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Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts

The books on the Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts list are selected by the Children's Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). These titles could be fiction, nonfiction, or works of poetry and are written for Kindergarten-8th Grade.

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts website

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2025

And then, boom!
The tenth mistake of Hank Hooperman
Tree. Table. Book.
Not nothing
Kareem between
Across so many seas
One big open sky
Deer run home : a novel in verse
Popcorn : a novel
Louder than hunger
Leafy landmarks : travels with trees
Haiku, ew
The mistakes that made us : confessions from twenty poets
Windsongs : poems about weather
Life after whale : the amazing ecosystem of a whale fall
Sleepy : surprising ways animals snooze
Claudette Colvin : I want freedom now!
One day this tree will fall
Whirligigs : the wondrous windmills of Vollis Simpson's imagination
Go forth and tell : the life of Augusta Baker, librarian and master storyteller
They call me Teach : lessons in freedom
Fake Chinese sounds
Meatballs for Grandpa
A map for Falasteen
Home in a lunchbox
My daddy is a cowboy
Buffalo fluffalo
Five words that are mine
I'm sorry you got mad
The book that almost rhymed

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2024

How to write a poem
Dogtown
Twenty questions
No place like home
A stone is a story
Hidden hope : how a toy and a hero saved lives during the Holocaust
Oh, Olive!
Holey Moley
Yoshi, sea turtle genius : a true story about an amazing swimmer
Our incredible library book and the wonderful journeys it took
The remarkable rescue at Milkweed Meadow
The probability of everything
Mine!
A few beautiful minutes : experiencing a solar eclipse
We are starlings : inside the mesmerizing magic of a murmuration
The Museum of Nothing
Big
Once upon a family
The do more club
Jumper : a day in the life of a backyard jumping spider
Butt or face? : can you tell which end you're looking at?
A work in progress
The wild journey of Juniper Berry
Home is calling : the journey of the monarch butterfly
Giraffe is too tall for this book
The labors of Hercules Beal
Big tree
Parachute kids
Mascot
How do you spell unfair? : MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2023

A bear, a bee, and a honey tree
Ain't burned all the bright
Anybody here seen Frenchie?
Attack of the black rectangles
Big and small and in-between
Blue : a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky
Caves
Copycat : nature-inspired design around the world
Going places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book
Hazel Hill is gonna win this one
I am Ruby Bridges : how one six-year-old girl's march to school changed the world
Ice cycle : poems about the life of ice
Maya's song
Moving words about a flower
My name is Saajin Singh
On a gold-blooming day
Out of this world : star-studded haiku
Seen and unseen : what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's photographs reveal about the Japanese American incarceration
Skater Cielo
Swim team
Tell me a lion story
The language of seabirds
The last mapmaker
The midnight children
We are wolves
What are words, really?
Wildoak
Wondering around
Yonder
Zia erases the world

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2022

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2021

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2020

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2019

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2018

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2017

27 magic words
Before morning
Booked
Booked
Paperback edition
A child of books
Cloud and Wallfish
Du iz tak?
Fishbone's song
Free verse
Freedom over me : eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life
I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
The island of beyond
Jazz day : the making of a famous photograph
Mayday
OCDaniel
¡Olinguito, de la A a la Z! : descubriendo el bosque nublado = Olinguito, from A to Z! : unveiling the cloud forest
Plants can't sit still
A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
Raymie nightingale
Soar
Some writer! : the story of E.B. White
The sound of silence
Snow White
Speaking American: how y'all, youse, and you guys talk : a visual guide
The storyteller
Treat
Wet cement : a mix of concrete poems
When green becomes tomatoes
When the sea turned to silver
Will's words : how William Shakespeare changed the way you talk
Yaks yak : animal word pairs

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2016

28 days : moments in Black history that changed the world
An ambush of tigers : a wild gathering of collective nouns
A spectacular selection of sea critters
Bigfoot is missing!
The book itch : freedom, truth & Harlem's greatest bookstore
Book scavenger
Drowned city : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans
Echo
Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir
Enormous SMALLNESS : a story of E.E. Cummings
Flutter & hum : animal poems = Aleteo y zumbido : poemas de animales
How to read a story
Jumping off library shelves : a book of poems
The Marvels
My Seneca village
My two blankets
The plan
Poems in the attic
Poet : the remarkable story of George Moses Horton
Red : a crayon's story
Stella by starlight
The thing about jellyfish
Use your imagination (but be careful what you wish for!)
Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement
W is for Webster : Noah Webster and his American dictionary
Where's the baboon?
The whisper
Willy's stories
The wonder
A year in the life of a complete and total genius

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2015

A library book for Bear
Any questions?
A snicker of magic
Ava and Pip
Brown girl dreaming
Construction
Firefly July : a year of very short poems
Help! We need a title!
It's an orange aardvark
Josephine : the dazzling life of Josephine Baker
Migrant
On the wing
Rain reign
Revolution
Rhyme schemer
Silver people : voices from the Panama Canal
Shooting at the stars : the Christmas truce of 1914
Take away the A : an alphabeast of a book!
Tap tap boom boom
The categorical universe of Candice Phee
The crossover
The crossover
Paperback edition
The great big green
The noisy paint box : the colors and sounds of Kandinsky's abstract art
The Pilot and the Little Prince : the Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The right word : Roget and his thesaurus
The scraps book : notes from a colorful life
Voices from the March on Washington : poems
Weeds find a way
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
What flowers remember

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2014

Ah ha!
Counting by 7s
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library
Etched in clay : the life of Dave, enslaved potter and poet
Exclamation mark
Forest has a song : poems
Gaby, lost and found
Hold fast
Journey
Knock knock : my dad's dream for me
Light in the darkness : a story about how slaves learned in secret
Little red writing
Look up! : bird-watching in your own backyard
Martin & Mahalia : his words, her song
Navigating Early
Nelly May has her say
Prisoner 88
Sure signs of crazy
The Beatles were fab (and they were funny)
The candy smash
The day the crayons quit
The day the crayons quit
Braille edition
The language inside
The lightning dreamer : Cuba's greatest abolitionist
The long, long journey : the godwit's amazing migration
The matchbox diary
The true blue scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
This journal belongs to Ratchet
When thunder comes : poems for civil rights leaders
Words with wings
Zebra forest

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2013

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2012

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2011

Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts 2010

Poetry

Historical and Realistic Fiction

Fantasy/Folklore

Information/Biography/Autobiography

Ashley Bryan words to my life's song
Traveling the freedom road : from slavery and the Civil War through Reconstruction
Tofu quilt
The Dust Bowl through the lens : how photography revealed and helped remedy a natural disaster
Adventures in cartooning