For the child in all of us...
This is a very special week. February 2-8 is Children's Authors and Illustrators Week. Read a book to your favorite child or, no matter what your age, don't miss the opportunity to read outstanding children's literature.
Emilie Buchwald: "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
Award winning books:
Randolph Caldecott Award is given by the American Library Association for "most distinguished American picture books for children." The 2014 winner is "Locomotive" by Brian Floca. Also honored: "Flora and the Flamingo" by Molly Idle; "Journey" by Aaron Becker; and "Mr. Wuffles" by Kevin Henkes.
John Newbury Medal is awarded by the ALA for "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." The 2014 winner is Kate DiCamillo's "Flora and Ulysses." Also honored: "Doll Bones" by Holly Black; "One Came Home" by Amy Timberlake; "Paperboy" by Vince Vawter and "Year of Billy Miller" by Kevin Henkes.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award is for outstanding authors or illustrators. Katherine Paterson, author of "Bridge to Terabithia" was the 2013 recipient. She also wrote "Jacob Have I Loved" and "The Great Gilly Hopkins."
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is for authors and illustrators of American children's books. For 2014, the winner is Greg Pizzoli's "Watermelon Seed." Also honored: "A Big Guy Took My Ball!" by Mo Willems; "Ball" by Mary Sullivan; "Penny and Her Mother" by Kevin Henkes.
Coretta Scott King Book Award is for "outstanding books by African-American authors/illustrators that reflect the African-American experience" according to the ALA. The winning book for 2014 is "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia. Also honored: "Darius and Twig" by Walter Dean Myers; "March: Book One" by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; and "Words With Wings" by Nikki Grimes.
Other children's authors to read:
Picture Books
Eric Carle - Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Michael Rosen - We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Audrey Wood - The Napping House & Silly Sally
Bill Martin Jr. - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Sandra Boynton - Moo Baa La La La
Robert McCloskey - Blueberries for Sal
Gillian Shields - When the World was Waiting For You
Ezra Jack Keats - The Snowy Day
And a new favorite of mine - William Joyce's Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Fiction
Lois Lowry - Number the Stars & The Giver
Cynthia Rylant - Missing May
Beverly Cleary - Ramona series & Henry Huggins series
Gary Paulsen - Hatchet
Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy
Mary Pope Osborne - Magic Treehouse series
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Judy Blume - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Karen Cushman - Catherine, Called Birdy
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
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