New Award Books

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath - Stephanie Hemphill
The author interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of author Sylvia Plath. Michael L. Printz Honor book

There Is a Bird on Your Head! - Mo Willems
Gerald the elephant discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head-- two birds on your head! Piggie will try to help her best friend. Theodor Seuss Geisel Award book

First the Egg - Laura Vaccaro Seeger
A picture book about transformations. Caldecott Honor book

Lightship - Brian Floca
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor book

Jazz Baby - Lisa Wheeler
Baby and his family make some jazzy music. Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book

Hello, Bumblebee Bat - Darrin Lunde
Simple text and illustrations introduce the endangered bumblebee bat of Thailand. Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book

Vulture View - April Pulley Sayre
Turkey vultures soar on the balmy air, looking for their next stinky feast. These birds don't hunt--they like their food to be already dead. Vultures are part of nature's cleanup crew. Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad - Ellen Levine
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia. Caldecott Honor book