MORE 'BEST-BOOKS-OF-2020' POSTS
This year I found a nice array of titles that I'd say are a cut above the rest. These are books that you'd be honored to pull out year after year for your holiday displays.
Every year publishers attempt to squeeze full picture books into board book formats. Today, we celebrate those books that really add something special to our bookshelves. Yes, we are happy they exist.
If only the rarest kind of best is good enough for the young then the same can be said for the ankle biter crowd. Mirrors, tabs, lift-the-flaps, you name it, these wonderful board books have it!
Starting tomorrow I'm releasing my annual 31 Days, 31 Lists. What will make the cut? What won't? Watch and see!
Artfully rendered and magnificently produced, this creation tale is by turns beautiful and clever. A story told with plenty of thought and consideration.
Without a doubt, this is one of the most original books I’ve read for kids, teens, adults, you name it, in years. Incroyable? You don’t know the half of it.
I’m late to the party in celebrating this book, but now that I’m here, let’s dance until dawn! This is one book that kids and adults alike will read and never ever forget.
A book that manages that impossible task of combining child friendliness (a kid will want to reread it) with good writing (an ADULT will want to reread it – never a given), and beautiful art.
Pitch perfect in tone and content, this is supposedly the book that will help all parents talk to their kids. In truth? This also is the book that will help KIDS talk to their parents. It’s a two-way street and everybody’s driving.
A book that shows in the most eloquent way possible how family trauma lives on, from generation to generation, taking shape, forming us one way or another. The elements that make a great novel for children aren’t difficult to understand. Hanna Alkaf has laid them out for you.