My Take / Your Take Index

My Take / Your Take

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Ada’s Violin (Picturebook Illustrations)

Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival (Understanding Refugees)

The Adventures of BEEKLE, the Unimaginary Friend (Caldecott Award Winner)

After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again (Fresh Perspectives on Familiar Characters, Mindfulness in Children’s Books)

Alicia’s Fruity Drinks/Las aguas frescas de Alicia (Contributions of Lupe Ruiz-Flores and Carolyn Dee Flores)

All American Boys (Identity, Voice, Opposition, and Truth)

All Around Us (ALA Winner 2018)

Alma and How She Got Her Name (TFOB)

Amal Unbound (Displacement in Children’s Literature)

The Amazing Watercolor Fish/El asombroso pex acurela (Contributions of Lupe Ruiz-Flores and Carolyn Dee Flores)

Angel Thieves (Connection Across Differences Creates Community)

Anywhere Farm (Youth Taking Action)

Arctic White (Picturebook Illustrations)

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Baila, Nana, Baila: Cuban Folktales in English and Spanish (Cuba)

Back to Front and Upside Down (Schneider Family Award Winner 2016, Schneider Family Award Winner 2018)

The Bad Mood and The Stick (Emotional Health in Picturebooks)

Beast Rider (Kindness Mitigates the Dire and Horrendous)

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children (LGBTQ+ Children’s Literature)

Ben Rides On (Perspectives in Picturebooks)

Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery (Abilities and Disabilities in Picturebooks)

Between Us and Abuela (Rethinking Cultural and Physical Borders in Children’s Literature)

Big Red Lollipop (Young Children’s Stories)

A Bike Like Sergio’s (TFOB)

The Blackbird Girls (Kindness Mitigates the Dire and Horrendous)

The Bombs That Brought Us Together (Morally Complicated YA Literature)

The Bone Sparrow (Displacement in Children’s Literature)

The Book of Dust, Volume I, La Belle Sauvage (Pain and Bravery)

The Bossy Gallito: A Traditional Cuban Folk Tale/El Gallo de Bodas (Cuba)

A Boy and a Jaguar (Schneider Family Award Winner 2016)

A Boy, A Mouse, and a Spider: The Story of E.B. White (Fresh Perspectives on Familiar Characters)

The Bridge Home (Sense of Belonging, Physical and Mental Displacement, We Carry Home Within Us)

Bronze and Sunflower (Exploring Untold Histories)

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Charlotte and the Quiet Place (Mindfulness in Children’s Books)

Connecting Our Reading (Pain and Bravery)

The Coqui and the Iguana (The Puerto Rican Experience)

Counting on Community (Social Justice/Protest & the power of Voice)

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (ALA Winner 2018)

Cry, Heart, But Never Break (New Perspectives on Picturebooks)

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28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto (Kindness Mitigates the Dire and Horrendous)

Dance of the Banished (Strong Women in Children’s Literature)

Daniel Finds a Poem (Picturebook Illustrations)

Daniel and Ismail (Crossing Borders)

The Dark and the Light (Crossing Borders)

The Day Saida Arrived (The Day Saida Arrived and Related Books, Week Two, Week Three)

The Day War Came (Kindness in Picturebooks)

The Day You Begin (Kindness in Picturebooks)

The Deaf Musicians (Schneider Family Award Winner for Disability in Children’s Books)

A Diamond in the Desert (Exploring Untold Histories)

A Different Pond (Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty)

Django: World’s Greatest Jazz Guitarist (Schneider Family Award Winner 2016)

The Dollar Kids (Sense of Belonging)

Don’t Call Me Grandma (Trauma of Separation)

Dreamers (Pura Belpré award winners and honor books)

A Drop In The Sea (Children Sharing Agency With Adults)

Drum Dream Girl (TFOB)

Duck, Death and the Tulip (New Perspectives on Picturebooks)

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Echo (Strong Women in Children’s Literature)

Efrén Divided (Pura Belpré award winners and honor books)

El Cucuy is Scared Too! (Anxiety and Stress in Children’s Picturebooks)

Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah (Schneider Family Award Winner 2016 and 2018)

Epilogue (Continuation Through Change)

Escape From Aleppo (Pain and Bravery)

Escape From Syria (Need To Escape)

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Finn’s Feather (TFOB)

The First Drawing (Thematic Dialogue)

Flight (Understanding Refugees)

For a Girl Becoming (Cycle of Life of Native Women)

Forest World (Sense of Place)

The Forever Tree (Youth Taking Action)

The Fox and the Wild (Representations of the Fox)

The Fox Wish (Representations of the Fox)

Fred Stays With Me! (We Carry Home Within Us)

Freedom in Congo Square (After TFOB)

From My Window: Children at Home During COVID-19 (Windows in Picturebooks)

From My Window
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La Frontera: El Viaje con Papá – My journey with Papa (Refugee and Immigrant Experience)

Full Cicada Moon (Children’s Agency)

Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras (ALA Award Winner 2016)

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Gaijin: American Prisoner of War (Exploring Untold Histories)

The Garden: A Novel (Crossing Borders)

The Gift of Changing Woman (Cycle of Life of Native Women)

The Girl and the Bicycle (Visual Narratives)

A Girl Called Genghis Khan (Abilities and Disabilities in Picturebooks)

The Girl With A Parrot on Her Head (Trauma of Separation)

Golden Boy (Movement/Relocation)

The Good Braider (Strong Women in Children’s Literature)

Grandma’s Records (The Puerto Rican Experience)

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Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin (Empowerment)

The Happiest Tree (Trees in Children’s Literature)

The Hate U Give (Identity, Voice, Opposition, and Truth)

The Hello Goodbye Window (Young Children’s Stories)

Hello, Universe (ALA Winner 2018)

Here I Am (Visual Narratives)

Her Right Foot (Fresh Perspectives on Familiar Characters)

The Hired Girl (Pain and Bravery)

The House of Lost and Found (Children Sharing Agency With Adults)

Hurricane Child (Sense of Belonging)

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I Am A Bear (OIB)

I Am J (LGBTQ+ Children’s Literature)

I Got It! (TFOB)

I Just Ate My Friend (Connection Across Differences Creates Community)

I Walk With Vanessa: A Story About A Simple Act of Kindness (Kindness in Picturebooks)

In A Cloud of Dust (Social Justice)

Infinite Hope (Art and Artists Who Inspire and Sustain Us)

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Sense of Place, After TFOB)

Internment (Displacement in Children’s Literature)

Islandborn (Pura Belpré award winners and honor books, Sense of Belonging)

It Began With a Page (Art and Artists Who Inspire and Sustain Us)

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Jack’s Worry (Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities)

Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity (Morally Complicated YA Literature)

The Journey (Understanding Refugees)

Julian is a Mermaid (LGBTQ+ Children’s Literature)

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Kami and the Yaks (Schneider Family Award Winner 2016)

Kinaaldá: A Navajo Girl Grows Up (Cycle of Life of Native Women)

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Landed (Thematic Dialogue)

The Last Leaves Falling (OIB)

Last Stop on Market Street (ALA Award Winner 2016)

Leaving My Homeland: A Refugee’s Journey From Syria (Understanding Refugees)

Let’s Salsa/Bailemos salsa (Contributions of Lupe Ruiz-Flores and Carolyn Dee Flores)

Life in a Fishbowl (Morally Complicated YA Literature)

Life Without Nico (Trauma of Separation, Emotional Health in Picturebooks)

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist (Cuba)

Like A Wolf (OIB)

Lion Island (Exploring Untold Histories)

Little Fox in the Forest (Representations of the Fox)

Long Way Down (ALA Winner 2018)

Look Up! (Perspectives in Picturebooks)

Louise Loves Art (Red in Picturebooks)

Lubna and Pebble (Connection Across Differences Creates Community, Crossing Borders)

Luis Paints the World (Trauma of Separation)

Luna (LGBTQ+ Children’s Literature)

The Lunch Thief (Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty)

Lupe Wong Won’t Dance (Pura Belpré award winners and honor books)

Lupita’s First Dance/El primer baile de Lupita (Contributions of Lupe Ruiz-Flores and Carolyn Dee Flores)

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Maddi’s Fridge (Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty)

Malala’s Magic Pencil (Anxiety and Stress in Children’s Books)

Mama’s Nightingale (Social Justice/Protest & the power of voice)

Me, Toma, and the Concrete Garden (Youth Taking Action)

Moon Bear (OIB)

Moonrise (Sense of Place)

My Cousin’s Keeper (Movement/Relocation)

My Family Tree and Me (Empowerment)

My Grandfather’s Coat (Continuation Through Change)

My Heart Will Not Sit Down (Social Justice)

My Nana Hannah (Cycle of Life of Native Women)

My Pen (Empowerment)

My Two Blankets (Kindness)

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The Name Jar (Young Children’s Stories)

Nana in the City (Red in Picturebooks)

Never Look Back (Pura Belpré award winners and honor books)

New Kid (Children’s and YA Award Winners and Honor Books)

A New Kind of Wild (Physical and Mental Displacement)

The Night Diary (Displacement in Children’s Literature)

A Night Divided (WW2)

The Night World (Picturebook Illustrations)

The Noisy Paint Box: the colors and sounds of Kandinsky’s abstract art (Caldecott Award Winner)

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Oh The Places You’ll Go (Thematic Dialogue)

Ojiichan’s Gift (Youth Taking Action)

The Old Man (Children Sharing Agency With Adults Hunger Homelesness, and Poverty)

On Wings of Words (Art and Artists Who Inspire and Sustain Us)

One Girl (Anxiety and Stress in Children’s Books)

Orion and the Dark (Emotional Health in Picturebooks)

Other Words for Home (Children’s and YA Award Winners and Honor Books, We Carry Home Within Us)

Out of the Woods (Picturebook Illustrations)

Outside, Inside (Windows in Picturebooks)

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Pablo Finds a Treasure (Sense of Place)

Pandora (Representations of the Fox)

Parrots Over Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rican Experience)

Peter in Peril: Courage and Hope in WWII (Pain and Bravery, Need to Escape

Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum (Schneider Family Award Winner for Disability in Children’s Literature)

Picturebooks that Highlight Kindness

The Pirate of Kindergarten (Schneider Family Award Winner for Disability in Children’s Literature 2017 and 2018)

Planting Stories (Art and Artists Who Inspire and Sustain Us)

The Poet X (Pura Belpré award winners and honor books)

The Promise (Social Justice)

The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family (Abilities and Disabilities in Picturebooks)

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Rabbit and the Motorbike (Complex and Dynamic Emotions)

The Rabbit Listens (Complex and Dynamic Emotions)

Rachel’s Promise (Movement/Relocation)

Real Cowboys (Fresh Perspective on Familiar Characters)

The Red Apple (Kindness)

Red Kite, Blue Kite (Empowerment)

The Red Tree (Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities)

Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates (The Puerto Rican Experience)

The Rooster Who Went to His Uncle’s Wedding (Cuba)

The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet (Social Justice/Protests & Power of Voice, Identity, Voice, Opposition, and Truth)

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The Saga of Gudrid the Far-Traveler (Strong Women in Children’s Literature)

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Children’s and YA Award Winners and Honor Books)

Salt to the Sea (WW2)

Saltypie (Displacement in Children’s Literature)

Sam’s Pet Temper (Emotional Health in Picturebooks)

Samira and the Skeletons (New Perspectives on Picturebooks)

The Sandwich Swap (Young Children’s Stories)

Schomberg: The Man Who Built a Library (The Puerto Rican Experience)

School’s First Day of School (Perspectives in Picturebooks)

The Seasons of Styx Malone (Connection Across Differences Creates Community)

The Secret Kingdom (Anxiety and Stress in Children’s Books)

The Secret Life of the Red Fox (Representations of the Fox)

Seven and a Half Tons of Steel (Continuation Through Change)

The Silence Seeker (Understanding Refugees)

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal (Children’s Agency)

Six Dots (Schneider Family Award Winner 2018)

Small Mercies (Kindness Mitigates the Dire and Horrendous)

Small Things (Complex and Dynamic Emotions)

The Snurtch (Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities)

The Soda Bottle School: A True Story of Recycling, Teamwork, and One Crazy Idea (Social Justice)

Soldier for Equality (Physical and Mental Displacement)

Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx (The Puerto Rican Experience)

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin (Schneider Family Award Winner for Disability in Children’s Literature)

Squirrel’s Family Tree (Trees in Children’s Literature)

Stand Up And Sing! (Social Justice/Protest & The Power of Voice)

Story Boat (We Carry Home Within Us)

Sulwe (Children’s and YA Award Winners and Honor Books)

A Surprise for Teresita/Una sorpresa para Teresita (Contributions of Lupe Ruiz-Flores and Carolyn Dee Flores)

Symphony for the City of the Dead (WW2)

Symptoms of Being Human (LGBTQ+ Children’s Literature)

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Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Experience (Kindness in Picturebooks)

Time Flies (Visual Narratives)

A Time To Dance (Children’s Agency)

Tito Puente: Mambo King (The Puerto Rican Experience)

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems (Pura Belpré award winners and honor books)

They Called Us Enemy (Rethinking Cultural and Physical Borders in Children’s Literature)

The Three Questions (Mindfulness in Children’s Books)

Town is By the Sea (Need to Escape)

Toys Meet Snow: Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-loving Rubber Ball (Red in Picturebooks)

The Tree in the Courtyard (Continuation Through Change)

Trees: Nature All Around (Trees in Children’s Literature)

The Turtle of Oman (Movement/Relocation)

Twenty-two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank (Social Justice)

Twenty Yawns (Perspectives in Picturbooks)

Two White Rabbits (Kindness)

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Under the Royal Palms (Cuba)

The Undefeated (Children’s and YA Award Winners and Honor Books)

Unspoken (Visual Narratives)

Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army (Abilities and Disabilities in Picturebooks)

The Unwanted (Rethinking Cultural and Physical Borders in Children’s Literature)

Use your Imagination (But be careful what you wish for!) (Imagination)

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A Very Large Expanse of the Sea (Physical and Mental Displacement)

Virginia Wolf (Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities)

The Visitor (Children Sharing Agency With Adults)

Viva Frida! (Caldecott Award Winner)

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Waiting (ALA Award Winner 2016)

Wangari Maathai (OIB)

The War Outside (Rethinking Cultural and Physical Borders in Children’s Literature)

The War That Saved My Life (WW2)

We Are Not From Here (Pura Belpré award winners and honor books)

What’s Your Story? (New Perspectives on Picturebooks)

When Dimple Met Rishi (TFOB)

When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree (Youth Taking Action)

When The Rain Comes (Need to Escape)

The Whisper (Imagination)

Why Do We Cry? (Complex and Dynamic Emotions)

Why Dogs Have Wet Noses (Kindness)

Window (Windows in Picturebooks)

Wishtree (Trees in Children’s Literature)

Wolf Hollow (Identity, Voice, Opposition, and Truth)

The Wonder (Red in Picturebooks, Imagination)

Written and Drawn by Henrietta (Children’s Agency)

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