Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards
The Comstock-Gag Read Aloud Awards is a program initiated by the Curriculum Materials Center at the Livingston Lord Library at Minnesota State University that supports two separate awards, the Comstock Read Aloud Book Award and the Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award. The Comstock Read Aloud Book Award is an annual award for the best read aloud picture book for children ages 9-12. Similarly, the Wanda Gág is also an annual award but honors the best read aloud picture book for younger children, from toddler to age 8. This award is named for the famous children’s book author and illustrator, Wanda Gág. Both awards stand to recognize authors and illustrators of outstanding picture books to read aloud, promote reading and reading aloud as lifelong activities, assist anyone who reads to children with the selection of quality picture books, provide students with practice to improve reading aloud skills, and offer children opportunities to listen and respond to quality literature. Comstock Gág Read Aloud Book Awards
2020 Comstock-Gág and Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award Winners
Circle by Call Number: E BAR (Pudong Elementary)Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Hey, Dog by Publication Date: 2019-06-18
A Tiger Like Me by Publication Date: 2019-09-01
Sulwe by ISBN: 9781534425361Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Elvis Is King! by ISBN: 9780399554704Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Sergeant Billy by ISBN: 9780735264427Publication Date: 2019-09-17
2019 Comstock-Gág and Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award Winners
Don't Blink! by Call Number: E ROSISBN: 0385391870Publication Date: 2018-04-03This interactive book may seem to be on your side, reluctant sleeper -- but it's truly a bedtime book in disguise! Here's how it works: if you can avoid getting to the end of this book, you can avoid bedtime, simple as that. (It's a pretty sweet deal, actually.) But each time you blink, you have to turn a page. Those are just the rules. So whatever you do, DON'T BLINK!
Blue by Call Number: E SEEISBN: 1626720665Publication Date: 2018-09-25How many shades of blue are there? There's the soft blue of a baby's cherished blanket, the ocean blue of a romp in the waves, the chilly blue of a cold winter's walk in the snow, and the true blue of the bond that exists between children and animals. In this simple, sumptuously illustrated companion to Caldecott Honor Book Green, award-winning artist Laura Vaccaro Seeger turns her attention to the ways in which color evokes emotion, and in doing so tells the story of one special and enduring friendship.
We Don't Eat Our Classmates! by Call Number: E HIGISBN: 1368003559Publication Date: 2018-06-19It's the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can't wait to meet her classmates. But it's hard to make human friends when they're so darn delicious! That is, until Penelope gets a taste of her own medicine and finds she may not be at the top of the food chain after all. . . . Readers will gobble up this hilarious new story from award-winning author-illustrator Ryan T. Higgins.
Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse by ISBN: 0735230374Publication Date: 2018-08-14Adrian Simcox tells anyone who will listen that he has a horse--the best and most beautiful horse anywhere. But Chloe does NOT believe him. Adrian Simcox lives in a tiny house. Where would he keep a horse? He has holes in his shoes. How would he pay for a horse? The more Adrian talks about his horse, the angrier Chloe gets. But when she calls him out at school and even complains about him to her mom, Chloe doesn't get the vindication she craves. She gets something far more important.
The Day War Came by ISBN: 1536201731Publication Date: 2018-09-04A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee. The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, after a morning of studying tadpoles and drawing birds at school, war came to your town and turned it to rubble. Imagine if you lost everything and everyone, and you had to make a dangerous journey all alone. Imagine that there was no welcome at the end, and no room for you to even take a seat at school. And then a child, just like you, gave you something ordinary but so very, very precious. In lyrical, deeply affecting language, Nicola Davies's text combines with Rebecca Cobb's expressive illustrations to evoke the experience of a child who sees war take away all that she knows.
