Best Books for Kids 2024

by NY Public Library

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67 books

Every year, librarians and staff at The New York Public Library select noteworthy new books for readers of all ages and recommend them as our Best Books of the Year.

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See the source list and commentary at www.nypl.org

All Mixed Up

Raj Tawney, 2024

Aloha Everything

Kaylin Melia George, 2024

Anzu and the Realm of Darkness

Mai K. Nguyen, 2024

Born Naughty

My Childhood in China

Jin Wang, Tony Johnston, 2024

City of Stolen Magic

Nazneen Ahmed Pathak, 2023

Dragon on the Loose

Marty Chan, 2024

Hello

How Nüwa Created the World

Viola Wang, 2024

Home in a Lunchbox

Cherry Mo, 2024

Kadooboo!

A Silly South Indian Folktale

Shruthi Rao, 2024

Made in Asian America: A History for Young People

Erika Lee, Christina Soontornvat, 2024

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All

Chanel Miller, 2024

Mallory in Full Color

Elisa Stone Leahy, 2024

Meet Me on Mercer Street

Booki Vivat, 2024

My Lost Freedom

A Japanese American World War II Story

George Takei, 2024

Next Stop

(A Graphic Novel)

Debbie Fong, 2024

Ra Pu Zel and the Stinky Tofu

Ying Chang Compestine, 2024

The Spindle of Fate

Aimee Lim, 2024

Swimming into Trouble

Angela Ahn, 2024

We Are Big Time

(A Graphic Novel)

Hena Khan, 2024

Bog Myrtle

Sid Sharp, 2024

Call Me Roberto!

Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos

Nathalie Alonso, 2024

A Crown of Stories: the Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison

Carole Boston Weatherford, 2024

Jimmy's Rhythm and Blues

The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin

Michelle Meadows, 2024

Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice

Anna Lapera, 2024

My Hair Is a Book

Maisha Oso, 2024

The Race to Be Myself Young Readers Edition

Caster Semenya, 2024

Red Bird Danced

Dawn Quigley, 2024

Soul Step

Jewell Parker Rhodes, Kelly McWilliams, 2024

Taming Papa

Mylène Goupil, 2024

Accidental Demons

Clare Edge, 2024

Chasing the Shy Town

Erika McGann, 2024

Daughter of the Light-Footed People

The Story of Indigenous Marathon Champion Lorena Ramírez

Belen Medina, 2024

Deep Water

Jamie Sumner, 2024

Detective Beans

and the Case of the Missing Hat

Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell, 2024

Into the Goblin Market

Vikki VanSickle, 2024

Island of Whispers

Frances Hardinge, 2024

My Antarctica

True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More

The Night Market

Seina Wedlick, 2024

The Queen of Ocean Parkway

Sarvenaz Tash, 2024

Viewfinder

Christine D.U. Chung, Salwa Majoka, 2024

We Are Definitely Human

The Wrong Way Home

Kate O'Shaughnessy, 2024

The Girl Who LOVES Bugs

Lily Murray, 2023

Gooseberry

Robin Gow, 2024

The Iguanodon's Horn

How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again

Sean Rubin, 2024

The Incredible Octopus

Meet the Eight-Armed Wonder of the Sea

Erin Spencer, 2024

Leila and the Blue Fox

Kiran Millwood Hargrave, 2024

The Ocean Gardener

Clara Anganuzzi, 2024

Pau: The Last Song of the Kaua'i 'O'o

Tony Piedra, Mackenzie Joy, 2024

This Land Is a Lullaby / cistomâwasowin ôma askiy

Tonya Simpson, 2024

This Wolf Was Different

Katie Slivensky, 2024

When Beavers Flew

An Incredible True Story of Rescue and Relocation

Kristen Tracy, 2024

Adela's Mariachi Band

Denise Vega, 2024

Behind My Doors

The Story of the World's Oldest Library

Hena Khan, 2024

Churro Stand

Karina N. González, 2024

Danté Plays His Blues

Allen R Wells, 2024

Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem

The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava

Gary Golio, 2024

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller

Breanna J. McDaniel, 2024

I Am La Chiva!: The Colorful Bus of the Andes

Karol Hernández, 2024

Joyful Song

Lesléa Newman, 2024

Rumi–Poet of Joy and Love

Rashin Kheiriyeh, Rumi, 2024

HaiCuba/HaiKuba

Haikus about Cuba in Spanish and English

Carlos Pintado, Lawrence Schimel, 2024

City Girls

Loretta Lopez, 2024

Evidence!

How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera

Deborah Hopkinson, 2024

My Daddy Is a Cowboy

Stephanie Seales, 2024

Taxi Ghost

(A Graphic Novel)

Sophie Escabasse, 2024