“What are the best Kids, Children, and Youth books released in 2020?” We looked at 565 of the top Kids, Children, and Youth books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 36 books, all appearing on 4 or more “Best Kids, Children, and Youth” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 525+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
Our other Best Of 2020 Articles:
Previous Years: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
All titles have been added to a Bookshop list as well!
Happy Scrolling!
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A #1 New York Times Bestseller! Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices! Featured on Good Morning America, NPR’s Morning Edition, CBS This Morning, and more! From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be a
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Nikki Grimes, Coretta Scott King Award winning author, and acclaimed illustrator Elizabeth Zunon’s latest children’s masterpiece creates an imagination-fueled and animal-filled journey to bedtime.”Has the feel of an all-time great bedtime picture book”–The New York TimesIt’s bedtime. But Mommy’s li
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“Soothing and exquisitely written.” -People “Surely there has never been a better time to read about healing, of both the body and the heart.” -The New York Times Book Review “A supple tale of struggle, ingenuity and the restorative power of generosity even in bitter times. This is a book that will
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From Newbery Medalist Meg Medina comes the bittersweet story of two girls who will always be each other’s número uno, even though one is moving away. A big truck with its mouth wide open is parked at the curb, ready to gobble up Evelyn’s mirror with the stickers around the edge . . . and the sofa th
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A candid and fierce middle grade novel about sisterhood and sexual abuse, by Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times best seller Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Fighting Words is raw, it is real, it is necessary, a must-read for children and their adults–a total triumph in all ways. –Holly Goldberg S
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The star of Julián Is a Mermaid makes a joyful return–and finds a new friend–at a wedding to be remembered. Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend named Maris
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An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids poring over it to find a poem that’s just for them. I am a canvas Being painted on By the words of my family Frie
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Newbery Honoree Pam Muñoz Ryan weaves an entrancing tale of courage and self-discovery. Uniquely magical…Timely and timeless. — New York Times * This tightly packed, powerful fantasy contains resonant truths. — Kirkus Reviews, starred review * Another unforgettable work from a master storyteller
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A lively celebration of food and community from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki Tie on your apron! Roll up your sleeves! Pans are out, oven is hot, the kitchen’s all ready! Where do we start? In this lively, rousing picture book from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki, a crew of resourceful neighbors
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Perfect for fans of Joyce Sidman and Julie Fogliano, Outside In reminds emerging readers of the ways nature creates and touches our lives in homes, apartments, and cars, and is the perfect homeschooling tool to reflect on the world’s connectedness.
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Deaf author and librarian Ann Clare LeZotte weaves a riveting Own Voices story inspired by the true history of a thriving deaf community on Martha’s Vineyard in the early 19th century. * A must-read. — Kirkus Review, starred review LeZotte’s novel is more than just a page-turner. Well researched an
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In the tradition of Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House comes a heartfelt story about a father and son learning to accept the new while honoring and celebrating the old. For as long as he can remember, Leo has lived in the blue house with his dad, but lately the neighborhood is changing. People a
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Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation’s oldest student who did just that, in this picture book from a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator and a rising star author. In 1848, Mary Walker was born into slavery. At age 15, she was freed, and by ag
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A #1 New York Times bestseller!Return to the unforgettable world of the Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling novel The One and Only Ivan (soon to be a major motion picture!) in this incredible sequel, starring Ivan’s friend Bob!Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his
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Newbery Medalist and New York Times-bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly transports readers to 1986 and introduces them to the unforgettable Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas in this pitch-perfect middle grade novel about family, friendship, science, and exploration. A great choice for readers of Kate D
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An instant New York Times bestseller! From Oliver Jeffers, world-renowned picture book creator and illustrator of The Crayons’ Christmas, comes a gorgeously told father-daughter story and companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Here We Are! What shall we build, you and I? Let’s gather all our
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A hilarious and heartwrenching story about surviving middle school–and an unthinkable diagnosis–while embracing life’s weirdness. Ross Maloy just wants to be a normal seventh grader. He doesn’t want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don’t know what to
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Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl’s mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their l
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From two-time Caldecott Winner author-illustrator Sophie Blackall! If You Come to Earth is a glorious guide to our home planet, and a call for us to take care of both Earth and each other. This stunning book is inspired by the thousands of children Sophie Blackall has met during her travels around t
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An office at night is reimagined as a fantastical kingdom of paper complete with friendly dragons in this own voices picture book. When the babysitter is unable to come, Daniel is woken out of bed and joins his parents as they head downtown for their jobs as nighttime office cleaners. But the story
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Instant New York Times Bestseller! A lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to Black and brown children everywhere: reminding them how much they matter, that they have always mattered, and they always will, from powerhouse rising star author Tami Charles and esteemed, award-winning illustrator Bryan Col
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New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. This time, it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important st
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At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and tal
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Take to the sky with Apis, one honeybee, as she embarks on her journey through life! A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans the nursery and feeds the larvae and the queen. But is she strong enough to fly? Not yet! Apis builds
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Iris loves to push the elevator buttons in her apartment building, but when it’s time to share the fun with a new member of the family, she’s pretty put out. That is, until the sudden appearance of a mysterious new button opens up entire realms of possibility, places where she can escape and explore
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Wallace and Gromit meets Winnie-the-Pooh in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship, from Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake with full-color and black-and-white illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. No one wants a skunk. They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should
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From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson comes the first book in a young middle grade series about Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit, kindness, and sunshine. Ryan Hart has a lot on her mind–school, self-image, and especially family. Her dad finally has a new job
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National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson’s stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone’s hero. As a charming, talented pro football st
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Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father’s shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hann
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When is an old truck something more? On a small, bustling farm, a resilient and steadfast pickup works tirelessly alongside the family that lives there, and becomes a part of the dreams and ambitions of the family’s young daughter.After long days and years of hard work leave the old truck rusting in
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A New York Times bestseller! They All Saw a Cat meets The Important Book in this sensitive and impactful picture book about seeing the world from different points of view by Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honoree Christian Robinson. In this full, bright, and beautiful picture book, many different
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What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to? Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing. I wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me. And I can’t say them all . . . Wh
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EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now. “An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love.” –R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder At a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to
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Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl. Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is ha
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An upbeat, empowering, important picture book from the team that created the award-winning Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut I am a nonstop ball of energy. Powerful and full of light. I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader. The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that m
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Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption–a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade. Water is the fir
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
| 37 | A Whale of the Wild | Rosanne Parry, illustrated by Lindsay Moore | Moms |
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| Washington Post | |||
| 38 | All Thirteen | Christina Soontornvat | Bookpage |
| NYPL | |||
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| 39 | Bedtime for Sweet Creatures | Nikki Grimes, illus. by Elizabeth Zunon | Kirkus |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Book Riot | |||
| 40 | Black Heroes of the Wild West: Featuring Stagecoach Mary, Bass Reeves, and Bob Lemmons: A TOON Graphic | James Otis Smith Kadir Nelson (Introduction by) | NPR |
| NYPL | |||
| Amazon | |||
| 41 | Butts Are Everywhere! | Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox | Book Riot |
| Brightly | |||
| Powells | |||
| 42 | Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson’s Journey to the Stars | Gary Golio E. B. Lewis (Illustrator) | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| NYPL | |||
| Kirkus | |||
| 43 | Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring | Matthew Burgess, illustrated by Josh Cochran | Kirkus |
| NYPL | |||
| Washington Post | |||
| 44 | Every Color of Light | Hiroshi Osada, trans. from the Japanese by David Boyd, illus. by Ryōji Arai | Kirkus |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| 45 | Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote | Veronica Chambers | NYPL |
| Washington Post | |||
| Amazon | |||
| 46 | From the Desk of Zoe Washington | Janae Marks | Goodreads |
| Parents | |||
| Imagination Soup | |||
| 47 | Go with the Flow | Karen Schneemann Lily Williams | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| NYPL | |||
| NPR | |||
| 48 | How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion | Ashima Shiraishi Yao Xiao (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| Publishers Weekly | |||
| Amazon | |||
| 49 | I Promise | LeBron James | Barnes & Noble |
| Moms | |||
| Amazon | |||
| 50 | Ikenga | Nnedi Okorafor | Powells |
| Amazon | |||
| NPR | |||
| 51 | In a Jar | Deborah Marcero | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| Bookpage 2 | |||
| Kirkus | |||
| 52 | King and the Dragonflies | Kacen Callender | Publishers Weekly 2 |
| Bookpage | |||
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| 53 | Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 1) | Elizabeth C. Bunce | Bookpage |
| Moms | |||
| Amazon | |||
| 54 | Punching the Air | Ibi Zoboi and Yusaf Saalam | Powells |
| Bookshop Santa Cruz | |||
| Time | |||
| 55 | Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi | Washington Post |
| Bookshop Santa Cruz | |||
| Time | |||
| 56 | The Barnabus Project | Terry Fann, Eric Fann, and Devin Fann | Kirkus |
| Powells | |||
| Amazon | |||
| 57 | The Little Mermaid | Jerry Pinkney | Amazon |
| Bookpage 2 | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| 58 | The Most Beautiful Thing | Kao Kalia Yang | Kirkus |
| NYPL | |||
| NPR | |||
| 59 | The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth | Wade Hudson & Cheryl W. Hudson (eds) | NYPL |
| NPR | |||
| The New York Times | |||
| 60 | A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story | Caren Stelson Akira Kusaka (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| Bookshop Santa Cruz | |||
| 61 | A Phoenix First Must Burn | Patrice Caldwell | Powells |
| Bookshop Santa Cruz | |||
| 62 | A Polar Bear in the Snow | Mac Barnett Shawn Harris (Illustrator) | NYPL |
| Amazon | |||
| 63 | A Wish in the Dark | Christina Soontornvat | Washington Post |
| NYPL | |||
| 64 | Black Is a Rainbow Color | Angela Joy, illustrated by Ekua Holmes | NYPL |
| Washington Post | |||
| 65 | Chance: Escape from the Holocaust | Uri Shulevitz | Publishers Weekly 2 |
| The New York Times | |||
| 66 | City Spies | James Ponti | Parents |
| NYPL | |||
| 67 | Dragon Hoops | Gene Luen Yang | Powells |
| The New York Times | |||
| 68 | Efrén Divided | Ernesto Cisneros | NYPL |
| NPR | |||
| 69 | Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks | Suzanne Slade Cozbi A. Cabrera (Illustrator) | NYPL |
| Parents | |||
| 70 | Families Belong | Dan Saks Brooke Smart (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| Brightly | |||
| 71 | Fauja Singh Keeps Going | Simran Jeet Singh | NYPL |
| NPR | |||
| 72 | Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns | Duncan Tonatiuh | Kirkus |
| NYPL | |||
| 73 | Fred’s Big Feelings: The Life and Legacy of Mister Rogers | Laura Renauld Brigette Barrager (Illustrator) | Moms |
| Amazon | |||
| 74 | Ghost Squad | Claribel A. Ortega | Goodreads |
| NPR | |||
| 75 | Happy Hair | Mechal Renee Roe | Amazon |
| Brightly | |||
| 76 | Hello, World! Construction Site | Jill McDonald | Amazon |
| Brightly | |||
| 77 | Hike | Pete Oswald | Kirkus |
| NYPL | |||
| 78 | How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Adventure | John Rocco | Moms |
| Publishers Weekly 2 | |||
| 79 | Just One of Those Days | Jill Murphy | Waterstones |
| The Guardian | |||
| 80 | Land of the Cranes | Aida Salazar | Bookpage |
| NYPL | |||
| 81 | Letters from Bear | Gauthier David Marie Caudry (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| Eerdlings | |||
| 82 | Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian | Tim Probert | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| NYPL | |||
| 83 | Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It | Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney | Washington Post |
| The New York Times | |||
| 84 | Mail Duck | Erica Sirotich | Parents |
| Kirkus | |||
| 85 | Mexique | María José Ferrada Ana Penyas (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| Eerdlings | |||
| 86 | My Best Friend | Julie Fogliano | NYPL |
| NPR | |||
| 87 | Nacho’s Nachos: The Story Behind the World’s Favorite Snack | Sandra Nickel | Kirkus |
| NYPL | |||
| 88 | Nana Akua Goes to School | Tricia Elam Walker | Kirkus |
| NYPL | |||
| 89 | Old Rock (Is Not Boring) | Deb Pilutti | Parents |
| Kirkus | |||
| 90 | Our Friend Hedgehog | Lauren Castillo | Bookpage |
| School Library Journal | |||
| 91 | Out the Door | Christy Hale | Publishers Weekly |
| NYPL | |||
| 92 | Packs: Strength in Numbers | Hannah Salyer | Kirkus |
| NYPL | |||
| 93 | Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet | Zanib Mian | NYPL |
| NPR | |||
| 94 | Primer | Jennifer Muro and Thomas Krajewski | Amazon |
| Imagination Soup | |||
| 95 | Shirley & Jamila Save Their Summer | Gillian Goerz | Parents |
| NYPL | |||
| 96 | Snapdragon | Kat Leyh | Publishers Weekly 2 |
| NYPL | |||
| 97 | Starcrossed | Josephine Angelini | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| Kirkus | |||
| 98 | Sugar in Milk | Thrity Umrigar | Bookpage 2 |
| Kirkus | |||
| 99 | Swashby and the Sea | Beth Ferry, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal | Washington Post |
| Book Riot | |||
| 100 | Ten Ways to Hear Snow | Cathy Camper and Kenard Pak | NPR |
| Powells | |||
| 101 | The Blackbird Girls | Anne Blankman | Imagination Soup |
| NYPL | |||
| 102 | The Book of Hopes | The Guardian | |
| The Telegraph | |||
| 103 | The Brave | James Bird | Imagination Soup |
| NYPL | |||
| 104 | The Only Black Girls in Town | Brandy Colbert | Washington Post |
| Bookpage | |||
| 105 | The Paper Boat: A Refugee Story | Thao Lam | Kirkus |
| NYPL | |||
| 106 | The Silent Stars Go By | Sally Nicholls | The Guardian |
| The Telegraph | |||
| 107 | The Silver Arrow | Lev Grossman | Amazon |
| The New York Times | |||
| 108 | The Suitcase | Chris Naylor-Ballesteros | Amazon |
| Kirkus | |||
| 109 | The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5) | Rick Riordan | Goodreads |
| Amazon | |||
| 110 | The Wizards of Once: Never and Forever (The Wizards of Once, 4) | Cressida Cowell | The Telegraph |
| Amazon | |||
| 111 | The World Needs More Purple People | Kristen Bell Benjamin Hart Daniel Wiseman (Illustrator) & 1 more | Barnes & Noble |
| Brightly | |||
| 112 | There Must Be More Than That! | Shinsuke Yoshitake | Kirkus |
| The New York Times | |||
| 113 | To the Moon and Back for You | Emilia Bechrakis Serhant | Brightly |
| Book Riot | |||
| 114 | Tomorrow I’ll Be Kind | Jessica Hische | Moms |
| Amazon | |||
| 115 | Trowbridge Road | Marcella Pixley | Amazon |
| Shelf Awareness | |||
| 116 | Twins | Varian Johnson, illustrated by Shannon Wright | NPR |
| Washington Post | |||
| 117 | We Are Not Free | Traci Chee | Moms |
| Time | |||
| 118 | When You Trap a Tiger | Tae Keller | Publishers Weekly 2 |
| NYPL | |||
| 119 | Will You Be My Friend? | Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram | Amazon |
| Waterstones | |||
| 120 | Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice | Mahogany L. Browne, with Elizabeth… | Kirkus |
| NYPL | |||
| 121 | ¡Vamos! Let’s Go Eat | Raul the Third, colors by Elaine Bay | Washington Post |
| 122 | ¿Cómo lo ves? | Vera Galindo | NYPL |
| 123 | ‘OHANA MEANS FAMILY | ILIMA LOOMIS | Kirkus |
| 124 | 100 Cookies: The Baking Book for Every Kitchen, with Classic Cookies, Novel Treats, Brownies, Bars, and More | Sarah Kieffer | The Wall Street Journal |
| 125 | 13 Stories About Harris | Amy Schwartz | Bookpage 2 |
| 126 | 50 Things to Do in the Wild | Richard Skrein Maria Nilsson (Illustrator) | The Wall Street Journal |
| 127 | A Bear Named Bjorn | Delphine Perret | NYPL |
| 128 | A Game Of Fox & Squirrels | Jenn Reese | NPR |
| 129 | A Girl Like Me | Angela Johnson | NYPL |
| 130 | A Hatful of Dragons | Vikram Madan | NYPL |
| 131 | A High Five for Glenn Burke | Phil Bildner | NYPL |
| 132 | A Last Goodbye | Elin Kelsey Soyeon Kim (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 133 | A Little Book About 123s | Leo Lionni Jan Gerardi (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 134 | A Mystery in the Forest | Susanna Isern Daniel Montero Galán (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 135 | A New Green Day | Antoinette Portis | Publishers Weekly |
| 136 | A Poem for Every Winter Day | The Telegraph | |
| 137 | A Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas | Evie Robillard Rachel Katstaller (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 138 | A Sporting Chance | Lori Alexander | NYPL |
| 139 | A Stopwatch from Grampa | Loretta Garbutt Carmen Mok (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 140 | A Story about Afiya | James Berry Anna Cunha (Illustrator) | The New York Times |
| 141 | A Story for Small Bear | Alice B. McGinty Richard Jones (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 142 | A Stranger Comes to Town | Maria Kristjansdottir | Kirkus |
| 143 | A Thousand Questions | Saadia Faruqi | NYPL |
| 144 | A Way with Wild Things | Larissa Theule Sara Palacios (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 145 | A World of Opposites | Gray Malin | Amazon |
| 146 | Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball | Jen Bryant Frank Morrison (Illustrator) | NYPL |
| 147 | Adele & Simon | Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock (Illustrator) | Reading and Thinking |
| 148 | After the War | The Telegraph | |
| 149 | Agent Moose (Agent Moose, 1) | Mo O’Hara Jess Bradley (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 150 | Ali Cross | James Patterson | Goodreads |
| 151 | Alicia Alonso Takes the Stage | Rebel Girls Josefina Preumayr (Illustrator) | School Library Journal |
| 152 | All Kinds of Kindness | Judy Carey Nevin Susie Hammer (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 153 | All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing | Chris Barton Nicole Xu (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 154 | All the Birds in the World | Inc Peter Pauper Press (Created by) | Kirkus |
| 155 | All the colors | Susie Jaramillo | Chicago Public Library |
| 156 | Amigas | Lauren Ace | NYPL |
| 157 | And the People Stayed Home | Kitty O’Meara | Barnes & Noble |
| 158 | Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing | Judi Barrett Ron Barrett (Illustrator) | Reading and Thinking |
| 159 | Anisha, Accidental Detective | The Guardian | |
| 160 | Any Day with You | Mae Respicio | NYPL |
| 161 | Apple: Skin to the Core | Eric Gansworth | Time |
| 162 | Are Your Stars Like My Stars? | Leslie Helakoski Heidi Woodward Sheffield (Illustrator) | Book Riot |
| 163 | Arlo The Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep | Catherine Rayner | Waterstones |
| 164 | As It Is In Heaven | Eerdlings | |
| 165 | Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier | Jim Ottaviani | NYPL |
| 166 | At the Pond | Geraldo Valerio | NYPL |
| 167 | Attack of the Underwear Dragon | Scott Rothman Pete Oswald (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 168 | B Is for Ballet: A Dance Alphabet | John Robert Allman Rachael Dean (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 169 | Basher STEM Junior: Science | Jonathan O’Callaghan Simon Basher (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 170 | Be You! | Amazon | |
| 171 | Bear | Ben Queen | NYPL |
| 172 | Bear Came Along | Richard T Morris Leuyen Pham (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 173 | Beatrix Potter the Complete Tales (Peter Rabbit) | Reading and Thinking | |
| 174 | Bedtime Bonnet | Nancy Redd Nneka Myers (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 175 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Your All-access Guide to the World’s Amazing Museums | DK Smithsonian Institution (Contribution by) | Amazon |
| 176 | Being Frog | April Pulley Sayre | Publishers Weekly |
| 177 | Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation | Pat Sherman Floyd Cooper (Illustrator) | Eerdlings |
| 178 | Beyond Me | Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu | NYPL |
| 179 | Big Papa and the Time Machine | Daniel Bernstrom | NYPL |
| 180 | Bird Hugs | Ged Adamson | Goodreads 2 |
| 181 | Birrarung Wilam: A Story from Aboriginal Australia | Aunty Joy Murphy Andrew Kelly Lisa Kennedy (Illustrator) & 1 more | Kirkus |
| 182 | Black and British: A short, essential history | David Olusoga | The Guardian |
| 183 | Black Brother, Black Brother | Jewell Parker Rhodes | Amazon |
| 184 | Bones: An Inside Look at the Animal Kingdom | Jules Howard Chervelle Fryer (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 185 | Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom | Carole Boston Weatherford Michele Wood (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 186 | Boxitects | Kim Smith | Moms |
| 187 | Brand New Boy | The Telegraph | |
| 188 | Brick by Brick | Heidi Woodward Sheffield | NYPL |
| 189 | Bringing Back the Wolves: How a Predator Restored An Ecosystem | Jude Isabella | NYPL |
| 190 | Britannica All New Kids’ Encyclopedia: What We Know & What We Don’t | Britannica Group Christopher Lloyd (Editor) J. E. Luebering (Foreword by) & 1 more | The Wall Street Journal |
| 191 | Brothers Keeper | Julie Lee | Imagination Soup |
| 192 | Bug Boys | Laura Knetzger | NYPL |
| 193 | Busy Grow | The Telegraph | |
| 194 | Camping With Unicorns (Phoebe and Her Unicorn #11) | Dana Simpson | Powells |
| 195 | Carteras y carteros | Caracolino Canizales (Illustrator) | Chicago Public Library |
| 196 | Cast Away: Poems for Our Time | Naomi Shihab Nye | Washington Post |
| 197 | Cat Kid Comic Club: From the Creator of Dog Man | Dav Pilkey | Amazon |
| 198 | Catch That Chicken! | Atinuke Angela Brooksbank (Illustrator) | Parents |
| 199 | Catherine’s War | Julie Billet | NYPL |
| 200 | Chapulín Colorado | Chicago Public Library | |
| 201 | Circle! Sphere! | Grace Lin | Chicago Public Library |
| 202 | Clap When You Land | Elizabeth Acevedo | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 203 | Claude: The True Story of a White Alligator | Emma Bland Smith Jennifer M. Potter (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 204 | Clean Up! | Dapo Adeola, Nathan Bryon | Waterstones |
| 205 | Coming to England | Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen | Waterstones |
| 206 | Condor Comeback (Scientists in the Field) | Sy Montgomery, photos by Tianne Strombeck | Publishers Weekly 2 |
| 207 | CONSTRUCTION PEOPLEEDITED | LEE BENNETT HOPKINS | Kirkus |
| 208 | Construction Site Mission: Demolition! | Sherri Duskey Rinker | Amazon |
| 209 | Coo | Kaela Noel | Imagination Soup |
| 210 | Counting Creatures | Julia Donaldson Sharon King-Chai (Illustrator) | The Telegraph |
| 211 | Cozy | Jan Brett Jan Brett (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 212 | Crabapple Trouble | Kaeti VanDorn | NYPL |
| 213 | Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals | Katy S. Duffield Mike Orodán (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 214 | Dad By My Side | Soosh | Amazon |
| 215 | Dandan’s Dream (Child Sent to the South Pole) | Xiaowen Zhu Yanling Gong (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 216 | Dandelion’s Dream | Yoko Tanaka | Kirkus |
| 217 | Daring Darleen: Queen of the Screen | Anne Nesbet | Publishers Weekly 2 |
| 218 | Date Me, Bryson Keller | Kevin Van Whye | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 219 | Dead Voices | Katherine Arden | Family Vacation Critic |
| 220 | Dear Justyce | Nic Stone | Financial Times |
| 221 | Desert Girl, Monsoon Boy | Tara Dairman Archana Sreenivasan (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 222 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End | Jeff Kinney | Amazon |
| 223 | Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built | Angela Burke Kunkel Paola Escobar (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 224 | Dog Gone | Rob Biddulph | Waterstones |
| 225 | Dog Man: Grime and Punishment: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #9) (9) | Dav Pilkey | Amazon |
| 226 | Dogger’s Christmas | The Telegraph | |
| 227 | Dozens of Doughnuts | Carrie Finison Brianne Farley (Illustrator) | Book Riot |
| 228 | Dreams for Our Daughters | Ruth Doyle Ashling Lindsay (Illustrator) | Eerdlings |
| 229 | Early Departures | Justin A. Reynolds | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 230 | Eight Pieces of Silva | The Guardian | |
| 231 | Embassy of the Dead | Will Mabbitt | NYPL |
| 232 | Eva Evergreen: Semi-Magical Witch | Julie Abe | NYPL |
| 233 | Every Night Is Pizza Night | J. Kenji López-Alt Gianna Ruggiero (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 234 | Everybody Counts: A Counting Story From 0 To 7.5 Billion | Kristin Roskifte | NPR |
| 235 | Exploring the Elements | Isabel Thomas Sara Gillingham (Artist) | The Wall Street Journal |
| 236 | Federico and All His Families | Mili Hernández Gómez (Illustrator) | Chicago Public Library |
| 237 | Federico y sus familias | Mili Hernández Gómez (Illustrator) | Chicago Public Library |
| 238 | Feel the Fog | April Pulley Sayre | Kirkus |
| 239 | Felix Ever After | Kacen Callender | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 240 | Finding François | Gus Gordon | Readings |
| 241 | Finding Our Heart | Readings | |
| 242 | Flying Over Water | N. H. Senzai Shannon Hitchcock Andrea Davis Pinkney (Editor) & 1 more | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 243 | Fox and Little Tanuki | Mi Tagawa | NYPL |
| 244 | Friday Night Wrestlefest | J. F. Fox Micah Player (Illustrator) | Parents |
| 245 | Get a Grip Vivy Cohen | Sarah Kapit | Imagination Soup |
| 246 | Giraffe Problems | Jory John Lane Smith (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 247 | Girl on a Motorcycle | Amy Novesky | NYPL |
| 248 | Good Morning Zoom | Lindsay Rechler June Park (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 249 | Goodbye, Mr. Terupt | Rob Buyea | Amazon |
| 250 | Green Lantern: Legacy | Minh Lê | NYPL |
| 251 | Grow: Secrets of Our DNA | Nicola Davies Emily Sutton (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 252 | Grumpy Monkey Up All Night | Suzanne Lang Max Lang (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 253 | Guardians of Liberty: Freedom of the Press and the Nature of News | Linda Barrett Osborne | NYPL |
| 254 | Guts | Raina Telgemeier | Family Vacation Critic |
| 255 | Hand in Hand | Parents | |
| 256 | Happy Birthday, Moon (Moonbear) | Frank Asch | Reading and Thinking |
| 257 | Helga Makes a Name for Herself | Megan Maynor Eda Kaban (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 258 | Hello Hello (Books for Preschool and Kindergarten, Poetry Books for Kids) | Brendan Wenzel (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 259 | Hello, Elephant! | Sam Boughton | Parents |
| 260 | Hello, friend | Chicago Public Library | |
| 261 | Help Wanted, Must Love Books | Janet Sumner Johnson Courtney Dawson (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 262 | Herd Boy | Eerdlings | |
| 263 | Heroes Wear Masks | Sesame Workshop | Moms |
| 264 | Hey, Baby! | Andrea Pippins | Brightly |
| 265 | History Comics: The Roanoke Colony: America’s First Mystery | Chris Schweizer | Amazon |
| 266 | History Smashers: The Mayflower | Kate Messner Dylan Meconis (Illustrator) | Parents |
| 267 | Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow | Jessica Townsend | Goodreads |
| 268 | Hooray for Little Fingers! | Tristan Mory | Parents |
| 269 | How Big Is Zagnodd? | Sandra Boynton | Parents |
| 270 | How the Stars Came To Be | Poonam Mistry | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 271 | How to Be More Paddington: A Book of Kindness | The Telegraph | |
| 272 | How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World | Marjorie Priceman | Reading and Thinking |
| 273 | HOW TO TIE A SHOE & OTHER BIG ADVENTURESILLUSTRATED | SKIP HILL | Kirkus |
| 274 | How to Write a Story: (Read-Aloud Book, Learn to Read and Write) | Amazon | |
| 275 | Hug | Reading and Thinking | |
| 276 | I Am a Book. I Am a Portal to the Universe | Financial Times | |
| 277 | I Am Horton | Cynthia Schumerth | Brightly |
| 278 | I Am Not a Label: 34 artists, thinkers, athletes and activists with disabilities from past and present | Cerrie Burnell Lauren Mark Baldo (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 279 | I Am One: A Book of Action | Susan Verde Peter H. Reynolds (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 280 | I am Strong | Suzy Capozzi Eren Unten (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 281 | I Am the Storm | Jane Yolen Heidi E. y. Stemple Kristen Howdeshell (Illustrator) & 1 more | Amazon |
| 282 | I Am the Wind | Michael Karg Sophie Diao (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 283 | I Love My Tutu Too!: A Never Bored Book | Ross Burach | Kirkus |
| 284 | I’m Sticking with You | Smriti Halls, Steve Small | Waterstones |
| 285 | I’ll Always Be Older Than You | Readings | |
| 286 | Ice! Poems about Polar Life | Douglas Florian | Kirkus |
| 287 | If I had a unicorn | Gabby Dawnay, Alex Barrow | Waterstones |
| 288 | In the Half Room | Carson Ellis | Publishers Weekly |
| 289 | Invent-a-Pet | Vicky Fang Tidawan Thaipinnarong (Illustrator) | Book Riot |
| 290 | InvestiGators (InvestiGators, 1) | Amazon | |
| 291 | It’s You I Like: A Mister Rogers Poetry Book (Mister Rogers Poetry Books) | Fred Rogers Luke Flowers (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 292 | Izzy and Frank | Katrina Lehman Sophie Beer (Illustrator) | Readings |
| 293 | Jabari Tries | Gaia Cornwall | Amazon |
| 294 | Jefferson Measures a Moose | Mara Rockliff S. D. Schindler (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 295 | Julieta and the Diamond Enigma | Luisana Duarte | NYPL |
| 296 | Jumbo: The Making of the Boeing 747 | Chris Gall | Kirkus |
| 297 | Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea | Meena Harris Ana Ramírez González (Illustrator) | Parents |
| 298 | Kate the Chemist: The Big Book of Experiments | Kate Biberdorf | Amazon |
| 299 | Kevin the Unicorn: Why Can’t We Be Bestie-corns? | Jessika Von Innerebner | Brightly |
| 300 | King of the Birds | Elise Gravel | NYPL |
| 301 | Kitties on Dinosaurs | Michael Slack | Powells |
| 302 | La araña chiquitita | Chicago Public Library | |
| 303 | La bañera | Lisa Biggi | NYPL |
| 304 | La belleza del final | Alfredo Colella | NYPL |
| 305 | Leave a Message in the Sand | Bibi Dumon Tak Annemarie Van Haeringen (Illustrator) | Eerdlings |
| 306 | Legendborn | Tracy Deonn | Powells |
| 307 | Library Babies | Violet Lemay Puck | Chicago Public Library |
| 308 | Life-Size Animals: An Illustrated Safari | Rita Mabel Schiavo Isabella Grott (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 309 | Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle For The Ballot Box | Evette Dionne | NPR |
| 310 | Lights on Wonder Rock | David Litchfield | Barnes & Noble |
| 311 | Like the Moon Loves the Sky | Hena Khan | NYPL |
| 312 | Little Fox | Edward Van De Vendel Marije Tolman (Illustrator) David Colmer (Translator) & 1 more | Kirkus |
| 313 | Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History | Vashti Harrison Kwesi Johnson (With) | Amazon |
| 314 | Little Monsters | David Walliams, Adam Stower | Waterstones |
| 315 | Llama Llama Lose Tooth Drama | Anna Dewdney Jt Morrow (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 316 | Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse (A Llama Book, 2) | Jonathan Stutzman Heather Fox (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 317 | Logan Likes Mary Anne! | Ann M. Martin Gale Galligan (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 318 | Looking for Smile | Ellen Tarlow Lauren Stringer (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 319 | Looky Looky Little One Things That Go | Sandra Magsamen | Amazon |
| 320 | Los carpinchos | Alfredo Soderguit | NYPL |
| 321 | Los tomates de Mila | Sanne Dufft | NYPL |
| 322 | Love Your Body | Jessica Sanders Carol Rossetti (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 323 | Mad, Mad, MAD (Leslie Patricelli board books) | Leslie Patricelli | Amazon |
| 324 | Madame Badobedah | Sophie Dahl Lauren O’Hara (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 325 | Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration | Samara Cole Doyon | NYPL |
| 326 | Mammoth Science | DK David Macaulay (Illustrator) | The Wall Street Journal |
| 327 | Manners Begin at Breakfast | Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece Tory Burch (Foreword by) Perri Klass (Introduction by) & 1 more | The Wall Street Journal |
| 328 | Manos a la tierra: crea tu propio jardín | Kirsten Bradley | NYPL |
| 329 | Mary And The Trail Of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story | Andrea L. Rogers | NPR |
| 330 | Mary Underwater | Shannon Doleski | NYPL |
| 331 | Max Meow Book 1: Cat Crusader | Amazon | |
| 332 | Me & Mama | Cozbi A. Cabrera | Bookpage 2 |
| 333 | Me and My Sister | Rose Robbins | Eerdlings |
| 334 | Meesha Makes Friends | Tom Percival, Tom Percival | Waterstones |
| 335 | Memoirs of a Tortoise | Devin Scillian Tim Bowers (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 336 | Mi abuelo | Émilie Chazerand | NYPL |
| 337 | Mi lazarilla, mi capitán | Gonzalo Moure | NYPL |
| 338 | Midnight At The Barclay Hotel | Fleur Bradley | NPR |
| 339 | Migrants | Issa Watanabe | Kirkus |
| 340 | Miriam at the River | Jane Yolen Khoa Le (Illustrator) | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 341 | Miss Rumphius | Barbara Cooney | Reading and Thinking |
| 342 | Mog’s Birthday | Judith Kerr | Waterstones |
| 343 | Mom’s Sweater | Jayde Perkin | Eerdlings |
| 344 | Mr. Gumpy’s Outing | John Burningham John Burningham (Illustrator) | Reading and Thinking |
| 345 | Música en el jardín | Mariana Ruiz Johnson | NYPL |
| 346 | My Dad | Miriam Hathaway | Reading and Thinking |
| 347 | My Day with Gong Gong | Sennah Yee Elaine Chen (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 348 | My Favorite Color: I Can Only Pick One? | Aaron Becker | Kirkus |
| 349 | My Friend Earth: | Patricia MacLachlan Francesca Sanna (Illustrator) | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 350 | My Rainbow | Deshanna Neal Trinity Neal Art Twink (Illustrator) & 1 more | Kirkus |
| 351 | Natalie Portman’s Fables | Natalie Portman Janna Mattia (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 352 | Nerp! | Sarah Lynne Reul | Kirkus |
| 353 | Never and Forever | The Telegraph | |
| 354 | Newton and Curie: The Science Squirrels | Daniel Kirk | Amazon |
| 355 | Night Wishes | Lee Bennett Hopkins (Editor) Jen Corace (Illustrator) | Eerdlings |
| 356 | NO VOICE TOO SMALLEDITED | LINDSAY H. METCALF , KEILA V. DAWSON & JEANETTE BRADLEY | Kirkus |
| 357 | No, David! | David Shannon | Reading and Thinking |
| 358 | Nonsense! The Curious Story of Edward Gorey | Lori Mortensen | NYPL |
| 359 | Now Wash Your Hands! | Matt Carr, Matt Carr | Waterstones |
| 360 | Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean’s Biggest Secret | Jess Keating Katie Hickey (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 361 | Odessa | Jonathan Hill | Powells |
| 362 | Ohana Means Family | Ilima Loomis | NYPL |
| 363 | Oi Aardvark! | Kes Gray, Jim Field | Waterstones |
| 364 | Oil | Jonah Winter | NYPL |
| 365 | On the Horizon | Lois Lowry | NYPL |
| 366 | On the Move | The Telegraph | |
| 367 | One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Sir Tom Moore | Captain Tom Moore, Adam Larkum | Waterstones |
| 368 | One of a Kind: A Story About Sorting and Classifying | Neil Packer | The Wall Street Journal |
| 369 | One True King (The School for Good and Evil: The Camelot Years, #3) | Soman Chainani | Goodreads |
| 370 | One Year at Ellsmere | Faith Erin Hicks | Moms |
| 371 | One Yellow Sun | Michael Arndt | Kirkus |
| 372 | Oscar the Hungry Unicorn | Lou Carter Nikki Dyson (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 373 | Our Castle by the Sea | Lucy Strange | Family Vacation Critic |
| 374 | Our Favorite Day of the Year | A. E. Ali Rahele Jomepour Bell (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 375 | Our Home, Our Heartbeat | Adam Briggs Kate Moon (Illustrator) Rachael Sarra (Illustrator) & 1 more | Readings |
| 376 | Our World | Parents | |
| 377 | Overground Railroad | Lesa Cline-Ransome | NYPL |
| 378 | Paola Santiago and the River of Tears (Rick Riordan Presents) | Tehlor Kay Mejia | Amazon |
| 379 | Pea, Bee, & Jay #1: Stuck Together | Brian Smitty Smith | Amazon |
| 380 | Perkin’s Perfect Purple: How a Boy Created Color with Chemistry | Tami Lewis Brown Debbie Loren Dunn Francesca Sanna (Illustrator) & 1 more | Kirkus |
| 381 | Pirate Stew | Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell | Waterstones |
| 382 | Play With Your Plate! | Judith Rossell | Parents |
| 383 | Playing Possum | Jennifer Black Reinhardt | Barnes & Noble |
| 384 | Please Don’t Eat Me | Liz Climo | Readings |
| 385 | Poems Aloud | Joseph Coelho | NYPL |
| 386 | Prairie Days | Patricia MacLachlan | Bookpage 2 |
| 387 | Pretty Tricky: The Sneaky Ways Plants Survive | Etta Kaner Ashley Barron (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 388 | Pride and Prejudice | The Telegraph | |
| 389 | Puss in Boots | Paul Galdone Joanna C. Galdone | Reading and Thinking |
| 390 | Race to the Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 391 | Rain Before Rainbows | Smriti Prasadam-Halls | Bookpage 2 |
| 392 | Red | Eerdlings | |
| 393 | Ritu Weds Chandni | Ameya Narvankar | Kirkus |
| 394 | Ronan the Librarian | Tara Luebbe Becky Cattie Victoria Maderna (Illustrator) & 1 more | Amazon |
| 395 | Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure | Jeff Kinney | Moms |
| 396 | Salma the Syrian Chef | Danny Ramadan Anna Bron (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 397 | Santiago’s Road Home | Alexandra Diaz | Imagination Soup |
| 398 | Saturdays Are for Stella | Candy Wellins Charlie Eve Ryan (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 399 | Saucy | Cynthia Kadohata Marianna Raskin (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 400 | See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog | David Larochelle Mike Wohnoutka (Illustrator) | Parents |
| 401 | Serpentine | Laurell K. Hamilton | The Guardian |
| 402 | Seven Golden Rings: A Tale of Music and Math | Rajani Larocca Archana Sreenivasan (Illustrator) | Book Riot |
| 403 | Shake My Sillies Out | Raffi Maple Lam (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 404 | Sharing | Yusuke Yonezu | Kirkus |
| 405 | Sharuko | Monica Brown | NYPL |
| 406 | She Persisted Around the World | Chelsea Clinton Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 407 | She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm | Katheryn Russell-Brown Eric Velasquez (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 408 | Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb! | Veronica Chambers | NYPL |
| 409 | Sisters Of The War: Two Remarkable True Stories Of Survival And Hope In Syria | Rania Abouzeid | NPR |
| 410 | Sleep Tight with The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | Brightly |
| 411 | Snail Crossing | Corey R. Tabor | NPR |
| 412 | Sometimes Cake | Readings | |
| 413 | Songs for Our Sons | Ruth Doyle Ashling Lindsay (Illustrator) | Eerdlings |
| 414 | Sophie’s Masterpiece | Eileen Spinelli Jane Dyer (Illustrator) | Reading and Thinking |
| 415 | Stone Soup | Marcia Brown | Reading and Thinking |
| 416 | Story Boat | Kyo Maclear Rashin Kheiriyeh (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 417 | Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy | Kenneth C. Davis | Washington Post |
| 418 | Sweet Child o’ Mine | Guns N’ Roses | Goodreads 2 |
| 419 | Talking is Not My Thing | Rose Robbins | Eerdlings |
| 420 | The Absence of Sparrows | Kurt Kirchmeier | Family Vacation Critic |
| 421 | The Alphabet’s Alphabet | Parents | |
| 422 | The Babies and Kitties Book | John Schindel Molly Woodward | Amazon |
| 423 | The Bad Guys in the Dawn of the Underlord (The Bad Guys #11) | Aaron Blabey | Amazon |
| 424 | The Barren Grounds: The Misewa Saga | David A. Robertson | NPR |
| 425 | The Bear and the Duck | May Angeli | Eerdlings |
| 426 | The Bear and the Moon | Matthew Burgess Catia Chien (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 427 | The Bear in My Family | Maya Tatsukawa | Kirkus |
| 428 | The Bear, the Piano and Little Bear’s Concert | David Litchfield | Waterstones |
| 429 | The Best Worst Poet Ever | Lauren Stohler | Amazon |
| 430 | The Big Sibling Getaway | Korrie Leer | Book Riot |
| 431 | The Blue Table | Chris Raschka | Kirkus |
| 432 | The Bone Garden | Heather Kassner | Family Vacation Critic |
| 433 | The Box Turtle | Vanessa Roeder | Parents |
| 434 | The Canyon’s Edge | Dusti Bowling | Imagination Soup |
| 435 | The Chickens Build a Wall | Jean-Francois Dumont | Eerdlings |
| 436 | The Christmas Feast | Nathalie Dargent Magali Le Huche (Illustrator) | Eerdlings |
| 437 | The Complete DIY Cookbook for Young Chefs | America’s Test Kitchen Kids (Editor) | The Wall Street Journal |
| 438 | The Complete Flower Fairies | Cicely Mary Barker | The Wall Street Journal |
| 439 | The Cool Bean (The Bad Seed, #3) | Jory John Pete Oswald (Illustrator) | Goodreads 2 |
| 440 | The Cousins | Karen M. McManus | Financial Times |
| 441 | The Crocodile and the Dentist | Taro Gomi | Reading and Thinking |
| 442 | The Deep & Dark Blue | Niki Smith | NYPL |
| 443 | The Friendship War | Andrew Clements | Family Vacation Critic |
| 444 | The Fuzzy Apocalypse | School Library Journal | |
| 445 | The Gardener | Reading and Thinking | |
| 446 | The Ghoul | Taghreed Najjar Hassan Manasra (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 447 | The Girl and the Ghost | Hanna Alkaf | NYPL |
| 448 | The Goody | Lauren Child | Waterstones |
| 449 | The Great Godden | Meg Rosoff | The Telegraph |
| 450 | The Great Realisation | Tomos Roberts (Tomfoolery) Nomoco (Illustrator) | Waterstones |
| 451 | The Greatest Inventor | Financial Times | |
| 452 | The Grinny Granny Donkey | Craig Smith Katz Cowley (Illustrator) | Waterstones |
| 453 | The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish | Lil Miss Hot Mess Olga De Dios (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 454 | The House of Madame M | Clotilde Perrin | Kirkus |
| 455 | The Hunter and His Dog | Sassafras De Bruyn | Eerdlings |
| 456 | The Ickabog | J K Rowling | Amazon |
| 457 | The Inside Battle | Melanie Sumrow | NYPL |
| 458 | The Joy in You | Cat Deeley Rosie Butcher (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 459 | The Land of the Cranes | Aida Salazar | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 460 | The Last Marshmallow | Grace Lin | Chicago Public Library |
| 461 | The Last Tiger | Petr Horácek | Eerdlings |
| 462 | The Life of the Buddha | Heather Sanche Tara Di Gesu (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 463 | The Lights And Types Of Ships At Night | Dave Eggers | NPR |
| 464 | The Line Tender | Kate Allen | Family Vacation Critic |
| 465 | The Little House | Virginia Lee Burton | Reading and Thinking |
| 466 | The Littlest Yak | Lu Fraser, Kate Hindley | Waterstones |
| 467 | The Lost Spells | Robert MacFarlane Jackie Morris (Illustrator) | The Guardian |
| 468 | The Magic Fish | Trung Le Nguyen | Bookshop Santa Cruz |
| 469 | The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive | Joanna Cole Bruce Degen (Illustrator) | Reading and Thinking |
| 470 | The Midnight Guardians | The Guardian | |
| 471 | The Most Amazing Bird | Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak Andrew Qappik (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 472 | The Mysteries of the Universe: Discover the best-kept secrets of space | Will Gater | Amazon |
| 473 | The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane | Julia Nobel | Family Vacation Critic |
| 474 | The Napping House | Audrey Wood Don Wood (Illustrator) | Reading and Thinking |
| 475 | The Nerviest Girl in the World | Melissa Wiley | Amazon |
| 476 | The Newspaper Club | Beth Vrabel Paula Franco (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 477 | The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story | Tina Cho Jess X. Snow (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 478 | The Orphans of St Halibut’s | The Telegraph | |
| 479 | The Postman from Space | Guillaume Perreault | NYPL |
| 480 | The President of the Jungle | Paula Desgualdo André Rodrigues Larissa Ribeiro & 1 more | Moms |
| 481 | The Proudest Blue | Ibtihaj Muhammad, Hatem Aly | Waterstones |
| 482 | The Radium Girls | Kate Moore | NYPL |
| 483 | The Secret Explorers and the Lost Whales | SJ King DK | Amazon |
| 484 | The Seed of Compassion: Lessons from the Life and Teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama | Dalai Lama XIV | Goodreads 2 |
| 485 | The Serious Goose | Jimmy Kimmel | Goodreads 2 |
| 486 | The Ship We Built | Lexie Bean | Imagination Soup |
| 487 | The Snowflake | The Telegraph | |
| 488 | The Snowman | Reading and Thinking | |
| 489 | The Story of Pop | Editors of Caterpillar Books Lindsey Sagar (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 490 | The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor | Amy Alznauer, illustrated by Ping Zhu | The New York Times |
| 491 | The Times Machine!: Learn Multiplication and Division. . . Like, Yesterday! (McKellar Math) | Danica McKellar Josée Masse (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 492 | The Tiny Chef | Adam Reid Rachel Larsen Ozi Akturk & 1 more | Brightly |
| 493 | The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez | Adrianna Cuevas | NYPL |
| 494 | The Truth About Dragons | Jaime Zollars | Amazon |
| 495 | The Ugly Doodles | Valeria Wicker | Book Riot |
| 496 | The Unready Queen (Oddmire #2) | William Ritter | Powells |
| 497 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Snowy Hide & Seek | Brightly | |
| 498 | The Wanderer | Peter Van Den Ende | The New York Times |
| 499 | The Whales on the Bus | Katrina Charman Nick Sharratt (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 500 | The Wolf Road | Beth Lewis | Financial Times |
| 501 | The Word for Friend | Aidan Cassie | Kirkus |
| 502 | The Worrysaurus | Rachel Bright Chris Chatterton (Illustrator) | Waterstones |
| 503 | The Yawns Are Coming! | Christopher Eliopoulos | Brightly |
| 504 | There’s an Alien in Your Book | Tom Fletcher Greg Abbott (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 505 | There’s an Elf in Your Book | Tom Fletcher Greg Abbott (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 506 | They Went Left | Monica Hesse | The New York Times |
| 507 | This Book Is Gray | Lindsay Ward | Goodreads 2 |
| 508 | This Is A Book Of Shapes | Kenneth Kraegel | Chicago Public Library |
| 509 | This Little Dreamer: An Inspirational Primer | Joan Holub Daniel Roode (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 510 | This or That? | The Wall Street Journal | |
| 511 | This Way, Charlie | Caron Levis Charles Santoso (Illustrator) | Book Riot |
| 512 | Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel) | Kelly Yang | Amazon |
| 513 | Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! – An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year | The Guardian | |
| 514 | Tiny T. Rex and the Very Dark Dark: (Read-Aloud Family Books, Dinosaurs Kids Book About Fear of Darkness) | Jonathan Stutzman Jay Fleck (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 515 | Today I’m Strong | Nadiya Hussain, Ella Bailey | Waterstones |
| 516 | Tornado Brain | Cat Patrick | Imagination Soup |
| 517 | TRAP THE MONSTER! | AGNESE BARUZZI ILLUSTRATED | Kirkus |
| 518 | Tras-tras | Mar Benegas María Reyes Guijarro (Illustrator) | Chicago Public Library |
| 519 | Tune It Out | Jamie Sumner | Imagination Soup |
| 520 | Tunnel of Bones | Victoria Schwab | Family Vacation Critic |
| 521 | Two Dogs on a Trike | Gabi Snyder Robin Rosenthal (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 522 | Uncle Bobby’s Wedding | Sarah S. Brannen Lucia Soto (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 523 | Unicorns Are the Worst! | Alex Willan | Amazon |
| 524 | Up to My Knees! | Grace Lin | Chicago Public Library |
| 525 | Vinny Gets a Job | Terry Brodner | Parents |
| 526 | Vote for Me! | Ben Clanton | Eerdlings |
| 527 | Vote for Our Future! | Margaret McNamara Micah Player (Illustrator) | Brightly |
| 528 | Way Past Worried | Hallee Adelman Sandra de la Prada (Illustrator) | Book Riot |
| 529 | We Believe in You | Beth Ferry Molly Idle (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 530 | We Love Dinosaurs | Lucy Volpin | Amazon |
| 531 | We Will Rock Our Classmates | Ryan T. Higgins | Barnes & Noble |
| 532 | Weekend Dad | Naseem Hrab Frank Viva (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 533 | Welcome to the Party | Gabrielle Union Ashley Evans (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 534 | What a Masterpiece! | Riccardo Guasco | Eerdlings |
| 535 | What About Worms!? | Mo Willems Ryan T. Higgins | Parents |
| 536 | What do you call a baby…? | Readings | |
| 537 | What Is Baby Going to Do? | Laura Knowles Juliana Perdomo (Illustrator) | Parents |
| 538 | What Sound Is Morning? | Grant Snider | NYPL |
| 539 | What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside | Julia Donaldson, Lydia Monks | Waterstones |
| 540 | What Will Fit? | Grace Lin | Chicago Public Library |
| 541 | What Will You Dream of Tonight? | Frances Stickley Anuska Allepuz (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 542 | What’s In Your Mind Today? | Louise Bladen Angela Perrini (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 543 | When Darwin Sailed the Sea: Uncover how Darwin’s revolutionary ideas helped change the world | David Long Sam Kalda (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 544 | When I Feel Scared (The Way I Feel Books) | Cornelia Maude Spelman Kathy Parkinson (Illustrator) | Reading and Thinking |
| 545 | When You Look Up | Decur Chloe Garcia Roberts (Translator) | The New York Times |
| 546 | Where Are You, Agnes? | Tessa McWatt Zuzanna Celej (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 547 | While We Can’t Hug | Eoin McLaughlin, Polly Dunbar | Waterstones |
| 548 | While You’re Sleeping | Mick Jackson, John Broadley | Waterstones |
| 549 | Who Does What? | Stephanie Babin Ilaria Falorsi (Illustrator) | Parents |
| 550 | Who Was Ruth Bader Ginsburg?: A Who Was? Board Book | Lisbeth Kaiser Who Hq Stanley Chow (Illustrator) & 1 more | Brightly |
| 551 | Who’s Driving? | The Telegraph | |
| 552 | Wild Symphony | Dan Brown Susan Batori (Illustrator) | Moms |
| 553 | Wildlife on Paper: Animals at Risk Around the Globe | Kunal Kundu | Amazon |
| 554 | Willa the Wisp (The Fabled Stables Book #1) | Jonathan Auxier Olga Demidova (Illustrator) | Amazon |
| 555 | William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad | Don Tate | Kirkus |
| 556 | Window | Marion Arbona | Kirkus |
| 557 | Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery | Meeg Pincus Yas Imamura (Illustrator) | Kirkus |
| 558 | Witches of Brooklyn | Sophie Escabasse | NYPL |
| 559 | Wolfpack (Young Readers Edition) | Abby Wambach | Amazon |
| 560 | Wreck This Picture Book | Keri Smith | Book Riot |
| 561 | You’re My Little Baby | Eric Carle | Parents |
| 562 | Your Birthday Was the BEST! | Readings | |
| 563 | Your Place in the Universe | Jason Chin | Kirkus |
| 564 | Yuzu the Pet Vet | Mingo Ito | NYPL |
| 565 | Zip, the World’s Greatest Robot | Rebecca Purcell | Kirkus |
| Source | Article |
| Amazon | Best children’s books of 2020 |
| Barnes & Noble | Barnes & Noble’s Best Picture Books of 2020 |
| Book Riot | 20 MUST-READ PICTURE BOOKS FROM 2020 |
| Bookpage | Best Books of 2020: Middle Grade |
| Bookpage 2 | Best Books of 2020: Picture Books |
| Bookshop Santa Cruz | Best Kids Books of the Year 2020 |
| Brightly | Best Picture Books of 2020: Ages 3 – 5 |
| Brightly | Best Books of 2020 for Babies & Toddlers |
| Chicago Public Library | Best Board Books of 2020 |
| Eerdlings | 20 Outstanding Picture Books with Great Values that Children Loved in 2020 |
| Family Vacation Critic | Our 10 Favorite Children’s Books of 2020 |
| Financial Times | Best books of 2020: Children’s and Young adult |
| Goodreads | Best Middle Grade & Children’s |
| Goodreads 2 | Best Picture Books |
| Imagination Soup | Best Middle-Grade Chapter Books of 2020 |
| Kirkus | Best Picture Books of the Year |
| Moms | A Complete List Of The Best Children’s Books Of 2020 |
| NPR | NPR’s Book Concierge |
| NYPL | Best Books for Kids 2020 |
| Parents | 30 Best Children’s Books of 2020 |
| Powells | Best of Kids’ and YA 2020 |
| Publishers Weekly | Best Picture Books |
| Publishers Weekly 2 | Best Middle Grade Books |
| Reading and Thinking | The Best Children’s Picture Books of 2020 |
| Readings | The best picture books of 2020 |
| School Library Journal | Best Chapter Books 2020 |
| Shelf Awareness | Our 2020 Best Children’s & Teen Books of the Year |
| The Guardian | Children’s |
| The New York Times | The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2020 |
| The Telegraph | The best children’s books of 2020 |
| The Wall Street Journal | Holiday Gift Books 2020: Children’s Books |
| Time | The 10 Best YA and Children’s Books of 2020 |
| Washington Post | Best children’s books of 2020 reveal a growing diversity |
| Waterstones | The Best Books of 2020: Picture Books |
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