"Night Lunch," written by Eric Fan and illustrated by Dena Seiferling, won a New York Times Book Review's Best Illustrated Children's Book Award (external link).
Commemorating its 70th year of highlighting children's books, the New York Times Book Review and the New York Public Library announced the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books Award winners. On the list was "Night Lunch," written by Eric Fan and illustrated by Dena Seiferling, BDes '99, Visual Communication Design and Sessional Instructor, School of Communication Design.
The judges included author Emily Jenkins, New York Public Library children's librarian Maggie Craig and illustrator Raúl Colón. Raúl Colón writes:
"The night lunch cart arrives. Nocturnal creatures, busy and hungry, big and small, can eat a decent meal. Thanks to the mysterious night owl cook, Fox gets pie, Badger gets a sandwich and moths get eggs, sunny-side-up. Fan weaves a nighttime spell of a story about kindness and sharing; Seiferling delivers a dreamlike world in beautiful sepia tones and textures, an idyllic atmosphere of light and shadows."
The 2022 Best Illustrated selections are:
- Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown)
- Yellow Dog Blues by Alice Faye Duncan, illus. by Chris Raschka (Eerdmans)
- Night Lunch by Eric Fan, illus. by Dena Seiferling (Tundra)
- Telling Stories Wrong by Gianni Rodari, illus. by Beatrice Alemagna, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar (Enchanted Lion)
- Bedtime for Bo by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, illus. by Mari Kanstad Johnsen, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson (Enchanted Lion)
- The Upside Down Hat by Stephen Barr, illus. by Gracey Zhang (Chronicle)
- The New Rooster by Rilla Alexander (Simon & Schuster)
- The Writer by Davide Cali, illus. by Monica Barengo (Eerdmans)
- Where Butterflies Fill the Sky by Zahra Marwan (Bloomsbury)
- Still This Love Goes On by Buffy Sainte-Marie, illus. by Julie Flett (Greystone Kids)
