Saturday, December 31, 2011

NY Public Library Best Books Lists for 2011, reprint, excerpt

Announcing the 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing: Children's Books 2011!

Posted: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:35:04 -0500

How quickly 100 years pass. Seems like only yesterday the children's librarians of The New York Public Library (newly formed as of 1911) were putting together a list of the best children's books of the year. At that time they were guided by the steady hand of that most powerful of librarians, Anne Carroll Moore.

Fast forward a century and what do we find? Librarians that work with children producing that same list yet again. Amazing, no?

Download a full PDF of the final list, or take a look at them by subject on our library catalog.

Here are some highlights from the list:

NYPL's Children's Books 2011: Picture Books

NYPL's Children's Books 2011: Folk & Fairy Tales

NYPL's Children's Books 2011: Early Chapter Books

NYPL's Children's Books 2011: Chapter Books

NYPL's Children's Books 2011: Poetry

NYPL's Children's Books 2011: Graphic Novels

NYPL's Children's Books 2011: Nonfiction

Big time thanks to those librarians that dedicated countless hours and sacrificed reading fare for anyone over the age of 12 to bring together this list.

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