10 Geissel Award Winners

Well here I go again with my lists of 10. This time is 10 Theodore Geisel Award winners or Honor Winners.  It's too bad 10 books is apparently too much for blogger to handle.  So I'll be breaking it up into 3ish posts again.  Thanks for reading!

Keller, L. (2016) We Are Growing!. New York, NY: Hyperion Books for Chilcren.

We Are Growing centers on 8 blades of grass in a lawn.  As they grow, different traits began to surface, and soon enough they are all competing with one another.  Each one tries to find the thing that makes them special, that is until the mower comes by.

This book was very pleasant to look at.  The pages are colorful and the text exciting at large.  The story is told through the dialogue of the grass, so it keeps a quick pace.  One of my favorite things about this book are the pages that aren’t story.  The inside covers are colorful, and the endpapers are not plain white, but have their own little mini-story that continues right onto the title page!

Kang, Anna (2014)  You Are (Not) Small. New York, NY:  Two Lions

Sometimes definitions can be quite relative.  That’s what the two creatures in this story learn.  When they meet they begin to argue about whether they are small or big.  The argument gets decided when an even larger creature and an even smaller creature show up.  They can be both small and big.

Any young child reading this book can likely relate to the issue at hand.  One, they argue in the same way. Two, a child can seem quite small to an adult, but they certainly feel big as compared to younger children.  An easy to read book that can be enjoyed by kids.

Sullivan, M. (2013) Ball. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A young girl and her dog enjoy playing ball with one another. It’s the only the thing the dog seems to obsessively think about.  After the girl leaves to school, the dog tries his hardest to get someone else to throw the ball to no avail.  Eventually though, the girl comes back home.

        Ball is written in a sort of graphic novel style.  All of the wording in the book is through speech balloons and thought bubbles. The only word in any of those bubbles is “ball.”  Somehow, regardless of its lack of word complexity, the book still manages to put enough feeling and emphasis to tell an entire story.

More to come!