Barnes & Noble have announced their best book lists for the year. Here are their picks for the top YA books of 2025: An Archive of Romance by Ava Reid The Demon and the Light by Axie Oh Eternal Ruin by Tigest Girma Fake Skating by Lynn Painter Fearful by Lauren Roberts A Forgery of Fate…

Forests by Nell Cross Beckerman, illustrated by Kalen Chock Publisher: Orchard Books Publication Date: November 4, 2025 Reviewed from Edelweiss e-galley ISBN: 9781546130970 Enter a variety of forests from across the world in this nonfiction picture book. Start with the wonder of a deciduous forest at night and then explore it during the day. There is information on roots and fungi and then the drama of a forest wildfire and how trees survive.

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Barnes & Noble have released their Best Books of 2025 lists. Here are their picks for the best Young Reader books of 2025: The Court of the Dead by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro Dog Man: Big Jim Believes by Dav Pilkey Diary of a Wimpy Kid Partypooper by Jeff Kinney The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge…

A Knot Is Not a Tangle by Daniel Nayeri, illustrated by Vesper Stamper  Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication Date: November 25, 2025 Reviewed from Edelweiss e-galley ISBN: 9780593809693 An Iranian boy is woken up by his grandmother. They have breakfast together on the old frayed rug before taking a meal out to Grandpa in the field where he is herding sheep.

Barnes & Noble have announced their Best Books lists for the year. Here are their picks for Best Picture Books: The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake by Devin Elle Kurtz Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo by Bess Kalb, illustrated by Erin Kraan The Day the Crayons Made Friends by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson, illustrated by Dan Santat…

The Moving Book by Lisa Brown Publisher: Neal Porter Books Publication Date: July 22, 2025 Reviewed from library copy ISBN: 9780823457182 The author of The Airport Book and The Hospital Book returns with another book about a turning point in a child’s life. Told by an older sibling, the book shares a list of the places that their family has lived in.

Amazon has announced their lists of best books for 2025. Here are their picks for the top 20 YA books of 2025: And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen Balancing Act by Paula Chase Bitten by Jordan Stephanie Gray Coldwire by Chloe Gong The Crimson Throne by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis…

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Here are Amazon's picks for the 20 best children's books of the year: The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud Casey's Cases: The Mysterious New Girl by Kay Healy Coach by Jason Reynolds Dog Man: Big Jim Believes by Dav Pilkey Dragonborn by Struan Murray Girls on the Rise by Amanda Gorman, illustrated by Loveis Wise The Invisible Parade…

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The Associated Press has created a holiday gift guide of some of the standout books for kids from 2025. Giving a book is a great way to share the love of reading.

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Publishers Weekly has announced their picks for the best books of 2025. The juvenile picks are broken into three categories. Here are the picture book selections: PICTURE BOOKS Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru’s Famed Scientist and Potato Expert by Sara Andrea Fajardo, illus. by Juana Martinez-Neal Cranky, Crabby Crow by Corey R. Tabor…

To Activate Space Portal Lift Here by Antoinette Portis Publisher: Neal Porter Books Publication Date: October 7, 2025 Reviewed from copy provided by publisher ISBN: 9780823459858 Turning the pages of this book activates a space portal that lets readers be the first to interact with alien creatures! As the portal opens, the readers can see an orange and a yellow alien, who are just as surprised to see the reader and just as shocked that aliens are real.

The Newest Gnome by Lauren Soloy  Publisher: Tundra Books Publication Date: October 7, 2025 Reviewed from Edelweiss e-galley ISBN: 9781774887202 Return to the world first shared in The Hidden World of Gnomes with this second book set in The Pocket. When a new mushroom circle is discovered, the gnomes know that a new gnome is about to arrive. It is Grolly Maru, a fuzzy brown gnome with stand up ears.

The 10 winners of the 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books have been announced. Nearly 800 books were judged purely on the basis of artistic merit. Here are the 10 winners: Broken by X. Fang Dragon Flower by Chen Jiang Hong; translated by Alyson Waters Fireworks by Matthew Burgess and illustrated by Cátia Chien The Lighthouse Keeper…

The Spy in the Museum: How Rose Valland Saved Art from the Nazis by Erin McGuire Publisher: Beach Lane Books Publication Date: September 16, 2025 Reviewed from copy provided by publisher ISBN: 9781534466173 Rose Valland lived in Paris and was the curator at the Jeu de Paume Museum. She loved all kinds of art, but Hitler and the Nazis did not approve of modern art and destroyed it in their war across Europe.