Best of 2011: Picture Books, Fiction and Non-fiction
Fiction
Princess Palooza by Joy Allen
No Sleep for the Sheep by Karen Beaumont
Woof Meow Tweet-Tweet by Cecile Boyer
The Wheels on the Bus by Jane Cabrera
Princess Peppers Picks a Pet by Pam Calvert
Naamah and the Ark at Night by Susan Campbell
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle
Tom Thumb by Eric Carle
The Money We’ll Save by Brock Cole
The Neighborhood Sing Along by Nina Crews
Mine! By Shutta Crum
Ants in your Pants, Worms in your Plants (Gilbert Goes Green) by Dianne DeGroat
Llama Llama Home with Mama Anna Dewdney
Mitchell’s License by Hallie Durand
Rrralph by Lois Ehlert
Everything I Need to Know Before I’m Five by Valorie Fisher
Shout! Shout it Out! By Denise Fleming
My Name is Not Alexander by Jennifer Fosberry
I Spy with My Little Eye by Edward Gibbs
Blue Cameleon by Emily Gravett
Three by the Sea by Mini Grey
Perfect Square by Michael Hall
Summer Jackson Grows Up by Teresa Harris
Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes
Dot by Patricia Intriago
Betty Bunny Loves Cake by Michael B. Kaplan
Babies on the Bus by Karen Katz
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
E-Mergency by Tom Lichtenheld
The Croaky Poaky by Ethan Long
Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred by Rafael Lopez
Happy Birthday Hamster by Cynthia Lord
Before You Came by Patricia MacLachlan
Me…Jane by Patrick McDonnell
If Rocks Could Sing by Leslie McGuirk
Waddles by David McPhail
See Me Run by Paul Meisel
Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/ Marisol McDonald no combina by Monica Brown
Buglette the Messy Sleeper by Bethanie Deeney Murguia
Sea of Dreams by Dennis Nolan
Pretend by Jennifer Plecas
A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka
Bone Dog by Eric Rohmann
Subway Story by Julia Sarcone-Roach
Blackout by John Rocco
Brownie and Pearl Take a Dip by Cynthia Rylant
Baby Badger’s Wonderful Night by Karen Saunders
Where’s Walrus? by Stephen Savage
Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider
Bumble-Ardy by Maurice Sendak
I’m a Shark by Bob Shea
Library Lily by Gillian Shields
We Love Our School: A Read-Together Rebus Story by Judy Sierra
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
The Sunflower Sword by Mark Sperring
Leap Back Home to Me by Lauren Thompson
Migrant by Maxine Trottier
Press Here by Herve Tullet
The Loud Book! By Deborah Underwood
Fuddles by Frans Vischer
Along a Long Road by Frank Viva
Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator! by Mo Willems
I Broke My Trunk by Mo Willems
Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson
The Day Tiger Rose said Goodbye by Jane Yolen
Zoomer’s Summer Snowstorm by Ned Young
The Twin’s Blanket by Hyewon Yum
Biography
Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile by Gloria Houston
Poetry
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems by Kristine O’Connell George
Moo, Moo, Brown Cow, Have you any Milk? By Phyllis Gershator
This is the Game by Diane Z. Shore
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
WARDLAW, Lee. Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
Nonfiction
Dream Something Big: The Story of the Watts Tower by Dianna Hutts Aston
Mouse & Lion by Rand Burkert
Jack and the Beanstalk by Nina Crews
Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World by Allan Drummond
Rapunzel by Wilhelm Grimm (illus. by Sarah Gibb)
Mother Goose Picture Puzzles by Will Hillenbrand
WE are America: Tribute from the Heart by Walter Dean Myers
Orani: My Father’s Village by Claire A. Nivola
Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet
Meadowlands: A Wetland Survival by Thomas F. Yezerski