Sonderbooks

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February 17, 2025

Winner of multiple awards, including the Cybils Award for Poetry Collections, Black Girl, You Are Atlas, by Renée Watson, fine art by Ekua Holmes, read by Renée Watson, is a set of biographical poems about growing up Black in America.

Announcing #Sonderbooks25, a series of blog posts celebrating my 25th year of writing Sonderbooks by revisiting each year's Sonderbooks Stand-outs. My look at the 2001 Sonderbooks Stand-outs is up!

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund




Field Notes for the Wilderness
by Sarah Bessey

The Calculus of Friendship
by Steven Strogatz



Life After Whale
by Lynn Brunelle
illustrations by Jason Chin

Listening to Trees
words by Holly Thompson
pictures by Toshiki Nakamura