Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Continuing the Dr. Seuss theme this month, it’s worth mentioning that the 2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner is ZELDA AND IVY: THE RUNAWAYS by Laura McGee Kvasnosky. It is the story of Zelda and Ivy, sisters and foxes who take off on an adventure in an effort to avoid a lunch of their father’s cucumber sandwiches.
Honorary mentions for 2007 went to:
Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride written by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick)
Move Over, Rover! by Karen Beaumont and illustrated by Jane Dyer (Harcourt)
Not a Box by Antonette Portis (HarperCollins)
The winner for 2006 was Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas written by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Suçie Stevenson (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers). Honorary mentions were awarded to Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold (Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.); A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom (Boyds Mills Press); Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa written by Erica Silverman and illustrated by Betsy Lewin (Harcourt, Inc.); and Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day written by Jean Van Leeuwen and illustrated by Ann Schweninger (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group).
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award was established in 2004. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, for the most distinguished contribution to beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year. Criteria for the award includes great creativity and imagination in an effort to engage children in reading.
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February 17th, 2007 at 7:46 am
I absolutely love the “Henry and Mudge” books! My daughter and I discovered them when she was a toddler, and we still love to read the latest ones now that she’s a sophomomore in high school!