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The Newbery and Caldecott Medals

The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year, and was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery

The Newbery Award became the first children's book award in the world. Its terms, as well as its long history, continue to make it the best known and most discussed children's book.

Newbery Medal award news is available below.

The Caldecott Medal is given to the artist who created the most distinguished picture book of the year and is named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott.

Caldecott Medal award news is availabe below.

From the beginning of the awarding of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, committees could, and usually did, cite other books as worthy of attention. Such books were referred to as Newbery or Caldecott "runners-up." In 1971 the term "runners-up" was changed to "honor books." The new terminology was made retroactive so that all former runners-up are now referred to as Newbery or Caldecott Honor Books.


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Nutmeg Book Awards

Established in 1991, the annual Nutmeg Book Award encourages all Connecticut children in grades 4-8 to read great books and vote for their favorite from a list of nominated titles. Jointly sponsored by the Connecticut Library Association and the Connecticut Association of School Librarians, the Nutmeg Committee is comprised of children’s librarians, school library media specialists and student representatives. They read hundreds of books to come up with the two lists which are fairly balanced by gender, reading level, and genre. Books must also meet certain criteria to be considered for the award. These include: being fiction, with appeal for readers in grades 4-6 (intermediate) or 7-8 (teen); copyrighted in the United States and first published no more than five years from date of selection; currently in print, and available in paperback; and, obviously, well-written.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Nutmeg award winners 2012 announced.
The Hunger Games and Stolen Children

Teen   The Hunger Games 6,110
The Maze Runner 1,102
The Compound 1,018
Scat 764
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President
588
Pop 468
Princess of the Midnight Ball 356
Viola in the Reel Life 343
Ostrich Boys 266
The Rock and the River 175

Intermediate   Stolen Children       5,568
Deep and Dark and Dangerous      5,514
Dying to Meet You  3,059
Gollywhopper Games   2,708
Savvy   2,635
Herbert's Wormhole   2,287
Masterpiece  1,502
Extra Credit   1,356
Signal 1,093
Key to Rondo   996

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Nutmeg Teen Nominees 2013

NEW!!!!

http://www.nutmegaward.org/93364/index.html

Nutmeg Intermediate Nominees 2013

NEW!!!!

http://www.nutmegaward.org/93343/index.html
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