The Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College has now made available its Best Children's Books of the Year, 2012 Edition, which contains more than 600 annotated titles, divided into age ranges and categories.

Congratulations to the 2012 Bank Street Children’s Book Award Winners!

Josette Frank Award for Fiction:
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz (Candlewick)

Flora Straus Nonfiction Award:
For Older Readers:
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin (Knopf), which was also a National Book Award Finalist

For Younger Readers:
Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Claudia Lewis Poetry Award:
For Older Readers:
The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf (Candlewick)

For Younger Readers:
Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems by Kristine O'Connell George, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Clarion)

The Children's Book Committee has also made available its list of the Best Books to Read Aloud to Children of All Ages.




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Congratulations to the new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, for 2012-2013:

Walter Dean Myers

Here's the complete story in the New York Times (with a quote from yours truly, who felt honored to serve on the selection committee).