NYT 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011

Yesterday the New York Times Book Review announced its list of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011, which will be featured in the November 13 issue. They are:

Along a Long Road by Frank Viva (Little, Brown)
A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon: Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures by Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Pamela Dalton (Chronicle)
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)
Ice by Arthur Geisert (Enchanted Lion Books)
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen (Candlewick)
Me... Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown)
Migrant by Maxine Trottier, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault (Groundwood)
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Dial/Penguin)
A New Year's Reunion by Yu Li-Qiong, illustrated by Zhu Cheng-Liang (Candlewick)

The judges this year were Jeanne Lamb, coordinator, Youth Collections at the New York Public Library; Lucy Calkins, Richard Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College, Columbia University; and Sophie Blackall, author and artist of 24 books for children, including Big Red Lollipop, one of last year's Best Illustrated books.