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Selection criteria, annotations, tips for using the books and more are available at A Baker’s Dozen website.

"Snack Attack!" by Terry Border (Philomel/Penguin Random)."Saturday" by Oge Mora (Little/Hachette)."One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller" by Kate Read (Peachtree)."Lubna and Pebble" by Wendy Meddour, illustrated by Daniel Egnéus (Dial/Penguin Random)."Let's Have a Dog Party!" by Mikela Prevost (Viking/Penguin Random)."Hey, Water!" by Antoinette Portis (Neal Porter/Holiday)."The Fisherman & the Whale" by Jessica Lanan (Simon)."Field Trip to the Moon" by John Hare (Margaret Ferguson/Holiday)."Chomp: A Shark Romp" by Michael Paul (Crown/Penguin Random)."Astro Girl" by Ken Wilson-Max (Candlewick/Penguin Random).

The annual booklist is compiled by a panel of children’s literature experts who choose from among the many children’s books published in the previous calendar year.
