Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Anyone who has ever heard of Amanda Knox remembers the media firestorm she was thrown into after being wrongfully convicted of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.