Buckeye Book Award Winners

The Buckeye Children’s Book Award Council announces the winners of the 2011 Buckeye Children’s Book Award and the 2011 Teen Buckeye Award.  The following titles were chosen in an online voting process by young readers all across the state of Ohio:

For Grades K-2:

Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton, ill. by Tom Lichtenheld (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2010)

For Grades 3-5

Chalk  by Bill Thomson (Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books, 2010)

For Grades 6-8

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (Atheneum, 2010)

For the Teen Buckeye Book Award:

The Exiled Queen (Seven Realms book 2) by Cinda Williams Chima (Hyperion, 2010)

Ohio’s reader’s choice book award is unique among other state book award programs in that the nominated and winning titles are entirely selected by children.  Teachers and librarians who encourage their students to participate in the Buckeye Children’s Book Award reading/nominating/reading/voting process report an enthusiastic response. 

Please help spread the word that Ohio students can nominate a favorite book written by an American author and published in 2010, 2011, or 2012 for the 2012 Buckeye Children’s Book Award (K-2), (3-5), (6-8) or Teen Buckeye Book Award (9-12). Nominations will be accepted on the award website from January 1, 2012 –March 10, 2012. 

Visit the Buckeye Children’s Book Award website: www.bcbookaward.info  and the Teen Buckeye Book award website: www.bcbookaward.info/teens for further information.