Red Spikes is a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2007!

See? (Scroll down to the Children's list.)

So what did we read this year that kept us up at night, broke our hearts, opened our minds, made us fall in love? Three thousand books are published daily in the U.S., and PW reviewed more than 6,000 of them in 2007, in print and online. From that astounding number, we've culled a best books list covering our favorites in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, comics, religion, lifestyle and children's—150 in all.

And they say, of Red Spikes: 'Rarely do YA readers find such uniformly strong short fiction as in Lanagan's dark and provocative fantasy collection of 10 stories, striking for their beautiful, quirky language and deep psychological insight.'

The Arrival by Shaun Tan is also on the list, under Children's Comics.