The Mitten Award

The Mitten Award has been presented annually since 1999 by the Michigan Library Association's Children's Services Division. The mission of the Mitten Award is "To recognize a children's book published in the United States 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."


Award Winners

Year Call # Title
2008 J Fic Frost Diamond Willow
2007 J Fic Urban A Crooked Kind of Perfect
2006 J Fic Lord Rules
2005 E Beaumont I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
2004 J Fic Hannigan Ida B.
2003 E Wheeler Old Cricket
2002 J Fic Park When My Name Was Keoko
2001 J Fic Creech Love That Dog
2000 J Fic DiCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie
1999 YA Fic Curtis Bud, Not Buddy

Honor Books
Year Call # Title
2008 J B Scieszka Knucklehead
2008 J Fic Look Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
2008 E Fox Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
2008 J Fic Feldman The Gollywhopper Games
2007 J Fic Clements No Talking
2007 J Fic LeFevers Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
2007 YA Fic Schmidt The Wednesday Wars
2007 J Fic Selznick The Invention of Hugo Cabret
2006 J Fic DiCamillo The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
2006 J Fic Pennypacker Clementine
2006 J Fic Winthrop Counting on Grace
2005 J Fic Giff Willow Run
2005 J Fic Going The Liberation of Gabriel King
2004 J Fic Philbrick The Young Man and the Sea
2004 E Willems Knuffle Bunny
2003 J Fic Codell Sahara Special
2003 J Fic DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux
2003 E Polacco G is for Goat
2002 J Fic Creech Ruby Holler
2002 J Fic Paterson Same Stuff as Stars
2002 J B Anderson When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
2001 E Velasquez Grandma's Records
2001 E Woodson The Other Side
2001 J 811.008 Poke A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems
2000 E Falconer Olivia
2000 E Lobel One Lighthouse, One Moon
2000 J 973 St. GeorgeSo You Want to Be President?
1999 E Hesse Come On, Rain!
1999 J 398.2096 Diakite The Hatseller & the Monkeys
1999 J 597.87 Cowley Red-Eyed Tree Frog
 

Youth Services Book Recommendations


Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
January 2010

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