Award-Winning Books

Every year in January, the American Library Association awards medals to the best books for children. This week in storytime, we're reading some of the winning books, and some winners of other awards.

Two of our favorite winners this year are:
2009 Caldecott Medal for best illustrated picture book: The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson and Beth Krommes
2009 Geisel Award for best beginning reader: Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems

And some previous winners and honor books we've read at storytime:

Books for Babies and Toddlers:
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey and Don Wood
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
Freight Train by Donald Crews
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
First The Egg by Laura Seeger (Caldecott Honor & Geisel Honor in 2008)

Books for Preschoolers:
Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willems
There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Blacker the Berry: Poems by Joyce Carol Thomas (Coretta Scott King Winner)
A River of Words: the Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant (Caldecott Honor)