Where There's A. Williams, There's A Way

Last year, I compiled a list of lists not only to determine the  Top 25 Picture Books of 2020  but also to help me pick books to do read aloud videos for the YouTube channel . I found a lot of success finding new books this way and am back with the 2021 version. If I have posted a read aloud, I have included it below. I am also including an Amazon affiliate link to buy your own copy of the book. If you wish to purchase a book this way, it supports both me and the author of the book.  To compile this list, I made an aggregate of the 66  state reading lists . The first thing that I did was collect all 535 titles and narrowed them down to the most commonly occurring titles. Each of the following books was on at least four of the state reading lists. Not all of these books were published in 2021. As I was putting this list together, I noticed that there were a few themes that kept popping up in the books. There are grumpy characters that end up doing something nice. Some stories empower. a