KIDS & TEENS: VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS!

Submitted by Gwen on March 19, 2013 - 9:35am

Hey Kids and Teens - let your voice be heard by voting for your favorite books and authors from 2012 in the Children's Choice Book Awards. Children's Book Week is coming up in May, and as part of the celebration, the Children's Book Council gives out awards to popular authors. The Denver Public Library owns all of the titles that have been nominated, so start reading now - voting starts today!

Children's Book Week is May 13-19 and celebrates books for young people of all ages. While the Children's Book Week website has all kinds of good stuff on it, like a cool search-and-find bookmark by Grace Lin and the Children's Book Week poster by Brian Selznick, but my favorite part is voting for the best books. The Children's Choice Book Awards honor books for Kindergarten - High School. If you haven't read some of these yet, you can pick up copies of all of the nominees from the various branches of the Denver Public Library. If your branch doesn't have one you want to read, just place a hold. You can vote and view all of the nominees here and I will list them all below. Some of my favorite books from last year are on the list - it would be hard for me to choose what to vote for! Again, here's the link to vote for your favorites.

Author of the Year

John Green for The Fault in Our Stars

Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7: The Third Wheel [WINNER]

R. J. Palacio for Wonder

Rick Riordan for The Mark of Athena

Veronica Roth for Insurgent

Illustrator of the Year

James Dean for Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

Anna Dewdney for Llama Llama Time to Share

Ian Falconer for Olivia and the Fairy Princesses

Robin Preiss Glasser for Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet [WINNER]

Mo Willems for The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?