books for kids

  • 2025 Staff Faves: Kids Books

    2025 Staff Faves: Kids Books

    KIDS CHAPTER BOOKS  Benny on the Case by Wesley King is a heartfelt character-driven mystery featuring a neurodivergent male protagonist that explores friendship, belonging, and family. [-School Library Journal]  In Grace Lin’s The Gate, the Girl and the Dragon, a Stone Lion cub travels from the spirit realm into ours in order to save his… Continue reading

  • Staff Faves 2024: Children’s Books

    Staff Faves 2024: Children’s Books

    Each year, we enjoy asking staff from across the library system to share their favorite kids’ books of the year.  From picture books to chapter books, and from graphic novels to nonfiction – here are just a few of the children’s books published in 2024 that our SPL staff loved! (Annotations are by enthusiastic staff… Continue reading

  • Kids Staff Faves 2022

    As the year draws to a close, we enjoy asking staff from across the library system to share their favorite Kids books of the year.  From picture books to chapter books, and from graphic novels to nonfiction – here are just a few of the Kids books published in 2022 that our SPL staff loved!… Continue reading

  • Seattle Staff Faves 2021: Books for Kids

    We asked our staff across the system for their favorite picture books and chapter books published this past year — and what a tremendous response we had! Here is a sampling of staff faves, with a link at the end to 38 books for the  young readers in  your life. Book descriptions provided either by… Continue reading