Picture Books for Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is coming up! Here’s a list of picture books that celebrate the moms that work hard everyday.

To the moon and back for you /Emilia Bechrakis Serhant

In this picture book, families of different shapes, colors, and sizes must cross deserts, navigate rough seasons, and climb mountains–all to find their miracle babies. Emilia’s story reminds us that, despite the challenges and complications often thrown our way, hope will always prevail. To the Moon and Back for You combines a timeless feel with a timely subject, and is poised to become a modern classic for years to come.

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T. Rex and the Mother’s Day hug /Lois G. Grambling

 Eager to do something special for Mother’s Day, T. Rex decides to surprise his mother by decorating her car.

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Mother’s Day surprise / Stephen Krensky

 After watching the other animals make Mother’s Day gifts, Violet the snake tries hard to think of something nice that she can make for her mother.

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Mommy’s hands / Kathryn Lasky & Jane Kamine

Young children describe the various things their hands and their mothers’ hands do when they are together throughout the different seasons of the year.

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I [heart] Mom with the very hungry caterpillar / Eric Carle

World of Eric Carle: I Love Mom with the Very Hungry Caterpillar ...The very hungry caterpillar shows its love for Mom.

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Some moms / Nick Bland

Amazon cover image Explores how mothers can have different personalities and qualities, including fearlessness, gracefulness, and toughness.

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M.O.M. (Mom Operating Manual) / Doreen Cronin

Amazon cover image A guide to the care and maintenance of mothers, who are, according to the manual, the most advanced human models on the planet.

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Superhero mom / Timothy Knapman

Amazon cover imageCelebrates all the incredible things moms can do in the eyes of their children, including fixing bumps with a kiss, running so fast it feels like flying, and finding lost teddy bears.

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New Kids Books-April 2024

Board Books

Michael Jordan. BB BAILLIE, BERNADETTE
Colors. BB BRIGHT BABY
Pete the cat : Twinkle, twinkle, little star BB DEAN, JAMES
Princess Ariel / BB DISNEY
Twinkle, twinkle, little baby / BB TIGER TALES
A day on the farm / BB VITALE, BROOKE

Picture Books

A mighty bitey creature / E ARMITAGE, RONDA
Just like Millie / E CASTILLO, LAUREN
Solar bear / E FERRY, BETH
Goodnight, Sleepyville / E HELLMAN, BLAKE
I love you, funny bunny / E HERNDON, BARBARA
We who produce pearls / E HO, HANNA
Alphabet rescue / E WOOD, AUDREY
Alphabet adventure / E WOOD, AUDREY

New Nonfiction

Cactus Queen : Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park. J 363 ALEXANDER, LORI
Iguanodon’s Horn : How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again / J 567.9 RUBIN, SEAN
The unlikely hero : J 599.77 MCINTYRE, RICK
The Mighty Pollinators / J 811 FROST, HELEN
Bless our pets : J 811 HOPKINS, LEE
Meet Travis Kelce : J 92 KELCE, TRAVIS
The Great Lakes : our freshwater treasure / J 977 ROSENSTOCK, BARB

New Fiction

The case of the cursed clock tower / JF COOPER, BRIGITTE
George’s marvelous medicine / JF DAHL, ROALD
Boy : tales of childhood / JF DAHL, ROALD
Esio Trot / JF DAHL, ROALD
Matilda / JF DAHL, ROALD
Going solo / JF DAHL, ROALD
Billy and the Minpins / JF DAHL, ROALD
Orris and Timble : the beginning / JF DICAMILLO, KATE
The secret warning / JF DIXON, FRANKLIN
The disappearing floor / JF DIXON, FRANKLIN
The melted coins / JF DIXON, FRANKLIN
The short-wave mystery / JF DIXON, FRANKLIN
The secret panel / JF DIXON, FRANKLIN
The secret of the lost tunnel / JF DIXON, FRANKLIN
The mystery of the flying express / JF DIXON, FRANKLIN
The sinister signpost / JF DIXON, FRANKLIN
Wind / JF HUNTER, ERIN
Keeping pace / JF MORRISON, LAURIE
Captain Underpants and the perilous plot of Professor Poopypants / JF PILKEY, DAV
Treasures of the Maya / JF STILTON, GERONIMO

New Graphic Novels

Win if you dare JGN BUMBLEBEE
Deadpool & Wolverine / JGN DEADPOOL
The Challenger explosion / JGN DISASTER STORIES
The adventures of Invisible Boy!!!(!) JGN HORNER, DOOGIE
Table Titans Club JGN KURTZ,SCOTT
The Loud house. JGN LOUD HOUSE
Final cut / JGN STINE, R.L.
Creatures from the lagoon / JGN STINE, R.L.
Just beyond. JGN STINE, R.L.
Don’t open that drawer! / JGN STINE, R.L.
Just beyond. JGN STINE, R.L.
Wings of fire : Winter turning JGN SUTHERLAND, TUI
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If you enjoyed Keeper of the Lost Cities, try these books

If you enjoyed the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, here are a few more books that may interest you.

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The Unwanteds /  Lisa McMann

In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.

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Cover image Land of Stories / Chris Colfer

Through the powers of a book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about.

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The school for good and evil / Soman Chainani 

Best friends Sophie (princess wannabe) and Agatha (witchy loner) are headed (via kidnapping) to the School for Good and Evil, but their assumed destinies are reversed.

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Amari and the night brothers / B.B. Alston

Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.

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Story thieves / James Riley

 Except for reading the Kiel Gnomenfoot magic adventure series, Owen’s life is boring until he sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the school library and he learns that Bethany is half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.

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The Adventurers Guild /  Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos

After being conscripted into the dangerous Adventurers Guild, Zed and Brock uncover a conspiracy that threatens all of Freestone.

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The menagerie / Tui T. Sutherland, Kari Sutherland

When twelve-year-old Logan Wilde wakes up to discover a baby griffin hiding under his bed, he suddenly finds himself thrown into a mystery involving his classmate Zoe Kahn and a magical menagerie right in the middle of his sleepy Wyoming town.

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The flame of Olympus / Kate O’Hearn

Reborn as the Flame, thirteen-year-old Emily has saved Olympus from destruction but when the gruesome Nirads begin a new invasion, Emily and her friends become entangled in the conflict as old grudges are unearthed and new enemies are discovered.

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The colossus rises / Peter Lerangis

Teens Jack, Marco, Aly, and Cass begin a quest to find seven pieces of Atlantis’ power that were hidden long ago and that will, if returned to Atlantis, save them from certain death due to the genetic abnormality that also gives them superior abilities.

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The iron trial / Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past.

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ALA Award Winners

The American Library Association just announced the winners for children’s book awards!

Caldecott Winner


Big 

Newbery Winner


The Eyes and the Impossible

Coretta Scott King


Nigeria Jones
An American Story

There Goes the Neighborhood
We Could Fly 

Pura Belpré Awards


MexiKid 
Saints of the Household

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award


Fox Has a Problem

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award


The Mona Lisa Vanishes

Schneider Family Book Award


Henry, Like Always
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
Forever is Now

William C. Morris Award

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Rez Ball

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

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Accountable

Stonewall Book Awards


Cross My Heart and Never Lie
Only This Beautiful Moment  

American Indian Youth Literature Awards


Forever Cousins 
A Letter for Bob
We Still Belong 
Rez Ball

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.

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The Truth About Dragons
Ruby Lost and Found
I’d Rather Burn Than Bloom

The Sydney Taylor Book Award


Two New Years
The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman
The Blood Years

Children’s Literature Legacy Award 


Pam Muñoz Ryan

Margaret A. Edwards Award

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Neal Shusterman
Learn more: ALA website.

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