Award Season

I know the focus is on The Golden Globes, The SAG's and The Academy Awards but it is also officially book award season. Next Monday will bring the big announcements for the Newbery and Caldecott. Today the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) announced the winners of the Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children. Here are the winners:


2015 Winning Titles

Winner

Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin (Feiwel and Friends)

Honor Books

Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff (Philomel)
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
El Deafo by Cece Bell (Harry N. Abrams)
The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee (Beach Lane Books)
Revolution by Deborah Wiles (Scholastic)

Recommended Titles

A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd (Scholastic)
Draw by Raul Colon (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books)
The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern (Chronicle Books)
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press)
Otis and the Scarecrow by Loren Long (Penguin Group)
The Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer (Putnam)
The Turtles of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow Books)

That is right the winner and one of the honor books are titles that we have read aloud!!

Not only that but the class has been passing around the books El Deafo, The Meaning of Maggie, and A Snicker of Magic. 

I still love The Meaning of Maggie cover it is soooo Wes Anderson. 

I cannot wait for the announcement next week of the Newbery. The last two years I have been reading the Newbery book when the announcement was made. This year we are going to try and follow along with the announcement at school. Hopefully our books that we love will get the attention that they deserve.

Hope you are all having a great start to your week and finding time to read and write.