DCF
Award
The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award has honored quality literature for children for over 50 years. Each spring, a committee of eight select 30 books for children in grades 4 to 8. These books comprise the DCF Master List. After reading at least 5 books from the list, students then vote for their favorite titles the following spring. The Dorothy Canfield Children's Book Award is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries.
The 2009 DCF winner is Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney.
Current DCF nominees and their call numbers
Red
Clover Award
 The Red Clover Award is given to a contemporary picture book chosen by Vermont students in grades k-4. Students read, or have read to them, ten nominated books and vote for their favorite. The Red Clover Award is co-sponsored by Mother Goose Programs, Windham County Reads and the Vermont Departments of Education and Libraries.
The 2009 Red Clover Award winner is Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend by Mélanie Watt.
Current Red Clover Award nominees and their call numbers
Newbery
Medal
 The Newbery Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American children’s literature. The award is named for John Newbery, an 18th century publisher of juvenile books. The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has given out the award since 1922.
The 2009 Newbery Medal winner is The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean, and published by HarperCollins Children's Books.
A delicious mix of murder, fantasy, humor and human longing, the tale of Nobody Owens is told in magical, haunting prose. A child marked for death by an ancient league of assassins escapes into an abandoned graveyard, where he is reared and protected by its spirit denizens.
"A child named Nobody, an assassin, a graveyard and the dead are the perfect combination in this deliciously creepy tale, which is sometimes humorous, sometimes haunting and sometimes surprising," said Newbery Committee Chair Rose V. Treviño.
Located in the Children’s Room on the New Fiction shelf.
Caldecott
Medal
 The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. It was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott and is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
The 2009 Caldecott Medal winner is The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin Company)
Richly detailed black-and-white scratchboard illustrations expand this timeless bedtime verse, offering reassurance to young children that there is always light in the darkness. Krommes' elegant line, illuminated with touches of golden watercolor, evoke the warmth and comfort of home and family, as well as the joys of exploring the wider world.
Beth Krommes’ illustrations will be display in the glass cases next to the Children’s Room from April through May. |
