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North Carolina Children's Book Award
Andrews, Troy.
Trombone Shorty. Illus. Bryan
Collier. New York: Abrams Books for
Young Readers, 2015.
Hailing from the Tremâe neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy
"Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone
twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age
six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans
Jazz Fest.
de la Peña, Matt.
Love. Illus. Loren Long. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018.
This book depicts the many ways we experience this universal
bond, which carries us from the day we are born throughout the years of our
childhood and beyond.
DiPucchio, Kelly.
Super Manny Stands Up!. Illus.
Stephanie Graegin. New York: Atheneum
Books for Young Readers, 2017.
The story of a brave little raccoon named Manny, whose
superhero games at home give him unexpected strength at school when he puts on
his invisible cape to stand up to a bully.
Dyckman, Ame. Read
the Book, Lemmings!. Illus. Zachariah OHora. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
A literate fox attempts to teach a trio of overzealous
lemmings to read in order to save them from their habit of jumping off cliffs.
Hirsch, Rebecca.
Plants Can't Sit Still. Illus.
Mia Posada. Minneapolis: Millbrook
Press, 2016.
Describes some ways in which plants can move, from
sunflowers turning towards sunlight and vines creeping up a fence to tulips
folding in at night and maple seeds whirling like helicopters in the wind.
John, Jory. The Bad
Seed. Illus. Pete Oswald. New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Publishers, 2017.
The bad seed changes his mind about being bad and decides
that he wants to be happy.
Reynolds, Aaron. Nerdy
Birdy Tweets. Illus. Matt Davies. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2017.
Spending all of his time on social media making online
friends, Nerdy Birdy neglects his live friend, Vulture.
Santat, Dan. After
the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again.
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2017.
After falling off the wall, Humpty Dumpty is very afraid of
climbing up again, but is determined not to let fear stop him from being close
to the birds.
Smith, Lane. A
Perfect Day. New York: Roaring Brook
Press, 2016.
A perfect day means different things to different animals in
Bert's backyard.
Yousafzai, Malala. Malala's
Magic Pencil. Illus. Kerascoët. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic
pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage
from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older,
Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world
that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil, Malala realized
that she could still work hard every day to make her wishes come true.
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