The Monarch Award
 The Monarch Award is given annually to an author and/or illustrator of a book voted as their favorite by participating K–3 children in Illinois. The award is sponsored by the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) and is designed to encourage Illinois students to read critically and to become familiar with children’s books, authors, and illustrators. The award is named in honor of the Monarch Butterfly, Illinois’ state insect. The butterfly symbolizes growth, change and freedom––qualities that also characterize the emergent reader.
2008 Monarch Award Winner Announced!
 Illinois students have selected If I Built a Car by Chris van Dusen as the winner of this year’s contest.
Second place went to Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel, and Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor came in third.
See past Monarch Award winners.
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
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Butterworth, Chris(tine)
Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea
Readers will discover the secrets of the endangered sea horse--one of nature's most mysterious fish--through
clear, engaging text and intricate engravings.
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Crimi, Carolyn
Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies
Captain Barnacle Black Ear, baddest of the Buccaneer Bunnies, is ashamed of his book-loving son, Henry, until
the day a great storm threatens the Salty Carrot and its crew.
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Davies, Nicola
Surprising Sharks
A boldly illustrated book provides readers with an informative review of the diverse types of sharks there are
swimming in the seas and the very different ways they eat, live, and survive in their own environments.
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Harrington, Janice
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
A young farm girl tries to catch her favorite chicken, until she learns something about the hen that makes her
change her ways.
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Jurmain, Suzanne
George Did It
Provides insight into the personal side of George Washington along with little-known and funny facts about the
man who--although he didn't want the job--would eventually become our nation's first president.
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Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie
Nora’s Ark
During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and
animals.
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Knudsen, Michelle
Library Lion
A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian
friend.
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McDonald, Megan
Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of
the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school.
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McKissack, Patricia
Precious and the Boo Hag
Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo
Hag that her brother warned her about.
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McLeod, Bob
Superhero ABC
Zany and armed with the most unusual powers, a group of superheroes are out to save the world, one letter at a
time,
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O’Malley, Kevin
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude
Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being
stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold.
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Pennypacker, Sara
Clementine
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains
several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their
apartment building.
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Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
Cookies: Bite-size Life Lessons
Definitions for everyday words, such as "fair" and "cooperation," are presented to youngsters in order to
demonstrate important life lessons with regard to managing day-to-day choices, problems, and situations in a
young person's world.
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Rylant, Cynthia
Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas
When Henry and his dog Mudge go with Henry's parents to visit Great-Grandpa Bill in the home with lots of
other grandpas, they lead them all on a wonderful adventure.
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Schachner, Judith
Skippyjon Jones
Skippyjon Jones, a Siamese cat with an uncanny imagination, pretends to battle el Blimpo Bumblebeeto Bandito--
a giant bee--on behalf of the Mexican Chihuahuas it has been terrorizing.
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Sierra, Judy
The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate My School
A girl sends off for "Professor Swami's Super Slime" to use as her science fair project and then has to cope with
the funny disaster that follows.
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Stevens, Janet and Susan Stevens Crummel
The Great Fuzz Frenzy
When a tennis ball lands in a prairie dog town, the residents find that their newfound frenzy for fuzz creates a
fiasco.
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Walker, Alice
There is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me
A poem that captures the wonderful interaction between nature and humans with such verses as "There is a sky at
the end of my eye seeing me" and "There is a sunrise at the edge of my skin praising me."
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Willems, Mo
Today I Will Fly!
While Piggie is determined to fly, Elephant is skeptical, but when Piggie gets a little help from others, amazing
things happen.
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Wright, Betty Ren
The Blizzard
Although a blizzard prevents his cousins from visiting for his birthday, a disappointed Billy ends up having a
very special day when his teacher and classmates must stay overnight at his family's house to wait out the
snowstorm.
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Titles not found on the shelves may be reserved at the ASK ME Desk.
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630-584-9390 or contact us online.
This list was updated by Youth Services,
St. Charles Public Library,
December 2008.
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