Cooking Up a Great School Year Ingredients - Books July 26,

Picture Books with messages to make your heart Sing Rafael Lopez website

Different approaches to grief neither Caldecott eligible

CLEL Bell Awards 2017 suggestions Click on Bell Awards and drag to current nominations.

Picture Books about words and reading

Beginning of school picture book read alouds

Favorite Authors & Illustrators Broomfield Children's Recommended Reads June, 2016 Bob Shea, Salina Yoon, Broomfieldlibrary.org  children’s library  Recommended Reads

More Favorites with unusual formats Molly Idle's website

Picture Book History

Traditional Literature

Primary Graphic

Global Read Aloud Titles Author Study: Lauren Castillo Early Grades: The BFG, Roald Dahl Middles Grades: Pax, Sara Pennypacker Middle School: Orbiting Jupiter, Gary D. Schmidt Young Adult: All American Boys, Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds

Professional Books childrens-literature/childrens-book- committee/best-books-year/2016- edition/

Reading Without Walls Challenge Reading Without Walls Challenge - Gene Luen Yang - National Ambassador for Children's Literature - Reading Rockets

Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards Picture Books The Classroom Bookshelf Blog - SLJ Link to teachingbooks.net pronunciation of Yuyi

Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards Junior Books

Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Realistic Fiction with Cancer tie-in

Realistic with a touch of magical realism

Sports

Historical Fiction |v|v

Middle Grade versions of Adult Books

Poetry

Transitional Series with female leads now have male counterparts To look for the newest Stink book I thought I’d give you the link: Mid Continent Public Library Juvenile Series Resource

Informational Text

Books with/about transgender characters

ARC (Advanced Reader Copies) Sept. 27, 2016 December 12, 2016 October 4, 2016

Colorado Children’s Book Awards 2016 Winners Runner up

2 minute Scholastic Bookfair video with Victoria JamesonVictoria Jameson in Safe Share Dork Diaries website

Dog Stories/Middle Grade modified from Adult Series Adult author website - Teacher's guides 2 min. interview with Spencer Quinn about Texas Bluebonnet nominee in Safeshare

2 min. Crenshaw Trailer by Macmillan in SafeShare 1'30" Highlights of Fuzzy Mud Stem Experience with Louis Sachar in SafeShare

2 min Magnus Chase Disney/Hyperion Trailer in Safeshare Scholastic Iron Trial Website

Pax website with trailer and teacher's guides

Dan Gemeinhart website Two minute trailer in Safeshare made by Seattle Librarian

Macmillan website with link to activity guide 5 min. reading of Gaston by Susan Cook in Safeshare British author Richard Byrne's website

2 min. Penguin trailer with Loren Long in Safeshare

I don't want to be a Frog Trailer by Dav Petty, Illustrated by Mike Boldt Red: A Crayon's Story Trailer – 22 seconds in SafeShare Michael Hall Author Website

Paul O. Zelinsky's website Toys meet snow page Bridget Heos website - link to download activity guide

Kevin Henkes website Waiting teacher's guide and memory cards Geisel Honor Book 2015 Caldecott Honor and Geisel Honor 2016

Find Guidelines at vote at CCIRA.org-- >Awards-->Colorado Children's Book Award Nominated books must be currently in print and published in the five years preceding the award year. Only one title per author will be included in each year's ballot. Last year's WINNING authors are not eligible this year. Books previously nominated are not eligible for nomination in following years. A book title nominated by more that one school or library will be considered more heavily for inclusion in the final list. Books based on movies or television shows are not eligible for nominations unless the book preceded the movie or television production. The author of a nominated book must be a living author. Caldecott and Newbery Award books are not eligible. Honor books are eligible. Once a book in a series has won, all other books in that series by that author will not be eligible for nomination. Children may vote for one picture book and one junior book provided they have read a minimum of three books in each category. Send the top 20 BOOK TITLES NOMINATED by children with the TOTAL nominations for each book to the CCBA Committee by March 1, PLEASE be sure to put the number of students who nominated the book.

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