Shay Maunz

Shay Maunz is an Associate Editor at TIME for Kids.

Recent Articles

The 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2021

Truly good children’s books engage and entertain while also helping young readers come to understand themselves and the complicated world they live in. The best picture, middle grade and young adult books of 2021 deftly...

By Shay Maunz December 9, 2021

The 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2020

The events of this year—a global pandemic, a reckoning with racist violence and oppression, a tumultuous presidential election—have touched everyone's lives, children and teenagers included. And there are few resources more powerful than books to...

By Annabel Gutterman , Rebecca Katzman and Shay Maunz November 24, 2020

The 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2019

These engrossing stories help young readers understand the world around them

By Annabel Gutterman , Rebecca Katzman and Shay Maunz November 25, 2019
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