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Good Reading

Literary Awards

Newbery Awards
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children’s book published the previous year.

1922-2009 Winners    1978-2009 Winners

Caldecott Awards
The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the previous year.

1939-2009 Winners    1979-2009 Winners

2009 Coretta Scott King Book Award Recipients
The Coretta Scott King Book Award recognizes an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults.

Author Award
Kadir Nelson We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Illustrator Award
Floyd Cooper The Blacker the Berry

Here's a link to the other 2009 award recipients
Here's a link to previous award recipients

Bibliographies of Good Reading for Children

Help your child learn to read with Beginning Readers. Learn the 3 levels of beginning readers here. Easy Beginning Readers

All Bibliographies are in pdf format.

• Easy Reader
• New True Series
• Magic School Bus
• Mother Goose
• Toddler
• 3-Year Olds
• 4-Year Olds

UVA Curry School of Education Book Lists

• Kindergarten
  Read-Alouds
• 1st Grade
  Read-Alouds (Book Language; Vocabulary development; Story structure & comprehension)
• 2nd Grade
  Encouraging more independent reading.  Read-alouds are still imperative: Sense of story and sequence; aid in comprehension; Book language; support Vocabulary development.
• 3rd Grade
  Read-alouds continue to be important.  They showcase book language and support acquisition of new vocabulary. The understanding of text structure, sequence, etc., supports comprehension – both in narrative/fiction and expository texts.
  
  Picture books are still appropriate and necessary.  Many good informational picture books are also available.