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

The shortlists for the 2020 An Post Irish Book Awards have been announced. The awards cover a wide range of genres and ages. I’ll focus on the youth and teen awards here, and you can find the entire list on the Irish Times website. Here are the shortlisted titles in the youth and teen categories:

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR (JUNIOR)

The Dead Zoo by Peter Donnelly

The Great Irish Farm Book by Darragh McCullough, illustrated by Sally Caulwell

The Haunted Lake by PJ Lynch

What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers

While We Can’t Hug by Eoin McLaughlin, illustrated by Polly Dunbar

Will You Be My Friend? by Sam McBratney, illustrated by Anita Jeram

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR (SENIOR)

The Boldness of Betty by Anna Carey

Break the Mould by Sinéad Burke, illustrated by Natalie Byrne

Girls Play Too: Inspiring Stories of Irish Sportswomen by Jacqui Hurley, illustrated by Sinead Colleran, Rachel Corcoran, Jennifer Farley, Jennifer Murphy and Lauren O’Neill

Is There Anybody Out There? by Dara Ó Briain

Miracle on Ebenezer Street by Catherine Doyle

The Story of Croke Park by Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, illustrated by Graham Corcoran

TEEN/YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR

The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

The Gone Book by Helena Close

Hope Against Hope by Sheena Wilkinson

On Midnight Beach by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran

Savage Her Reply by Deirdre Sullivan, illustrated by Karen Vaughan

The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The list will be shortened to give finalists which will be announced on October 6th with the winner announced on November 18. Here are the books on the longlist:

Apple (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh

How We Got to the Moon by John Rocco

King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne

Trowbridge Road by Marcella Pixley

The Way Back by Gavriel Savit

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

The finalists for the Young Readers’ 2020 Kirkus Prize were announced. The finalists include two picture books, two middle grade books and two books for teens, the majority of them written by authors of color. The winner will be announced on November 5th. Here are the finalists:

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade