Open AccessThe Best for Beginning Readers: Geisel Award Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Author(s) -
Carole D. Fiore,
Carla L. Morris
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.13n1.19
Subject(s) - history , library science , art history , art , computer science
IIn 2016, the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award will celebrate its ten-year anniversary. The tenth award winner, You Are (Not) Small, written by Anna Kang and illustrated by Christopher Weyant, published by Two Lions, New York, was announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in February 2015.This occasion provides librarians with an opportunity to look at the “best of the best” books for beginning readers for the past ten years. What trends, if any, have emerged? What is the impact of the award so far?