Mitten Award
The Mitten Award is an annual award
presented through the Michigan Library Association’s Children’s Services
Division. The mission of the Mitten Award is “To recognize one children’s book
published in the United States within the calendar year that has captured the
attention of the children’s librarians throughout the State of Michigan for its
ability to communicate through literature to an intended audience.”
2005 No Award Given
2004 Mitten Award Winner
Ida B…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
Honor Books:
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick
2003 Mitten Award Winner
Old
Cricket Lisa Wheeler
Honor Books:
Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
G is for Goat by Patricia Polacco
2002 Mitten Award Winner
When My
Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
Honor Books:
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Munoz Ryan
2001 Mitten Award Winner
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Honor Books:
Grandma's
Records by Eric Velasquez
The Other
Side by Jacqueline Woodson
A Poke in
the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko
2000 Mitten Award Winner
Because
of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Honor Books:
Olivia by Ian Falconer
One
Lighthouse, One Moon by Anita Lobel
So You
Want to Be President by Judith St. George
1999 Mitten Award Winner
Bud, Not
Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Books:
Come On
Rain by Karen Hesse
The Hatseller & the Monkeys by Baba Wague Diakite
Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley
A Service
of the City of Midland
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