm: A First Guide to Outside
JULIO TORRES ON I WANT TO BE A VASE
I Want to Be a Vase
I’ll Go and Come Back
It’s So Difficult
John’s Turn
If You’re a Kid Like Gavin: The True Story of a Young Trans Activist
Jack Knight’s Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the U.S. Air Mail Service
Kick Push
Jigsaw: Mystery in the Mail
KINDergarten: Where Kindness Matters Every Day
A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters
Jack Knight’s Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the U.S. Air Mail Service
Lou
Lift, Mix, Fling! Machines Can Do Anything
Love in the Library
IBRAM X. KENDI AND LOVEIS WISE ON MAGNOLIA FLOWER
Luminous: Living Things That Light Up the Night
Love in the Library
Mardi Gras Almost Didn’t Come This Year
Magnolia Flower
Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle
Marcel’s Masterpiece: How a Toilet Shaped the History of Art
Maya’s Song
Moonlight
Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech
Mommy’s Hometown
Mushroom Lullaby
My Hands Tell a Story
My Paati’s Saris
My Fade Is Fresh
My Self, Your Self
Nigel and the Moon
Nana, Nenek & Nina
Night Lunch
No! Said Custard the Squirrel
One Boy Watching
On Baba’s Back
Our Fort
No! Said Custard the Squirrel
People Are Wild
Powwow Day
Pip and Zip
The Rainbow Parade
Rick the Rock of Room 214
Rock That Vote
The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense
Rodney Was a Tortoise
Sal Boat (A Boat by Sal)
Rick the Rock of Room 214
JON SCIESZKA AND JULIA ROTHMAN ON
The Sea in the Way
A Seed Grows
Snow Horses: A First Night Story
Something About Grandma
Skater Cielo
Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
Still This Love Goes On
The Talk
This Book Will Get You to Sleep!
Symphony for a Broken Orchestra
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Tide Pool Waits
Through the North Pole Snow
Tiny Cedric
Tiny Dino
Tomatoes in My Lunchbox
Too Early
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
Twelve Dinging Doorbells
The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey
The Twelve Cats of Christmas
Two Dogs
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
Walter Had a Best Friend
The World Belonged to Us
What’s Your Name?
When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl’s Story of Virginia’s
Whose Footprints Are These?
Where Is Bina Bear?
The Year We Learned to Fly
Would You Come Too?
Just Harriet (Just Harriet #1)
Alice Austen Lived Here
Cornbread & Poppy (Cornbread & Poppy #1)
Always, Clementine
Answers in the Pages
The Antiracist Kid: A Book About Identity, Justice, and Activism
Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter
Black Bird, Blue Road
Caprice
The Antiracist Kid: A Book About Identity, Justice, and Activism
The Castle of Tangled Magic
Coming Up Cuban: Rising Past Castro’s Shadow
Cress Watercress
Children of the Quicksands
KWAME ALEXANDER ON THE DOOR OF NO RETURN
The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return #1)
Dragonfly Eyes
A Duet for Home
The Edge of In Between
Falling Short
Duet
Frances and the Monster
Flipping Forward Twisting Backward
Freddie vs. the Family Curse
Freewater
Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One
Ghostcloud
Holler of the Fireflies
High Score
Freewater
TAE KELLER ON JENNIFER CHAN IS NOT ALONE
Honestly Elliott
Hummingbird
In the Key of Us
Iveliz Explains It All
In Honor of Broken Things
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
Hummingbird
The Kaya Girl
Karthik Delivers
The Language of Seabirds
The Last Mapmaker
SHERRI WINSTON ON LOTUS BLOOM AND THE AFRO REVOLUTION
Lifeling
Lily and the Night Creatures
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
Lolo’s Light
Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves
The Marvellers (The Marvellers #1)
LAUREN WOLK ON MY OWN LIGHTNING
The Midnight Children
The Midnighters
Moonflower
Moonwalking
My Nest of Silence
The Midnighters
Nura and the Immortal Palace
Northwind
My Own Lightning
Nowhere Better Than Here
The Ogress and the Orphans
Odder
Ode to a Nobody
Omega Morales and the Legend of La Lechuza
KELLY BARNHILL ON THE OGRESS AND THE ORPHANS
The Patron Thief of Bread
Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa (Pilar Ramirez #1)
Playing Through the Turnaround
Rain Rising
A Rover’s Story
The Puffin Keeper
Playing Through the Turnaround
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
The Secret Letters (Mysteries of Trash and Treasure #1)
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting (Serwa Boateng #1)
Show Us Who You Are
The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck
Singing with Elephants
Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston (Sir Callie #1)
Sparrows in the Wind
Those Kids from Fawn Creek
A Song Called Home
Three Strike Summer
Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code
Tumble
Valentina Salazar Is Not a Monster Hunter
Unfadeable
Three Strike Summer
Violet and Jobie in the Wild
The Vanquishers
We Are Wolves
We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963
Wildoak
The Wind Rises (Alma #1)
Wild Ride
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963
Wreck at Ada’s Reef (The Swallowtail Legacy #1)
You Only Live Once, David Bravo
Yonder
Worser
Spotlight on Tra Publishing
All My Rage
Abuela, Don’t Forget Me
And They Lived...
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Ain’t Burned All the Bright
At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Ballad & Dagger (Outlaw Saints #1)
Beating Heart Baby
Baby Teeth
Before Takeoff
Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media
Bitter
Beneath the Wide Silk Sky
Boys I Know
Before Takeoff
Breathe and Count Back from Ten
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Briarcliff Prep
The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart
Children of Ragnarok (Runestone Saga #1)
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
Close-up on War: The Story of Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam
Cruel Illusions
A Consuming Fire
Debating Darcy
Dark Room Etiquette
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
The Epic Story of Every Living Thing
Echoes of Grace
The Drowned Woods
The First to Die at the End
Eternally Yours
Forging Silver into Stars
Family of Liars
ADAM SILVERA ON THE FIRST TO DIE AT THE END
Foul Lady Fortune
Four for the Road
Forging Silver into Stars
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
Gallant
The Ghosts of Rose Hill
Goth Girl, Queen of the Universe
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation): Life in Native America
Goth Girl, Queen of the Universe
Here and Queer: A Queer Girl’s Guide to Life
Hell Followed with Us
High Spirits
Hollow Fires
RYAN LA SALA ON THE HONEYS
Home Field Advantage
The Honeys
Hollow Fires
How to Excavate a Heart
Hotel Magnifique
How to Succeed in Witchcraft
How You Grow Wings
I Am Margaret Moore
How You Grow Wings
I Must Betray You
ELIZABETH ACEVEDO ON INHERITANCE: A VISUAL POEM
I Rise
I’m the Girl
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches
I’m the Girl
Ironhead, or, Once a Young Lady
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Jumper
Kings of B’more
Lakelore
Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution
Kiss & Tell
Kings of B’more
Lawless Spaces
The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen
The Lies We Tell
Live, Laugh, Kidnap
ISAAC BLUM ON THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF HOODIE ROSEN
Love Radio
Love Times Infinity
A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea #1)
Man Made Monsters
Man o’ War
The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
Medusa
The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
My Fine Fellow
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime
My Imaginary Mary
My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way.
My Good Man
The Name She Gave Me
JASON REYNOLDS AND JASON GRIFFIN ON AIN’T BURNED ALL THE BRIGHT
Never Ever Getting Back Together
The Name She Gave Me
Nine Liars (Truly Devious)
Not Good for Maidens
Nothing Burns as Bright as You
No Filter and Other Lies
Nothing More to Tell
Our Crooked Hearts
Nothing More to Tell
The Q
Reader, I Murdered Him
Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
The Restless Dark
Rise of the Vicious Princess
Rust in the Root
Right Where I Left You
The Restless Dark
A Scatter of Light
The Secrets We Keep
Scout’s Honor
See You Yesterday
Seton Girls
Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
The Sky We Shared
The Silence That Binds Us
See You Yesterday
Spells for Lost Things
Some Mistakes Were Made
Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three #1)
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer #1)
Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions
This Is Why They Hate Us
This Place Is Still Beautiful
This Is Our Place
A Thousand Steps into Night
TRACI CHEE ON A THOUSAND STEPS INTO NIGHT
Torch
TJ Powar Has Something to Prove
A Thousand Steps into Night
Unequal: A Story of America
Valiant Ladies
Under the Heavens
The Vermilion Emporium
Very Bad People
Vinyl Moon
Waking Romeo
We Deserve Monuments
Wake the Bones
We Weren’t Looking to Be Found
Vinyl Moon
What the Fact?
The Weight of Blood
What We Harvest
When You Get the Chance
When the Angels Left the Old Country
Year on Fire
The Words We Keep
Zyla & Kai
Youngblood
Year on Fire
The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza (The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza #1)
The Aquanaut
The Flamingo
Frizzy
It’s a Sign! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!)
Leon the Extraordinary (Leon #1)
The Invisible Whale (Crab and Snail #1)
Frizzy
Leviathan (Adventuregame Comics #1)
Lumberjackula
Freestyle
My Aunt Is a Monster
GALE GALLIGAN ON FREESTYLE
Out in the Wild (Bug Scouts #1)
My Aunt Is a Monster
The Real Riley Mayes
Sir Ladybug (Sir Ladybug #1)
Twin Cities
Swim Team
Wingbearer
JOSE PIMIENTA ON TWIN CITIES
The Tryout
Your Pal Fred (Your Pal Fred #1)
Button Pusher
DPS Only!
Your Pal Fred (Your Pal Fred #1)
Alte Zachen/Old Things
Galaxy: The Prettiest Star
Everyday Hero Machine Boy
Forest Hills Bootleg Society
Isla to Island
Little Monarchs
LIZ MONTAGUE ON MAYBE AN ARTIST
Maybe an Artist
Isla to Island
Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
Ride On
Squire
Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice
The Well
Supper Club
Squire
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