Yesterday the New York Times Book Review announced its list of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011, which will be featured in the November 13 issue. They are:
Along a Long Road by Frank Viva (Little, Brown)
A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon: Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures by Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Pamela Dalton (Chronicle)
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)
Ice by Arthur Geisert (Enchanted Lion Books)
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen (Candlewick)
Me... Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown)
Migrant by Maxine Trottier, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault (Groundwood)
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Dial/Penguin)
A New Year's Reunion by Yu Li-Qiong, illustrated by Zhu Cheng-Liang (Candlewick)
The judges this year were Jeanne Lamb, coordinator, Youth Collections at the New York Public Library; Lucy Calkins, Richard Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College, Columbia University; and Sophie Blackall, author and artist of 24 books for children, including Big Red Lollipop, one of last year's Best Illustrated books.