Best Of Books: Kirkwood Library Selects Top Reads for Kids

Thank you to Deb Barry, assistant director of Youth Services and Programs at Kirkwood Public Library, for submitting this article. Titles are linked to the library's catalog.

Picture Books

• A Perfect Square by Michael Hall. 
• Press Here by Herve Tullet. 
• Hooray For Amada and Her Alligator by Mo Willems. 
• The Green Mother Goose by Jan Peck and David Davis. 
• Goldie and the Three Hares by Margie Palatini. 
• Woof Meow Tweet-Tweet by Cecile Boyer. 
• How To Teach a Slug to Read by Susan Pearson.
• Grandpa Green by Lane Smith.
• I Want Hat Back by Jon Klassen.
• Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld. 

Chapter Books

• Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick. 
• Pie by Sarah Weeks.
• Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt 
• Secrets at Sea by Richard Peck.
• Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos. 
• No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko. 
• Inside Out and Back Again by Thahha Lai. 
• Okay For Now by Gary Schmidt. 
• The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Pearl Verses The World by Sally Murphy.

 Non-Fiction

• Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming. 
• Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg.
•  Swirl by Swirl by Joyce Sidman
• Six Sheep Sip Thick Shakes by Brian Cleary.
• Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed From a Single Word by Bob Raczka.
•  Alexander Hamilton:  The Outsider by Jean Fritz.
• The Watcher by Jeanette Winter. 
• Everything On It by Shel Silverstein.  Poems and drawings.
• Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack. 
• Won Ton:  A Cat Tail Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw.