Our choices for the best books of the year.

From the September 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

Plus “Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob,” “The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate,” “The Wild Robot on the Island” and “Sato the Rabbit, Morning Light.”

Join an innovative health initiative at Lake El Reno with 'Storywalk'—a project by El Reno Carnegie Library, integrating reading and walking in monthly rotating book displays.

Join adorable hedgehog Bean in the first picture book of a new series full of tiny stories about big everyday adventures that will warm quills — and tickle funny bones!Meet Bean, a very tiny hed...