PW Reveals Its “Best Of” for 2007
November 6, 2007 by Kelly Phillips Erb
Filed under Parenting
Publisher’s Weekly has compiled its “best of” lists for 2007. The winners are:
Children’s Picture Books
Nothing, Jon Agee (Hyperion)
At Night, Jonathan Bean (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose, Leo and Diane Dillon (Harcourt)
Orange Pear Apple Bear, Emily Gravett (Simon & Schuster)
1 2 3: A Child’s First Counting Book, Alison Jay (Dutton)
Tuttle’s Red Barn: The Story of America’s Oldest Family Farm, Richard Michelson, illus. by Mary Azarian (Putnam)
Dog and Bear: Two Friends Three Stories, Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Porter)
Leaves, David Ezra Stein (Putnam)
The Apple Pie That Papa Baked, Lauren Thompson, illus. by Jonathan Bean (Simon & Schuster)
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity, Mo Willems (Hyperion) [note: currently on the NY Times Best Sellers list]
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Children’s Fiction
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio, Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, illus. by Ellen Forney (Little, Brown)
The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray (Delacorte)
Mistik Lake, Martha Brooks (FSG/Kroupa)
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Peter Cameron (FSG/Foster)
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party, Ying Chang Compestine (Holt)
Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
A Swift Pure Cry, Siobhan Dowd (Random/Fickling)
Before I Die, Jenny Downham (Random/Fickling)
Evil Genius, Catherine Jinks (Harcourt)
Bone by Bone by Bone, Tony Johnston (Roaring Brook/Brodie)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney (Abrams/Amulet)
Red Spikes, Margo Lanagan (Knopf)
Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy (HarperCollins)
Bullyville, Francine Prose (HarperTeen)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling (Scholastic/Levine)
The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree, Lauren Tarshis (Dial)
The New Policeman, Kate Thompson (Greenwillow)
Long May She Reign, Ellen Emerson White (Feiwel & Friends)
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Children’s Nonfiction
Living Color, Steve Jenkins (Houghton)
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, Peter Sís (FSG/Foster)
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Children’s Comics
The Arrival, Shaun Tan (Scholastic/Levine)
Robot Dreams, Sara Varon (Roaring Brook/First Second)
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Did your favorites make the list?
