Booklist Top of the Crop

We're not done yet. Get back here! No one is leaving the table until you sit down and devour one of the last of the Best Book Lists out there. Behold Booklist's Top Picks for 2006. In the youngster category, we have the following:

Youth Fiction
Anderson, M. T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v.1: The Pox Party. Candlewick, $17.99 (0-7636-2402-0).

Youth Nonfiction
Bausum, Ann. Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement. National Geographic, $18.95 (0-7922-4173-8).

Youth Picture Book
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Moon. Illustrated by Tracey Campbell Pearson. Farrar, $16 (0-374-35046-9).

The Moon, eh? How's I miss this one? It got starred reviews from Booklist and SLJ. Has anyone seen this?