Best History Books for Kids from 2022

 

Here are the history book for children and teens from 2022 that we found to be outstanding. We have linked our reviews below. We continue to review titles published in 2022, so look for upcoming reviews of books from this list.

Action!: How Movies Began
by Meghan McCarthy
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
illustrated by Daniel Minter
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Books
by Tonya Bolden
illustrated by Eric Velásquez
Quill Tree Books

Hanged!: Mary Surratt & the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln
by Sarah Miller

Random House Studio

A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexican Word Painters
by Duncan Tonatiuh
Abrams Books for Young Readers

Peace is a Chain Reaction 

by Tanya Lee Stone

Candlewick Press

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

by Elizabeth Partridge

illustrated by Lauren Tamaki

Chronicle Books

Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code

by Rebecca E.F. Barone

Henry Holt and Co.