The NCCBA 2016 Picture Book Nominations
Applegate, Katherine. G. Brian Karas (ill). Ivan: the Remarkable True Story of the
Shopping Mall Gorilla.
Boston: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014.
"The true story of Ivan, known as the Shopping Mall Gorilla, who lived alone in a small cage
for almost 30
years before being relocated to the gorilla habitat at ZooAtlanta."—
Brown, Peter. My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I am Not). NY: Little Brown and Co. 2014.
Bobby thinks his teacher, Ms. Kirby, is horrible, but when he sees her outside of school and
they spend a day in
the park together, he discovers she might not be so bad after all.
Bunting, Eve. Don Tate (ill). The Cart That Carried Martin. Watertown, MA:
Charlesbridge. 2013.
Introduces young readers to details about Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral.
Chin, Jason. Gravity. NY: A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press. 2014.
What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the
ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity, the invisible force that
causes objects to attract each other. Here the author has taken a complex subject and made
it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
de la Peña, Matt . Christian Robinson (ill). Last Stop on Market Street. NY: G. P.
Putnam's Sons a Penguin Imprint. 2015.
A young boy, CJ, rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate
the beauty in
everyday things.
DiPucchio, Kelly. Christian Robinson (ill). Gaston. NY: Antheneum Books for Young
Readers. 2014.
"A proper bulldog raised in a poodle family and a tough poodle raised in a bulldog family
meet one day in the
park."
Diterlizzi, Angela. Brendan Wenzel (ill). Some Bugs. NY: Beach Lane Books. 2014.
From butterflies and moths to crickets and cicadas, a rhyming exploration of backyardbug
behavior.
Elliott, David. This Orq. Lori Nichols (ill). Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint
of Highlights.
2014.
Meet Orq. He cave boy. Meet Woma. He woolly mammoth. Orq love Woma. A lot. He want
pet. Orq's mother
say Woma shed. And smell. And not housetrained. Yuck. Woma not allowed in cave. But Orq
has plan. Kind
of.
Stone, Tanya. Priceman, Marjorie (ill). Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors: the Story of
Elizabeth
Blackwell. NY: Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2013.
An introduction to the life and achievements of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American
female doctor.
Describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth century,
the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her pioneering
medical career that opened doors for future generations of women.
White, Dianne. Beth Krommes (ill). Blue on Blue. NY: Beach Lane Books. 2014.
Rhyming text and illustrations depict the swell and quieting of a storm
The NCCBA 2016 Junior Book Nominations
Applegate, Katherine. The One and Only Ivan. NY: Harper. 2012.
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets
Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a
better life.
Auxier, Jonathan. The Night Gardener. NY: Amulet Books. 2014.
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a
crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings
are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Bell, CeCe. El Deafo. NY: Harry N. Abrams. 2014.
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young
age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her
"superpower."
Gibbs, Stuart. Poached. NY: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2014.
Twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is the prime suspect when FunJungle's newly-acquired koala
goes missing, thanks to a prank staged by middle school bully Vance Jessup.
Grabenstein, Chris. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library. NY: Random House. 2013.
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero
(the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come
morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"—
Holms, Jennifer L. The Fourteenth Goldfish. NY: Random House. 2014.
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has
turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with
Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
Lee, Jenny. Kelly Light (ill). Elvis and the Underdogs. NY: Balzar + Bray. 2013.
All his life Benji, now ten, has been sickly and he has long been targeted by the school bully,
but after a seizure Benji gets a therapy dog that is not only big enough to protect him, it can
also talk.
Martin, Ann. Rain Reign. NY: Feiwel and Friends. 2014.
Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes
missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it
means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
Sloan, Mary Goldberg. Counting by 7s. NY: Dial Books for Young Readers. 2013.
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with
other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car
accident.
Voigt, Cynthia. Iacopo Bruno (ill). Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things. NY: Alfred A.
Knopf. 2013.
When Max's parents leave the country without him, he must rely on his wits to get by, and
before long he is running his own -- rather unusual -- business.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming. NY: Nancy Paulsen Books an imprint of
Penguin Books. 2014.
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood
in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway
home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African
American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing
awareness of the Civil Rights movement....