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Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award 2011

Students in grades 1-3 will be read the Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award Nominees for this year. The books will be rotated through the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades and from January 24th - March 25th, 2011. The students will then vote during their OLARC class the week of March 28-31. Votes will be turned in on March 31th. The winner will be announced sometime after April 15th.

Here are the titles for 2011...

Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award Nominees 2011

Title                                                                Author

Applesauce Season                          Eden Ross Lipson

Are You a Horse                             Andy Rash

The Beckoning Cat                          Koko Nishizuka

Chicken Little                                  Rebecca Emberley

Curious Garden                               Peter Brown

Dark Night                                      Dorothee DeMonfreid

Duck! Rabbit!                                  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Imogene’s Last Stand                       Candace Fleming

I Need My Monster                          Amy Noll

The King’s Taster                             Kenneth Oppel

Let’s Do Nothing                              Tony Fucile

My name is Sangoel                         Karen Lynn Williams

Nubs: the True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle       Brian Dennis

Panda Kindergarten                          Joanne Ryder

Ron’s Big Mission                             Rose Blue

Splat the Cat                                   Rob Scotton

Those Darn Squirrels                       Adam Rubin

Three Little Gators                           Helen Ketteman

Truckery Rhymes                            Jon Scieszka

Turtle’s Penguin Day                        Valeri Gorbachev

Young Reader's Choice Award for the Pacific Northwest 2011

For the 4th and 5th grade students, they will be voting on books from the Young Readers Choice Award Nominees. They have to have read or been read to at least 2 of the books from the list below. Voting will take place during OLARC classes the week of April 11-14. Winners will announced late April.

JUNIOR Group  Grades 4-6

The Amulet: The Stonekeeper – Kazu Kibuishi

 Dog Lost – Ingrid Lee

 Found – Margaret Peterson Haddix

 Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut! – Paul Feig

The Maze of Bones – Rick Riordan

 Savvy – Ingrid La

 The Seer of Shadows - Avi

 Swindle – Gordon Korman