Top Kids' Music of 2009

It's that time of year again. Kathy O'Connell of NPR has undertaken to pick out the top ten kids' albums of the year in a story she posted online a week or two ago (yes, I'm perpetually catching up!), as has Jeff Bogle of Time Out New York Kids. I'm always a bit wary of such rankings, but given that all the music listed here is worth knowing about, I wanted to pass it along. At the top of O'Connell's list is the perpetual favorite (and last year's Grammy winner) They Might Be Giants, and both lists include two acts I've posted about before, King Pajama and Milkshake; Bogle also includes Morgan Taylor's newest Gustafer Yellowgold disc. Lunch Money's album Dizzy, their sophomore effort, is at the top of Bogle's list (the album cover is seen below), with They Might Be Giants nowhere to be seen. It just goes to show how subjective this all is, and for my purposes it suffices to say that compared to ten years ago there is a flowering of children's music comparable to that in television. Anyone have any thoughts about a similar trend in children's literature?