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Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

Three new collections by Jeanette Winterson, Paul Yoon and Louise Kennedy.

Keong Sim reads the audiobook version of the author’s second posthumous collection, “Songs on Endless Repeat.”

Three new collections by Jeanette Winterson, Paul Yoon and Louise Kennedy.

The Book Review’s art director on the edgiest, catchiest, most creative book jackets of the year.

Five collections our columnist loved this year.

Coming to auction is a clattering collection of machines once owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney and … the Unabomber.

The prolific Norwegian is the rarest of recent literary prize winners: an author and playwright in thrall to the divine.

For 30 years she collaborated with the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, her husband, often appearing on camera. After they divorced, she lived off the grid and wrote about her life.

He opened the door for future generations of poets of color to use their own voices.