Monday, February 7, 2011

And the 2011 Award Winners are......

The American Library Association has announced the 2011 winners. Students in grades 1-4 will be exposed to one of the awards- its history and winners- during their library classes this month.

Titles are listed below. There covers and summaries can be seen on my bookshelf to the right.

The Geisel Award (for easy readers): Grade 1
Blink and Gollie
Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same (honor)
We are in a Book! (honor- I've read this book and it is fabulous.)

The Caldecott Award (for illustrations): Grade 2
A Sick Dday for Amos McGee (I've read this too. It's adorable.)
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave (honor)
Interrupting Chickens (honor)

Coretta Scott King Award (for African American writer/illustrator):Grade 3
One Crazy Summer (author)
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave (illustrator)

Newberry Award (for most distinguished American children's literature):Grade 4
Moon over Manifest
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night (honor)
Heart of a Samurai (honor)
One Crazy Summer (honor)
Turtle in Paradise (honor)

Robert Sibert Award (for nonfiction)
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot

(Disclaimer: In order for the covers to appear on the shelf, I had to rate them. I have only read a few of them so far but decided that they each deserved 5 stars.)

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