{"id":42085,"date":"2023-01-13T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T04:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42085"},"modified":"2023-01-15T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T02:48:59","slug":"2022-sonderbooks-stand-outs-books-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42085","title":{"rendered":"2022 Sonderbooks Stand-outs — Books for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tonight I’m going to post my third and final batch of 2022 Sonderbooks Stand-outs — with Children’s Fiction and Nonfiction and Picture Books.<\/p>\n

Sonderbooks Stand-outs are my personal favorite books from those I read this year. I’m not judging by literary merit, but simply by fondness. How much did these books warm my heart?<\/p>\n

The ranking is very subjective, and I make multiple categories when it’s hard to decide. I split Children’s Fiction into Speculative Fiction and everything else, and I split Picture Books into Silly Fun and everything else. It seems like an awful lot of books, but I read even more.<\/p>\n

All of these books are highly recommended and much loved:<\/p>\n

Children’s Speculative Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Little Monarchs<\/a><\/em>, by Jonathan Case<\/li>\n
  2. The Ogress and the Orphans<\/a><\/em>, by Kelly Barnhill<\/li>\n
  3. Garlic and the Vampire<\/em>, by Bree Paulsen<\/li>\n
  4. The Last Mapmaker<\/a><\/em>, by Christina Soontornvat<\/li>\n
  5. Amari and the Night Brothers<\/em>, by B. B. Alston<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    More Children’s Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. The Secret Battle of Evan Pao<\/a><\/em>, by Wendy Wan-Long Shang<\/li>\n
    2. Merci Su\u00e1rez Plays It Cool<\/a><\/em>, by Meg Medina<\/li>\n
    3. The Boys in the Back Row<\/a><\/em>, by Mike Jung<\/li>\n
    4. Those Kids from Fawn Creek<\/em>, by Erin Entrada Kelly<\/li>\n
    5. Different Kinds of Fruit<\/a><\/em>, by Kyle Lukoff<\/li>\n
    6. Answers in the Pages<\/em>, by David Levithan<\/li>\n
    7. Attack of the Black Rectangles<\/em>, by Amy Sarig King<\/li>\n
    8. Stuntboy #1: In the Meantime<\/a><\/em>, by Jason Reynolds and Ra\u00fal the Third<\/li>\n
    9. Premeditated Myrtle<\/em>, by Elizabeth C. Bunce<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Children’s Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Marshmallow Clouds<\/a><\/em>, by Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek, illustrated by Richard Jones<\/li>\n
      2. Before Music<\/a><\/em>, by Annette Bay Pimentel, illustrated by Madison Safer<\/li>\n
      3. Bake Infinite Pie with X + Y<\/a><\/em>, by Eugenia Cheng, illustrated by Amber Ren<\/li>\n
      4. Washed Ashore<\/a><\/em>, by Kelly Crull<\/li>\n
      5. The Tide Pool Waits<\/a><\/em>, by Candace Fleming, pictures by Amy Hevron<\/li>\n
      6. Molly and the Mathematical Mysteries<\/a><\/em>, by Eugenia Cheng, illustrated by Aleksandra Artymowska<\/li>\n
      7. Galloping Gertie<\/a><\/em>, by Amanda Abler, illustrated by Levi Hastings<\/li>\n
      8. Sylvie<\/a><\/em>, by Sylvie Kantorovitz<\/li>\n
      9. Make Way for Animals!<\/a><\/em>, by Meeg Pincus, illustrated by Bao Luu<\/li>\n
      10. Blips on a Screen<\/a><\/em>, by Kate Hannigan, illustrated by Zachariah OHora<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Silly Fun Picture Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Monsters in the Fog<\/em>, by Ali Bahrampour<\/li>\n
        2. A Spoonful of Frogs<\/a><\/em>, by Vera Brosgol<\/li>\n
        3. This Book Is Not For You!<\/a><\/em>, by Shannon Hale, illustrated by Tracy Subisak<\/li>\n
        4. How to Be Cooler Than Cool<\/a><\/em>, by Sean Taylor, illustrated by Jean Jullien<\/li>\n
        5. The Three Billy Goats Gruff<\/em>, by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen<\/li>\n
        6. Zero Zebras<\/em>, by Bruce Goldstone, illustrated by Julien Chang<\/li>\n
        7. The Legend of Iron Purl<\/a><\/em>, by Tao Nyeu<\/li>\n
        8. How to Be on the Moon<\/a><\/em>, by Viviane Schwarz<\/li>\n
        9. Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf<\/em>, by Davide Cali, illustrated by Marianna Balducci<\/li>\n
        10. Here We Come!<\/a><\/em>, by Janna Matthies, illustrated by Christine Davenier<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          More Picture Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          1. Berry Song<\/a><\/em>, by Michaela Goade<\/li>\n
          2. Like<\/a><\/em>, by Annie Barrows, illustrated by Leo Espinosa<\/li>\n
          3. A Seed Grows<\/a><\/em>, by Antoinette Portis<\/li>\n
          4. I’ll Go and Come Back<\/a><\/em>, by Rajani LaRocca, illustrated by Sara Palacios<\/li>\n
          5. Gibberish<\/em>, by Young Vo<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            I’ll post all the missing reviews as soon as I can. I hope you get a chance to try some of these books!<\/p>\n

            And here’s my permanent webpage for all my 2022 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>!<\/p>\n

            Happy Reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Tonight I’m going to post my third and final batch of 2022 Sonderbooks Stand-outs — with Children’s Fiction and Nonfiction and Picture Books. Sonderbooks Stand-outs are my personal favorite books from those I read this year. I’m not judging by literary merit, but simply by fondness. How much did these books warm my heart? The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-picture-book-review","category-stand-outs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42100,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42085\/revisions\/42100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}