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PICTURE BOOK NOMINATIONS

A forum for sharing ideas about activities you have used when sharing books nominated for the 2010 North Carolina Children's Picture Book Awards. Below are the picture books nominated for this year's awards along with an annotation. If you have any ideas you would like to share please begin or add to a discussion by using the DISCUSSION  Tab.

** Bluemle, Elizabeth. // How Do You Wokka-Wokka? // Somerville, Mass: Candlewick Press. 2009. **   A young boy who likes to "wokka-wokka, shimmy-shake, and shocka-shocka" gathers his neighbors together for a surprise celebration. ** Brown, Peter. // The Curious Garden //. NY: Little, Brown and Company. 2009. **   Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city. ** Fucile, Tony. // Let's Do Nothing //. Sommerville, Mass: Candlewick Books. 2009. **   Frankie and Sal have run out of things to do: "We've played every sport ever invented" and "baked enough cookies to feed a small country--" Then Sal hits upon a solution: "Let's do nothing!" How hard could that be? ** Greenstein, Elaine. // The Goose Man: the Story of Konrad Lorenz //. Boston: Clarion Books. 2009. **   This book tells the true story of Konrad Lorenz, whose love for animals as a child led to his winning the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research of the behavior of geese. ** Kajikawa, Kimiko. // Tsunami! // NY: Philomel Books. 2009. **   A wealthy man in a Japanese village, whom everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami. ** Lithgow, John. // I Got Two Dogs //. NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2008. **   A song celebrating two dogs that are as different as they could be, and both well-loved by their owner. ** MacDonald, Margaret Read. // The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog : a Folktale from Great Britain //. Atlanta, GA: August House Little Folk. 2007. **   In this British variant of a traditional tale, a great smelly, slobbery, small-tooth dog rescues a rich man from bandits and demands that the man bring his beautiful daughter to live in his castle. ** McNaughton, Colin. // Not Last Night But the Night Before //. Sommerville, MA: Candlewick Press. 2009. **   A child’s quiet night is transformed into a birthday celebration full of beloved fairy-tale characters. ** Perlman, Janet. // The Delicious Bug //. Toronto: Kids Can Press. 2009. **   A struggle between two chameleons over one delicious bug highlights the importance of peacefully resolving conflict. ** Piernas-Davenport, Gail. // Shanté Keys and the New Year's Peas //. Morton Grove, IL: Albert ** ** Whitman. 2007. **    When Shanté is sent to find black-eyed peas for her family's New Year's celebration, she learns about each of her neighbor's New Year's traditions in their home countries. ** Thomas, Jan. // Rhyming Dust Bunnies //. NY: Antheneum Books for Young Readers. 2008. **   As three dust bunnies, Ed, Ned, and Ted, are demonstrating how much they love to rhyme, a fourth, Bob, is trying to warn them of approaching danger. ** Van Dusen,Chris. // Circus Ship //. Somerville MA: Candlewick Press. 2009. **   When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard.