The Horn Book has selected its choices for the best books of 2014.  Here they are:

PICTURE BOOKS

  

The Baby Tree by Sophie Blackall

Bow-Wow’s Nightmare Neighbors by Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash

Draw! by Raúl Colón

  

The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee

Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio; illustrated by Christian Robinson

 

My Bus by Byron Barton

Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers

 

Sam & Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett; illustrated by Jon Klassen

Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales, with photos by Tim O’Meara

 

FICTION

  

Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire

The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos

The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis

  

My Heart Is Laughing by Rose Lagercrantz; illustrated by Eva Eriksson; translated from the Swedish by Julia Marshall

Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki; illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

  

The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye; illustrated by Betsy Peterschmidt

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

West of the Moon by Margi Preus

 

FOLKLORE

Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Middleton Elya; illustrated by Susan Guevara

 

POETRY

 

Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko; illustrated by Melissa Sweet

How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson; illustrated by Hadley Hooper

 

NONFICTION

  

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm; illustrated by Molly Bang

El Deafo by Cece Bell

  

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell; illustrated by Christian Robinson

Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands by Katherine Roy

 

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant; illustrated by Melissa Sweet

The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond by Patrick Dillon; illustrated by Stephen Biesty