Booklists and resources on holidays, special events, seasons, social justice...and "mother forking space and time"? We've covered a wide range of topics for all age levels in 2020, so we've compiled them together for readers to find some great new books to enjoy and share. Don't miss out — subscribe to The Horn Book today!

2020 Booklists and Resources:

• Books for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Happy Lunar New Year!
• Mother forking space and time by Cynthia K. Ritter
• Happy World Read Aloud Day
• The Birds and the Bees by Shoshana Flax
• Black History Month 2020
  • Week 1
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
• Beyond Black History Month
• Happy Holi!
• Pi Day 2020
• Women's History Month
  • Week 1
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
• Embracing Spring by Cynthia K. Ritter
• Holocaust Remembrance Day 2020 by Shoshana Flax and Reading for Holocaust Remembrance Day
• 50th Anniversary of Earth Day by Cynthia K. Ritter
• Ramadan 2020
• Día 2020
• May Day 2020
• Mother's Day 2020
• Jewish American Heritage Month 2020 by Shoshana Flax
• Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
• National Caribbean American Heritage Month
• Celebrate Juneteenth
• Baseball's Opening Day 2020 by Elissa Gershowitz
• Veep 2020 by Elissa Gershowitz
• Suffrage Centennial 1920-2020
• National Hispanic Heritage Latinx Heritage Month 2020
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
• Banned Books Week 2020
• Sukkot 2020 by Shoshana Flax
• Indigenous Peoples' Day 2020
• Hotel, motel by Elissa Gershowitz
• Transgender Awareness Week
• 2020 has been a beary unexpected year by Cynthia K. Ritter

Notes from the Horn Book newsletter booklists:

January 2020

• Sense of place
• Intergenerational warmth and wisdom
• Fascinating figures from twentieth-century history

February 2020

• ALA Awards 2020: Horn Book reviews of the winners
• YA love stories for Black History Month 2020
• Picture books for Presidents' Day 2020

March 2020

• Women's History Month 2020 picture-book biographies
• Middle-grade mystery & detective stories
• YA magic

April 2020

• Preschool bedtime books
• National Poetry Month 2020
• 75th anniversary of WWII's VE Day

May 2020: Summer Reading Edition

• Picture Books
• Easy Readers and Primary Grades
• Intermediate
• Middle School
• High School

June 2020

• YA Pride fiction 2020
• Father's Day picture books 2020
• Big life changes

July 2020

• Exploration and curiosity
• Kids in summer
• Middle school and YA verse novels and poetry

August 2020: Back-to-School Edition

• September learning
• Middle-grade/middle-school stories and struggles
• YA realism (for a weird year)

September 2020

• Be a change maker
• Siblings: You can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em
• Animal friends (and frenemies)

October 2020

• Ever-changing weather and seasons
• Lighthearted supernatural stories
• YA ghosts and demons

November 2020

• The sound of sounds
• Fiction for sports fans
• YA American historical fiction

December 2020: Fanfare Edition

• Picture Books
• Fiction
• Nonfiction

Booklists from the Guide/Reviews Database:

• 2020 ALA Award winners
• International Women's Day 2020
  • Younger readers
  • Older readers
• Embracing Spring: Spring Books for Primary Readers
• Performing Arts: Theater Novels
  • Intermediate
  • Older
• 50th anniversary of Earth Day: Climate Action
  • Primary
  • Intermediate
  • Older
• Performing Arts: Dance
  • Primary
  • Intermediate
  • Older
• Cinco de Mayo
  • Primary
  • Intermediate
  • Older
• Picture Books for Mother's Day
• Suffrage Centennial
  • Primary
  • Older
• Veterans Day
  • Primary
  • Intermediate
  • Older

Book Bundles:

• Leaders
• Dino-mite!
• Intentional Action
• Make Your Voice Heard
• It's Science
• Winter Holidaze
• Earth Work
• Finding Hope