The next year's Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 2017 - 2018, nominees have been chosen and are posted on the VT Department of Libraries website! See the titles listed below with the author, title, publisher, and suggested grade level listed in that order.
Anderson, John David. Ms. Bixby’s Last Day. Walden Pond. Grade 5 up
Barnhill, Kelly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Algonquin. Grade 5 up
Bauer, Joan. Soar. Viking. Grade 5 up
Bayard, Louis. Lucky Strikes. Henry Holt. Grade 7 up
Brown, Peter. The Wild Robot. Little, Brown. Grade 4 up
Burg, Ann E. Unbound: A Novel in Verse. Scholastic. Grade 5 up
Cohen, Marina. The Inn Between. Roaring Brook. Grade 5 up
Crilley, Mark. The Drawing Lesson: A Graphic Novel That Teaches
You How to Draw. Watson-Guptill. Grade 4 up
Davies, Jacqueline. Nothing but Trouble. Katherine Tegen. Grade5 up
Dumas, Firoozeh. It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel. Clarion. Grade 5 up
Gemeinhart, Dan. Some Kind of Courage. Scholastic. Grade 6 up
Gidwitz, Adam. The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children
and Their Holy Dog.
Dutton. Grade 6 up
Gratz, Alan. Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II. Scholastic. Grade 6 up
Griffin, Paul. When Friendship Followed Me Home. Dial. Grade 6 up
Harrington, Karen. Mayday. Little, Brown. Grade 5 up
Hopkinson, Deborah. A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a
Pickpocket. Knopf. Grade 5 up
Kelly, Erin Entrada. The Land of Forgotten Girls. Greenwillow. Grade 5 up
LaFleur, Suzanne. Beautiful Blue World. Wendy Lamb. Grade 5 up
MacLachlan, Patricia. The Poet’s Dog. Katherine Tegen. Grade 4 up
Messner, Kate. The Seventh Wish. Bloomsbury. Grade 5 up
O’Connor, Barbara. Wish.
Farrar, Straus and
Giroux. Grade 4 up
Olson, Tod. Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink. Scholastic. Grade 5 up
Reynolds, Jason. Ghost. Athenaeum. Grade 5 up
Sherman, Delia. The Evil Wizard. Smallbone Candlewick. Grade 5 up
Sonnenblick, Jordan. Falling Over Sideways. Scholastic. Grade 6 up
Sullivan, Tara. The Bitter Side of Sweet. Putnam. Grade 7 up
Sweet, Melissa. Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White. HMH. Grade 4 up
Weeks, Sarah & Gita
Varadarajan. Save Me a Seat. Scholastic. Grade 4 up
Weiner, Jennifer. The Littlest Bigfoot. Aladdin. Grade 4 up
Wolk, Lauren. Wolf Hollow. Dutton. Grade 6 up
Thursday, March 23, 2017
2017 - 2018 Red Clover Nominees
Next year's Red Clover nominees have been chosen and are listed at the VT Department of Libraries website. They are as follows:
Archer, Micha. Daniel Finds a Poem. Nancy Paulsen, 2016. (ISBN 978-0399169137)
Barton, Chris. Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions. Illustrated by Don Tate. Charlesbridge, 2016. (ISBN 978-1580892971)
DiPucchio, Kelly. Dragon Was Terrible. Illustrated by Greg Pizzoli. FSG, 2016. (ISBN 978- 0374300494)
Hall, Michael. Frankencrayon. Greenwillow, 2016. (ISBN 978-0062252111)
Hood, Susan. Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay. Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. Simon & Schuster, 2016. (ISBN 978-1481430951)
John, Jory. Penguin Problems. Illustrated by Lane Smith. Random House, 2016. (ISBN 978- 0553513370)
Levy, Debbie. I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark. Illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley. Simon & Schuster, 2016. (ISBN 978-1481465595)
London, Jonathan. Otters Love to Play. Illustrated by Meilo So. Candlewick, 2016. (ISBN 978- 0763669133)
Tonatiuh, Duncan. The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes. Abrams, 2016. (ISBN 978-1419721304)
Wenzel, Brendan. They All Saw a Cat. Chronicle, 2016. (ISBN 978-1452150130)
Each year wonderful books are chosen as nominees and this year's titles certainly convey fun ways to delve into different topics.
2017-2018 RED CLOVER AWARD NOMINEES VERMONT’S PICTURE BOOK AWARD FOR CHILDREN IN GRADES K-4
Archer, Micha. Daniel Finds a Poem. Nancy Paulsen, 2016. (ISBN 978-0399169137)
Barton, Chris. Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions. Illustrated by Don Tate. Charlesbridge, 2016. (ISBN 978-1580892971)
DiPucchio, Kelly. Dragon Was Terrible. Illustrated by Greg Pizzoli. FSG, 2016. (ISBN 978- 0374300494)
Hall, Michael. Frankencrayon. Greenwillow, 2016. (ISBN 978-0062252111)
Hood, Susan. Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay. Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. Simon & Schuster, 2016. (ISBN 978-1481430951)
John, Jory. Penguin Problems. Illustrated by Lane Smith. Random House, 2016. (ISBN 978- 0553513370)
Levy, Debbie. I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark. Illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley. Simon & Schuster, 2016. (ISBN 978-1481465595)
London, Jonathan. Otters Love to Play. Illustrated by Meilo So. Candlewick, 2016. (ISBN 978- 0763669133)
Tonatiuh, Duncan. The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes. Abrams, 2016. (ISBN 978-1419721304)
Wenzel, Brendan. They All Saw a Cat. Chronicle, 2016. (ISBN 978-1452150130)
Each year wonderful books are chosen as nominees and this year's titles certainly convey fun ways to delve into different topics.
Monday, March 6, 2017
2016 - 2017 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Titles and More
Every year the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Committee chooses the best of children's literature as nominees for a vote for best book by Vermont students in Grades 4 - 8. A brief biography of Dorothy Canfield Fisher can be found at the Vermont Hisorical Society at this link: https://vermonthistory.org/explorer/people-places/whos-who/vermont-women/dorothy-canfield-fisher
The Vermont Department of Libraries offers annotations or summaries of each book at this page:
http://libraries.vermont.gov/services/children_and_teens/book_awards/dcf
The 2016 -2017 list of Dorothy Canfield Fisher nominees are as follows:
The Vermont Department of Libraries offers annotations or summaries of each book at this page:
http://libraries.vermont.gov/services/children_and_teens/book_awards/dcf
The 2016 -2017 list of Dorothy Canfield Fisher nominees are as follows:
2016-2017
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Nominees
Vermont's book award for children.
This list include fiction and non-fiction books.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Grade |
| Barnett, Mac & Jory John | The Terrible Two | Amulet | 4 up |
| Beasley, Cassie | Circus Mirandus | Dial | 4 up |
| Benjamin, Ali | The Thing about Jellyfish | Little, Brown | 5 up |
| Bond, Rebecca | Escape from Baxters’ Barn | Harcourt Brace | 4 up |
| Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker | The War that Saved my Life | Dial | 5 up |
| Brown, Don | Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | Harcourt Brace | 6 up |
| Chmakova, Svetlana | Awkward | Yen | 5 up |
| Draper, Sharon | Stella by Starlight | Atheneum | 5 up |
| Gannon, Nicholas | The Doldrums | Greenwillow | 4 up |
| Gino, Alex | George (audiobook) | Scholastic | 4 up |
| Graff, Lisa | Lost in the Sun | Philomel | 5 up |
| Gruenbaum, Michael with Todd Hasak-Lowy | Somewhere There is Still a Sun | Aladdin | 5 up |
| Hautala, Beth | Waiting for Unicorns | Philamel | 5 up |
| Hilton, Marilyn | Full Cicada Moon | Dial | 5 up |
| Hoose, Phillip | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 7 up |
| Jamieson, Victoria | Roller Girl | Dial | 4 up |
| Jones, Kelly | Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer | Alfred A. Knopf | 4 up |
| Kidd, Ronald | Night on Fire | Albert Whitman | 5 up |
| Maberry, Jonathan | The Orphan Army (Nightsiders #1) | Simon & Schuster | 5 up |
| Magoon, Kekla | Shadows of Sherwood | Bloomsbury | 5 up |
| Nielsen, Jennifer A. | A Night Divided | Scholastic | 5 up |
| Oppel, Kenneth | The Nest | Simon & Schuster | 5 up |
| Pearsall, Shelley | The Seventh Most Important Thing | Alfred A. Knopf | 5 up |
| Priest, Cherie | I am Princess X | Arthur A. Levine | 7 up |
| Resau, Laura | The Lightning Queen | Scholastic | 5 up |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz | Echo | Scholastic | 5 up |
| Sands, Kevin | The Blackthorn Key | Aladdin | 5 up |
| Stead, Rebecca | Goodbye Stranger | Wendy Lamb | 6 up |
| Stevenson, Noelle | Nimona | Harper Teen | 7 up |
| Wiechman, Kathy Cannon | Like a River | Calkins Creek | 6 up |
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
2016 - 2017 Red Clover Award Nominees
Bandy, Michael S. and Eric Stein. Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box. Illustrated
by James E. Ransome. Candlewick, 2015. (ISBN 978-0763665937)
Bond, Rebecca. Out of the Woods: A True Story of an Unforgettable Event. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015. (ISBN 978-0374380779)
Bram, Elizabeth. Rufus the Writer. Illustrated by Chuck Groenink. Schwartz & Wade, 2015. (ISBN 978-0385378536)
Desmond, Jenni. The Blue Whale. Enchanted Lion, 2015. (ISBN 978-1592701650)
Goodrich, Carter. We Forgot Brock! Simon & Schuster, 2015. (ISBN 978-1442480902)
Medina, Meg. Mango, Abuela and Me. Illustrated by Angela Dominguez. Candlewick, 2015. (ISBN 978-0763669003)
Pennypacker, Sara. Meet the Dullards. Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri. Balzer & Bray (HarperCollins), 2015. (ISBN 978-0062198563)
Sayre, April Pulley. Raindrops Roll. Beach Lane (Simon & Schuster), 2015. (ISBN 978- 1481420648)
Walker, Sally M. Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. Illustrated by Jonathan D. Voss. Holt, 2015. (ISBN 978-0805097153)
Weeks, Sarah. Glamourpuss. Illustrated by David Small. Scholastic, 2015. (ISBN 978- 0545609548)
The Vermont Department of Libraries dedicates a page at their website for Vermont's three book lists that are offered each year for elementary, middle school, and high school students. They are the Red Clover Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award, and the Green Mountain Book Award where you will find a lists of award winning books for your child to read.
Bond, Rebecca. Out of the Woods: A True Story of an Unforgettable Event. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015. (ISBN 978-0374380779)
Bram, Elizabeth. Rufus the Writer. Illustrated by Chuck Groenink. Schwartz & Wade, 2015. (ISBN 978-0385378536)
Desmond, Jenni. The Blue Whale. Enchanted Lion, 2015. (ISBN 978-1592701650)
Goodrich, Carter. We Forgot Brock! Simon & Schuster, 2015. (ISBN 978-1442480902)
Medina, Meg. Mango, Abuela and Me. Illustrated by Angela Dominguez. Candlewick, 2015. (ISBN 978-0763669003)
Pennypacker, Sara. Meet the Dullards. Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri. Balzer & Bray (HarperCollins), 2015. (ISBN 978-0062198563)
Sayre, April Pulley. Raindrops Roll. Beach Lane (Simon & Schuster), 2015. (ISBN 978- 1481420648)
Walker, Sally M. Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. Illustrated by Jonathan D. Voss. Holt, 2015. (ISBN 978-0805097153)
Weeks, Sarah. Glamourpuss. Illustrated by David Small. Scholastic, 2015. (ISBN 978- 0545609548)
The Vermont Department of Libraries dedicates a page at their website for Vermont's three book lists that are offered each year for elementary, middle school, and high school students. They are the Red Clover Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award, and the Green Mountain Book Award where you will find a lists of award winning books for your child to read.
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