{"id":7760,"date":"2012-01-08T22:53:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T02:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2012-01-08T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T03:23:18","slug":"2011-sonderbooks-standouts-picture-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=7760","title":{"rendered":"2011 Sonderbooks Standouts: Picture Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now, my final category of Sonderbooks Standouts:  Picture Books!<\/p>\n<p>This category is difficult, since some great picture books have been sitting around my house for awhile, waiting for me <a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/stars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/stars.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stars\" width=\"107\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7775\" \/><\/a>to review them.  And I need to compare those to the outstanding picture books I read earlier in the year.  I usually am not a big fan of more contemplative books without a story, but somehow I totally fell for <em>Stars<\/em>, by Mary Lyn Ray, and illustrated by Marla Frazee.  I hope it wins the Caldecott Medal this year.<\/p>\n<p>Both <em>Stuck<\/em>, by Oliver Jeffers, and <em>I Want My Hat Back<\/em>, by Jon Klassen, are a bit subversive, but both made me laugh out loud, are very well done, and simply have to be included.<\/p>\n<p>And, well, here&#8217;s my personal list of favorite picture books read in 2011:<\/p>\n<p>1.  <em>Stars<\/em>, by Mary Lyn Ray, illustrated by Marla Frazee<br \/>\n2.  <em>Stuck<\/em>, by Oliver Jeffers<br \/>\n3.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/mitchells_license.html\">Mitchell&#8217;s License<\/a><\/em>, by Hallie Durand, illustrated by Tony Facile<br \/>\n4.  <em>I Want My Hat Back<\/em>, by Jon Klassen<br \/>\n5.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/chalk.html\">Chalk<\/a><\/em>, by Bill Thomson<br \/>\n6.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/cazuela.html\">The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred<\/a><\/em>, by Samantha R. Vamos, illustrated by Rafael Lopez<br \/>\n7.  <em>A Ball for Daisy<\/em>, by Chris Raschka<br \/>\n8.  <em>The Sniffles for Bear<\/em>, by Bonny Becker, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton<\/p>\n<p>Next, I&#8217;ll try to get a webpage on my main Sonderbooks site for these standouts, add the Standouts seal to their review pages, write the reviews I haven&#8217;t written yet, and post the reviews I&#8217;ve written but are waiting to be posted.  So I&#8217;ll be staying busy!  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Happy Reading!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now, my final category of Sonderbooks Standouts: Picture Books! This category is difficult, since some great picture books have been sitting around my house for awhile, waiting for me to review them. And I need to compare those to the outstanding picture books I read earlier in the year. I usually am not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-book-review","category-stand-outs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}