Special Children's Books Section Featured in November 8 Issue
NEW YORK , Nov. 5, 2009 – The New York Times Book Review has announced its annual 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books . The annual special Children's Book section of this Sunday's Times Book Review will feature the books, which a panel of judges culled from among the several thousand children's books published this year. Lists of the past Best Illustrated Children's Books can be found on NYTimes.com/books along with a slide show. This year's list will be online Nov. 6.
The Book Review's 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books for 2009 are:
- Only a Witch Can Fly , by Alison McGhee, illustrated by Taeeun Yoo (Feiwel & Friends);
- Moonshot : The Flight of Apollo 11 , written and illustrated by Brian Floca (Richard Jackson/Atheneum);
- The Odd Egg , written and illustrated by Emily Gravett (Simon & Schuster);
- A Penguin Story , written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis (HarperCollins);
- The Lion & the Mouse , illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown);
- The Snow Day , written and illustrated by Komako Sakai (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic);
- Tales from Outer Suburbia , written and illustrated by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic);
- Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales , written and illustrated by Lucy Cousins (Candlewick);
- White Noise , by David A. Carter (Little Simon/Simon & Schuster);
- All the World , by Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Marla Frazee (Beach Lane/Simon & Schuster).
The children's books editor for The New York Times Book Review is Julie Just. This year's panel of judges included Adam Gopnik, a writer for The New Yorker and the author of two novels for children; Jillian Tamaki, a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and a recipient of a Society of Illustrators gold medal; and Lisa Von Drasek, the children's librarian of the Bank Street College of Education.
The Children's Books section also contains reviews of a host of children's books. New York Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof reviews 14 Cows for America , by Carmen Agra Deedy with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah, illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez (Peachtree Publishers), a true story about the remote Kenyon village that offered aid to the United States after the 9/11 attacks. Stanford Law School student and former platoon leader in Iraq, Ryan Southerland, reviews Purple Heart , by Patricia McCormick (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins), about young American soldiers in Baghdad. And a Field Guide to Fairies roundup by author Regina Marler reviews five fairy-themed Y.A. novels and reworked fairy tales proving the resilience of an age-old genre.
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