The National Book Festival “2019 PARADE OF STATES” list is out … and look who’s headed to Washington D.C. this Labor Day. Well, there’s plenty of New York Times bestsellers, a Newberry Honor Award winner, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Rick Riordan presents and well … ME.
Source: The Library of Congress National Book Festival Blog >
The Parade of the States at the Library of Congress National Book Festival is not a parade like the Thanksgiving Day Parade or your local St. Patrick’s Day Parade or even the parades held during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
But it is a parade, nonetheless.
The National Book Festival is on Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Visit loc.gov/bookfest for full details.
Here’s this year’s 2019 Great Reads About Great Places:
- Alabama • Ernestine’s Milky Way by Kerry Madden-Lunsford
- Alaska • Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich by Annie Boochever; in collaboration with Roy Peratrovich Jr.
- Arizona • The Night Flower: The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus by Lara Hawthorne
- Arkansas • Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington’s Mount Vernon by Carla Killough McClafferty
- California • The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo
- Colorado • Mela and the Elephant by Dow Phumiruk
- Connecticut • Whale Quest: Working Together to Save Endangered Species by Karen Romano Young
- Delaware • Lost Soul, Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash
- District of Columbia • A Place to Land by Barry Wittenstein
- Florida • Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
- Georgia • Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons
- Hawaii • Daughter of Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
- Idaho • Beauty and the Beak by Deborah Lee Rose and Jane Veltkamp
- Illinois • Otis and Will Discover the Deep by Barb Rosenstock
- Indiana • ATTUCKS!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City by Phillip Hoose
- Iowa • Blue Sky White Stars by Sarvinder Naberhaus
- Kansas • No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas by Tonya Bolden
- Kentucky • Rock and Roll Woods by Sherry Howard
- Louisiana • The Craziest Fishing Tale on the Bayou by Gary Alipio (THAT’S ME : )
- Maine • Little Bird’s Flock by The Telling Room’s Publishing Workshop
- Maryland • Riverbound by Melinda Beatty
- Massachusetts • Windows by Julia Denos
- Michigan • Nature’s Friend: The Gwen Frostic Story by Lindsey McDivitt
- Minnesota • The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
- Mississippi • The Rambling by Jimmy Cajoleas
- Missouri • What Is Given From the Heart by Patricia McKissack
- Montana • Montana for Kids by Allen Morris Jones
- Nebraska • Simpson’s Sheep Just Want to Sleep! by Bruce Arant
- Nevada • The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons
- New Hampshire • The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
- New Jersey • I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
- New Mexico • The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes
- New York • Harriett the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- North Carolina • Grenade by Alan Gratz
- North Dakota • The Legend of Greg: An Epic Series of Failures by Chris Rylander
- Ohio • Miss Mary Reporting by Sue Macy
- Oklahoma • Friends Stick Together by Hannah E. Harrison
- Oregon • Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
- Pennsylvania • A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
- Puerto Rico • Mi isla bella, mi isla hermosa by Isset M. Pastrana-Andino
- Rhode Island • Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
- South Carolina • How High the Moon by Karyn Parsons
- South Dakota • Muskrat and Skunk / Sinkpe na Maka: A Lakota Drum Story
- by Donald F. Montileaux (Lakota translation by Agnes Gay)
- Tennessee • This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce
- Texas • What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan by Chris Barton
- U.S. Territories • I Am the Virgin Islands by Tiphanie Yanique
- Utah • Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
- Vermont • Bob by Tracey Campbell Pearson
- Virginia • Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
- Washington • All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
- West Virginia • The Princess and the Pickup Truck by Bil Lepp
- Wisconsin • The Rhino in Right Field by Stacy DeKeyser
- Wyoming • Rusty and the River: A Rusty the Ranch Horse Tale by Mary Fichtner