Kirkus’s best of the year

We had a bumper crop of great kids’ graphic novels this year: Ghostopolis, The Unsinkable Walker Bean, and the utterly charming Guinea Pig: Pet Shop Private Eye books, among others. Here’s a handy jog to your memory: Kirkus Reviews has just posted their picks for the best books of the year, both as a big list (PDF) and broken out into categories, which include graphic novels and illustrated fiction and graphic novels for teens.

Here are the lists; you can find reviews of each book on the Kirkus pages

Graphic Novels and Illustrated Chapter Books

• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
• Spaceheadz
• Justin Case
• Dragonbreath
• Curse of the Were-Weiner
• Doodlebug
• Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
• The Unsinkable Walker Bean
• Binky to the Rescue
• Ghostopolis
• Hamster and Cheese
• And Then There Were Gnomes

Graphic Novels for Teens

• Trickster
• The Odyssey
• Mercury
• Yummy
• Smile
• Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush

(Via Chicken Spaghetti.)

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