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Lorena Alvarez
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Rahele Jomepour Bell
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Marc Boutavant
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Chloe Bristol
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Nancy Carpenter
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Lauren Castillo
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Angel Chang
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Jason Chin
Holiday House Publishing Inc.
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Lian Cho
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R. Gregory Christie
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Henry Cole
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Bryan Collier
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Raul Colón
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Jen Corace
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Hello, Neighbor!
Matthew Cordell
Holiday House Publishing Inc.
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Women Artists A to Z
Caroline Corrigan
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Cindy Derby
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The Little Ghost who was a Quilt
Byron Eggenschwiler
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Eva Eland
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In the Half Room
Carson Ellis
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Paola Escobar
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Paola Escobar
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Leo Espinosa
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Leo Espinosa
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Lisk Feng
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Brian Floca
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Marla Frazee
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A Voice Named Aretha
Laura Freeman
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Susan Gal
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You Are a Beautiful Beginning
Kelsey Garrity-Riley
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Ebony Glenn
Scholastic Inc.
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We Are Water Protectors
Michaela Goade
Macmillan Publishing Group
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Under the Lilacs
E.B. Goodale
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Gus Gordon
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Stephanie Graegin
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Elise Gravel
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Rebecca Green
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Out the Door
Christy Hale
Holiday House Publishing Inc.
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A Polar Bear in the Snow
Shawn Harris
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Everyone’s Awake
Shawn Harris
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Ocean Speaks
Katie Hickey
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Mirka Hokkanen
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Black Is a Rainbow Color
Ekua Holmes
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The Bold, Brave Bunny
Hon Lam
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The Nest That Wren Built
Anne Hunter
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Hachette Book Group
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We Believe in You
Molly Idle
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Yas Imamura
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Yas Imamura
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Love by Sophia
Yasmeen Ismail
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Parker Looks Up
Brittany Jackson
Simon & Schuster
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What We’ll Build
Oliver Jeffers
Penguin Young Readers
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Richard Jones
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Laurie Keller
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Like the Moon Loves the Sky
Saffa Khan
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Rashin Kheiriyeh
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Akira Kusaka
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The Traveler’s Gift
Anne Lambelet
A Story of Loss and Hope
Page Street Publishing Co.
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A Little Courage
Taltal Levi
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Dark Was the Night
E. B. Lewis
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Cornelia Li
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Adelina Lirius
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Virgina Lorente
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Linus the Little Yellow Pencil
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Keith Mallett
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In a Jar
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Salley Mavor
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The Invisible Bear
Cécile Metzger
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The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity
Daniel Miyares
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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
Oge Mora
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The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
Frank Morrison
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Kelly Murphy
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Zero Local
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Noar Naggan
Penguin Random House
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Baby Builders
Hiroe Nakata
Penguin Random House
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Hurry Up!
Christopher Silas Neal
Simon and Schuster
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Art Is Life
Keith Negley
Macmillan Publishing Group
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The Boy and the Wild Blue Girl
Keith Negley
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The Great Realization
Kazuko Nomoco
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Attack of the Underwear Dragon
Pete Oswald
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One Summer Up North
John Owens
University of Minnesota Press
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Ohana Means Family
Kenard Pak
Holiday House Publishing Inc.
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Ten Ways To Hear Snow
Kenard Pak
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A Way with Wild Things
Sara Palacios
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The Power of Her Pen
John Parra
Simon & Schuster
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Love Is Powerful
LeUyen Pham
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Two Little Trains
Greg Pizzoli
HarperCollins Children’s Books
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A New Green Day
Antoinette Portis
Holiday House Publishing Inc.
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Lightfall
Tim Probert
HarperCollins Children’s Books
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Freedom Bird
James Ransome
Simon and Schuster
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Overground Railroad
James Ransome
Holiday House Publishing Inc.
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You Matter
Christian Robinson
Simon & Schuster
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Poesy the Monster Slayer
Matt Rockefeller
Macmillan Publishers
First Second
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Green on Green
Felicita Sala
Simon and Schuster
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Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away
Sonia Sanchez
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My Friend Earth
Francesca Sanna
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Perkin’s Perfect Purple
Francesca Sanna
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Alphabet’s Alphabet
Dan Santat
Hachette Book Group Little, Brown Young Readers
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Lift
Dan Santat
Hachette Book Group Little, Brown Young Readers
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Snow Falls
Brandon James
Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers
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The Cat Man of Aleppo
Yuko Shimizu
Penguin Random House
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My Wild Cat
Isabelle Simler
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Sweet Dreamers
Isabelle Simler
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Margaret’s Unicorn
Briony May
Penguin Random House
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Wreck This Picture Book
Keri Smith
Penguin Random House
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The Deep & Dark Blue
Niki Smith
Hachette Book Group Little, Brown Young Readers
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I Talk Like A River
Sydney Smith
Holiday House Publishing Inc.
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Alphamaniacs
Melissa Sweet
Candlewick Press
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Snail Crossing
Corey R. Tabor
HarperCollins Children’s Books
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Our Little Kitchen
Jillian Tamaki
Abrams Books
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Building Zaha
Victoria Tentler-Krylov
Scholastic Inc.
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Cyclops of Central Park
Victoria Tentler-Krylov
Penguin Random House
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The Barnabus Project
The Fan Brothers
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¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat
Raúl the Third
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Everest
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Bloomsbury
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Folktales for Fearless Girls
Dani Torrent
Penguin Young Readers
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Dear Earth . . . From Your Friends in Room 5
Luisa Uribe
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Your Name Is a Song
Luisa Uribe
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Brooklyn Bailey, the Missing Dog
Libby Vander Ploeg
Penguin Random House
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An Ordinary Day
Elizabet Vukovic
Simon and Schuster
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The Blue House
Phoebe Wahl
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Brick by Brick
Heidi Woodward Sheffield
Penguin Random House
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