Ones that got away

Great Books that Did not get their due by Rick Margolis–School Library Journal, 11/1/2007

The publishing gods must be crazy. How else can you explain the cruel fate of so many deserving children’s books? While mediocre works abound among annual best sellers, scores of perfectly wonderful kids’ books have vanished faster than Tony Soprano’s henchmen. To address this injustice, we asked a select group of librarian reviewers, booksellers, and children’s book aficionados to choose their favorite overlooked titles—books that they and the kids they serve truly love.

The list is available at http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6494172.html Unfortunately, I have not read any of them, but will start reading in my “free time.”