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Bank Street College of Education awards The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir the Best Book of 2024 for Children's Books. 

Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner's FINDING HOME: WORDS FROM KIDS SEEKING SANCTUARY has been selected as the Junior Library Guild's Gold Standard Collection for 2024. 

Author-Illustrator Angel Tate's I ROCK MY HAIR: PRETTY AND PROTECTED BY THE C.R.O.W.N ACT, about a girl who realizes that although some people think that her natural hair stands out too much to belong in certain places, it's okay to rick her hair any ways she wants to, to Sandra Sutter at Gnome Road. 

Author/Illustrator of the YALSA Award Honor Book THE GREAT NIJINSKY Lynn Curlee's NOTRE-DAME: THE WORLD'S CATHEDRAL, the story of the catastrophic 2019 fire and the heroic fight to save it, encompassing both the history and the rebuilding of the historic building, to Kristie Choi at Atheneum. 

Poet and Arab American Book Award winner Hayan Charara's HUSH, LITTLE CHILDREN, which offers an intimate portrait of a pregnant couple as a rash of child suicides causes panic in their suburban neighborhood and an extremist group's push to police their minority community, to William Burleson at Flexible Press. 

Author/Illustrator Katie Palazzola's THE GREAT FROG, a sibling story about a girl who invents a tall tale to assuage her little brother's worries only to have his innocent excitement grow to the point that she realizes she must tell him the truth. 

Founder of the literary community Inked Voices Brooke McIntyre's IF YOU WENT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN, exploring the ocean from the surface to its deepest depths, illustrated by Gordy Wright, to Naomi Kirsten at Chronicle Children's. 

Dr. Matt Hogan, MD's FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE: MUSINGS OF AN UNFILTERED PHYSICIAN, a collection of interconnected essays that reflect on the absurdities of life and medicine through a humorous, self-deprecating lens, pitched as David Sedaris meets Oliver Sacks.

Borderlands Tarot author-illustrator Enid Baxter Ryce's untitled book with an accessible approach to plant magic, sustainable art, and the healing properties of nature in the form of a plant-grimoire, to Running Press, in an exclusive submission. 

The Night Fox author Ashley Wilda's CLEAVE, exploring the complex relationship between an Arab-American girl and her absentee father, who she tries to please by pushing herself to become a champion rock climber--a plan that is disrupted when she develops a potentially toxic relationship with a teammate.

Sober activist Jessica Guerrieri's debut novel and second women's fiction novel sold to Harper Muse in a two-book deal preempt. 

Tanya Konerman's MUD TO THE RESCUE!, exploring the ingenious ways animals use mud to thrive and survive.

NUDI GILL author/illustrator Bonnie Kelso's Quail Trail, about an independent chick who takes her own path and gets lost, learning the hard way that a little listening can go a long way. 

Author of THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR MORE Christina Shawn's NO LOVE POTION, about a young witch whose spooky brew becomes a Valentine's stew when an ingredient unexpectedly hops into her heart, illustrated by Merry Miller-Gass

San Diego State University MFA candidate Demree McGhee's SYMPATHY FOR WILD GIRLS, a collection of stories centered on queerness, femininity, and desire, following Black women in their search for intimacy and community as they navigate a fantastically absurd world teeming with secrecy and unspoken rules. 

Poet Laureate of St. Albert Lauren Seal's LIGHT ENOUGH TO FLOAT, a novel-in-verse that follows a teen over the course of one winter as she is admitted to an inpatient treatment facility for anorexia and learns to love herself and her body again

NUDI GILL author-illustrator Bonnie Kelso's WONDER OF THE WOODS, a lyrical exploration of the wonders that can be found in a common wooded area, including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates

Author-illustrator of the forthcoming SEA SMILES Bonnie Kelso's SEA SUDS and SLEEPY SEA, two more books in the series pairing important childhood milestones—losing a tooth, learning to bathe, and sleeping alone—with facts about sea animals, to Sandra Sutter at Gnome Road in a two-book deal. 

Orbis Pictus Award Winner for A PLACE TO LAND Barry Wittenstein's FOOD IS LOVE, a look at Chef Jose Andres, the global humanitarian and founder of World Central Kitchen, the nonprofit organization that provides meals around the globe in the wake of disasters, illustrated by Sara Palacios, to Nancy Paulsen Books