Gallery: NYT Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2023
The New York Times announced their annual Best Illustrated Children’s Books List, and it’s full of great picks. How’d I do on my predictions?
I correctly predicted . . . one (At the Drop of a Cat).
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However! If you also take into account my insanely long (and oft-ridiculed) list of other possibilities at the end of the post, you can up that number to six (At the Drop of a Cat, Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!, We Are Starlings, The Young Teacher and the Great Serpent, Mary’s Idea, As Night Falls). But that would be cheating. So I’m calling it one.
Let’s have a look at the winners!










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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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