The United States Board on Books for Young People has announced their 2026 Outstanding International Books. The list includes 41 titles from 24 countries. Here are the listed titles:

Grades PreK-2

Afloat by Kirli Saunders

Blue Sky Morning by Jihyun Kim

Clara and the Man with Books in His Window by María Teresa Andruetto, illustrated by Marina Trach

Croco by Azul López

Downpour: Splish! Splash! Ker-Splash! by Yuko Ohnari, illustrated by Koshiro Hata

Everybelly by Thao Lam

How to Reach the Moon by Nicolás Schuff, illustrated by Ana Sender

Is It Asleep? by Olivier Tallec

M Is for Mango by Atinuke, illustrated by Angela Brooksbank

My Friend May by Julie Flett

My Home Is in My Backpack by Eugenia Perella, illustrated by Angela Salerno

Paloma Flies Away by María J. Guarda

Pencil by Hye-Eun Kim

Picking Tea with Baba by Bin Xu, illustrated by Yu Yin

The Playdate by Uje Brandelius, illustrated by Clara Dackenberg

The Snow Theater by Ryōji Arai

Take a Walk with the Wind by Liang Xiong

The Three-Year Tumble by Dayeon Auh

Wrestlers of the Grasslands by Hao Liu

Grades 3-5

Electric Birds of Pothakudi by Karthika Naïr, illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet

Giant by Judith McQuoid

Journey of the Humpbacks by Juliana Muñoz Toro, illustrated by Dipacho

My Brother by Laura Djupvik, illustrated by Øyvind Torseter

The Ordinary Life of Jacominus Gainsborough by Rébecca Dautremer

Sound: Discovering the Vibrations We Hear by Olga Fadeeva

The Sunshine Project by Uma Krishnaswami, illustrated by Julianna Swaney

The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba, illustrated by Miho Satake

Grades 6-8

Adi of Boutanga: A Story from Cameroon by Alain Serge Dzotap, illustrated by Marc Daniau

Astro by Manuel Marsol

Beasts by Ingvild Bejerkeland

Biggest Fake in the Universe by Johan Rundberg

Butterfly Heart by Moa Backe Åstot

Dropping Beats by Nathanael Lessore

Okchundang Candy by Jung-soon Go

Pilgrim Codex by Vivian Mansour, illustrated by Emmanuel Valtierra

Tyger by SF Said, illustrated by Dave McKean

Grades 9-12

The Bees: The Women Who Rocked Lithuania by Akvilė Magicdusté

The Hidden Girl by Louise Bassett

Old as Stone, Hard as Rock: Of Humans and War by Alessandro Sanna

Self Portrait by Ludwig Volbeda

Solo by Gráinne O’Brien