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Just so you know the kind of mind youre dealing with: I saw that the Bank Street College Best Childrens Books of the Year list came out, but I couldnt bring myself to look at it. I figured that if Revolutionary Friends was on it, someone would tell me. Guess what? They did! Congratulations to all my writing friends also honored. Here are the Boyds Mills Press/Highlights books - including the awesome #Nikki Grimes. YAY!!! Under Age 5 UH-OH, DODO! by Jennifer Sattler (9781590789292) CATTY JANE WHO LOVED TO DANCE by Valerie Gorbachev (9781590789827) Ages 5-9 COWBOY UP! Ride the Navajo Rodeo by Nancy Bo Flood, Photographs by Jan Sonnenmair (9781590788936) REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDS: General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette by Selene Castrovilla, Illustrated by Drazen Kozjan (9781590788806) Ages 9-12 THE KITE THAT BRIDGED TWO NATIONS by Alexis O’Neill, illustrated by Terry Widener (9781590789384) FACE BUG by J. Patrick Lewis, Illustrated by Kelly Murphy, Photographs by Frederic Siskind (9781590789254) WORDS WITH WINGS by Nikki Grimes (9781590789858) THOMAS JEFFERSON BUILDS A LIBRARY by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by John O’Brien (9781590789322) ANUBIS SPEAKS! By Vicky Alvear Shecter, illustrated by Antoine Revoy (9781590789957) THE MYSTERY OF DARWIN’S FROG by Laurence Pringle, illustrated by Steve Jenkins and Edel Rodriguez (9781590788646) SCORPIONS! Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle, illustrated by Meryl Henderson (9781590784730) The Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2014 Edition includes more than 600 titles chosen by the Children’s Book Committee as the best of the best published in 2013. In choosing books for the annual list, committee members consider literary quality and excellence of presentation as well as the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Other criteria include credibility of characterization and plot, authenticity of time and place, age suitability, positive treatment of ethnic and religious differences, and the absence of stereotypes. Nonfiction titles are further evaluated for accuracy and clarity.