>The New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books have been announced; as commenter Ruth notes on a previous post, the gender score is eight to two. Elsewhere in the Times‘s special section on children’s books I review Jaclyn Moriarty’s The Spell Book of Listen Taylor (Levine/Scholastic).
I note with only fortuitous smugness that the last time I judged this list, in 2005, we selected five male and five female illustrators. But I didn’t know this until now, as Henrike Wilson (winning for Brave Charlotte) and Alexis Deacon (for Jitterbug Jam) didn’t come to the party.
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>…Also interesting that in that year (2005), six of the books were written by someone other than the illustrator…
>Hey I have an idea. Why don’t they do it the way they do sports leagues and the Olympics.
Championship Mens Children’s Book Illustration and Championship Women’s Children’s Book Illustration.
>But then there would be all that trouble with drug testing.
>>>Elsewhere in the Times’s special section on children’s books I review Jaclyn Moriarty’s The Spell Book of Listen Taylor (Levine/Scholastic).< <
And did you happen to notice how comparatively few books by women were reviewed in the special section?