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Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009

January 13th, 2010 Tana

As the new year begins, and we settle in for the rest of the winter with “can’t-miss” books from the year before, there’s often a group of readers that goes overlooked. The cooks have their books, and the listeners have their audiobooks, but what about the children? Despair not, little library lovers! We’ve gathered the 2009 Best of Illustrated Children’s Book Lists into one place for you! Booklists from The New York Times, Nick Jr., Amazon.com, Publisher’s Weekly and more have selected their favorite picks; many titles appear on multiple lists.

Best of the best (number in parenthesis indicates number of lists on which the book appeared):

• The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (6 mentions)
• All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Marla Frazee (4)
• Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca (3)
• Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld (3)
• Creature ABC by Andrew Zuckerman (3)
• Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales by Lucy Cousins (3)
• The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani (2)
• Crow Call by Lois Lowry, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline (2)
• The Snow Day by Komako Sakai (2)
• The Curious Garden by Peter Brown (2)

Looking for more great children’s books from 2009? Check out our picks for Caldecott Award contenders. See also the Charlotte Zolotow Award, given by the UW-Madison Cooperative Children’s Book Center.

Entry Filed under: Childrens