The Monarch Award - Past Winners

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.

Past Monarch Award Winners

	2012 Shark vs. Train Chris Barton, illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld
	2011 Rhyming Dust Bunnies By Jan Thomas
	2010 Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt
	2009 Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O’Malley, illustrated by Kevin O’Malley, Carol Heyer and Scott Goto
	2008 If I Built a Car by Chris van Dusen
	2007 Superdog: the Heart of a Hero by Caralyn Buehner
	2006 My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza
	2005 David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon

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