Kids Books for Summer 2023

Adult in a suit with an underwater helmet filled with fish and octopus standing next to a child with a crowd of people in the background

Aquanaut

Dan Santat

Boy juggling a basketball trophy, a book, homework and two miature kids

Class Act

Jerry Craft

Elephant with a strained expression wearing glasses

Esperar no es Facil

Mo Willems

Illustrated rabbit walking along a forest path with a bird flying ahead.

Finding Home/Buscando el Hogar

Esteli Meza

Female pilot in a flight suit with arms crossed posing in front of an airplane

Fly Girl, Fly: Shaesta Waiz Soars Around the World

Nancy Roe Pimm

Face of child with black short hair looking up from a book with a concerned expression

Gibberish

Young Vo

Invisible

Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Child with black hair in a pony tail holding up two drum sticks standing next to taiko drums

Jasmine Toguchi Drummer Girl

Debbie Michiko Florence

a ship of people held in the air by baloon

Kids Books for Summer 2023

A kid wearing green gloves, goggles, and a cape mid jump with a cityscape and two superheroes in the background

Leon the Extraordinary

Jamar Nicholas

Child and adult sitting on a couch reading together

Lola Loves Stories

Anna McQuinn

Child with a short curly black hair with a cityscape in the background and framed by a rainbow of paletas or popsicles

Paletero Man

Lucky Diaz

Black cat hiking with a walking stick and backpack in a forest with a tent in the background

Pete the Cat Goes Camping

James Dean

A kid with chin length hair leans back in a wheelchair while spinning a pie

Roll with It

Jamie Sumner

Girl holding a notepad and paper. A child with long hair holding a book and another child with short hair holding plates of food stand in the backgroundhind her

Room to Dream

Kelly Yang

Illustrated shark head with mouth open wide showing teeth

The Bad Guys in Open Wide and Say Arrrgh

Aaron Blabey

Child with short black wavy hair flying through the air with an arm reached forward among scattered school supplies

The Best at It

Maulik Pancholy

Drawing of a face with closed eyes half in blue shadow and half lit up in red framed by plants, cactus, a crescent moon

The Last Cuentista

Donna Barba Higuera

Two children in helmets riding scooters on a road

Ty's Travels: Zip Zoom

Kelly Starling Lyons

Waiting is Not Easy

Mo Willems

Sad little dinosaur in overalls with a toy hanging out of their mouth and upturned chairs and books scattered around them

We Don't Eat Our Classmates

Ryan T. Higgins

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