Ladybug Award Winner

snail cover The Ladybug Picture Book Award is designed to promote early literacy and honor the best in recent children's picture books. A committee of children's librarians from around the state selects 10 picture book titles each spring. Then, during November, New Hampshire children from preschoolers to those in third grade choose the award winner. The winning picture book is announced at the end of the year.

The 2021 Ladybug Picture Book Award winner is Snail Crossing by Corey R, Tabor.

Ladybug Nominees

2022 Ladybug Nominees have been announced! TItles in bold are available on our shelves.

Change Sings: A Children's Anthem by Amanda Gorman and Loren Long
Mel Fell by Corey Tabor
Milk & Juice: A Recycling Romance by Meredith Crandall Brown
Norman Didn't Do It (Yes, he did) by Ryan T. Higgins
On Account of the Gum by Adam Rex
A Polar Bear in the Snow by Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris
Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler and Loren Long
This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth by Sean Rubin
The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach
Watercress by Andrea Wang and Jason Chin

Vote at the Wilton Public Library for your favorite Ladybug nominee! Voting will begin in November, and the deadline for sending in votes will be Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:30pm. Ask Ms. Boo if you need more information.

The following titles were the nominees for 2021:

Snail Crossing by Corey Tabor
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
Outside In by Deborah Underwood
If You Come To Earth by Sophie Blackall
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
Hike by Pete Oswald
Hair Love by Matthew Cherry
Lift by Minh Lee
Swashby And The Sea by Beth Ferry
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes

Great Stone Face Award

Each year, New Hampshire students in 4th through 6th grade can vote on their favorite from a list of 20 books. The winner becomes the recipient of the Great Stone Face Book Award.

The winner for 2022 is Ground Zero by Alan Gratz

The winner for 2021 was Wildfire by Rodman Philbrick.

Nominees for the 2022-2023 award:

Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd
Alone In The Woods by Rebecca Behrens
Better With Butter by VIctoria Piontek
Carry Me Home by Janet Fox
Chunky by Yehudi Mercado
The Elephant In The Room by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Haunted Mustache by Joe McGee
The In-Between by Rebecca Ansari
The Last Bear by Hannah Gold
Long Lost by Jacqueline West
Operation Do Over by Gordon Korman
A Place At The Table by Saadia Faruqi
A Place To Hang The Moon by Kate Albus
Secondhand Dogs by Carolyn Crimi
The Shape Of Thunder by Jasmine Warga
The Stolen Prince Of Cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty
Trouble In The Stars by Sarah Prineas
Tune It Out by Jamie Sumner
Voyage Of The Sparrowhawk by Natasha Farrant
What Comes Next by Rob Buyea

Nominees for the 2021-2022 award that we have on the shelf at the WPL:

The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson
Before The Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
The Boy Who Failed Show And Tell by Jordan Sonnenblick
Brave LIke That by Lindsay Stoddard
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
The List Of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
The Lonely Heart Of Maybelle Lane by Kate O'Shaughnessy
No Place For Monsters by Kory Merritt
Pine Island Home by Polly Horvath
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
The Silver Arrow (audiobook) by Lev Grossman
Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley
The Truth According To Blue by Eve Yohalem
Unplugged by Gordon Korman
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohammed
Winterborne Home For Vengence And Valor by Ally Carter

Isinglass Award

The Isinglass Award winner for 2022- Kalynn Bayron's Cinderella Is Dead ( on order, available now through Overdrive) .

2022 Runner Up- Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Isinglass Teen Read Award promotes teen reading, the participation of teens in the creation of their own reading list, and honors those authors whose works speak to youth. Voting is done annually in April.

Titles must be nominated by teens in grades 7-8, can be fiction or nonfiction books, and must have a publication date within the last two years.

Current short list for 2022 ( all are available on the shelf or on Overdrive)

Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From by Jennifer DeLeon
Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone
Inheritence Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Most Likely by Sarah Watson
Running by Natalia Sylvester
Rural Voices edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter
Show Me A Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds

Flume Award

The Flume Award is given to books nominated by New Hampshire teens in grades 9-12.

The books must have a publication date within the last two years, and are nominated and voted upon by teens - with a little librarian help to make the list manageable!

The 2022 Flume Award winner is A Good GIrl's Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson.

2022 Runner up - Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks (available through Overdrive)

Flume Short List ( 2022)

All These Monsters by Amy Tintera
Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis
Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen
Cemetary Boys by Aiden Thomas
Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin
A Good Girls Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson ( audiobook)
This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda
Thoughts And Prayers by Bryan Bliss
We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds

Newbery Medal Award

The Newbery Medal Award honors the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

The 2022 Newbery Medal went to Donna Barba Higuera for The Last Cuentista, published by Levine Querido

The 2021 Newbery Medal Award winner is When You Trap A Tiger, written by Tae Keller and published by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House. Image result for when you trap a tiger

For more information about The Newbery Medal Award, The Newbery Honor Award, and former winners, visit:

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal

The Newbery Medal Award turns 100 this year- happy birthday!

Caldecott Medal Award

The Caldecott Medal Award is given to the illustrator of that year's "most distinguished American picturebook for children".

The 2022 Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book is awarded to Jason Chin for Watercress, written by Andrea Wang and published by Neal Porter Books, Holiday House.

Last year's award winner was Michaela Goade, the illustrator of We Are Water Protectors written by We Are Water Protectors (ebook) Carole Lindstrom and published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings.

Click here for more information about the Caldecott Medal Award.

Other Awards

For a comprehensive list of all national book awards, go to:

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia