Wilde Awards Live: 2024 Best Children’s Books
Last Thursday, January 23rd, for the first time since the pandemic I presented The Wilde Awards Live at Flyleaf Books. There was a warm and wonderful crowd and the gracious Alex Reinhart introduced me and made the recording below. Unfortuantely she didn’t know how I ramble when I talk and so there may be more sound that sight in some portions.
I handed out my bibliography for those in person. This makes it easy to follow along and since you have the information you can order books from Flyleaf Books from their website: https://flyleafbooks.com/books.
Wilde Awards Live: 2024 Best Children’s Books
@ Flyleaf Books, January 23, 2025
Engaging Books for Littles:
Boynton, Sandra, Hey! Look at You!
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro, Animal Countdown
Theodore, Adrea, I Would Love You Still
Finison, Carrie, Pigs Dig a Road
Patrick, O’Brien, Big Babies
Long, Loren, The Yellow Bus
Books to Get Over Bumps
Smith, Maggie, My Thoughts Have Wings
Cole, Henry, Albert’s ABCs: A Sibling Story
Antrobus, Raymond, Terrible Horses
Castillo, Lauren, Just Like Millie
Dockrill, Laura, Gray
Lukoff, Kyle, Just What to Do
Gravel, Elise, This Is My Brain! A Book on Neurodiversity
Perfect Marriage of Word and Picture
Kim Ha, Ann, A Friend for Eddy
Bingham, Winsome and Blevins, Wiley, The Table
Let’s Stop and Think
Hippely, Hilary Horder, I Know How to Draw an Owl
Odeh, Maysa, A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home
Cooke, Trish, The Magical Callaloo
Rubin, Sean, The Iguanodon’s Horn: How Artists & Scientists put a dinosaur back together again and again and again…and AGAIN!
Gary Golio, The Soldier’s Friend: Walt Whitman’s Extraordinary Service in the American Civil War
Winter, Jonah, It Happened in Salem
Let’s Stop and Laugh
LaRochelle, David, Mr. Fox’s Game of “No!”
McBeth, T.L., I am Not the Easter Bunny
Sedaris, David, Pretty Ugly
Everything I Know I Learned from Children’s Books
McMurdie, Becca, Building a Beak: How a Toucan’s Rescue Inspired the World
Watkins, Steve, Wolves at the Door
Fleming, Candace, The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II
Firsts
DiCamillo, Kate, Orris and Timble
Rundell, Katherine, The Zebra’s Great Escape
Novel Heroes and Heroines Lost and Found
McGee, Alison, Telephone of the Tree
Rundell, Katherine, Impossible Creatures
Forman, Gayle, Not Nothing
Gennifer Chodenko, The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman
Kekla Magoon, The Secret Library
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker, The Night War
Gordon, Cambria, Trajectory
Schmidt, Gary D, Jupiter Rising
Hur, June, A Crane Among Wolves