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Candlewick’s top bestsellers include board books that encourage and captivate babies’ developing minds, outstanding read-aloud stories for toddlers and preschoolers, nonfiction that can’t help but satisfy the curiosity of children of every age, and young adult fare with proven appeal to teenage readers. full bestsellers list
I Want My Hat Back I Want My Hat Back
A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. (Ages 4-8)
Ladder to the Moon Ladder to the Moon
From Maya Soetoro-Ng, sister of President Obama, comes a lyrical story relaying the loving wisdom of their late mother to a young granddaughter she never met. (Ages 4-8)
Interrupting Chicken Interrupting Chicken
Awarded a 2011 Caldecott Honor! A favorite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chicken’s habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head. (Ages 4-8)

Guess How Much I Love You Guess How Much I Love You
Now in a deluxe new edition, this beloved classic lets children "love you right up to the moon--and back!" (Ages 3-8)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves
Volume II of the National Book Award Winner and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller -- a stunning resolution to the epic tale that "fascinates, appalls, condemns, and enthralls." (Ages 14 and up)
The Magician's Elephant The Magician's Elephant
"The purity of her prose - the reader goes from paragraph to paragraph delighting in the wonderful simple sentences - only adds to the winsome purity of her vision." -The New York Times Book Review (Ages 8-13)

Congratulations to our gifted authors and illustrators whose talents have earned Candlewick books hundreds of awards since 1991! Here's a look at our most recent awards:
Theodor Seuss Geisel Beginning Reader Honor
I Want My Hat Back
Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book
Naamah and the Ark at Night
NAACP Image Award nominee
White Water
The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture Book of the Year
How Did That Get in My Lunchbox?: The Story of Food
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