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Children's Book Award - Past Winners

2015-2016

Tuesday Tucks Me In: The Loyal Bond Between a Soldier and his Service Dog by Luis Carlos Montalvan and Bret Witter

Honorable mention goes to: 
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
by Katherine Applegate
and
     A Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz

2014-2015

Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein.

Interrupting Chicken

Honorable mention goes to
NO Pirates Allowed Said Library Lou

by Rhonda Gowler Greene and
The Black Rabbit
by Philippa Leathers.

2013-2014

The World's Greatest Lion 
by Ralph Helfer, Philomel Books, 2012

City Dog, Country Frog 
by Mo Willems, Hyperion, 2010

I Need My Own Country 
by Rick Walton, Bloomsbury, 2012

2012-2013

Two Bobbies
by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery

Honor titles

The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
by Laura Murray

 

Memoirs of a Goldfish
by Devin Scillian


2012

Christian, the Hugging Lion
by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

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Honor Titles
  • I Always, Always Get My Way by Thad Kranesky
  • Wonder Horse by Emily Arnold McCully

2011

Dewey There's a Cat in the Library!
by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter

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Honor Titles

  • Three Little Gators by Helen Ketteman
  • Trouble Gum by Matthew Cordell


2010

Help Me, Mr. Mutt!
by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

Honor Titles

  • I Know an Old Teacher by A. Bowen
  • A Seed is Sleepy by D. Aston



2009

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach A Cuban Folktale
by Carmen Agra Deedy

Honor Titles 

  • Woolbur  by L. Helakoski
  • Gooey Jellyfish by N. Lunis

2008

 Gingerbread Girl
by Lisa Cambell Ernst
Gingerbread Girl

Honor Titles

  • Fancy Nancy by J. O'Connor
  • Mammoths on the Move by L. Wheeler

2007

Three Silly Billies
by Margie Palatin

Honor Titles

  • Over in the Ocean in a Coral Reef by M. Berkes 
  • Too Many Frogs by S. Asher

2006

WINTER’S GIFT
Written and illustrated by Jane Monroe Donovan

Honor Titles

  • I Wanna Iguana by K. Orloff
  • Stick Kid by P. Holowitz 

2005

How I Became a Pirate
Written by Melinda Long Illustrated by David Shannon

Honor Titles

  • The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by M. Gerstein
  • My Hippie Grandmother by R. Lindberg

2004

Epossumondas,
by Coleen Salley and Illustrated by Janet Stevens

Honor Title

  • The Tale of Wagmore Gently by L. Ashman

2003

Bark, George
by Jules Feiffer

Honor Titles

  • Pi-Shu the Little Panda by J. Butler
  • Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by P. Lovell

2002

How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight
by Jane Yolan and Illustrated by Mark Teague

Honor Titles

  • Panther by J.  London
  • Dory Story by J. Pallotta 

2001

Mr. Tanen's Ties
by Maryann Cocca-Leffler

Honor Titles

  • Cook-A-Doodle-Do by J. Stevens & S. Crummel
  • Edward and the Pirates by D. McPhail

2000

Mouse, Look Out!
by Judy Waite

1999

Parts,
by Ted Arnold

1998

The Toll Bridge Troll,
by Patricia Wolff

1997

Officer Buckle and Gloria,
by Peggy Rathmann

1996

Can I have a Stegasaurus, Mom?
by Lois Grambling

1995

The Rainbow Fish,
by Marcus Pfister

1994

Zomo the Rabbit,
by Gerald McDermott

1993

Rhinos for Lunch, Elephants for Dinner,
 by Toloway Hollel

1992

Weird Parents,
by Audrey Wood

1991

The Magic Schoolbus
by the Waterworks
, by Joanna Cole

1990

There's an Alligator Under My Bed,
by Mercer Mayer

1989

The Jolly Postman,
by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

 

 

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