The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) has announced their annual list of the most outstanding international books for young people published during the calendar year. Here is their 2019 list:
GRADES PreK-2
Africville by Shauntay Grant, illustrated by Eva Campbell
Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings by Francie Latour
A Case for Buffy by Ulf Nilsson, illustrated by Gitte Spee
A Drop of the Sea by Ingrid Chabbert, illustrated by Guridi
Farmer Falgu Goes to the Market by Chitra Soundar, illustrated by Kanika Nair
I Really Want to See You, Grandma by Taro Gomi
Marwan’s Journey by Patricia de Arias, illustrated by Laura Borras
Me and My Fear by Francesca Sanna
On the Other Side of the Garden by Jairo Buitrago, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng
Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba, illustrated by Van Thanh Rudd
Stories of the Night by Kitty Crowther
Tomorrow by Nadine Kaadan
Up the Mountain Path by Marianne Dubuc
GRADES 3-5
After Life: Ways We Think about Death by Merrie-Ellen Wilcox
Astrid the Unstoppable by Maria Parr, illustrated by Katie Harnett
The Colors of History: How Colors Shaped the World by Clive Gifford, illustrated by Marc-Etienne Peintre
Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World by Guillaume Duprat, illustrated by Patrick Skipworth
From the Heart of Africa: A Book of Wisdom by Eric Walters
Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes by Wab Kinew, illustrated by Joe Morse
The House of Lost and Found by Martin Widmark, illustrated by Emilia Dziubak
Missing Mike by Shari Green
Peace and Me by Ali Winter, illustrated by Mickael El Fathi
The Sound of Freedom by Kathy Kacer
A Story Like the Wind by Gill Lewis, illustrated by Jo Weaver
Too Young to Escape by Van Ho & Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Vacation by Blexbolex
What a Wonderful Word by Nicola Edwards, illustrated by Luisa Uribe
GRADES 6-8
Dodger Boy by Sarah Ellis
Ebb & Flow by Heather Smith
The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle by Victoria Williamson
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Julia Sarda
No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen
Small Things by Mel Tregonning
Swallow’s Dance by Wendy Orr
Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today
GRADES 9-12
Skating over Thin Ice by Jean Mills
Troublemakers by Catherine Barter
We Kiss Them with Rain by Futhi Ntshingila
