#Ownvoices or #Livedexperience author or illustrator books recommendations:
Check out the SCBWI Arizona Curated EI Book List
Picture Books
– We Are Water Protectors – Author Carole Lindstrom, Illustrator Michaela Goade, published by Roaring Brook Press, 2020
– Just Like Me – Author & Illustrator Vanessa Brantley-Newton, published by Penguin Random House, 2020
– A New Kind of Wild – Author & Illustrator Zara Gonzalez Hoang, Zara Gonzalez Hoang, published by Penguin Random House, 2020
– Lillybelle, A Damsel Not in Distress – Author Joana Pastro, Illustrator Jhon Ortiz, published by Boyds Mills & Kane, 2020
– Bling Blaine – Author Rob Sanders Illustrator Letizia Rizzo, published by Sterling Publishing, 2020
– Two Bicycles in Beijing – Author Teresa Robeson, Illustrator Junyi Wu, published by Albert Whitman, 2020
– Speak Up – Author Miranda Paul Illustrator Ebony Glenn, published by HMH, 2020
– You Matter – Author & Illustrator Christian Robinson, published by Simon & Schuster, 2020
– Lift – Author Minh Le, Illustrator Dan Santat, published by Little Brown and Company, 2020
– Grandpa Grumps – Author Katrina Moore, Illustrator Xindi Yan, published by Simon & Schuster, 2020
– Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History – Author & Illustrator Vashti Harrison, published by Little Brown and Company, 2019
– Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History – Author & Illustrator Vashti Harrison, published by Little Brown and Company, 2017
– The Arrival – Author & Illustrator Shaun Tan, published by Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007 [wordless book for ages 12 and up]
– Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom – Author Teresa Robeson, Illustrator Rebecca Huang, published by Sterling Sterling Children’s Books, 2019
– All Because You Matter – Author Tami Charles, Illustrator Bryan Collier, published by Orchard Books, 2020
– Ohana Means Family – Author by Ilima Loomis, Illustrator Kenard Pak, published by Neal Porter Books, 2020
– Your Name is a Song – Author Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, Illustrator Luisa Uribe, published by The Innovation Press, 2020
– The Undefeated – Author Kwame Alexander, Illustrator Kadir Nelson, published by Versify, 2019
– The Day you Begin – Author Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrator Rafael Lopez, published by Nancy Paulsen Books, 2019
– The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read – Author Rita Lorraine Hubbard, Illustrator Oge, Mora published by Schwartz & Wade, 2020
– Dancing Hands – Author Margarita Engle, Illustrator Rafael Lopez, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019
– Dreamers – Author & Illustrator Yuyi Morales, published by Neal Porter Books, 2018
– Thank you Omu! – Author & Illustrator Oge Mora published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2018
– Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre – Author Anika Aldamuy Denise, Illustrator Paola Escobar published by HarperCollins, 2019
– A Map into the World – Author Kao Kalia Yang, Illustrator Seo Kim published by Carolrhoda Books, 2019
– Stonewall: A Building, An Uprising, A Revolution – Author Rob Sanders, Illustrator Jamey Christoph, published by Random House Books for Young Readers, 2019
– Alma and how she got her name – Author& Illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal, published by Candlewick Press, 2019
– A Different Pond – Author Bao Phi, Illustrator Thi Bui, published by Capstone Young Readers, 2017
Middle-Grade Books
– Efren Divided – Author Ernesto Cisneros, published by HarperCollins, 2020
– Midsummer’s Mayhem – Author Rajani LaRocca, published by Simon & Schuster, 2019
– Other Words for Home – Author Jasmine Warga, published by HarperCollins, 2019
– The Serpent’s Secret – Author Sayantani DasGupta, published by Scholastic, 2018
– The Red Pencil – Author Andrea Pinkney Davis, Illustrator Shane W. Evans, published by Little, Brown and Company, 2014
– The Last Last-Day-of-Summer – Author Lamar Giles, Dapo Adeola, published by HMH, 2019
– The Jumbies – Author Tracey Baptiste, published by Scholastic, 2015
– Guts – Author Raina Telgemeier, published by Scholastic, 2019
– A Long Walk To Water – Based on a true story by Linda Sue Park, published by HMH Books for Young Readers, 2011
– Merci Suarez Changes Gears – Author Meg Medina, published by Candlewick, 2019
Young Adult Books
– The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind – Author Meg Medina, published by Penguin Random House, 2013
– Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass – Author Meg Medina, published by Penguin Random House, 2014
– This Book is Not Yet Rated – Author Peter Bognanni, published by Penguin Random House, 2019
– The Bone Witch – Author Rin Chupeco, published by Sourcebooks, 2018
– Beasts Made of Night – Author Tochi Onyebuchi, published by Penguin Random House, 2017
– Cicada -Author Shaun Tan, published by Arthur A. Levine Books, 2019
– The Lines We Cross – Author Randa Abdel-Fattah, published by Scholastic, 2017
Last Updated: December 14, 2020
