BOOKLIST - PICTURE BOOKS FOR OLDER READERS
 

The Picture Book for Older Readers award began in 2000; it was not included in the vote of 2001.

2008 WINNER
Mr. Maxwell's Mouse

Mr. Maxwell's Mouse
by Frank Asch
Illustrated by Devin Asch
(Kids Can Press, 2004)

NOMINEES
Basho and the River Stones Basho and the River Stones
by Tim Myers
Illustrated by Oki S. Han
(Marshall Cavendish, 2004)
Dad, Jackie and Me

Dad, Jackie and Me by Myron Uhlberg. Illustrated by Colin Bootman. (Peachtree Publishers, 2005)

 

 

2007 WINNER


The Cats in Krasinski Square
by Karen Hesse
Illustrated by Wendy Watson
(Scholastic Press, 2004)

NOMINEES
Coming on Home Soon
by Jacqueline Woodson
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis
(Putnam, 2004)

I, Doko: The Tale of a Basket
by Ed Young
(Philomel, 2004)

 


2006 WINNER


Boxes for Katje
by Candace Fleming
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003)

NOMINEES
Papa's Mark
by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
(Holiday House, 2003)
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
by Walter Dean Myers
(HarperCollins, 2001)

 

2005 WINNER
Mr. Lincoln's Way
by Patricia Polacco
(Philomel, 2001)

NOMINEES
Freedom Summer
by Deborah Wiles
Illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue (Atheneum, 2001)
Ruby's Wish
by Shirin Yim Bridges
Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
(Chronicle Books, 2002)

 

2004 WINNER And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel (Harcourt, 2001)
NOMINEES Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack (Atheneum, 2001)
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy (Peachtree, 2000)

 

2003 WINNER The Babe & I by David A. Adler (Harcourt, 1999)
NOMINEES

Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)

The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam, 2001)
 

 

2002 WINNER Weslandia by Paul Fleischman (Candlewick Press, 1998)
NOMINEES Nim and the War Effort by Milly Lee (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997)
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco (Philomel Books, 1998)

 

 

 


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