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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’t cut your ears.” Little Lion insists that he is not worried about scissors, he simply just doe...

Mar 09, 2021 Never Forget Who You Are by Achut Deng (l.) and Keely Hutton. The narrative follows Deng's 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 Deng's 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 she is. Publication is set for winter 2022; Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts at HG Literary did the dea...