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Alvin Tresselt, Roger Duvoisin
1948 Caldecott Medal winner. It captures the first snowfall and the way a community welcomes winter.
Fay Weldon
A novel set in the countryside or suburbs that satirically depicts family and community dynamics and social norms. Exploring the conflict between individual desires and social constraints.
Maurice Sendak
Max runs away in a wolf suit and reaches the island of the wild things, where he becomes their king. The brief story turns imagination, loneliness, and belonging into a vivid picture-book fable.
Jennifer Stone
An essay collection that moves between daily life and politics.
George Lipsitz
A biographical nonfiction work that traces the life of grassroots civil-rights activist Ivory Perry alongside urban social movements and political change. Through one person's life, it presents the contested and solidaristic landscape of postwar America.
Howard Schwartz
A collection of reimagined tales drawn from Hasidic tradition. Its short parables move between inherited storytelling and a modern sense of imagination.
Frank Chin
A short story collection set in the Chinese American community of Oakland.
M. Fisher
M.F.K. Fisher's Consider the Oyster is a witty food essay on the history, handling, and enjoyment of oysters.
Eduardo Mendoza
A picaresque novel that overlaps the growth of Barcelona with one man’s rise. The shape of urban expansion and desire is rendered in a lively, satirical style.
Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater
This children’s classic follows Mr. Popper and the penguins that arrive in his home, turning ordinary family life into a series of comic and affectionate complications. Its themes of ingenuity and family solidarity have made it enduringly popular.
Elizabeth Woody
A debut poetry collection rooted in Warm Springs, the Columbia River, and family memory. Its compact poems layer landscape, ceremony, and survival into an intimate lyric sequence.