Publishers Weekly has released their best children’s books of 2009. I’ve only read one, Catching Fire, which I did enjoy. Boy, all of these look good. Have you read any that you highly recommend?
My list below is only the fiction titles. Nonfiction titles and picture books can be found at Publishers Weekly.
Wintergirls. Laurie Halse Anderson. (more info)
Going Bovine. Libba Bray. (more info)
Fire. Kristin Cashore. (more info)
Catching Fire. Suzanne Collins. (more info)
If I Stay. Gayle Forman. (more info)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. Jacqueline Kelly. (more info)
Purple Heart. Patricia McCormick. (more info)
The Ask and the Answer. Patrick Ness. (more info)
A Season of Gifts. Richard Peck. (more info)
When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead. (more info)
Shiver. Maggie Stiefvater. (more info)
Marcelo in the Real World. Francisco X. Stork. (more info)
Tales from Outer Suburbia. Shaun Tan. (more info)
Lips Touch: Three Times. Laini Taylor, illus. by Jim Di Bartolo. (more info)
The Uninvited. Tim Wynne-Jones. (more info)
Source: Publishers Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704596.html
Loved Shiver. And If I Stay. The Ask and the Answer was brilliant, but a sequel. Haven’t heard of some of the others!
Thanks for you recs. I’ve noticed a lot of people seem to like The Ask and the Answer, so maybe I should read the first one as well.
I highly recommend Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan! I read that book by him and another one called the Arrival this year. Both got perfect 5 stars from me!
I’ve ‘read’ The Arrival and loved the story but not the pictures so much. I’d like to look at another Tan book to see if I’d feel differently.
The only one I have read is the Shaun Tan which I loved! Fair to say though that I am something of a Shaun Tan fangirl. The Arrival was my first book of his and it ended up being my favourite book of the year a couple of years ago, despite the fact that it has no words. Just fantastic.
Another recommendation. I’ll have to see if my library has it.
Wow.. there are some books I have atleast heard about in this list!
I know — even if I haven’t read them I’ve seen other reviews on blogs at least.
I am ashamed to say that I haven’t read any of the books listed but quite a few of them are on my TBR list.
I hadn’t read any either until Catching Fire during the readathon. Some of these look really good!
Oh man, Catching Fire and If I Stay are two of my favorites from this year. Good list!
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, Marcelo in the Real World, Catching Fire, and Tales from Outer Suburbia are some of this year’s favorite reads. Most of the list is on my TBR list now.