2020
Bowwow powwow = bagosenjige-niimi'idim
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
At the Mountain's Base
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
Raven Makes the Aleutians: Adapted from a Traditional Native Story
I Can Make This Promise
The Grizzly Mother
Surviving the City
Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
Apple in the Middle
My Papi Has a Motorcycle by 
The Other Half of Happy by 
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom
The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree
King and the Dragonflies by 
Infinite Hope by 
Saturday by 
Clap When You Land LIB/e by 
When You Trap a Tiger by 
Ordinary Hazards by 
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by 
Pokko and the Drum by 
The Undefeated
New KidThe Undefeated
Genesis Begins Again
What Is Given from the Heart
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"
Small in the City
Layla's Happiness
Lawrence in the Fall
One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller by My Papi Has a Motorcycle
Gobi: a Little Dog with a Big Heart
Hazel's Theory of Evolution
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
King and the Dragonflies
We Are Not Free
Every Body Looking
When Stars Are Scattered
The Way BackDue to the covid-19 pandemic, the New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Awards were canceled for 2020. They will resume in fall 2021.
New KidThe UndefeatedGenesis Begins Again
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation
Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island
Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War
1919: The Year That Changed America
The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in Our Food and Drugs
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
Sal and Gabi Break the UniverseMy Papi Has a Motorcycle
¡Vamos! Let's Go to the MarketPlanting Stories: the Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
Just Ask! : Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
The Song of the Whales
A Friend for Henry
Each Tiny Spark
The Silence Between UsFry Bread: A Native American Family StoryOrdinary Hazards: A Memoir
When Aidan Became a Brother
The Black Flamingo
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
White Bird: a Wonder Story
Someday We Will Fly
Gittel's Journey: an Ellis Island Story
The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music
Anya and the Dragon
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work
Sick Kids in LoveFry Bread: A Native American Family Story
