Books for kids from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center

A curated list of books sharing themes with "Transcendent Kingdom" for young readers

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Merri Lindgren, librarian at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center in the School of Education at UW-Madison, compiled a list of book recommendations for our show on October 28th. The selections include new books in 2021 as well as books that share themes with the book Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.

Books for children and teens sharing themes with Transcendent Kingdom:

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith

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By Deborah Heiligman
Henry Holt, 2009

(Age 14 and older)

The Place Between Breaths

By An Na

Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster, 2018

(Age 13 and older)

What Stars Are Made Of

By Sarah Allen

Farrar Straus Giroux / Macmillan, 2020

(Ages 9-12)

Recent books for middle grades about women in the sciences:

Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math

By Jeannine Atkins

Atheneum / Simon & Schuster, 2020

(Age 10 and older)

Eclipse Chaser: Science in the Moon’s Shadow

(Scientists in the Field)

Ilima Loomis

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019

(Ages 10-14)

New picture book biographies of women scientists:

Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

By Traci Sorell

Millbrook Press, 2021

The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe

By Sandra Nickel

Abrams, 2021

Recent picture book stories highlighting girls and science:

Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet

By Curtis Manley

Roaring Brook, 2019

Bird Count

By Susan Edwards Richmond

Peachtree, 2019

Astro Girl

By Ken Wilson-Max

Candlewick, 2019

General — Great new books in 2021:

Rosa Loves Cars

Rosa Plays Ball

By Jessica Spanyol

Child’s Place, 2021

Dual language texts: English / Spanish

I Am Not a Penguin: A Pangolin’s Lament

By Liz Wong

Knopf, 2021

The Cot in the Living Room

By Hilda Eunice Burgos

Kokila, 2021

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

By Eugene Yelchin

Candlewick, 2021

Too Bright to See

By Kyle Lukoff

Dial, 2021

DaVinci’s Cat

By Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Greenwillow, 2021

Firekeeper’s Daughter

By Angeline Boulley

Henry Holt, 2021

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