Alison at ShelfTalker posted her Morris Medals yesterday. Alison is the children’s book buyer at the Wellesley Booksmith, which is one of the three nicest independent bookstores within a few hours of our home. The other two are The Toadstool Bookshop in our town of Peterborough, and the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont. Anyway, Alison’s list is impressive in its quantity of categories and number of selections in each category. But she has good taste. I bought a copy of Shaun Tan’s The Arrival at the Wellesley Booksmith based on a little note of Alison’s, taped to the bookshelf, that said something like, “this book is amazing”. And she was right - it’s an amazing book.