Star of the North Nominees and Winners


1	Year Nominated	Winner	Title	Author	Illustrator
2	2017-18		Good Night Owl	Greg Pizzoli	Greg Pizzoli	Disney	2016
3	2017-18		Hippos are Huge!	Jonathan London	Matthew Trueman	Candlewick	2015
4	2017-18		I Will Not Eat You	Adam Lehrhaupt	Scott Magoon	Simon and Schuster	2016
5	2017-18		Lost. Found.	Marsha Diane Arnold	Matthew Cordell	Roaring Book Press (Macmillan)	2015
6	2017-18		Mother Bruce	Ryan T. Higgins	Ryan T. Higgens	Disney Hyperion	2015
7	2017-18	1st	Night Gardener, The	Terry Fan and Eric Fan	Terry Fan and Eric Fan	Simon and Schuster Books for Young Reader	2016
8	2017-18		One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Woman of Gambia	Miranda Paul	Elizabeth Zunon	Millbrook Press (Lerner)	2015
9	2017-18		Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice and Hope in a New Land	John Coy	Wing Young Huie	Carolrhoda Books (Lerner)	2016
10	2017-18		Thunder Boy Jr.	Sherman Alexie	Yuyi Morales	Little Brown and Company	2016	NOTE: When discussing Native American people and their names/naming ceremonies, teachers are sometimes interested in having students create their own Native American names. This trivializes Native American history and culture and also lacks the understanding and recognition that there are over 500 federally recognized Native American tribes/nations in the U.S., each with distinct cultural traditions, languages and naming practices within them. Unfortunately, in the book, the author does not specify the nation/tribe to which the family identifies so it lacks that specificity and may convey the message that all tribes have the same naming traditions and ceremonies. To learn more, read Debbie Reese’s Towards a Common Understanding of Native Peoples in the U.S. (or, Why Alexie’s THUNDER BOY JR. Needs a Note to Readers) here: https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2016/05/towards-common-understanding-of-native.html. Note taken from Anti-Defamation League’s Book of the Month 3 / November 2016 / © Anti-Defamation League Full Document here: http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/education-outreach/book-of-the-month-thunder-boy-jr.pdf
11	2017-18		Yard Sale	Eve Bunting	Lauren Castillo	Candlewick	2015
12	Year Nominated	Winner	Title	Author	Illustrator	Publisher	Copyright Date
13	2016-17		Ballet Cat: The Totally Secret Secret	Bob Shea	Bob Shea
14	2016-17		The Bear Ate Your Sandwich	Julia Sarcone-Roach	Julia Sarcone-Roach
15	2016-17		Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah	Laurie Ann Thompson	Sean Qualls
16	2016-17		In a Village by the Sea	Muon Van	April Chu
17	2016-17	3rd	Night Animals	Gianna Marino	Gianna Marino
18	2016-17	1st	Red: A Crayon's Story	Michael Hall	Michael Hall
19	2016-17		Rhoda's Rock Hunt	Molly Beth Griffin	Jennifer A. Bell
20	2016-17		Sidewalk Flowers	JonArno Lawson	Sydney Smith
21	2016-17		Water is Water	Miranda Paul	Jason Chin
22	2016-17	2nd	Wolfie the Bunny	Ame Dyckman	Zachariah OHora
23	Year Nominated	Winner	Title	Author	Illustrator	Publisher	Copyright Date
24	2015-16		Blizzard	John Rocco	John Rocco
25	2015-16		Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909	Michelle Markel	Melissa Sweet
26	2015-16	1st	The Day the Crayons Quit	Drew Daywalt	Oliver Jeffers
27	2015-16		Draw!	Raúl Colón	Raúl Colón
28	2015-16		Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table	Jacqueline Briggs Martin	Eric Larkin
29	2015-16	2nd	Gaston	Kelly DiPucchio	Christian Robinson
30	2015-16		It's an Orange Aardvark!	Michael Hall	Michael Hall
31	2015-16	3rd	Ninja Red Riding Hood	Corey Rosen Schwartz	Dan Santat
32	2015-16		Penny and Her Marble	Kevin Henkes	Kevin Henkes
33	2015-16		Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life	Lois Ehlert	Lois Ehlert
34	Year Nominated	Winner	Title	Author	Illustrator	Publisher	Copyright Date
35	2014-15		Dark, The	Lemony Snicket	Jon Klassen	LITTLE, BROWN BFYR
36	2014-15		Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O’Keeffe Painted What She Pleased	Amy Novesky	Yuyi Morales	HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH
37	2014-15		Good News Bad News	Jeff Mack	Jeff Mack	CHRONICLE BOOKS
38	2014-15		Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball	John Coy	Joe Morse	CAROLRHODA
39	2014-15	3rd	I’m Bored	Michael Ian Black	Debbie Ridpath Ohi	SIMON & SCHUSTER BFYR
40	2014-15	2nd	Jangles	David Shannon	David Shannon	BLUE SKY
41	2014-15	1st	Moo!	David LaRochelle	Mike Wohnoutka	WALKER & COMPANY
42	2014-15		Mr. Tiger Goes Wild	Peter Brown	Peter Brown	LITTLE, BROWN BFYR
43	2014-15		My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood	Tameka Fryer Brown	Shane Evans	VIKING JUVENILE
44	2014-15		Step Gently Out	Helen Frost	Rick Lieder	CANDLEWICK PRESS
45	Year Nominated	Winner	Title	Author	Illustrator	Publisher	Copyright Date
46	2013-2014	1st	Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man	Chabon, Michael	Parker, Jake	Balzar + Bray	2011
47	2013-2014		Balloons Over Broadway	Sweet, Melissa	Sweet, Melissa	Houghton Mifflin	2011
48	2013-2014		Bear Has a Story to Tell	Snead, Philip C.	Stead, Erin E.	Roaring Brook Press	2012
49	2013-2014		Blackout	Rocco, John	Rocco, John	Hyperion	2011
50	2013-2014		Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town	Casanova, Mary	Hoyt, Ard	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	2011
51	2013-2014	2nd	Extra Yarn	Barnett, Mac	Klassen, John	Balzar + Bray	2012
52	2013-2014		It's a Tiger	LaRochelle, David	Tankard, Jeremy	Chronicle Books	2012
53	2013-2014		Neville	Juster, Norton	Karas, G. Brian	Schwartz & Wade	2011
54	2013-2014	3rd	Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons	Litwin, Eric	Dean, James	HarperCollins	2012
55	2013-2014		Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps	Winter, Jeanette	Winter, Jeanette	Schwartz & Wade	2011