SLJ Best Picture Books 2024

A selection from the School Library Journal's Best Picture Books 2024 that are in the Delaware Library Catalog.

Updated December 4, 2024
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?Vamos! Let's Celebrate Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos: A Halloween and Day of the Dead Celebration
Raul the Third
Paper Book
A Junior Library Guild Selection! From New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award-winning author-illustrator Raúl the Third, ¡Vamos! Let's Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos follows Little Lobo and friends on a Halloween and Día de los Muertos adventure...
I am la chiva! : the colorful bus of the Andes
Herna?ndez, Karol
Paper Book
For fans of The Little Blue Truck, Red Truck and The Little Engine That Could, a rhyming ode to a colorful South American bus and the collective spirit of its people, from a debut author and the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Magical Yet
Angela's glacier
Scott, Jordan
Paper Book
Award-winning author Jordan Scott's luminously-illustrated love story of a girl growing up in the shadow of a glacier that's always there to listen. Angela listened to the glacier; the glacier listened to Angela. As soon as she's born, Angela's father...
Eyes that weave the world's wonders
Ho, Joanna
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock, comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds...
I'm sorry you got mad
Lukoff, Kyle
Paper Book
Newbery Honor winner Kyle Lukoff explores the importance of learning to apologize. Jack wants to apologize for hurting Zoe's feelings. He just can't seem to find the right words. Turns out there's more to an apology than just saying "I'm sorry." Elevated...
Just what to do
Lukoff, Kyle
Paper Book
A tender picture book about grief and the many ways to offer comfort in sad times, from Newbery Honor-winner Kyle Lukoff. When you see someone sad, it's only natural to want to cheer them up. But how? Some people like hugs but others don't. Sometimes a joke is more comforting...
The last stand
Eady, Antwan
Paper Book
The author of Nigel and the Moon, delivers a tender intergenerational story inspired by his childhood in the rural south. Here's a farm stand that represents the importance of family, community, and hope. A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BOOKPAGE, and SCHOOL...
The last zookeeper
Becker, Aaron
Paper Book
A master of the wordless form imagines a futuristic Noah's Ark in a luminous sci-fi parable for our changing world. The Earth has flooded. The only signs of humankind are the waterlogged structures they left behind. Peeking out from the deluge are the remnants of a zoo, home to...
Spider in the well
Hannigan, Jess
The yellow bus
Long, Loren
Paper Book
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A #1 Indie Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling and beloved creator Loren Long, The Yellow Bus is a tender and hopeful new classic about embracing change and celebrating service to...

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