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Dunlap, IL 61525
(309) 243-5716
Award Winners
Book Awards for Children
CALDECOTT MEDAL, most distinguished American picture book for children.
Big by Vashti Harrison
NEWBERY MEDAL, most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers
MONARCH AWARD, Grades K-3
Invasion of the Unicorns by David Biedrzyski
Lou by Breanna Carzoo
Cornbread & Poppy by Matthew Cordell
Nigel and the Moon by Antwan Easy
Destiny Finds Her Way: How a Rescued Baby Sloth Learned to Be Wild by Margarita Engle
Norman Didn’t Do It! (Yes, He Did.) by Ryan T. Higgins
Rise to the Sky: How the World’s Tallest Trees Grow Up by Rebecca E. Hirsch
I Am the Shark by Joan Holub
There’s a Ghost in This House by Oliver Jeffers
Every Night is Pizza Night by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Dragon Bones: The Fantastic Fossil Discoveries of Mary Anning by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Our Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth by Stacy McAnulty
Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore
Hidden Animal Colors by Jane Park
Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots by Michael Rex
Jackie and the Mona Lisa by Debbie Rovin Murphy
Tig and Lily: Tiger Trouble by Dan Thompson
Big Truck, Little Island by Chris Van Dusen
Gibberish by Young Vo
Wildfire! by Ashley Wolff
BLUESTEM AWARD, Grades 3-5
Odder by Katherine Applegate
Shine On, Luz Veliz! by Revecca Balcarcel
Isaiah Dunn is My Hero by Kelly J. Baptist
Caves by Nell Cross Beckerman
The Girl in the Lake by India Hill Brown
Marshmallow & Jordan by Alina Chau
Just Right Jillian by Nicole D. Collier
Washed Ashore: Making Art from Ocean Plastic by Kelly Crull
Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Killer Underwear Invasion! How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories by Elise Gravel
Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession by Kate Hannigan
King of the Ice by Kelly Lyons
Not If I Can Help It by Carolyn Mackler
Boardwalk Babies by Marissa Moss
Frizzy by Clarible A. Ortega
Garlic & the Vampire by Bree Paulsen
The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter by Aaron Reynolds
Air by Monica Roe
Weird Kid by Greg Van Eekhout
Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White
REBECCA CAUDILL AWARD, Grades 4-8
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs
A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood & Greg Dawson
The Fort by Gordon Korman
Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd
The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby
Muhammad Najem, War Reporter by Muhammad Najem
Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega
Seen and Unseen: What Dorthea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki
A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
The Golden Hour by Niki Smith
Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith
The Tryout by Christina Soontornvat & Joanna Cacao
A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga