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New York State Reading Lists

2025 NYSRA Charlotte Award Committee Nominee

Lizzy and the Cloud

Illustrated by Terry Fan and Eric Fan
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: May 03, 2022
Ages: 4 - 8

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning creators of Ocean Meets Sky and The Night Gardener comes a whimsical and sweet tale of a young girl wh...

Shall We Dance?

Illustrated by Robin Page
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 21, 2023

Nature puts on a dance recital in this beautiful nonfiction picture book from Caldecott Honor author-illustrator Robin Page, exploring how and why ...

Once There Was

(Part of Once There Was)
This edition: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publication date: April 04, 2023
Ages: 10 - 99

A New York Times bestseller! A Morris Award Finalist Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them meets Neil Gaiman in this “striking and heartfelt” (Ki...

The Clackity

(Part of Blight Harbor)
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: June 28, 2022
Ages: 10 - 99

Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award | Cybils Award Selection of the New York Public Library Best Books for Kids | Pacific Northwest Young Reader’s C...

Ain't Burned All the Bright

Illustrated by Jason Griffin
This edition: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publication date: January 11, 2022
Ages: 12 - 99

A Caldecott Honor winner! Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is ...

2023 NYPL Best Books

A Work in Progress

Illustrated by Jarrett Lerner
This edition: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publication date: May 02, 2023
Ages: 8 - 12

A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant and “perceptive” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) middle grade journey to self-acceptance...

There Was a Party for Langston

(Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: October 03, 2023
Ages: 4 - 8

A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut pictu...