Colorado Childrens Book Award

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• Colorado Childrens Book Award
• Nominees 2004

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• Winners for 2003
• were

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Every school year the students of Colorado vote
for the Colorado Childrens Book Award.

• Here are the 20 Picture Books and Junior Novels
  that you will vote for this year
• Which one is your favorite?

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Bertie was a Watchdog

• Bertie, a dog as small as a watch, outsmarts an
  overconfident robber.

By Rick Walton Illustrated by Arthur Robins
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Daisy Comes Home

• Daisy, an unhappy hen in China, floats down the
  river in a basket and has an adventure.

By Jan Brett
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Dear Mrs. LaRue Letters from Obedience School

• Gertrude La Rue receives typewritten and
  paw-written letters from her dog Ike, entreating
  her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine
  Academy and come back home.

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Dear Whiskers

• Jenny is discouraged when her second grade
  pen-pal turns out to be a new student from Saudi
  Arabia who does not speak English very well, but
  as she works with her they slowly become friends.

A Colorado Author
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Double Fudge

• His younger brothers obsession with money and
  the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and
  Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for
  twelve-year old Peter.

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Epossumondas

• A retelling of a classic tale in which a
  well-intentioned young possum takes his mothers
  instructions much too literally.
• A Colorado Illustrator

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Everything on a Waffle

• Eleven-year old Primrose living in a small
  fishing village in British Columbia recounts her
  experiences and all that she learns about human
  nature and the unpredictability of life in the
  months after her parents are lost at sea.

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Fair Weather A Novel

• In 1893, thirteen-year old Rosie and members of
  her family travel from their Illinois farm to
  Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the
  Worlds Columbian Exposition which, along with an
  encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell,
  turns out to be a life-changing experience for
  everyone.

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First Year Letters

• The children in Mrs. Sarah Jane Hartwells class
  write letters to her.
• A Colorado Author

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Gathering Blue

• Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously
  removed from her squalid village to live in the
  palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected
  to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of
  the all-powerful Guardians.

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Giggle, Giggle, Quack

• When Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his
  brother Bob in charge, Duck makes trouble by
  changing all his instructions to notes the
  animals like much better.

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Judy Moody

• Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of
  school bad mood until she gets an assignment to
  create a collage all about herself and begins
  creating her masterpiece,
• -the Me collage.

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Junie B., First Grader (At Last!)

• Junie B. thinks first grade is a flop when her
  kindergarten friend Lucille prefers the company
  of twins Camille and Chenille and Junie B. needs
  glasses.

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Love that Dog

• A young student, who comes to love poetry through
  a personal understanding of what different famous
  poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing
  his own inspired poem.

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No More Dead Dogs

• Eighth-grade football hero Wallace is sentenced
  to detention attending rehearsals of the school
  play where, in spite of himself, he becomes
  wrapped up in the production and begins to
  suggest changes that improve not only the play
  but his life as well.

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School Picture Day

• Josephinas fascination with gadgets doesnt bode
  well for the class picture.

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A Story for Bear

• A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious
  marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind
  woman reads to him.

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Snowmen at Night

• Snowmen play games at night when no one is
  watching.

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Take me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly
Songs

• Well-known songs, including Oh Susannah and
  Row Row Row Your Boat, are presented with new
  words and titles, such as Im so Carsick and
  Go Go Go to Bed.

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Things not Seen

• When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds
  himself invisible, he and his parents and his new
  blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused
  his condition and how to reverse it.

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Now what?
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favorite!
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Acknowledgements

• Modification of 2003 powerpoint presentation
  produced by Scott Bartlett
• Book jackets from amazon.com