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

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
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
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
African Town
Ophie's Ghosts
All He Knew
Butterfly Yellow
Finding Langston
Beyond the Bright Sea
Full of Beans
King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
1919 the Year That Changed America
The Poet X
Far from the Tree
March: Book Three
Challenger Deep
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)