At the end of any given year you’ll see the occasional article or blog posting that talks about the forgotten gems of a given year.  But what about those books that came out two, three, even ten years ago and yet remain unheralded?  I’ve been reviewing books for kids for over ten years now, and when I look at the list of books I’ve reviewed I see titles that I still love and adore now, just as much as I did when they first came out.

So with this in mind I combed through my inordinately long listing of past reviewed titles and located the titles that still make me pound the table in my excitement.  Problem was, there were so many I decided to just dedicate the occasional posting to this topic.  Here then, are the picture books I’ve reviewed in the past and still think are the bee’s knees.  This is just a smattering, but it’s a good smattering.  A lot of these are out-of-print, but that doesn’t make them any less awesome.