Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Beauty + Brains: The Best Children’s Books from the New York Book Show

Part I: Hardcover Picture Books and Pop-up Books
Just this week, the Book Industry Guild of New York hosted their annual book show. This show is a visual arts-lovers paradise, as the books selected were judged on beauty of design and quality of printing. These selections are a feast for the eyes as well as the soul. The show features notes about the books’ typefaces, paper weights, and special printing effects. No e-books to be experienced at this show. It’s truly a celebration of the printer’s art.

This is the 25th annual show the guild has hosted. Since 1993, the group has donated all the books from the show to the Literacy Assistance Center of New York.

Hardcover Picture Book – Fiction


Extraordinary Pets by Barroux. Published by Blue Apple Books.


Bunny Days by Tao Nyeu. Published by Dial Books for Young Readers.


This Is Silly! By Gary Taxali. Published by Scholastic Press.


Cupcake by Charise Mericle Harper. Published by Disney.


Counting Chickens
by Harriet Ziefert. Published by Blue Apple Books.

Hardcover Picture Book – Nonfiction

Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow by Gary Golio. Published by Clarion Books.

Pop-Up Books


Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Pop-Up! by Dr. Seuss. Published by Robin Corey Books/Random House Children’s Books.




DC Super Heroes: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book by DC Comics and Matthew Reinhart. Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.




Bosco’s Busy Morning by Chuck Murphy. Published by Robin Corey Books/Random House Children’s Books.



We'll feature more books from the New York Book Show next week!

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