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"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that."

—B. A. Billingsly

 

2009 Monarch Award Winners

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Over 154,000 Illinois K-3 Children from 894 schools and libraries have voted and here are your …

           monarch award graphic   2009 Monarch Award Winners

 1st Place

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Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude

by Kevin O’Malley

Illustrated by Kevin O’Malley, Carol Heyer and

Scott Goto

 

 skippyjon jones graphic    2nd Place: Skippyjon Jones by Judith Schachner

superhero abcs graphic    3rd Place: Superhero ABC by Bob McLeod

  Other 2009 Nominees:

 ·        Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea by Chris Butterworth

·        The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice Harrington

·        Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crim

·        Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies

·        George Did It by Suzanne Jurmain

·        Nora's Ark by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

·        Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen

·        Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid by McDonald, Megan McDonald

·        Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia McKissack

·        Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

·        Cookies: Bite-size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

·        Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas by Cynthia Rylant

·        The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School by Judy Sierra

·        The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

·        There is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me by Alice Walker

·        Today I Will Fly! by Mo Willems

.        The Blizzard by Betty Ren Wright
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