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| Screen shot of the New York Times article, "The 2021 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books" showing an interior spread from one of the ten winners, "I Am the Subway," written and illustrated by Kim Hyo-eun. |
Since 1952, the New York Times has pulled together a rotating panel of three experts to look at EVERY illustrated book for kids published in the USA for that year. This year's judges, children's literature critic Catherine Hong; New York Public Library youth collections librarian Jessica Agudelo; and Caldecott medalist Paul O. Zelinsky (a member of SCBWI's Board of Advisors and a past winner of this honor), chose ten winners ”purely on the basis of artistic merit.”
Announced in the New York Times Book Review on November 12, 2021, The 2021 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books includes interior images – and there's a bonus article with interviews with the artists and views of them working in their studios!
The ten winning books are:
I Am the Subway
Written and illustrated by Kim Hyo-eun
Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
The Night Walk
Written and illustrated by Marie Dorléans
Time Is a Flower
Written and illustrated by Julie Morstad
It Fell From the Sky
Written and illustrated by Terry Fan and Eric Fan
The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess
Written and illustrated by Tom Gauld
¡Vamos! Let’s Cross the Bridge
Written and illustrated by Raúl the Third
Colors by Elaine Bay
While You’re Sleeping
Written by Mick Jackson
Illustrated by John Broadley
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Written by Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Keeping the City Going
Written and illustrated by Brian Floca
On the Other Side of the Forest
Written by Nadine Robert
Illustrated by Gérard DuBois
Congratulations to the winners, and what inspiration for the rest of us!
Illustrate, Translate, and Write On,
Lee
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