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The Best Books of 2024 – Picture (A Year-End List Aggregation)
Picture – 2024
“What are the best Picture books released in 2024?” We looked at 254 of the top Picture books, aggregating and ranking them so we could
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We Are Definitely Human
WINNER of the Ezra Jack Keats Best New Illustrator Award • An American Library Association Notable Children's Book A hilarious alien invasion story with a feel-good message about what it means to be human. Perfect for earthlings of all ages. When three mysterious visitors from "Europe" crash-land in Mr. Li's field, he does what any good host would: he invites them back to his farmhouse and offers to help fix up their "car". No, there's nothing strange about these guests at all. Just like other humans, they "make business", "play sportsball" and "wear hat". As the townsfolk also come to the aid of the visitors and the gathering turns into a little party, interplanetary relations reach an all-time high. A sweetly funny extraterrestrial offering that explores surprising acts of kindness and acceptance, X. Fang's second picture book is truly out of this world.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (and Some Things You Didn’t)
Every single minute, of every single day, a child somewhere loses a baby tooth. But what happens to all those teeth? They are collected by the tooth fairy, of course! Or the tooth fairies - because there is more than just one tooth fairy. In fact, there are millions! Like us, they are all different. And now there is an informative and fully illustrated guide that's jam-packed with answers to every child's tooth fairy questions, like: What do tooth fairies eat? Where do they live? How do they collect your tooth - and what on earth do they do with it? Find out everything there is to know about the magical (and sometimes just a little bit gross) world of the tooth fairy!
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Frida the Rock-and-Roll Moth
A NEW picture book from the winner of the Best Illustrated Book, Waterstones Children's Prize 2023. Frida is a musical moth who loves to rock out - she puts on her pointy boots and plays her purple guitar really LOUD! But when the Big Bright Light is switched on, more moths appear, ready to rock together, and Frida starts to feel that everyone is much better than her. Perhaps she isn't so rock-and-roll after all . . . With the help of her biggest fan, Auntie Edna, Frida learns to reclaim her style, find her confidence and get up and rock on once more! This positive picture book will inspire readers to find what makes them feel good and let their inner confidence shine. Kim Hillyard creates positive, heart-warming stories that are designed to empower and inspire young readers. Each picture book focuses on a different feeling or belief to help children navigate the world around them. Also available from Kim Hillyard: Mabel and the Mountain: a story about believing in yourself Ned and the Great Garden Hamster Race: a story about kindness Gretel The Wonder Mammoth: a story about overcoming anxiety Flora and Nora Hunt for Treasure: a story about the power of friendship
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Frog’s Day Out
Lift the flaps to join in the fun at the seaside with Frog's Day Out, a story in the bestselling Tales from Acorn Wood preschool series by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo.All aboard for a fun day at the seaside! Lift the flaps to help Frog and his friends pack their sunhats, buckets and spades, then head to Acorn Wood station to board the special steam train to the beach.With sturdy flaps on every spread and rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud, Frog's Day Out joins the bestselling Tales from Acorn Wood which have been delighting parents and children for over twenty years.Enjoy more lift-the-flap adventures from Acorn Wood: Cat's Cookbook, Badger's Band and Mole's Spectacles.
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I Follow The Fox
From bestselling author Rob Biddulph comes a magical tale about a boy, his teddy and a very special winter adventure. Little Fox has gone missing in the park. The family search high and low, but the teddy can't be found. Then, one night, a beautiful fox calls at the window, and the young boy decides to follow her. They go on a magical winter adventure: moving through the city, past snowy meadows and icy rivers, until the boy realises the fox has led him to something special, and that she needs his help. Can the fox help him find his own beloved Little Fox?
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Mountain and Cloud
A heart-warming story of friendship and courage from exciting new debut picture book illustrator, Jana Curll. Mountain and Cloud are the BEST of friends. They do everything together! When an enormous storm blows Cloud far, far away, they're lost without each other. Can the two friends face their fears and find their way back to one another? This positive picture book is a useful story to share with children who are experiencing being separated from friends, parents or carers when starting nursery or school for the first time.
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Pretty Ugly
Contradictions (both real and apparent), oppositions, enigmas, provocations, challenges——this is the kind of material that makes a life, and is the kind of material that, in fiction, one is never quite sure of. With Pretty Ugly, Kirsty Gunn reminds us again that she is a master of just such stuff, presenting ambiguity and complication as the essence of the storyteller's endeavour. The sheer force of life that Gunn is able to load these stories up with is both testament to her unrivalled skill and an exercise in what she describes as 'reading and writing ugly', in order to pursue the deeper truths that lie at the heart of both the human imagination and human rationality. So here we have all the strange and seemingly impossible dualities that make up real life——and pretty ugly it can be, as well as beautiful, hopeful, bleak, difficult, exhilarating. But never, ever dull.
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The Camel Who Had The Hump
An uplifting and empowering tale about finding new ways to navigate big feelings, from the bestselling creators of The Lion Inside. As a shimmering sun lit the desert at dawn, A clumping of camels awoke with a yawn. "GOOD MORRRRNING!" sang one, "YOO-HOO! Rise and shine!" "I will!" called another. "Today is DIVINNNNNNE!" But not everyone has woken up in a good mood: Cuthbert the camel is having a bit of a bad morning. He's hot, he's tired and he certainly WON'T be walking to the oasis today! There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that will get him out of his grump. Or is there? When Cuthbert makes a new friend, he discovers that even if things get off on the wrong hoof, we're all just one smile away from a happy rest-of-day. A laugh-out-loud tale of how choosing fun can turn a grumpy, humpy start into a happy ending. This spectacularly illustrated rhyming tale from the award-winning, bestselling creators of The Lion Inside and The Koala Who Could is the perfect read for anyone who's ever had The Hump.
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The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile
Join Ruth Mary, a brave and loveable tooth fairy, on a toothsome jungle adventure, from picture book superstars, Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks--the perfect story for any child with a wobbly tooth! When Ruth Mary the tooth fairy is reassigned from collecting children's teeth to jungle animals' teeth, she is up for the challenge! All is going well, until she meets a less-than-friendly crocodile, who wakes up and decides Ruth Mary looks like a tasty snack! Has Ruth Mary maybe bitten off more than she can chew? But with the help of new friends and a clever trap, she may just escape yet! A brilliantly illustrated story from the creators of the What the Ladybird Heard series, which have sold over four million copies worldwide.
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There’s A Beach in My Pants!
We went to the seaside, Mum, Pip and me. To play in the sand dunes and splash in the sea, We’d have SO MUCH fun, I had it all planned! As soon as we got there . . . I RAN FOR THE SAND! But one little girl gets SO MUCH MORE than she bargained for after her day out at the beach – with the most hilarious consequences! From superstar fiction author Michelle Harrison and bestselling illustrator David Tazzyman comes the first book in a laugh-out-loud series set to become a family favourite.
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Try
Try, by fundraising heroes, rugby legends and best friends Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield, is a big-hearted picture book about a friendship between two young boys. Written with Emma Adams and illustrated by Ben Whitehouse. What makes someone a hero? That’s what best friends Rob and Kevin are trying to find out. But the answer isn’t quite what they expect! This joyful story about friendship, kindness and what heroes are really made of comes from the creators of the number one bestselling book With You Every Step. 'Rugby mates illustrate the power of friendship.' – The Times *Try debuted at #1 in the Overall Children's UK TCM w/c 02/09/24
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