SLJ Best Picture Books 2023

From the SLJ website: “Toni Morrison wrote, “Efforts to censor, starve, regulate, and annihilate us are clear signs that something important has taken place. The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground, essayists’ questions challenging authority never being posed, unstaged plays, canceled films—that thought is a nightmare.”

You are the ones doing the important work—giving children access to the life-changing books that will inspire them to create the unwritten novels, unstaged plays, and essays that challenge authority and the powers that be.”

Read the full list here.

*Lolo’s Sari-sari Store is included in this list, and we couldn’t be more ecstatic to be in such good company! Thank you to the many amazing peoplen that make up School Library Journal!