8/11/2023 0 Comments My library account geisel![]() We were very excited to have our very own Ms. The Geisel Award Committee also selected three Honor books, including A Pig, a Fox, and a Box, written and illustrated by Jonathan Fenske Waiting, written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes and Supertruck, written and illustrated by Stephen Savage. Winner of the 2016 Geisel Award is Don’t Throw it to Mo! written by David A. Administered through the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the ALA, the Geisel was first awarded in 2006. Seuss, is one of several awards given out at the American Library Association’s (ALA) annual Youth Media Awards. The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year. The Geisel Award, named for world-renowned children’s author Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Jenna), being a part of this process as one of the seven members on the 2016 Geisel Award Committee was a very fun and fulfilling experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then, you bask in the excitement when your chosen winner(s) are finally announced to the world. You spend an entire year sifting through hundreds of children’s books, send nominations and suggestions to your fellow committee members, discuss the committee’s nominations and suggestions for two long days, vote again and again until the process is finally complete and you have a clear winner. ![]()
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