Sometimes we get so excited about the shiny, just-released book that we forget there may be older, new-to-us books that are equally entrancing. That is especially true for books that come into the world after the October 15th CYBILS Awards cut-off but which are eligible to be nominated this year for #CYBILS2023.
There were so many wonderful books that just missed that October deadline that it is going to take two posts! So long as they meet our criteria, the books in these samplers are eligible to be nominated for the upcoming 2023 CYBILS Awards cycle in the young readers’ categories.
Go ahead. Browse. You might just discover a book you think just might be award-worthy enough to be nominated this fall.
- Board Books & Fiction Picture Books
- Easy Readers & Early Chapter Books
- Elementary/Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction
- Elementary/Middle-Grade Graphic Novels
- Elementary Nonfiction
- Poetry Collections
Important: This is a sampling of eligible books, NOT nominees. There are plenty of other titles for most categories. We included a link to Kirkus Reviews at the end of each category for your browsing pleasure.
BOARD BOOKS & FICTION PICTURE BOOKS
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Titles and book covers link to Goodreads.com
BLUE BISON NEEDS A HAIRCUT
by Scott Rothman, illustrated by Pete Oswald
Release Date: 10/18/2022
BOOKS FOR BENJAMIN
by R. G. Rouen, illustrated by Uliana Barabash
Release Date: 11/1/2022
BUS BUDDIES
by Finn Coyle, illustrated by Srimalie Bassani
Release Date: 10/18/2022
THE CATALOGUE OF HUGS
by Joshua David Stein and Augustus Heeren Stein, illustrated by Elizabeth Lilly
Release Date: 12/27/2022
EAT TOGETHER
by Miguel Ordóñez
Release Date: 11/8/2022
TOO-SMALL TYSON
by JaNay Brown-Wood, illustrated by Anastasia Williams
Release Date: 10/18/2022
See more late 2022 titles here:
EASY READERS & EARLY CHAPTER BOOKS
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Titles and book covers link to Goodreads.com
DO YOU KNOW QUANTUM PHYSICS
by Chris Ferrie
Release Date: 11/1/2022
GO, SLED! GO!
by James Yang
Release Date: 10/25/2022
HAPPY AGAIN
by Igor Plohl, illustrated by Urška Stropnik Šonc, translated by Kristina Alice Waller
Release Date: 12/13/2022
SQUIRREL ON STAGE
by Vivian Vande Velde, illustrated by Steve Björkman
See more of the late-2022 published books here:
ELEMENTARY NONFICTION
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Titles and book covers link to Goodreads.com
BATTLE OF THE BRAINS: THE SCIENCE BEHIND ANIMAL MINDS
by Jocelyn Rish, illustrated by David Creighton-Pester
Release Date: 11/8/2022
THE FIRST NOTES: THE STORY OF DO, RE, MI
by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, illustrated by Chiara Fedele
Release Date: 11/1/2022
TREE HOLE HOMES: DAYTIME DENS AND NIGHTTIME NOOKS
by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Amy Hevron
Release Date: 10/25/2022
ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE-GRADE SPECULATIVE FICTION
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Titles and book covers link to Goodreads.com
THE GLASS WITCH
by Lindsay Puckett
Release Date: 10/18/2022
MARIKIT AND THE OCEAN OF STARS
by Caris Avendaño Cruz, illustrated by Alexis Young
Release Date: 10/18/2022
OUTSIDE NOWHERE
by Adam Borba, illustrated by Sam Kalda
Release Date: 10/18/2022
See more late 2022 titles here:
ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE-GRADE GRAPHIC NOVELS
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Titles and book covers link to Goodreads.com
AWOL
by Marla Lesage
Release Date: 10/18/2022
FREESTYLE: A GRAPHIC NOVEL
by Gale Galligan, color by K Czap
Release Date: 10/18/2022
FRIZZY
by Claribel A. Ortega, illustrated by Rose Bousamra
Release Date: 10/18/2022
See more titles end-of-2022 titles here:
POETRY COLLECTIONS
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Titles and book covers link to Goodreads.com
LITTLE WARRIORS, BIG LIVES
by Esther Fausett, illustrated by Mousam Banerjee
Release Date: 11/1/2022
READY FOR SPAGHETTI: FUNNY POEMS FOR FUNNY KIDS
by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Polly Dunbar
Release Date: 11/15/2022
VOICES OF THE PEOPLE
by Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by various artists
Release Date: 12/21/2022
See more late-2022 books here:
The fine print: The books represented here are among the many books published between 10/16/2022 and 12/31/2022 that can be nominated. Inclusion on the list is not an endorsement.