Publisher’s Weekly has announced their picks for the top 50 children’s books of the year. Here they are:
PICTURE BOOKS
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
Being Frog by April Pulley Sayre
The Blue House by Phoebe Wahl
Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away by Meg Medina, illustrated by Sonia Sanchez
Every Color of Light by Hiroshi Osada, illustrated by Ryoji Arai
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann
How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Fall) of a Rock-Climbing Champion by Ahsima Shiraishi, illustrated by Yao Xiao
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James
If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall
In the Half Room by Carson Ellis
I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott, illustrated by Sydney Smith
Julián at the Wedding by Jessica Love
A New Green Day by Antoinette Portis
The Old Truck by Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey
Our Little Kitchen by Jillian Tamaki
Outside In by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Cindy Derby
Out the Door by Christy Hale
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade
You Matter by Christian Robinson
MIDDLE GRADE
Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame ALexander
Chance by Uri Shulevitz
Class Act by Jerry Craft
Condor Comeback by Sy Montgomery, photos by Tianne Strombeck
Daring Darleen: Queen of the Screen by Anne Nesbet
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
How We Got to the Moon by John Rocco
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake, illustrated by Jon Klassen
Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
YOUNG ADULT
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
The Way Back by Gavriel Savit
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
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