SLJ’s Best Comics For Kids 2009

The School Library Journal has assembled a "Best Comics For Kids 2009" list, complete with commentary, categories and ISBN information. Participants in the list included -- which means there are more? I'm not sure -- Robin Brenner, Katherine Dacey, Lori Henderson, Esther Keller, Scott Robins, Eva Volin and Snow Wildsmith. It's a really good list, and to be perfectly honest, these people are way more on top of general publisher offerings of this type than the comics press and blogosphere can ever hope to be. As I'm sure will be mentioned in several other places, I can't imagine a seller of comic books not having enough material here with which to build a comics for kids part of their business, unless their interest is a subset of comics and not comics, in which case they should be honest about that.

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BEST COMICS FOR YOUNG READERS (4-8)
* Binky the Space Cat, Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press)
* Dinosaur Hour, Hitoshi Shioya (VIZ)
* Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom, Eric Wight (Simon & Schuster).
* Happy Happy Clover, Sayuri Tatsuyama (VIZ)
* Little Mouse Gets Ready, Jeff Smith (Toon Books)
* Luke on the Loose, Harry Bliss (Toon Books)
* Ninja Baseball Kyuma, Shunshin Maeda (UDON Kids)
* The Big Adventures of Majoko Machiko Fuji and Tomomi Mizuno (UDON Kids)
* Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics. Edited by Art Spiegelman & Francois Mouly (Toon Books)

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BEST COMICS FOR TWEENS (9-12)
* Adventures in Cartooning, James Sturm (First Second)
* A Family Secret and The Search, Eric Heuvel (FSG)
* Jellaby: Monster in the City, Kean Soo (Hyperion)
* Kit Feeney: On the Move, Michael Townsend (Knopf)
* Leave it to PET! The Misadventures of a Recycled Super-Robot, Kenji Sonishi (VIZ)
* Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers, Chris Eliopoulos and Ig Guara (Marvel)
* My Mommy Is In America, And She Met Buffalo Bill, Jean Regnaud and Emile Bravo (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
* The Storm in the Barn, Matt Phelan (Candlewick)
* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Eric Shanower and Skottie Young (Marvel)

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BEST COMICS FOR TEENS (13-18)
* Bayou, Jeremy Love (Zuda)
* Cat Burglar Black, Richard Sala (First Second)
* Children of the Sea, Daisuke Igarashi (VIZ Media)
* Gunnerkrigg Court, Vol. 1: Orientation, Tom Siddell (Titan Books)
* Kimi no Todoke: From Me to You, Karuho Shiina (VIZ)
* Maximum Ride: The Manga, James Patterson and NaRae Lee (Yen Press)
* Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Naoki Urasawa (VIZ)
* Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane: Sophomore Jinx, Terry Moore (Marvel)
* The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, Emmanuel Guibert (First Second)

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