From: sully_at_sully-writer.com
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:39:30 -0700

From all that I've read, I'd say this was a nother stellar year for children's and young adult publishing. If there's a weak spot this year, I think there's less outstanding nonfiction for older teen readers than in previous years but nonfiction for younger r eaders is phenomenal.
 
 Four titles that I hope both the Caldecott and Sibert committees will strongly consider are: Drawing from Memory by Allen Say
 The House That B aba Built by Ed Young
 Meadowlands by Thomas Yeze rski
 Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell

Picture Book Fa vorites:

 A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka All the Water in the World by George Ella Lyon and Katherine Tillotso n
 Bee Bird by Craig Frazier
 Bone Dog by Eric Rohman
 Brother Sun, Sister Moon by Kat herine Paterson and Pamela Dalton
 Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
 If I Never Forever Endeavour by Holly Meade I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
 999 Tadpoles by Ken Kimura
 Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes
 Perfect Square by Michael Hall
 The Scar by Charlotte Moundlic and Olivier Tallec
 Scrawny Cat by Phyllis Root and Alison Friend
 The Umbrella by Ingrid and Deiter Schubert
 Where's Walrus? by Stephen Savage

Nonfiction Favorites:

 Bugs by the Numbers by Sharon Werner
 Can We Save the Tiger? by Marti n Jenkins
 Coral Reefs by Jason Chin
 Flesh and Blood So Cheap by Albert Marrin
 Into the Unknown by S tewart Ross
 The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families & nbsp;by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
 Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People by Monica Brown and Julie Paschkis
 Thunder Birds by Jim Arnosky
 Which Side Are You On?: The Story of a Song by George Ella Lyon and Christopher Cardinale

Children's Novels

 Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
 A Dog's Way Home & nbsp;by Bobbie Pyron
 An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
 Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Junonia by Kevin Henkes
 The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
 Pie by Sarah Weeks
 Small as an Eleph ant by Jennifer Jacobson

YA Novels

 Between Shad es of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
 Family by Micol Ostow Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera
 How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
 A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Shine by Lauren Myracle
 Out of Shadows by Jas on Wallace
 Pregnant Pause by Han Nolan
 The Watch Th at Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel
 This Thing Called the Futu re by J.L. Powers
 Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

 
 
 
 
 
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