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North Carolina Children's Book Award
The North Carolina children’s Book Award Program is a children’s choice contest sponsored by the school and public librarians in North Carolina designed to introduce children to current children’s literature and instill a love of reading.
2010 WinnersTwo Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival, written by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery, is the winner in the Picture Book category with 26,940 of the 120,583 votes cast.
Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam, by Cynthia Kadohata, is the winner in the Junior Book category with 2,820 votes of the 16,312 votes cast.
2011 North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees
Reviews for all titles coming soon!
| Picture Books |
Junior Books |
- Elizabeth Bluemle: How Do You Wokka-Wokka?
Somerville, Mass: Candlewick Press 2009.
- Peter Brown: The Curious Garden
NY: Little, Brown and Company. 2009
- Tony Fucile: Let's Do Nothing
Sommerville, Mass: Candlewick Books 2009
- Kimiko Kajikawa: Tsunami!
NY: Philomel Books 2009
- Elaine Greenstein: The Goose Man: the Story of Konrad Lorenz
2009
- Margaret Read MacDonald: The great smelly, slobbery, small-tooth dog : a folktale from Great Britain
Atlanta, GA: August House Little Folk 2007
- John Lithgow: I Got Two Dogs.
NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2008
- Colin McNaughton: Not Last Night But the Night Before
Sommerville, MA: Candlewick Press 2009
- Janet Perlman: The Delicious Bug
Toronto: Kids Can Press 2009
- Gail Piernas-Davenport: Shanté Keys and the New Year's Peas
Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman 2007
- Jan Thomas: Rhyming Dust Bunnies
NY: Antheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
- Chris Van Dusen: Circus Ship
Somerville MA: Candlewick Press 2009
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- Clay Carmichael: Wild Things
Honesdale, PA: Front Street 2009
- Sally Pomme Clayton: Persephone
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2009
- Henry Cole: A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration and the Meaning of Home
NY: Katherine Tegen Books 2010
- Jacqueline Davies: The Lemonade War
Boston: Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin 2007
- Carmen Agra Deedy: 14 Cows for America
Peachtree Publishers 2009
- Tony DiTerlizzi: Kenny & the Dragon
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers 2008
- Carl Hiaasen: ScatNY: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
- Tim Kehoe: The Unusual Mind of Vincent ShadowNY: Little, Brown and Company 2009
- Grace Lin: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
NY: Little, Brown and Company 2009
- Wendy Mass: 11 Birthdays
NY: Scholastic Press 2009
- Rodman Philbrick: The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
NY: Blue Sky Press 2009
- Jonah Winter: You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?
NY: Schwartz & Wade Books 2009
- Jacqueline Woodson: Peace, Locomotion
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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NCCBA Contact Information(back to top)
| North Carolina Children's Book Award Committee Co-Chairs |
Lisa Tucker England
Middle Fork Elementary School
336-748-4090
3125 Williston Road
Walkertown, NC 27051
email: LTucker@wsfcs.k12.nc.us
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Jane Deacle
Public Librarian
Cameron Village Regional Library
1930 Clark Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27605
919-856-6723
email: jdeacle@co.wake.nc.us
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About the NCCBA(back to top)
The North Carolina Children's Book Award began in 1992. Each year since then, school and public libraries participate in the process of selecting, studying and voting for the next winner! Members of the North Carolina Library Association's children's committee select a group of picture books and junior novels from suggestions submitted by North Carolinian school children. The list of books is then given to each school and public library throughout the state. During the course of the year, classroom teachers, media specialists and public librarians in North Carolina encourage children to become familiar with the nominees and vote for their favorite title in two categories: "Picture Book" and "Junior Book". The award is therefore truly a children's book award - selected by the children of the state of North Carolina!
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