Honor Books

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Frazee (YES!)
How I Learned Geography by Shulevitz
A River of Words by Melissa Sweet

Winner

HOuse in the NIght by Krommes (YES! YES!!!!!!!!)

Beginning Reader Award

Honor Books

Chicken Said Cluck by Grant (YES!)
One Boy by Seeger
Stinky by Davis
Wolfsnail by Campbell

Winner

Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems (Of course!  Surprised he didn’t get an honor too!)

Video Award

Winner

March On! Produced by Gagne

Informational book award

Honor Books

Bodies from the Ice by James M. Dean
What to Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley

Winner

We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

Honor Books Illustration

Papa and Me by Rudy Gutierrez
The Storyteller’s Candle by Lulu Delacre
What Can You Do with a Rebozo by Cordova

Award Winner Illustration

Just in Case by Yuyi Morales

Honor Books Author

Reaching Out by Francisco Jimenez
Yuyi Morales for Just in Case
Storyteller’s Candle by Gonzalez

Award Winner Writing

The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle (Oh yes!  Superb! )

Excellence in teen literature:

Honor Books

Astonish Life of Octavian Nothing II by MT Anderson
Disreputable History of Frankie LAndau- Banks
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels by Lanagan

Award Winner

Jellicoe Road by Marchetta (never read it!)