Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. These are middle-grade books published in and/or reviewed in 2023.
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Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your library. These picture books were published in 2023.
Deborah Hopkinson adapts one of Eleanor Roosevelt’s most important works in Small Places Close to Home: A Child’s Declaration of Rights.
The Questioneers’ teacher gets a book of her own in Lila Greer, Teacher of the Year, written by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts.
The natural world gets a high five in Thank You, Day! a love letter to the natural world by Charlie Hopper and Penelope Dullaghan.
Learn how people throughout time explained what happens after death in An Atlas of Afterlives: Discover Underworlds, Otherworlds and Heavenly Realms, by Emily Hawkins and Manasawee Rojanaphan.
We Gather Together: Stories from Then to Now, by Denise Kiernan, tells the true story of how Thanksgiving became a national holiday.
Bear has so much to give thanks for in the ninth offering of The Bear Books series by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman, Bear Says Thanks.
Channel your inner robot while exploring the alphabet in Vicky Fang’s Alphabot, a mix-and-match board book.
A young boy is forced to face his fear of the outdoors in The Wilderness, a delightful new picture book by Steve McCarthy.