{"id":3613,"date":"2020-12-06T17:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T01:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2020-12-06T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T01:18:52","slug":"best-books-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2020\/12\/06\/best-books-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Books of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s that time of year again! I love reading all the best books lists at the end of the year. It&#8217;s wonderful to see some of the books I have loved over the year and also find some new gems to add to the library.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re looking to get some gifts for the holidays for the kids in your life or just looking for a great read, have a look at these fabulous lists.\u00a0 If you are buying books, consider supporting local bookstores such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidsbooks.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidsbooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First off, check out this great list by my colleague, Elaine Su:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elainesu.com\/bookguide2020.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elainesu.com\/images\/guidebanner1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some great Canadian choices, try this list by the Globe and Mail:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/books\/article-37-kids-books-to-give-to-all-the-young-readers-in-your-life\/?fbclid=IwAR3c7VLTeG5Bgu-WH0Dsqx72KHrHoFRw5R8Tty8sB9dzpBt8ItSe9LwU80o\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3614 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2020\/12\/globe-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2020\/12\/globe-300x159.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2020\/12\/globe.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews also publish a comprehensive list with several categories to meet the needs of all kinds of readers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slj.com\/?page=best-books-2020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slj.com\/binaries\/content\/gallery\/Jlibrary\/2020\/12\/bestbooks\/bb20-landing-header-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/best-of\/2020\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/d1fd687oe6a92y.cloudfront.net\/img\/kir_images\/icons\/best-of-2020.png\" alt=\"Best Books of 2020\" width=\"222\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope you found something great to put on your list for 2020! Happy reading and please contact me if you have any questions or comments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s that time of year again! I love reading all the best books lists at the end of the year. It&#8217;s wonderful to see some of the books I have loved over the year and also find some new gems to add to the library.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re looking to get some gifts for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2020\/12\/06\/best-books-of-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Books of 2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}