A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson
Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Robert Casilla
Publisher: Holiday House
Age Range: 4 to 8
Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
Author: Marissa Moss
Illustrator: Yuko Shimizu
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 6 to 10
Baseball Hour
Author: Carol Nevius
Illustrator: Bill Thomson
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Age Range: 4 to 8
Baseball Saved Us
Author: Ken Mochizuki
Illustrator: Dom Lee
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Age Range: 6 to 11
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
Author: Audrey Vernick
Illustrator: Steven Salerno
Publisher: Clarion Books
Age Range: 4 to 8
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
Author: Ernest L. Thayer
Illustrator: C.F. Payne
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Age Range: 4 to 8
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream
Author: Crystal Hubbard
Illustrator: Randy Duburke
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Age Range: 6 to 10
Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter
Author: Nanette Mellage, Ying-Hwa Husau
Illustrator: Cornelius Van Wright
Publisher: Troll Communications
Age Range: 4 to 8
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Story of the Young Women Who Won the World Championship
Author: Doreen Rappaport, Lyndall Callan
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
Publisher: Dial Books
Age Range: 4 to 8
Froggy Plays T-Ball (Froggy)
Author: Jonathan London
Illustrator: Frank Remkiewicz
Publisher: Puffin Books
Age Range: 3 to 5
Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrator: Terry Widener
Publisher: Aladdin
Age Range: 5 to 8
Goodnight Baseball (Sports Illustrated Kids Bedtime Books)
Author: Michael Dahl
Illustrator: Christina E. Forshay
Publisher: Capstone Books
Age Range: 4 to 7
Henry Aaron’s Dream
Author: Matt Tavares
Illustrator: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 4 to 8
Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth
Author: Robert Burleigh
Illustrator: Mike Wimmer
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 5 to 9
How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball
Author: David Shannon
Illustrator: David Shannon
Publisher: Scholastic
Age Range: 7 to 11
I Got It!
Author: David Wiesner
Illustrator: David Wiesner
Publisher: Clarion Books
Age Range: 5 to 9
Just Like Josh Gibson
Author: Angela Johnson
Illustrator: Beth Peck
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 5 to 9
Let Them Play (True Story)
Author: Margot Theis Raven
Illustrator: Chris Ellison
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Age Range: 6 to 9
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man
Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Terry Widener
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 5 to 9
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer
Author: Bill Wise
Illustrator: Bill Farnsworth
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Age Range: 6 to 10
Mama Played Baseball
Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Chris O’Leary
Publisher: Harcourt/Gulliver Books
Age Range: 5 to 8
Matzoh Ball: A Passover Story
Author: Mindy Avra Portnoy
Illustrator: Katherine Janus Kahn
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing
Age Range: 5 to 9
Mudball
Author: Matt Tavares
Illustrator: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 6 to 9
Nick Plays Baseball
Author: Rachel Isadora
Illustrator: Ranchel Isadora
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Book
Age Range: 5 to 9
Oliver’s Game (Tavares Baseball Books)
Author: Matt Tavares
Illustrator: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 6 to 9
Players in Pigtails
Author: Shana Corey
Illustrator: Rebecca Gibbon
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Age Range: 4 to 8
Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story
Author: Emily Arnold McCully
Illustrator: Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Age Range: 5 to 8
Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit
Author: Chris Van Dusen
Illustrator: Chris Van Dusen
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 4 to 8
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
Author: Audrey Vernick
Illustrator: Don Tate
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Age Range: 4 to 8
Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds
Author: Robert Burleigh
Illustrator: Mike Wimmer
Publisher: Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster
Age Range: 6 to 9
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Author: Jack Norworth
Illustrator: Alec Gillman
Publisher: Four Winds
Age Range: 4 to 8
Take Me Out to the Yakyu
Author: Aaron Meshon
Illustrator: Aaron Meshon
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 8
Teammates
Author: Peter Golenbock
Illustrator: Paul Bacon
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 7
The Babe & I
Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Terry Widener
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Age Range: 5 to 9
The Bat Boy and His Violin
Author: Gavin Curtis
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
Publisher: Aladdin
Age Range: 4 to 8
The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton
Author: Audrey Vernick
Illustrator: Steven Salerno
Publisher: Clarion Books
Age Range: 4 to 7
The Legend of the Curse of the Bambino
Author: Dan Shaughnessy
Illustrator: C.F. Payne
Publisher: Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster
Age Range: 4 to 8
The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
Author: Nancy Churnin
Illustrator: Jez Tura
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Age Range: 4 to 8
Watch Me Throw the Ball! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
Author: Mo Willems
Illustrator: Mo Willems
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Age Range: 4 to 8
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Author: Kadir Nelson
Illustrator: Kadir Nelson
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Age Range: 8 to 12
Who’s on First? (Pop Classics)
Author: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Illustrator: John Martz
Publisher: Quirk Books
Age Range: 6 to 9
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
Author: Jonah Winter
Illustrator: Andre Carrilho
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Age Range: 4 to 8
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
Author: Jonah Winter
Illustrator: Terry Widener
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Age Range: 4 to 8
Zachary’s Ball (Tavares Baseball Books)
Author: Matt Tavares
Illustrator: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 6 to 9