2014 Monarch Award Master List

Author Illustrator Title Publisher Buzzeo, Toni David Small One Cool Friend Dial Books for Young

Readers

Cronin, Doreen Kevin Cornell The Trouble with Chickens Balzer & Bray/Harper

Collins

Fleming, Candace G. Brian Karas Clever Jack Takes the Cake

Schwartz & Wade

Goodrich, Carter Carter Goodrich Say Hello to Zorro!

Simon & Schuster

Graves, Keith Keith Graves Chicken Big!

Chronicle Books

Hall, Michael Michael Hall Perfect Square

Greenwillow Books

Katz, Jon Jon Katz Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm

Henry Holt & Co.

Klassen, Jon Jon Klassen I Want My Hat Back

Candlewick Press

Kostecki-Shaw,

Jenny Sue

Jenny Sue

Kostecki-Shaw

Same, Same but Different Henry Holt & Co.

Murray, Laura Mike Lowery The Gingerbread Man Loose in

the School

Putnam Publishing

Offill, Jenny Nancy Carpenter 11 Experiments that Failed

Schwartz & Wade

Orloff, Karen

Kaufman

David Catrow I Wanna New Room Putnam Publishing

Otoshi, Kathryn Kathryn Otoshi One

KO Kids Books

Rosenstock,

Barbara

Mordecai Gerstein The Camping Trip that

Changed America: Theodore

Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our

National Parks

Dial Books for Young

Readers

Schneider, Josh Josh Schneider Tales for Very Picky Eaters

Clarion Books

Schoenberg, Jane Cambria Evans The One and Only Stuey

Lewis: Stories from the Second

Grade

Farrar Straus Giroux

Sidman, Joyce Beth Krommes Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in

Nature

Houghton Mifflin

Harcourt

Sweet, Melissa Melissa Sweet Balloons Over Broadway: the

True Story of the Puppeteer of

Macy’s Parade

Houghton Mifflin

Harcourt

Vernick, Audrey Steven Salerno Brothers at Bat: the True Story

of an Amazing All-Brother

Baseball Team

Clarion Books

Winter, Jeanette Jeanette Winter Biblioburro: a True Story from

Colombia

Beach Lane

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Your Rating: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 Stars

Balloons over Broadway: the True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet

The Biblioburro: a True Story from Colombia by Jeanette Winter

Brothers at Bat: the True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team by Audrey Vernick

The Camping Trip that Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks by Barbara Rosenstock

Chicken Big! By Keith Graves Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray

I Wanna New Room by Karen Kaufman Orloff I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz

One by Kathryn Otoshi

The One and Only Stuey Lewis: Stories from the Second Grade by Jane Schoenberg

One Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo Perfect Square by Michael Hall Same, Same but Different Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

Say Hello to Zorro! By Carter Goodrich Swirl by Swirl : Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman

Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider The Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin

11 Experiments that Failed by Jenny Offill

Name:__________________________________________ Class:___________________________________________

The Monarch Award The Illinois K-3 Readers’ Choice Award

Sponsored by the Illinois School Library Media Association

One Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo and illustrated by David Small

Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.

Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Kevin Cornell.

A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.

Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming and G. Brian Karas

A poor boy named Jack struggles to deliver a birthday present worthy of the princess.

Chicken Big! by Keith Graves

A giant chicken hatches from an enormous egg, but the other chickens cannot accept that he is one of them.

Perfect Square by Michael Hall

A perfect square that is perfectly happy is torn into pieces, punched with holes, crumpled, and otherwise changed but finds in each transformation that it can be something new, and just as happy.

One by Kathryn Otoshi

Red picks on Blue while Yellow, Orange, Green, and Purple wonder what they can do until One unites the colors and helps everybody learn about acceptance, tolerance, and boundaries amidst bullying while the reader learns numbers and primary and secondary colors.

Swirl by Swirl : Spirals in Nature written by Joyce Sidman and illustrated by Beth Krommes

An illustrated exploration of various examples of spirals appearing in nature, looking at snail shells, flower petals, elephant tusks, crashing waves, and more.

Balloons over Broadway: the True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade

written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet

Balloons over Broadway tells the story of puppeteer Tony Sarg, the man who first invented the helium balloons that have become the trademark of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Brothers at Bat: the True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team by Audrey Vernick

Brothers at Bat shares the story of the Acerras and their sixteen children, who had enough members to fill every position on a baseball team.

Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz

Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm contains photographs and stories of Rose, Izzy, Frieda, and Lenore, four dogs that work hard to perform various jobs on Bedlam Farm.

Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

Pen pals Elliott and Kailash discover that even though they live in different countries--America and India--they both love to climb trees, own pets, and ride school buses.

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

When Bear loses his hat, he patiently asks the animals he comes across if they have seen it, and just as he is about to give up his search, a deer helps him remember exactly where he left his beloved hat.

Say Hello to Zorro! by Carter Goodrich

Mister Bud, the family dog, has a satisfying routine to his life, but when another dog joins the family and disrupts his schedule, Mister Bud must learn to adapt.

The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray and Mike Lowery

A gingerbread man searches all over the school for the group of children that made him and then left him behind.

I Wanna New Room by Karen Kaufman Orloff and David Catrow

Alex and Ethan have been forced to share a room ever since their baby sister came along and Alex is tired of it, so he begins a letter writing campaign to convince his parents he needs his own space.

The Camping Trip that Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks

by Barbara Rosenstock and Mordecai Gerstein

The Camping Trip that Changed America offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States.

The Biblioburro: a True Story from Colombia by Jeanette Winter

Luis has so many books in his little house in Colombia that he buys two donkeys and travels throughout the land bringing the joy of reading to children.

11 Experiments that Failed by Jenny Offill and Nancy Carpenter

11 Experiments that Failed teaches readers how to conduct science experiments through step-by-step instructions for eleven failed inquiries designed to test such hypotheses as whether it is possible to wash dishes in a washing machine, and if it is possible to live through the winter eating nothing but ketchup-covered snowballs.

Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider

A father tells outlandish stories while trying to get his young son, who is a very picky eater, to eat foods he thinks he will not like.

The One and Only Stuey Lewis: Stories from the Second Grade Jane Schoenberg and Cambria Evans

Stuey Lewis faces many challenges in the second grade, but while he struggles with reading, Stuey manages to pull off a great Halloween caper and joins the soccer team.

2014 Master List Bluestem Book Award

Illinois Children’s Choice Award

     

Author/Illustrator Title Publisher Date Amato, Mary Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation

Notebook Holiday House 2010

Banerjee, Anjali Seaglass Summer Wendy Lamb 2010 Beccia, Carlyn I Feel Better with a Frog in my Throat :

history's strangest cures Houghton Mifflin 2010

Cotler, Stephen and Adam McCauley (ill)

Cheesie Mack is not a Genius or Anything Random House 2011

Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, not Buddy Delacorte Press 1999 Davies, Jacqueline The Lemonade War Houghton Mifflin 2007 Dennis, Brian, Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery

Nubs : the true story of a mutt, a marine & a miracle

Little, Brown 2009

DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn-Dixie Candlewick Press

2000

Green, Michelle Y A Strong Right Arm: the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson

Dial Books 2002

Hurwitz, Michele Weber Calli be Gold Wendy Lamb 2011 Jenkins, Steve Bones: skeletons and how they work Scholastic 2010 Kerley, Barbara and Brian Selznick (ill)

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: an illuminating history of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, artist and lecturer

Scholastic 2001

Lowry, Lois Number the Stars Houghton Mifflin 1989 MacLachlan, Patricia and Amy June Bates (ill)

Waiting for the Magic Atheneum 2011

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Emily’s Fortune Delacorte Press 2010 Palacio, R J Wonder Alfred A. Knopf 2012 Pennypacker, Sara and Marla Frazee (ill)

Clementine Hyperion 2006

Scieszka, Jon and Lane Smith (ill)

Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio vol 1)

Viking 1991

Weeks, Sarah Pie Scholastic 2011 Whybrow, Ian and Tony Ross (ill)

Little Wolf's Book of Badness Carolrhoda 1999

     

 

2013-2014 Bluestem Award Record Name:________________________Class:_________________________

Write “X” if you or your teacher read it.

Title Your Rating: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 Stars

Because of Winn-Dixie

Bones: Skeletons and How They Work

Bud, not Buddy

Calli Be Gold

Cheesie Mack is Not a Genius or Anything

Clementine

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: an Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer: True Dinosaur Story in Three Ages ....

Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook

Emily's Fortune

I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures

Knights of the Kitchen Table

The Lemonade War

Little Wolf's Book of Badness

Nubs : the True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle

Number the Stars

Pie

Seaglass Summer

A Strong Right Arm : the Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson

Waiting for the Magic

Wonder

The Bluestem Award The Illinois 3-5 Readers’ Choice Award

Sponsored by the Illinois Library Media Association

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins:

an Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer: True Dinosaur Story in Three Ages .... by Barbara Kerley with drawings by Brian Selznick

The true story of Victorian artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of educating the world about what these awe-inspiring ancient animals were like.

  Bones: Skeletons and How They Work

By Steve Jenkins

Explores the details of human and animal bones, comparing the differences between the skeletal structure of various species, with several gatefolds that display the skeletons of many creatures.

Nubs : the True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle By Brian Dennis, Kirby Larson, Mary Nethery.

Chronicles the friendship between Marine Major Brian Dennis and Nubs, a pack leader of wild dogs in Iraq who bonded with Dennis, but when Dennis was relocated seventy miles away and could not bring the dog with him, Nubs traveled across the freezing desert to find his human friend.

A Strong Right Arm : the Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson By Michelle Y. Green with an introduction by Mamie Johnson

Tells the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, a woman who had to overcome the obstacles of gender and race to pursue her dream of playing baseball, and who finally got her chance when she and other African-American women were invited to play in the Negro Leagues after male players were allowed on major league teams.

Bud, not Buddy By Christopher Paul Curtis

Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies

Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.

Because of Winn-Dixie By Kate DiCamillo

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Number the Stars By Lois Lowry

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Waiting for the Magic By Patricia MacLachlan and

illustrated by Amy June Bates

In absence of their father, a brother and sister adopt four dogs and a cat in an attempt to save their family.

Emily's Fortune By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

and illustrated by Ross Collins While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.

Wonder By R.J. Palacio

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

Clementine By Sara Pennypacker with pictures by Marla Frazee

Knights of the Kitchen Table By Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith

Joe, Fred, and Sam are sent back in time by a magic book, and find themselves face-to-face with giants, dragons, wizards, and the Knights of the Round Table.

Pie By Sarah Weeks

Alice's Aunt Polly passes away and entrusts the recipe for her world-famous pie crust to her cat, which she leaves in Alice's care, and as everyone, including Alice, tries to discover the secret ingredients, Alice learns some important lessons about faith, love, and family.

Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook By Mary Amato

When someone takes a pet goldfish, then other items from Ms. Herschel's classroom, each time leaving a clue in the form of a poem, student Edgar Allan competes with a classmate to be first to solve the mystery.

Seaglass Summer By Anjali Banerjee

While spending a month on an island off the coast of Washington helping in her Uncle Sanjay's veterinary clinic, eleven-year-old Poppy Ray soon questions her decision to follow in her uncle's footsteps.

Cheesie Mack is Not a Genius or Anything By Steve Cotler and illustrated by Adam McCauley  

Ronald "Cheesie" Mack is not a genius or anything, but he remembers everything that happened before, during, and after fifth-grade graduation, and he's written it all down in his own unique and hilarious way-with lots of lists, drawings, and splenderful (that's splendid plus wonderful!) made-up words.

Calli Be Gold By Michele Weber Hurwitz

Eleven-year-old Calli, the third child in a family of busy high-achievers, likes to take her time and observe rather than rush around, and when she meets an awkward, insecure second-grader named Noah and is paired with him in the Peer Helper Program, she finds satisfaction and strength in working with him.

Little Wolf's Book of Badness By Ian Whybrow and illustrated by Tony Ross

Little Wolf has not been behaving too courteously, so his parents send him to his uncle's Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf.

I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures

written and illustrated by Carlyn Beccia

Explores the history of medicine, looking at some of the unusual methods that have been used to try to make people feel better, and traces links between the medicine of the past and modern-day treatments.