"Celebrating Summer with Some New and Award Winning Books"

This presentation was given by Carolyn Cook, Mount St. Mary's University Assistant Professor of Education cook@msmary.edu and Michelle Foreman, Shippensburg University Assistant Professor/Librarian mtforeman@ship.edu

If you are interested in some good recommended reads for your young patrons, just check out the past winners of the following awards:

• The Pennsylvania Center for the Book's "The Baker's Dozen"
• Theordore Seuss Geisel Award-author and illustrator of best beginning reader book
• Randolph Caldecott Medal honors the finest children's illustrator for the year
• Coretta Scott King Award is given to the best African American children's writers and illustrators
• John Steptoe Award for New Talent is given to a new talent in writing or illustrating
• John Newberry Medal honors the year's best children's book
• Robert F. Siebert Informational Book Award is given to the author of an outstanding nonfiction book
• Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature honors writers of excellent young adult books
• Pura Belpre Award honors the best latina/latino writers every two years
• Mildred L. Batchelder Award recognizes publishers of foreign books for children
• Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award honors a poet who published an excellent book of children's poetry

Most of the winners can be accessed via the American Libraries Association Website at www.ala.org