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February 11, 2012

Announcing the 2011 Sonderbooks Stand-outs! I'm ranking my favorite books read in 2011 and will be giving each review page a special seal. I already announced the titles and my reasoning on my blog, but now I've got the permanent page up.

My #2 Sonderbooks Stand-out in Picture Books was Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers. What can I say? It simply made me laugh out loud.

Happy reading!

Animal Characters

The Little Rabbit Who Liked to Say MOO

by Jonathan Allen

999 Tadpoles

by Ken Kimura
illustrated by Yasunari Murakami

The Plot Chickens

by Mary Jane and Herm Auch

Quack and Count

by Keith Baker

A Visitor for Bear

by Bonny Becker
illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

A Birthday for Bear

by Bonny Becker
illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

A Bedtime for Bear

by Bonny Becker
illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

Big Wolf and Little Wolf:
The Little Leaf That Wouldn't Fall

by Nadine Brun-Cosme
illustrated by Olivier Tallec

The Pout-Pout Fish

by Deborah Diesen
pictures by Dan Hanna

Knitty Kitty

by David Elliott
illustrated by Christopher Denise

Katie Loves the Kittens

by John Himmelman

Little Panda

by Renata Liwska

The Frogs and Toads All Sang

by Arnold Lobel
colored by Adrianne Lobel

The Lion and the Mouse

by Jerry Pinkney

Toot Toot Zoom!

by Phyllis Root
illustrated by Matthew Cordell

Chicken Dance

by Tammi Sauer
illustrated by Dan Santat

Read It, Don't Eat It!

by Ian Schoenherr

Timothy and the Strong Pajamas

by Viviane Schwarz

The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred

by Samantha R. Vamos
illustrated by Rafael Lopez

Balancing Act

by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Art and Max

by David Wiesner

Are You Ready to Play Outside?

by Mo Willems

City Dog, Country Frog

by Mo Willems
pictures by Jon J Muth

I Will Surprise My Friend!

by Mo Willems

Pigs Make Me Sneeze!

by Mo Willems

Contemporary

Stars

by Mary Lyn Ray
illustrated by Marla Frazee

Are You Awake?

by Sophie Blackall

In a Blue Room

by Jim Averbeck
illustrated by Tricia Tusa

Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I don't)

by Barbara Bottner
illustrated by Michael Emberley

Our Librarian Won't Tell Us Anything!

by Toni Buzzeo
illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa

Thunder-Boomer!

by Shutta Crum
illustrated by Carol Thompson

Let the Whole Earth Sing Praise

by Tomie DePaola

Mitchell's License

by Hallie Durand
illustrated by Tony Facile

Hello Baby!

by Mem Fox
illustrated by Steve Jenkins

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury

The Composer Is Dead

by Lemony Snicket
music by Nathaniel Stookey
illustrations by Carson Ellis

Ladybug Girl at the Beach

by David Soman and Jacky Davis

History

How I Learned Geography

by Uri Shulevitz

Delightfully Silly

Stuck

by Oliver Jeffers

13 Words

by Lemony Snicket
illustrated by Maira Kalman

Orangutan Tongs

by Jon Agee

Monsters Eat Whiny Children

by Bruce Eric Kaplan

The Scrambled States of America Talent Show

by Laurie Keller

Knock, Knock!

Bubble Trouble

by Margaret Mahy
illustrated by Polly Dunbar

The Book That Eats People

by John Perry
illustrations by Mark Fearing

Patricia von Pleasantsquirrel

by James Proimos

Grandpa for Sale

by Vicki Sansum and Dotti Enderle
illustrated by T. Kyle Gentry

Robot Zot!

by Jon Scieszka
illustrated by David Shannon

Oh, Daddy!

by Bob Shea

Millie in the Snow

by Alexander Steffensmeier

Millie Waits for the Mail

by Alexander Steffensmeier

Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?

by Audrey Vernick
illustrated by Daniel Jennewein

Scaredy Squirrel

by Melanie Watt

Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!

by Mo Willems

The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!

by Mo Willems

Fantasy

Chalk

by Bill Thomson

The Odious Ogre

by Norton Juster
pictures by Jules Feiffer

Ghosts in the House!

by Kazuno Kohara

Jeremy Draws a Monster

by Peter McCarty