The New York Times has its 25 Best Children’s Books list for 2020.  Looking for a perfect holiday gift for a special child?  Why not consider sharing one of these titles?

Picture Books

• Scott’s I Talk Like a River
• Blackall’s If You Come to Earth
• Pinkney’s The Little Mermaid
• Tamaki’s Our Little Kitchen
• Underwood’s Outside In
• Berry’s The Story About Afiy
• Alzauner’s The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor
• Yoshitake’s There Must Be More Than That!
• Van den Ende’s The Wanderer
• Decur’s When You Look Up
• Robinson’s You Matter

Middle Schoolers

• Patterson & Alexander’s, Becoming Muhammad Ali
• Shulevitz’s, Chance: Escape from the Holocaust
• Craft’s Class Act
• Pinkney’s Loretta Little Looks Back
• Munoz-Ryan’s Mañanaland
• Grossman’s The Silver Arrow
• Watson’s Ways to Make Sunshine
• Entrada-Kelly’s We Dream of Science
• Jamison & Mohmad’s When Stars Are Scattered

Young Adult

• Woodson’s Before the Ever After
• Luen-Yang’s Dragon Hoops
• Sayer’s Everything Sad is Untrue: A True Story
• Hudson & Hudson’s The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth
• Hesse’s When They Left