Two recent announcements have given focus to the "best" of Children's Literature during the past year.
The 2007 National Book Award Finalists in the area of Young People's Literature are:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic by Kathleen Duey
Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr.
The 2007 Boston-Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature were given to:
Fiction and Poetry:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
Honor Books: Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Rex Zero and the End of the World by Tim Wynne-Jones
Picture Book:
Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Honor Books: 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental
Wolves by Emily Gravett
Non-Fiction:
The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr by Nicolas Debon
Honor Books: Tracking Trash by Loree Griffin Burns
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdinin by Sid Fleischman
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