# Buffalo Fluffalo

**Author:** Bess Kalb
**Grade range:** Grades K–2
**Age range:** 4–8
**First published:** 2024
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780593564554`
**ISBN-10:** `0593564553`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/buffalo-fluffalo
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A laugh-out-loud New York Times bestselling picture book about a buffalo who huffs and bluffs and fluffs to seem bigger and tougher than he really is — until a rainstorm shows him he's just fine as himself. a 2025-2026 Virginia Readers' Choice (Primary) nominee.

## Themes

- humor
- identity
- friendship

## Where this book is assigned

### Great Lakes Great Books Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award 2025-26 honor book (official GLGBA winner press release, announced March 7, 2026 at the MRA Annual Conference) — K-1 division](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award 2025-26 honor book (official GLGBA winner press release, announced March 7, 2026 at the MRA Annual Conference) — K-1 division](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)

### North Carolina Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · North Carolina — [source: North Carolina Library Association, Children's Services Section — 2026 NC Children's Book Award annotated nominee lists (Picture Book K-3 · Junior Book 4-6)](https://nccba.blogspot.com/p/2026-picture-book-nominees.html)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · North Carolina — [source: North Carolina Library Association, Children's Services Section — 2026 NC Children's Book Award annotated nominee lists (Picture Book K-3 · Junior Book 4-6)](https://nccba.blogspot.com/p/2026-picture-book-nominees.html)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · North Carolina — [source: North Carolina Library Association, Children's Services Section — 2026 NC Children's Book Award annotated nominee lists (Picture Book K-3 · Junior Book 4-6)](https://nccba.blogspot.com/p/2026-picture-book-nominees.html)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · North Carolina — [source: North Carolina Library Association, Children's Services Section — 2026 NC Children's Book Award annotated nominee lists (Picture Book K-3 · Junior Book 4-6)](https://nccba.blogspot.com/p/2026-picture-book-nominees.html)

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)

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