As usual, the CBC, in conjunction with Every Child a Reader, Inc., has picked outstanding efforts to be celebrated from the past year. What's special about this award is the winners were voted on by children! The only national award that lets children have their say. I like it! Take a look at the list below. Please note (we say unabashedly) that we have reviewed most of these books on Sweet on Books, and loved them all. An interesting note about one...my daughter has been bugging me to review a book called Dork Diaries - she resumes her argument weekly when she wanders into my office and sees it still lying in the (giant) "to be reviewed" pile...Sorry H, you are vindicated - not that I ever doubted your recommendation! I will get to it immediately...
Author of the Year
James Patterson for Max (A Maximum Ride Novel) (Little, Brown)
Illustrator of the Year
Peter Brown for The Curious Garden (Little, Brown)
Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year
Lulu the Big Little Chick written and illustrated by Paulette Bogan (Bloomsbury USA)
Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute written and illustrated by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Knopf/Random House)
Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year
Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-so-fabulous Life written and illustrated by Rachel Renee Russell (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster)
Teen Choice Book of the Year
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Click here to go to press release on CBC website.
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