Five Scholastic titles on Publishers Weekly’s 2011 Best Books of the Year!

 

Publishers Weekly has posted its list for the best books of the year.  We’re proud to say that five Scholastic titles made the cut for the children’s list.

Out of the 11 picture books selected, two are from Scholastic:  Rand Burkert and Nancy Ekholm Burkert’s MOUSE AND LION and Stephen Savage’s WHERE’S WALRUS?

24 fiction titles were chosen, including our very own BEAUTY QUEENS, WONDERSTRUCK, and THE SCORPIO RACES.

 

 

 

 

Scroll down to read what Publishers Weekly had to say about these novels:

 

Mouse & Lion:  Rand Burkert, illus. by Nancy Eckholm Burkert (Scholastic/di Capua)

"Retellings of the classic Aesop’s fable of good deeds rewarded are legion, but few are as elegantly and richly conceived as this mother-son collaboration. To say that the naturalistic and astonishingly detailed illustrations bring the African savannah to life hardly does them justice—paired with the story’s spare prose, each spread forms an intimate, perfectly framed vignette, charged with emotion."

 

 

 

Where’s Walrus?:  Stephen Savage (Scholastic Press)

"A triumph of design, Savage’s wordless game of cat-and-mouse (or rather walrus-and-zookeeper) demonstrates how much one can do with a few simple forms, some repetition, and an effortlessly charming tusked hero. The delight comes not from finding Walrus (that’s easy), but in seeing the ways in which his swoopy gray curves mimic the mannequins, firemen, and can-can dancers he tries to blend in with."

 

 

 

Beauty Queens:  Libba Bray (Scholastic Press)

"Few books are as unabashedly outrageous and fun as Bray’s story of a plane full of teenage beauty queen contestants that crashes on a deserted island. But the riotous “Survivor meets Miss America” premise is a vehicle for some sharp observations about our image-obsessed, media-driven culture. Somebody get this book a tiara!"

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Wonderstruck:  Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)

"In a story that’s both cinematic and personal, Selznick builds and improves upon the graphic/prose hybrid narrative style he first used in The Invention of Hugo Cabret with a story about human connections that span miles and decades. The book shines a spotlight on Deaf culture, the theme of silence a brilliant fit with the illustrated sections of the narrative."

Licensed in 17 languages to date!

 

 

The Scorpio Races:  Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)

"Stiefvater creates a startlingly original mythology in this captivating novel set on an island that has an uneasy relationship with the vicious horses that rule its beaches and waters. Just as these fairy creatures are no ordinary horses, neither is this an ordinary horse novel; rather, it’s an atmospheric fantasy about a girl working to control not just her mount but her family and her life’s direction."

Licensed in 8 languages to date!

Submitted by Iris on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 4:34pm