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

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

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

The Little Dreamer: An Inspirational Primer by Joan Holub
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Dad By My Side by Soosh
A Parade of Elephants Board Book by Kevin Henkes
Hello World! Construction Site by Jill McDonald
Welcome to the Party by Gabrielle Union
A World of Opposites by Gray Malin
The Babies and Kitties Book by John Schindel
* Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa by Anna Dewdney
The Cookie Book of Colors by Holly Fox
Up Cat Down Cat by Steve Light
Mail Duck: A Book of Shapes and Surprises by Erica Sirotich
Brown Baby Lullaby by Tameka Fryer Brown
Great Inventors (Baby's Big World) by Alex Fabrizio
Little Hippo by Julie Abery
Yoga (Baby's Big World) by Jenny Burrill
ABC Dance!: An Animal Alphabet by Sabrina Moyle
Your Nose! by Sandra Boynton
Wilma Rudolph: My First Wilma Rudolph by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
I Love Us: A Book About Family by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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

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