Publisher’s Weekly has selected its Best Books of the Year for 2007. To find the youth titles, get ready to scroll and scroll. Just when your mouse has fallen off the mousepad for the third time, you should be near the children’s list. 😉 The categories are Children’s Picture Books, Children’s Fiction (which has clearly teen titles in it), Children’s Nonfiction and Children’s Comics.
Picture books include two of my favorites of the year: Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear and Leaves.
Fiction has two of my top teen books: Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and A Swift Pure Cry.
And there are many I have not managed to read yet, but have been on my list for some time. Looks like a very nice collection of titles. Though I wish that they would pull YA out to a separate list and focus more on chapter books for older elementary ages.
Waking Brain Cells 
I thought it interesting that Laika was listed as a comic title for adults. But whatever.
Laika, Robot Dreams and The Arrival are all great choices. The Wall could go in the comic section as well, really, instead of nonfiction.
I can’t really argue against any of the choices on the list either because I agree with them (comics, Hugo Cabret and more) or because I haven’t read them. But there are others not on the list that I think should be there.
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