Top 12 children's books of 2012

Meghan Cox Gurdon, who reviews children's books for the Wall Street Journal, named her favorite picture books and chapter books from 2012, including:
Katherine Marsh's Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

The young 16th-century hero of Katherine Marsh's "Jepp, Who Defied the Stars" has also been dealt a poor hand. Though educated and devout, Jepp is a dwarf whose "supple mind [is] concealed in an unlikely