Picture Book Month Day 19

I am really drawn to picture books that celebrate community.  My book today is a new one from 2021 - The Invisible by Tom Percival. Isabel feels that she is becoming invisible as her family sink into poverty. Looking around the city she sees other invisible people - homeless people, lonely people, displaced people. Isabel does not walk away, she begins her own quiet actions and slowly things begin to change.

I was SO happy to see this book has been included in the 2022 Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist. There are 72 titles on the shortlist. There is one Australian title on this list this year - When we say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke.  There are lots of books on this list that I still need to find but here are some titles, in addition to The Invisible, which I have shared here on this blog. 

Wild is the Wind

While You're Sleeping

The Song of the Nightingale

Anita and the Dragons

The Midnight Fair

Grandpa's Gift

Out of Nowhere

I Talk like a River

Fox - A Circle of Life Story

The Wolf's Secret

Other famous names (and their nominated books) on the Greenaway 2022 shortlist who have books on this blog are:

Anthony Browne (Ernest the elephant)

Lauren Child (The Goody)

Benji Davies (The Snowflake)

Nicola Davies (Last)

The Fan Brothers (The Barnabus Project)

Piet Grobler (Coyote's soundbite)

Joseph Coelho (Zombierella)

Tim Hopgood (My big book of Outdoors)

Qin Leng (Over the Shop)

Jon Arno Lawson (Over the Shop)

PJ Lynch (The Haunted Lake)

James Mayhew (Nen and the Lonely fisherman)

Jackie Morris (The Lost Spells)

Frann Preston-Gannon Bird's eye view

Catherine Rayner (What's it like to be a Bird)

Christian Robinson (Milo imagines the World)