These Are Amazon's Picks for the Best Children's Books of 2020 (So Far)

Looking for more books for your young readers? Check out Amazon’s top picks. Yesterday, on June 24, Amazon’s book editorial team announced their list of the Best Books of the Year so far.

To create the list, editors ready hundreds of titles over the last six months. The list includes the top 20 books of the year, published between January and June 2020, as well as top picks across literary fiction, mysteries, biographies, young adult novels, kids’ books and more.

Without further ado, here are their picks for the Best Children’s Books of the Year (so far), broken down by age group.

Top 20 Children’s Books of 2020 Overall

1. Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
2. The Old Truck by Jerome Pumphrey
3. InvestiGators by John Patrick Green
4. The Little Dreamer: An Inspirational Primer by Joan Holub
5. The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
6. The One and Only Bob (One and Only Ivan) by Katherine Applegate
7. Ronan the Librarian by Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie
8. A Book for Escargot by Dashka Slater
9. Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
10. Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
11. How To Solve A Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion by Ashima Shiraishi
12. Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson
13. Race to the Sun (Rick Riordan Presents) by Rebecca Roanhorse
14. Be You! By Peter Reynolds
15. Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us by Lauren Castillo
16. The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
17. Play Outside! By Laurent Moreau
18. Curse of the Night Witch (Emblem Island Book 1) by Alex Aster
19. Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration by Samara Cole Doyon
20. Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl

Top 20 Children’s Books of 2020: Baby to Age 2

1. The Little Dreamer: An Inspirational Primer by Joan Holub

2. Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

3. Dad By My Side by Soosh

4. A Parade of Elephants Board Book by Kevin Henkes

5. Hello World! Construction Site by Jill McDonald

6. Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union

7. A World of Opposites by Gray Malin

8. The Babies and Kitties Book by John Schindel

9. • Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa by Anna Dewdney

10. The Cookie Book of Colors by Holly Fox

11. Up Cat Down Cat by Steve Light

12. Mail Duck: A Book of Shapes and Surprises by Erica Sirotich

13. Brown Baby Lullaby by Tameka Fryer Brown

14. Great Inventors (Baby’s Big World) by Alex Fabrizio

15. Little Hippo by Julie Abery

16. Yoga (Baby’s Big World) by Jenny Burrill

17. ABC Dance!: An Animal Alphabet by Sabrina Moyle

18. Your Nose! by Sandra Boynton

19. Wilma Rudolph: My First Wilma Rudolph by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

20. I Love Us: A Book About Family by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Top 20 Children’s Books of 2020: Age 3 to 5

1. The Old Truck by Jerome Pumphrey
2. A Book for Escargot by Dashka Slater
3. Be You! By Peter Reynolds
4. Play Outside! By Laurent Moreau
5. Tomorrow I’ll Be Kind by Jessica Hische
6. Cat Dog Dog: The Story of a Blended Family by Nelly Buchet
7. The Paper Kingdom by Helena Ku Rhee
8. Jules vs. the Ocean by Jessie Sima
9. Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse by Jonathan Stutzman
10. You Matter by Christian Robinson
11. Bedtime for Sweet Creatures by Nikki Grimes
12. Love, Sophia on the Moon by Anica Mrose Rissi
13. Smart George by Jules Feiffer
14. Tiny T. Rex and the Very Dark Dark by Jonathan Stutzman
15. Hurry Up!: A Book About Slowing Down by Kate Dopirak
16. Snail Crossing by Corey R. Tabor
17. The Bold, Brave Bunny by Beth Ferry
18. The Box Turtle by Vanessa Roeder
19. Mermaid and Me by Soosh
20. All Aboard the Moonlight Train by Kristyn Crow

To learn more about the editors’ picks, visit Amazon.com.