The Current New York Times Best Selling Picture Books

Week of December 11—Fill Those Stockings with Picture Books

Monday, December 12—The Current New York Times Best Selling Picture Books

I love perusing the New York Times best sellers list. Not only do I find books that are popular, but also the publishers who released the books, and authors and illustrators I don’t know—but want to. Below are the best-selling picture books per the New York Times, December 11, 2011. Why not add one or two your Christmas reading list?

If You Give A Dog a Donut

By Laura Numeroff

Illustrated by Felicia Bond

Balzer & Brat/HarperCollins

© 2011

Heaven Is For Real for Kids

By Todd and Sonja Burpo

Illustrated by Wilson Ong

Tommy Nelson

© 2010

The Night Before Christmas

By Clement C. Moore

Various illustrators

Various Publishers

Various copyright dates

Press Here

By Herve Tullet

Handprint/Chronicle

© 2011

Llama Llama Holiday Drama

By Anna Dewdney

Viking

© 2010

A Bad Kitty Christmas

By Nick Bruel

Neal Porter/Roaring Brook

© 2009

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

By Sherry Duskey Rinker

Illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld

Chronicle

© 2011

The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

By Eric Carle

Philomel

© 2011

Home for Christmas

By Jan Brett

Putnam

© 2011

I Want My Hat Back

By Jon Klassen

Candlewick

© 2011