1. Cooking Up a Great School Year Ingredients - Books July 26, 2016 www.mhaloin.com

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

3. Different approaches to grief neither Caldecott eligible

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

5. Picture Books about words and reading

6. Beginning of school picture book read alouds

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

8. More Favorites with unusual formats Molly Idle's website

9. Picture Book History

10. Traditional Literature

11. Primary Graphic

12. 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 https://theglobalreadaloud.com/

13. Professional Books http://www.bankstreet.edu/center- childrens-literature/childrens-book- committee/best-books-year/2016- edition/

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

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

16. Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards Junior Books

17. Contemporary Realistic Fiction

18. Realistic Fiction with Cancer tie-in

19. Realistic with a touch of magical realism

20. Sports

21. Historical Fiction |v|v

22. Middle Grade versions of Adult Books

23. Poetry

24. 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

25. Informational Text

26. Books with/about transgender characters

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

28. Colorado Children’s Book Awards 2016 Winners Runner up

29. 2 minute Scholastic Bookfair video with Victoria JamesonVictoria Jameson in Safe Share Dork Diaries website

30. 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

31. 2 min. Crenshaw Trailer by Macmillan in SafeShare 1'30" Highlights of Fuzzy Mud Stem Experience with Louis Sachar in SafeShare

32. 2 min Magnus Chase Disney/Hyperion Trailer in Safeshare Scholastic Iron Trial Website

33. Pax website with trailer and teacher's guides

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

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

36. 2 min. Penguin trailer with Loren Long in Safeshare

37. 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

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

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

40. 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, 2017. PLEASE be sure to put the number of students who nominated the book.

41. Download this slide show and other resources for CCBA at www.mhaloin.com