Hooray for the Midwest! Our home region and the part of the country that we have traveled in the most. I can’t pick a favorite setting, story, or character. But love how through picture books a child can travel on a freighter in the Great Lakes, a historic steamboat on the Mississippi, the Underground Railroad, or a wagon across the prairie. Such great stories!

Michigan: Mail by the Pail by Colin Bergel, Illustrated by Mark Koenig
Indiana: Miss Colfax’s Light by Aimee Bissonette, Illustrated by Eileen Ryan Ewen
Illinois: Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Gibbs Davis, Illustrated by Gilbert Ford
Ohio: Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad by Marlene Targ Brill, Illustrated by Janice Lee Porter

Iowa: American Gothic: The Life of Grant Wood by Susan Wood, Illustrated by Ross MacDonald
Missouri: Steamboat School by Deborah Hopkinson, Illustrated by Ron Husband
Wisconsin: Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes by Pamela Cameron, Illustrated by Renee Graef
Minnesota: Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky, Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

North Dakota: My Mother’s Apron by Dr. Edward Keller, Illustrated by David Christy
South Dakota: Dakota Dugout by Ann Turner, Illustrated by Ronald Himler
Nebraska: Nora’s Chicks by Patricia MacLachlan, Illustrated by Kathryn Brown
Kansas: Three Names by Patricia MacLachlan, Illustrated by Alexander Pertzoff

Picture Book Lists For Other Regions

New England and Mid Atlantic States Picture Book List
Southern States Picture Book List
Rocky Mountain States Picture Book List
Southwest States Picture Book List
Pacific States Picture Book List

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