Commemorating its 70th year of highlighting children’s books, the New York Times Book Review and the New York Public Library announced the 10 winners of the Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award. On this year’s panel of judges were author Emily Jenkins, New York Public Library children’s librarian Maggie Craig, and illustrator Raúl Colón.
The 2022 Best Illustrated selections are:
Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown)
Yellow Dog Blues by Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by Chris Raschka (Eerdmans)
Night Lunch by Eric Fan, illus. by Dena Seiferling (Tundra)
Telling Stories Wrong by Gianni Rodari, illus. by Beatrice Alemagna, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar (Enchanted Lion)
Bedtime for Bo by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, illus. by Mari Kanstad Johnsen, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson (Enchanted Lion)
The Upside Down Hat by Stephen Barr, illus. by Gracey Zhang (Chronicle)
The New Rooster by Rilla Alexander (Simon & Schuster)
The Writer by Davide Cali, illus. by Monica Barengo (Eerdmans)
Where Butterflies Fill the Sky by Zahra Marwan (Bloomsbury)
Still This Love Goes On by Buffy Sainte-Marie, illus. by Julie Flett (Greystone Kids)
