Voting has taken place this year for both the Monarch Award and the Rebecca
Caudill Young Readers Book Award. While we are waiting for the state's
results here is how Park View voted:
The Monarch Award 2006
1. Snowmen at Night
2. Gooney Bird Greene
3. Diary of a Worm
The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Award
1. The City of Ember
2. Eragon
3. Al Capone Does My Shirts
The Monarch Award
2006 Nominees
The Monarch Award is given annually to an author and/or illustrator of a
book voted as their favorite by participating K-3 children in Illinois. Any
K-3rd grade student who reads a minimum of 5 of the following twenty books
is eligible to vote for their favorite book. Voting takes place in
February.
Bruss, Deborah Book! Book! Book!
Buehner, Caralyn Snowmen at Night
Capucilli, Alyssa Satin Biscuit's New Trick
Cronin, Doreen Diary of a Worm
Ehlert, Lois Waiting for Wings
Florian, Douglas Bow Wow Meow Meow
Friedman, Laurie B. Mallory on the Move
Garland, Michael Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook
Hoberman, Mary Ann You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very
Short Stories to Read Together
Horowitz, Ruth Breakout at the Bug Lab
Jenkins, Steve Actual Size
Kasza, Keiko My Lucky Day
Lowry, Lois Gooney Bird Greene
Recorvits, Helen My Name is Yoon
Russell, Joan Plummer Aero and Officer Mike: Police Partners
Ryan, Pam Munoz When Marian Sang
Teague, Mark Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School
Thomas, Shelley Moore Get Well, Good Knight
Uegaki, Chieri Suki's Kimono
Wilson, Karma Bear Snores On
The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
2006 Nominees
Anderson, Janet S. The Last Treasure
Choldenko, Gennifer Al Capone Does My Shirts
Codell, Esme Raji Sahara Special
Creech, Sharon Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
DiCamillo, Kate The Tale of Despereaux
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee The Conch Bearer
DuPrau, Jeanne The City of Ember
Fuqua, Jonathon Scott Darby
Green, Michelle Y. A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut"
Johnson
Hobbs, Will Jackie's Wild Seattle
Ibbotson, Eva Journey to the River Sea
Johnston, Tony Any Small Goodness
Naidoo, Beverly The Other Side of Truth
Paolini, Christopher Eragon
Park, Linda Sue A Single Shard
Peck, Richard The River Between Us
Philbrick, Rodman The Young Man and the Sea
Ritter, John H. The Boy Who Saved Baseball
White, Ruth Tadpole
Woodruff, Elvira The Ravenmaster's Secret
The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
2007 Nominees
The Rebecca Caudill Award is awarded to the author whose book receives the
most votes from 4th-8th grade students. In order to be elegible to vote
students must read a minimum of 3 books from the following list of 20.
Voting takes place in February.
Balliett, Blue Chasing Vermeer
Barry, Dave Peter and the Starcatchers
Collins, Suzanne Gregor the Overlander
Creech, Sharon Heartbeat
Cummings, Priscilla Red Kayak
Farmer, Nancy The Sea of Trolls
Feinstein, John Last Shot
Ferris, Jean Once Upon a Marigold
Hannigan, Katherine Ida B.: and Her Plans to Maximize Fun and Avoid
Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World
Ibbotson, Eva The Star of Kazan
Levine, Karen Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
McKernan, Victoria Shackleton's Stowaway
Newman, Leslea Hachiko Waits
Oppel, Kenneth Airborn
Patneaude, David Thin Wood Walls
Ryan, Pam Munoz Becoming Naomi Leon
Walker, Sally M. Secrets of a Civil War Submarine
Weeks, Sarah So B. It
Wiles, Deborah Each Little Bird That Sings
Woodson, Jacqueline Locomotion
Peggy Sharp's Best of 2005
Top Ten Picks
1. The Art of Reading
2. I See a Kookaburra by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
3. Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme selected by Jack Prelutsky
4. Mr. Williams by Karen Barbour
5. Tractor Man is Here! by Mini Grey
6. Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
7. The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty G. Birney
8. A Kick in the Head by Paul Janeczko
9. Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
10. Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
