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Lisa Tolin

Lisa Tolin is the author of "How to Be a Rock Star," illustrated by Daniel Duncan, and the forthcoming "Can You Imagine? The Life and Art of Yoko Ono," illustrated by Yas Imamura. She is a journalist living in Brooklyn, and she reads a lot of picture books. Like a lot, a lot. These are some of her favorites from years of making lists for Today.com and elsewhere.

You Are My Everything
Listen
The House Before Falling Into the Sea
Whatever Comes Tomorrow
Desert Queen
Look
Today
Bravo, Avocado!
One More Jar of Jam
Maybe a Whale
Nature Is a Sculptor: Weathering and Erosion
Izmelda, the Fairest Dragon of Them All!
Barn in Winter: Safe and Warm on the Farm
Flat Cat
Who Made This Mess?
In a Cave
Do You Remember?
There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)
A Unicorn, a Dinosaur, and a Shark Walk Into a Book
Monster Baker
Whatever Comes Tomorrow
Animals in Pants: A Poetry Picture Book
When Spring Comes to the DMZ When Aidan Became a Brother Thunder Rose
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Banned picture books

Barn in Winter: Safe and Warm on the Farm
Nom Nom Nom: A Yummy Book with Flaps
Strut, Baby, Strut
Goodnight Moon 75th Anniversary Slipcase Edition (Anniversary)
You're Loved
I Am!: A Book of Reminders
Babies Love Outer Space
Baby Hippo: Finger Puppet Book
If You Are the Dreamer
Curls
You're My Little Baby: A Touch-And-Feel Book
What Would You Do in a Book about You?
All of Us
Families Can
In My Mosque
My Fade Is Fresh
Little Star
I Just Want to Say Good Night
Sunrise Dance
Hush, Little Trucker
Bathe the Cat
Bigger Than a Bumblebee
The Old Boat
I'll Meet You in Your Dreams
Not Now, Cow
The Smell of a Rainbow
Good Night, Good Night: The Original Longer Version of the Going to Bed Book
Bear Is a Bear
Adurable: Little Pups in Big Trucks
In Every Life: (Caldecott Honor)
If You Were a City
The Blur
Two Dogs on a Trike: Count to Ten and Back Again
Blanket: Journey to Extreme Coziness
Don't Hug Doug: (He Doesn't Like It)
Best Friend in the Whole World
Over, Bear! Under, Where?
Everybody in the Red Brick Building
Our Skin: A First Conversation about Race
The Napping House
The Poop Song
Construction Site: Road Crew, Coming Through!
The Sun Is Late and So Is the Farmer
How to Be a Rock Star
The Little Book of Joy
Moonlight
Go Back to Sleep
Counting to Bananas: A Mostly Rhyming Fruit Book
Sylvie
Brown Is Warm, Black Is Bright
Penguinaut!
Inside Cat
Bodies Are Cool
The Tree in Me
Bloop
Chez Bob
Something's Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear
Animals in Pants: A Poetry Picture Book
Flat Cat
Where Is Bina Bear?
Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme
Luna's Green Pet
Knight Owl (Caldecott Honor Book)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Sour Grape
Mel Fell: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
Jenny Mei Is Sad
Help Mom Work from Home!
Have You Ever Seen a Flower?
The Smart Cookie
Aaron Slater, Illustrator: A Picture Book
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
Whatever Comes Tomorrow
Nature Is a Sculptor: Weathering and Erosion
Endlessly Ever After: Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings!
Lizzy and the Cloud
Being a Dog: A Tail of Mindfulness
Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle
Over and Under the Waves
Clovis Keeps His Cool
My Parents Won't Stop Talking!
Cat Problems
Listen
Ordinary People Change the World Gift Set
Xo, Exoplanet
Vampenguin
Mina
Mr. S: A First Day of School Book
Big (Caldecott Medal Winner & Coretta Scott King Honor Title)
In a Cave
The Greatest in the World!
Courage Hats
A Gift for Nana
Big and Small and In-Between
Dancing with Daddy
The Knight at Dawn Graphic Novel
Memory Jars
Let Liberty Rise!: How America's Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty
Milo Imagines the World
The Rock from the Sky
What If, Pig?
Have You Seen Gordon?
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