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Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

Created on October 27, 2023, 10:37 am

Last Updated February 26, 2024, 12:33 pm

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year. The winner(s), recognized for their literary and artistic achievements that demonstrate creativity and imagination to engage children in reading, receives a bronze medal. Honor Book authors and illustrators receive certificates, which are presented at the ALA Annual Conference. The award was established in 2004 and first presented in 2006.

1) Fox has a problem

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Series

I can read book

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Description

"Fox has a not-so-new problem, and every possible solution leads to more problems for the other animals, until they all come together with the ultimate fix."--

Author

Emberley, Michael

Series

I like to read comics

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

A girl tries and tries again to learn how to ride a bicycle, and all her friends provide words of encouragement.

3) Fox at night

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Series

I can read book

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Fox overcomes his fear of monsters when he meets real nocturnal animals.

4) See the cat: three stories about a dog

Author

LaRochelle, David

Series

Formats:

Book, eBook, Juv Readalong, Kindle

Description

"What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat - Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, the author introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. The illustrator depicts the pup's reactions to the narrator and to...

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Description

When a little boy stops to show a building doorman his new "bot," it floats up out of his hands and the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it, with help from the building's residents.

6) Fox the tiger

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Series

I can read book

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Description

Fox decides to become a tiger because they are fast and sneaky, and soon, his other animal friends are joining in.

7) Charlie & Mouse

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Series

Charlie and Mouse volume 1

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Spoken CD

Description

Charlie and Mouse, two young brothers, enjoy a day out together, attending an imaginary party and collecting rocks.

8) We are growing!

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Series

Elephant & Piggie like reading! volume 2

Description

"Walt is not the tallest or the curliest or the pointiest or even the crunchiest. A confounded blade of grass searches for his 'est' in this hilarious story about growing up"--

9) Don't throw it to Mo!

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Series

Mo Jackson series volume 1

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins football team. The kids on the rival team tease him for being a 'butterfingers' who's too tiny to catch the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan up his sleeve to turn Mo's little size into a big win for the Robins"--

10) You are (not) small

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Series

You are (not) small volume 1

Formats:

Book, Juv Readalong

Description

"Two fuzzy creatures can't agree on who is small and who is big, until a couple of surprise guests show up, settling it once and for all!"--Jacket flap.

11) The watermelon seed

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Juv Readalong

Description

After swallowing a watermelon seed, a crocodile imagines a scary outcome.

12) Up, tall and high

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Description

Through illustrations and simple text, birds demonstrate the meanings of the words up, tall, and high.

13) Tales for very picky eaters

Author

Schneider, Josh

Formats:

Book, Juv Readalong, Spoken CD

Description

"A father tells outlandish stories while trying to get his young son, who is a very picky eater, to eat foods he thinks he will not like."--Title page verso.

14) Bink & Gollie

Author

DiCamillo, Kate

Series

Bink & Gollie volume 1

Formats:

Book, Juv Readalong, Spoken CD

Description

Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.

15) Benny and Penny in the big no-no!: a Toon book

Author

Hayes, Geoffrey

Series

Benny and Penny volume 2

Description

Two mice meet their new neighbor and discover that she is not as scary as they feared.

16) Are you ready to play outside?

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Series

Elephant and Piggie books volume 7

Description

Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.

17) There is a bird on your head!

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Series

Elephant and Piggie books volume 3

Description

Gerald the elephant discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head -- two birds on your head! Piggie will try to help her best friend.

18) Zelda and Ivy, the runaways / Laura McGee Kvasnosky

Author

Kvasnosky, Laura McGee

Series

Zelda and Ivy volume 4

Description

In three short stories, two fox sisters run away from home, bury a time capsule, and take advantage of some creative juice.

19) Henry and Mudge and the great grandpas: the twenty-sixth book of their adventures

Author

Rylant, Cynthia

Series

Henry and Mudge books volume 26

Description

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.