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2026 Summer Reading List
These titles were featured in the 2026 Summer Reading list. Suggested grade level for all entries: PS–2 Vroom, Baby Driver, Zoom by Lori Alexander; illus. by Nancy Goulet (Charlesbridge) ¡Viva Valenzuela!: Fernandomania Erupts in Los Angeles by Nathalie Alonso; illus. by John Parra (Calkins/Astra) Fish Fry Friday by Winsome Bingham; illus. by C. G. Esperanza (Abrams) Serafina Makes Waves by Matthew Burgess; illus.
2026 Summer Reading: Picture Books
Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to summer camp? Each of our lists — for all age ranges and including fiction, nonfiction, folklore, and poetry — has thirteen selections (a baker’s dozen!), all published 2025–2026 and ideal for the season. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion.
May/June 2026 Horn Book Magazine starred reviews
Illustration from While We're Here by Anne Wynter; illus. by Micha Archer. The following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June 2026 Horn Book Magazine: Ritu in the Sun by Moniza Hossain; illus. by Mercè López (Crown) A Door Is to Open by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Julie Morstad (Tundra) The Sweetest of Lemons by Daniel Nayeri; illus. by Rahele Jomepour Bell (Levine/Levine Querido) Everything Is Music by Miran Park; trans.
Intereses ocultos
Durante todo el año 2025 nos alertan de que deberemos acogernos al nuevo sistema de facturación llamado Verifactu, que será obligatorio a partir del 1 de enero del 2026. Este sistema hará que nuestras facturas emitidas vayan directamente a Hacienda. Perfecto. Evitaremos fraudes. Facturas falsas. Trampas y demás pillaje.
Everyone Makes Mistakes in the New Picture Book Poetry Original
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This October, Carolrhoda Booksâ, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group™, presents The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets selected by award-winning authors Irene Latham and Charles Waters and illustrated by Mercè López. In this beautiful collection, twenty brave poets share real-life blunders they made as young people and reveal how they learned from them. Scoring a goal against your own team.
BANG | Kirkus Reviews
A work brimming with natural marvels, sure to entrance burgeoning geologists. Earthly phenomena in all their glory shine from the pages of this oversized celebration. Smith’s first title in this series, Glow (2023), shone a spotlight on luminescent animals; in this vibrant introduction to earth science, she explores everything from the planet’s structure to geology-related myths and legends.
THOMAS JEFFERSON'S BATTLE FOR SCIENCE
A delightfully enlightening account and a welcome antidote to our own time’s precarious truthiness. The story of Thomas Jefferson’s fury at a French scientist’s misinformation about the New World introduces young readers to the scientific inquiry process. While Jefferson and the other American revolutionaries fought for independence from Britain, he undertook a lesser-known battle—against scientific misinformation.
Conservation of a wedding dress by dressmaker Juana Valls
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BLM at School 2023
Community, This year’s Black Lives Matter At School Week of Action is approaching. Black Lives Matter at School is a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education.
VOICES OF THE PEOPLE
Biographical profiles of 34 Indigenous Americans, rendered as poems, are illustrated by nearly 30 enrolled tribal artists. Bruchac’s introduction dispels stubborn stereotypes about Native people, disputing that their time was “back then, not in the present—or the future.” By presenting profiles chronologically, from The Peacemaker (circa 1000 C.E.) to Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010), he elegantly unspools a more nuanced Native history.
Children's books to read nestled with your favorite young person
Close your eyes and think of your favorite picture books when you were young. They were most likely the perfect blend of colorful images and evocative words – and they created entire worlds for you to enter. They featured people and animals that ran, jumped, climbed, and soared. This fall, we offer five titles that include a joyous range of peoples and cultures and a generous share of universal experiences.
Room for Everyone
A young boy on a crowded bus discovers that, after some wiggles and giggles, there’s room for everyone in this lighthearted rhyming picture book set in Zanzibar. The dala dala rumbles and roars as Musa and Dada drive off to the shore—but the bus stops for multiple detours: “Do you need a ride? It’s hotter than peppers out there in the sun! Come in, there’s room for everyone!” One stop becomes two stops which soon becomes ten, and Musa wonders when it will end: “How can any more people get in?
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