Five Stimola Authors On the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s Best of the Year List!

1. Barb Rosenstock’s THE MYSTERY OF THE MONARCHS illustrated by Erika Meza (Knopf)

2. Randi Sonenshine’s THE LODGE THAT BEAVER BUILT illustrated by Anne Hunter (Candlewick)

3. Lesa Cline-Ransome’s OF WALDEN POND: Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Tudor, and the Pond Between illustrated by Ashely Benham-Yazdani (Holiday House)

4. Renée Watson’s MAYA’S SONG illustrated by Bryan Collier (Harper)

5. Matthew Cordell’s CORNBREAD & POPPY (Little Brown)

6. Jodi Lynn Anderson’s EACH NIGHT WAS ILLUMINATED (Quill Tree)