I was reading through the online newspapers and found an article that interest me. In the Standford times there was an article " New York Times taps librarian to judge 10 best picture books" by A.J O'Connell. Caroline Ward is a librarian of all sorts, the 62 year old woman has served on many committees that award the most prestigious honors in children literature. She has served as the president of ALA's youth children services which awards the Randolph Caldecott Medal. This year she was tapped to judge the New York Times book Reviews Best illustrated children's books of 2008. The books they choose ranged from artful alphabet books and color books for toddlers to graphic novels for teenagers that deal with suicide, self- image, and sexual identity. Caroline Ward has been evaluating book for over 10 years at the Ferguson Library. since having everyday experience she was very excited to be chosen to pick the top 10 children books for 2008. On September 30th she was in the New York Times office and reviewing over thousands of books, the evaluating took all day but eventually choose 10 books.
The following books were chosen:
"A River of Words," by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
"We are the Ship," by Kadir Nelson
"Ghosts in the House," by Kazuno Kohara
"Wabi Sabi" by Mark Reibstein and Ed Young
"The Black Book of Colors," by Menena Cottin
"The Little Yellow Leaf," by Carin Berger
"Wave," by Suzy Lee
"A is for Art," by Stephen T. Johnson
"Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City" by Janet Schulman and Meilo So,
"Skim" by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
These books come from artist and nationalities all across the world and are made suitable for teens and toddlers.
The New York Times has been choosing the top 10 children's books since 1952 and plan on keeping the tradition going. Caroline Ward enjoyed choosing the top 10 children's books and said she loves helping people find books to read.
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