Here’s where I get quivery…

 

Honor Books

All the World by Marla Frazee (Oh good!)

Red Sings from Treetops by Pamela Zagarenski (Yes!!!!)

 

Winner

The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (CHEEEEER!!!! YES!!! It had better be this book!)

Beginning reader award

 

Honor Books

I Spy Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold (Go Fly Guy!)

Little Mouse Gets Ready (In my pile to review)

Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends

Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day (great series)

 

Winner

Benny and Penny in the Big No-No!

 

Great year for Toon Books!

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

Informational Book Award

Honor Books

The Day-Glo Brothers (Wonderful pick!  Talk about vibrant nonfiction!)

Moonshot

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Lovely choice)

 

Winner

Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone (Hurrah!)

Foreign book translated to English

Honor Books

Big Wolf and Little Wolf (YEAH!!!!!)

Eidi (HURRAH!!!!!)

Moribito II

 

Award Winner

A Faraway Island by Annika Thor (gotta get my hands on this one! It was also a Taylor honor book)

Will be delivered by Lois Lowry

Illustrator Honor Books

Diego: Bigger Than Life by David Diaz

My Abuelita by Yuyi Morales

Gracias Thanks by John Parra (hurrah!)

 

Illustrator Award Winner

Book Fiesta by Rafael Lopez

 

Text Honor Books

Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Federico Garcia Lorca by Georgina Lazaro

 

Text Award Winner

Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez

Honor Books

In the Belly of the Bloodhound by LA Meyer

Peace Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

 

Winner

Louise the Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo

Honor Books

Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey (In the middle of this one right now!)

Punkzilla by Adam Rapp

Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes

Winner

Going Bovine by Libba Bray (I am soooo thrilled!!!)