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> Ladybug Award
New Hampshire children, from preschoolers to third graders, cast 4,892 votes for Memoirs of a Goldfish written by Devin Scillian and illustrated by Tim Bowers, making it the winner of the 2011 Ladybug Picture Book Award. Complete voting info is on the 2011 Winner Announcement which is suitable for posting.
The latest news on the Ladybug Picture Book Award is on the Center for the Book Blog where we also post links and information about each of the nominated titles in the late summer/early fall.
Voting and promotional materials
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 early in the year. 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 author and illustrator of the winning book will receive a crystal award created by Pepi Herrmann Crystal.
To be considered for nomination, a picture book must meet the following criteria:
- be published within the last three years
- be in print
- have an author and illustrator from the U.S.
- possess strong child appeal
- have artistic quality with text that supports the illustrations
- not be a title previously nominated
Previous winners
2010 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to Princess Hyacinth (the Surprising Story of a Girl Who Floated) by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by Lane Smith.
2009 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to Waking Beauty by Leah Wilcox and illustrated by Lydia Monks.
2008 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to When Dinosaurs Came with Everything written by Elise Broach and illustrated by David Small
2007 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate the School by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Stephen Gammell
2006 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont & David Catrow
2005 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to Judy Schachner's Skippyjon Jones. Read the beautiful thank you note we got from them.
2004 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to Keiko Kasza's My Lucky Day.
2003 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to Kate & Jim McMullen's I Stink!
For more information, please contact Mary Russell.
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