 Seventeen books were named in 1958, including only two from the 1950s.Seven were named in 1979, all except two from the 1970s.Although short, the last class was also diverse, with one wordless picture book,
"The Snowman" (1978) by Raymond Briggs, and one fictionalized biography, "The Road from Home" (1979) by David Kherdian, about his mother's childhood during the Armenian Genocide and its aftermath.