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The most notable picture, middle grade and young adult books of the year, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor.

Read All About It: Little Lion finds courage to face common fear Brandy Hilboldt Allport Abrams Books for Young Readers, $16.99; ages 4 to 7 Explore a common childhood fear in “Lion Needs a Haircut.” The title says it all. It’s time to head for the barbershop, but Little Lion, roars, “No.” Daddy Lion explores this emphatics resistance, which is accompanied by a roar for emphasis. Daddy reassures, as Daddies do. “Don’t worry. Barber Goat will take good care of you. His scissors won...

Mar 09, 2021 Never Forget Who You Are by Achut Deng (l.) and Keely Hutton. The narrative follows Dengs harrowing escape from her home village in South Sudan to a refugee camp in Kenya and finally to the U.S., where she arrived as part of a group of “Lost Boys." Told through the testimony of Dengs losses—including her name, her family, and her home—the YA memoir is the story of how Deng struggled to overcome exploitation and abuse and reclaim the things she lost by holding on to who...