The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2020 by The New York Times

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  Christian Robinson

  You Matter

  Hardcover (Atheneum Books for Young Readers June 2, 2020)
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  James Patterson, Kwame Alexander, Dawud Anyabwile

  Becoming Muhammad Ali

  Hardcover (jimmy patterson Oct. 5, 2020)
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  Lev Grossman

  The Silver Arrow

  Hardcover (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Sept. 1, 2020)
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  Monica Hesse

  They Went Left

  Hardcover (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers April 7, 2020)
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  Sophie Blackall

  If You Come to Earth

  Hardcover (Chronicle Books Sept. 15, 2020)
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  Renée Watson, Nina Mata

  Ways to Make Sunshine

  Hardcover (Bloomsbury Children's Books April 28, 2020)
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  Erin Entrada Kelly

  We Dream of Space

  Hardcover (Greenwillow Books May 5, 2020)
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  Jacqueline Woodson

  Before the Ever After

  Hardcover (Nancy Paulsen Books Sept. 1, 2020)
• Q

  

  Decur, Chloe Garcia Roberts

  When You Look Up

  Hardcover (Enchanted Lion Books June 2, 2020)
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  Deborah Underwood, Cindy Derby

  Outside In

  Hardcover (HMH Books for Young Readers April 14, 2020)
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  Daniel Nayeri

  Everything Sad Is Untrue:

  Hardcover (Levine Querido Aug. 25, 2020)
• Q

  

  Amy Alznauer, Ping Zhu

  The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor

  Hardcover (Enchanted Lion Books June 16, 2020)
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  Jordan Scott, Sydney Smith

  I Talk Like a River

  Hardcover (Neal Porter Books Sept. 1, 2020)
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  Jerry Pinkney

  The Little Mermaid

  Hardcover (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Nov. 3, 2020)
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  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Mañanaland

  Hardcover (Scholastic Press March 3, 2020)
• N

  

  Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Iman Geddy

  When Stars Are Scattered

  Paperback (Dial Books April 14, 2020)
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  Uri Shulevitz

  Chance: Escape from the Holocaust

  Hardcover (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Oct. 13, 2020)
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  Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney

  Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It

  Hardcover (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Sept. 29, 2020)
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  Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis Hudson

  The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth

  Hardcover (Crown Books for Young Readers Aug. 11, 2020)
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  Gene Luen Yang

  Dragon Hoops

  Hardcover (First Second March 17, 2020)
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  Shinsuke Yoshitake

  There Must Be More Than That!

  Hardcover (Chronicle Books Oct. 6, 2020)
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  Peter Van den Ende

  The Wanderer

  Hardcover (Levine Querido Oct. 6, 2020)
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  Jerry Craft

  Class Act

  Paperback (Quill Tree Books Oct. 6, 2020)
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  Jillian Tamaki

  Our Little Kitchen

  Hardcover (Abrams Books for Young Readers Sept. 22, 2020)