PLANETESME PICKS:  A 2009 INDEX
It's spring, and that means it's time for our tradition: to salute the successes of the recent past that usher in this new season of children's books!  The prior year in the industry has weathered a fairly harrowing horoscope; massive layoffs and streamlining in the children's publishing industry in December of 2008 shifted talents to new and independent arenas, and many editors, designers and publicists were lost, though some rose in Phoenix-like form to...