VOLUNTEER STATE BOOK AWARDS – K – 3RD GRADE

Final Nominations for 2009 Award

 

 

Ajmera, Maya.   To Be An Artist.   Illustrated by John D. Ivanko.

            Watertown, Massachusetts:  Charlesbridge, 2004.

 

Beaumont, Karen.   I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!   Illustrated by David Catrow.

            New York:  Harcourt, 2005.

 

Dodds, Dayle Ann.  Teacher’s Pets.    Illustrated by Marylin Hafner.   

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick, 2006.

 

Durango, Julia. Cha-Cha Chimps.    Illustrated by Eleanor Taylor.

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006

Henkes, Kevin.  Lilly’s Big Day.   

New York:  Greenwillow Press, 2006.

 

Himmelman, John.   Tudley Didn’t Know.          

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Sylvan Dell Publishing, 2006.

 

Huggins, Peter.  Trosclair and the Alligator.   Illustrated by Lindsey Gardiner.

            New York : Star Bright Books, 2006.

Knudsen, Michelle.   Library Lion.    Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.

            Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Candlewick Press, 2006.

 

Lies, Brian. Bats at the Beach.    

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
 

McLeod, Bob. Superhero ABC.    

New York:  HarperCollins, 2006.

Nevius, Carol.   Building with Dad.    Illustrated by Bill Thomson.

            New York:  Marshall Cavendish, 2006.

 

O’Connor, Jane.   Fancy Nancy.   Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser.

            New York:  HarperCollins, 2006.

 

Park, Frances and Ginger Park.  The Have a Good Day Café.    Illustrated by Katherine Potter.

New York:  Lee and Low Books, 2005.

 

Polacco, Patricia. Rotten Richie and the Ultimate Dare.  

New York: Philomel Books, 2006.

Ray, Mary Lyn. Welcome, Brown Bird. Illustrated by Peter Sylvada.

            New York:  Harcourt, Inc., 2004.

 

Prelustsky, Jack.   If Not for the Cat.   Illustrated by Ted Rand.

            New York:  Greenwillow Books, 2004.

 

Reynolds, Aaron.   Chicks and Salsa.   Illustrated by Paulette Pogan.

            New York:  Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005.

 

Schaefer, Lola M.  An Island Grows.   Illustrated by Cathie Felstead.

            New York:  Greenwillow Books, 2006.

 

Tomp, Sarah Wones. Red, White, and Blue Good-bye. Illustrated by Ann Barrow.

Walker & Co., 2005.

 

Weatherford, Carole.  Moses:  When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom.

            Illustrated by Kadir Nelson.        New York:  Hyperion, 2006.

 

 

 

First alternate:

 

Sierra, Judy.  The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School

            Illustrated by Stephen Gammell.    New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2006.