The 50 Best Children’s Books of the Last 10 Years
Modern classics that help kids laugh, learn, think, imagine, dream, see, and embrace the world around them in new ways.
The best children’s books have the power to pull adult readers back toward childhood while helping younger readers (and listeners) expand their view of the world. This is no easy trick, but when a story manages to transport everyone together, it’s pretty close to actual magic. This is why parents return to the books they loved as children and why the most transportive of those books tend to hold up decades later and become classics.
Still, the tendency to reach for classic books from one’s own childhood leads many parents to skip over worthy new work. This is why Fatherly wanted to draw attention to 50 of the greatest children’s books of the past decade (from 2009 to 2019). With the help of librarians, teachers, bookstore owners, and children’s book aficionados, we’ve rounded up 50 modern classics that will help parents expand their view of the world, why helping kids to laugh, learn, think, imagine, dream, see, and embrace the world around them in new ways.
