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Harold's Book Lists

Books I recommend--craft books for children's writers and illustrators and award-winning children's and YA books--from Harold Underdown, owner of The Purple Crayon

Caldecott Medal and Honor Books
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We Are Water Protectors
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
The Cat Man of Aleppo
Me & Mama
Outside in: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
The Undefeated
Bear Came Along (Caldecott Honor Book)
Double Bass Blues
Going Down Home with Daddy
Coretta Scott King Award Winners
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Before the Ever After
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration
Me & Mama
Newbery Medal and Honor Books
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Freewater (Newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner)
Iveliz Explains It All: (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
The Last Mapmaker
Maizy Chen's Last Chance: (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
The Last Cuentista
Red, White, and Whole: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
A Snake Falls to Earth
Too Bright to See
Watercress
When You Trap a Tiger: (Newbery Medal Winner)
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Fighting Words
We Dream of Space: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
A Wish in the Dark
Scott O'Dell Award Winners
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African Town
Ophie's Ghosts
All He Knew
Butterfly Yellow
Finding Langston
Beyond the Bright Sea
Full of Beans
Young People's National Book Award Winners
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King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
1919 the Year That Changed America
The Poet X
Far from the Tree
March: Book Three
Challenger Deep
Recommended Craft and Reference Books for Children's Book Writers
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Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 33rd Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published
The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition
The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults
Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition: A Hands-On Guide from Story Creation to Publication (Second Edition, Revised)
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
Make a Scene Revised and Expanded Edition: Writing a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time (Revised)
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