Get Your Students to Vote for their Favorite Author, Illustrator
RSSBy Rocco Staino -- School Library Journal, 03/17/2010
Who do kids think are the best authors and illustrators and what are some their favorite books? Find out in this year’s Children Choice Awards, sponsored by the Children’s Book Council.
Between now and May 3, your students can vote in bookstores, libraries, schools, and on BookWeekOnline.com for their favorites based on a list of finalists in six categories. The author and illustrator finalists are selected from a review of bestseller lists, and the favorite book finalists were determined by close to 15,000 children and teens.
This marks the third consecutive year that authors Jeff Kinney and Rick Riordon have made it into the favorite author finals, and it’s also a third time that Robin Preiss Glasser was selected for the illustrator category. Only authors and illustrators associated with books published in 2009 are considered.
The Children’s Choice Book Awards winners will be announced live at the Children’s Choice Book Awards gala on May 11 in New York City as part of Children’s Book Week, which takes place from May 10-16.
This year’s Children’s Choice Book Award finalists are as follows:
Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year
The Birthday Pet (Marshall Cavendish) by Ellen Javernick, illustrated by Kevin O'Malley
Lulu the Big Little Chick (Bloomsbury) by Paulette Bogan
Mouse Was Mad (Houghton) by Linda Urban, illustrated by Henry Cole
The Odd Egg (S & S) by Emily Gravett
Opposnakes by Salina Yoon (S & S) by Salina Yoon
Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year
The Book That Eats People (Tricycle Press) by John Perry, illustrated by Mark Fearing
Coretta Scott (HarperCollins) by Ntozake Shange, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Gonzalo Grabs the Good Life (Eerdmans) by Janice Levy, illustrated by Bill Slavin
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (Random) by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Oceanology (Candlewick) by Ferdinand Zoticus deLessups
Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year
The Adventures of Benny (Marshall Cavendish) by Steve Shreve
Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life (S & S) by Rachel Renee Russell
Moonshot (Atheneum/Richard Jackson) by Brian Floca
Outlaw, The Legend of Robin Hood (Candlewick) by Tony Lee, Sam Hart, Artur Fujita
Zoobreak (Scholastic Press) by Gordon Korman
Teen Choice Book of the Year
Blood Promise (Penguin) by Richelle Mead
Blue Moon (Macmillan) by Alyson Noel
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
City of Glass (S & S) by Cassandra Clare
Shiver (Scholastic) by Maggie Stiefvater
Author of the Year
Suzanne Collins for Catching Fire (Scholastic)
Carl Hiaasen for Scat (Random)
Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (Amulet)
James Patterson for Max (Little, Brown)
Rick Riordan for The Last Olympian (Hyperion)
Illustrator of the Year
Peter Brown for The Curious Garden (Little, Brown)
Robin Preiss Glasser for Fancy Nancy: Explorer Extraordinaire! (HarperCollins)
Victoria Kann for Goldilicious (HarperCollins)
Susan Roth for Listen to the Wind (Penguin)
David Soman for Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy (Penguin)
