2011+Nominees

cook apples for applesauce. It includes a recipe for applesauce, to help you create your own traditions. || ==== ==== || **Author:** Andy Rash **Publisher**:Arthur A. Levine, 2009 horse. || **Author:** Koko Nishizuka **Illustrator:** Rosanne Litzinger **Publisher:** Holiday House, 2009 **Synopsis**: A retelling of the traditional Japanese tale describing the origins of the beckoning cat and how it came to be a symbol of good luck. || **Author**: Rebecca Emberley **Illustrator**: Ed Emberley **Publisher**: Roaring Brook Press, 2009 fall on his head and runs in a panic to his friends Henny Penny, Lucky Ducky, and Loosey Goosey, to tell them the sky is falling. || **Author:** Peter Brown **Illustrator:** **Publisher**: Tsai Fung Books, 2009 **Synopsis**: Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city. || **Author**: Dorothee DeMonfreid **Illustrator**: **Publisher:** Random House, 2009 **Synopsis:** When he wanders into the forest at night, Felix, terrified by the ferocious animals he sees, finds refuge in an unusual undergound house. || **Author**: Amy Krouse Rosenthal **Illustrator**: Tom Lichtenheld **Publisher**: Chronicle Books, 2009 **Synopsis:** Two unseen characters argue about whether the creature they are looking at is a rabbit or a duck. || **Author**: Candace Fleming I**llustrator**: Nancy Carpenter **Publisher**: Random House, 2009 **Synopsis:** Enamored of history, young Imogene Tripp tries to save her town's historical society from being demolished in order to build a shoelace factory. Includes notes about historical figures quoted in the story. || **Author**: Amy Noll **Illustrator:** Howard McWilliam **Publisher**: Flashlight Press, 2009 **Synopsis:** One night, when Ethan checks under his bed for his monster, Gabe, he finds a note from him instead: "Gone fishing. Back in a week." Ethan knows that without Gabe’s familiar nightly scares he doesn't stand a chance of getting to sleep, so Ethan interviews potential substitutes to see if they've got the right equipment for the job—pointy teeth, sharp claws, and a long tail—but none of them proves scary enough for Ethan. || **Author:** Kenneth Oppel **Illustrator**: Steve Johnson **Publisher**: Harper Collins, 2009 **Synopsis:** Max is the cook's dog. And because he is also the king's taster, Max gets to feast. || **Author:** Tony Fucile **Illustrator:** **Publisher**: Candlewick, 2009 **Synopsis**: 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? || **Author**: Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed **Illustrator**: Catherine Stock **Publisher**: Eerdman's Books, 2009 **Synopsis:** As a refugee from Sudan to the United States, Sangoel is frustrated that no one can pronounce his name correctly until he finds a  clever way to solve the problem. || **Author**: Brian Dennis, Kirby Larson, Mary Nethery **Illustrator:** **Publisher:** Little Brown, 2009 **Synopsis:** Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis. The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share his meals, offer a warm place to sleep, and give Nubs the kind of care and attention he had never received before. Nubs became part of Dennis's human "pack" until duty required the Marines to relocate a full 70 miles away--without him. Nubs had no way of knowing that Marines were not allowed to have pets. So began an incredible journey that would take Nubs through a freezing desert, filled with danger to find his friend and would lead Dennis on a mission that would touch the hearts of people all over the world. || **Author:** Joanne Ryder **Illustrator**: Katherine Feng **Publisher:** Collins, 2009 **Synopsis:** Meet sixteen young giant panda cubs at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the Wolong Nature Preserve. The cubs are raised together from infancy in a protected setting, where they grow strong. Under the watchful eyes of the scientists and workers, the cubs learn skills that will help prepare them to be released into the wild. Follow a day in the life of the cubs with Joanne Ryder's spare and simple text and full-color photographs by Dr. Katherine Feng, Wolong's leading photographer. || **Author:** Rose Blue **Illustrator**: Corinne Naden **Publisher:** Dutton, 2009 **Synopsis**: The story of how nine-year-old Ron McNair, later a real-life scientist and Challenger astronaut, desegregated his Lake City, South Carolina, public library in the 1950s through peaceful resistance. || **Author**: Rob Scotton **Illustrator:** **Publisher**: Harper Collins, 2008 **Synopsis:** A nervous Splat finds his first day at Cat School much better than he expected. || **Author**: Adam Rubin **Illustrator**: Daniel Salmieri **Publisher**: Clarion, 2008 **Synopsis:** When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food. || **Author**: Helen Ketterman **Illustrator**: Will Terry **Publisher**: Albert Whitman, 2009 **Synopsis:** In this adaptation of the traditional folktale, three little gators each build their house in an east Texas swamp, hoping for protection from the Big-bottomed Boar. || **Author:** Jon Scieszka **Illustrator:** David Shannon, David Gordon, Loren Long **Publisher:** Simon & Schuster, 2009 **Synopsis:** All the favorite truckery rhymes are here -- from "Peter Peter Payload Eater" to "Little Dan Dumper"...all the way to "Pop! Blows the Diesel." || **Author**: Valeri Gorbachev **Illustrator:** **Publisher**: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008 **Synopsis**: After hearing a bedtime story about penguins, Turtle dresses as a penguin for school and soon the entire class is having a penguin day. ||
 * 2011 Nominees**   **Click on the cover images to link to more information**
 * [[image:Applesauce_Season.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=SScOcMSw-tkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Applesauce+Season&hl=en&ei=dgO3Td6_AozTiAKT3Lko&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** Applesauce Season
 * Author:** Eden Ross Lipson
 * Illustrator:** Mordecai Gerstein
 * Publisher:** Roaring Brook Press, 2009
 * Synopsis**: In an urban setting, the story of how a family gets together to
 * [[image:Are_You_A_Horse.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=m6ooCiB0qhMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=are+you+a+horse&hl=en&ei=tAO3TaSaBabniAKEzYkq&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** Are You a Horse?
 * [[image:Are_You_A_Horse.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=m6ooCiB0qhMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=are+you+a+horse&hl=en&ei=tAO3TaSaBabniAKEzYkq&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** Are You a Horse?
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 * Synopsis: ** When Roy gets a saddle for his birthday, he goes in search of a
 * [[image:Beckoning_Cat.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=5rzOAPmDRD4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+beckoning+cat&hl=en&ei=2QO3Tcz0FLLQiALnxaw0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CFAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** The Beckoning Cat
 * [[image:Chicken_Little.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=UXwrvM4xLAcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=chicken+little+emberley&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=BwS3Tdz6AbLQiALnxaw0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title**: Chicken Little
 * Synopsis: ** A retelling of the classic story of Chicken Little, who has an acorn
 * [[image:The_Curious_Garden.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=WL6TJgAACAAJ&dq=the+curious+garden&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=KwS3TbiILKbbiALW5NAs&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAA"]] || **Title**: The Curious Garden
 * [[image:Dark_Night.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=ny_iNwAACAAJ&dq=dark+night+DeMonfreid&hl=en&ei=bAS3Tcf9F8LliALtrsQ3&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA"]] || **Title:** Dark Night
 * [[image:Duck_Rabbit.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=VMBVhyPMuK0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Duck!+Rabbit!&hl=en&ei=pwS3TcDyMqPfiAKvlM0j&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** Duck! Rabbit!
 * [[image:Imogenes_Last_Stand.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=N66pj9MmxfEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Imogene's+last+stand&hl=en&ei=ygS3TbDRH4ngiAKahZ0u&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title**: Imogene's Last Stand
 * [[image:I_Need__My_Monster.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=TCH3PQAACAAJ&dq=i+need+my+monster&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=7QS3TZiNFbTPiAKtuYgf&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA"]] || **Title:** I Need My Monster
 * [[image:Kings_Taster.03.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=rpl9PQAACAAJ&dq=the+king's+taster&hl=en&ei=EAW3TdLACejTiAL5qrw4&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ"]] || **Title:** The King's Taster
 * [[image:Lets_Do_Nothing.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=l65H6mRYRtUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=let's+do+nothing&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=lwW3TbalFojeiAKm-6wj&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** Let's Do Nothing
 * [[image:My_Name_Is_Sangoel.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=umC7bWfsIWUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=my+name+is+sangoel&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=ywW3TY7jMI7PiAKroLwf&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title**: My Name is Sangoel
 * [[image:Nubs_02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=SPJwPgAACAAJ&dq=nubs&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=8QW3TabMFKbKiAL0yYw9&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAA"]] || **Title**: Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
 * [[image:Panda_Kindergarten_02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=A0yJCERUMdIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=panda+kindergarten&hl=en&ei=GAa3TeLGFoPTiALQ39Ac&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** Panda Kindergarten
 * [[image:Rons_Big_Day.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=vaH0LwAACAAJ&dq=ron's+big+mission&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=XQa3TdH7GsPZiAKx5KQV&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA"]] || **Title**: Ron's Big Mission
 * [[image:Splat_the_Cat.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=SpRNrnvtmtsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=splat+the+cat&hl=en&ei=fwa3TduQKITXiAK63-kj&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** Splat the Cat
 * [[image:Those_Darn_Squirrels.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=VO05dxrnPuoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=those+darn+squirrels&hl=en&ei=pQa3TYe_AYngiAKahZ0u&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** Those Darn Squirrels!
 * [[image:Three_Little_Gators.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=oD_P5amXTLIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+three+little+gators&hl=en&ei=1Aa3TeefG8rgiAK4tcEV&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** The Three Little Gators
 * [[image:Truckery_Rhymes.02.jpg align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=bu4rLAAACAAJ&dq=truckery+rhymes&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=9Aa3TcD6J-bKiAKs7YQl&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA"]] || **Title:** Truckery Rhymes
 * [[image:Turtles_Penguin_Day.02.gif align="center" link="@http://books.google.com/books?id=9HRBlgdEaXoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=turtle's+penguin+day&hl=en&ei=Ige3TZ2UHq_SiAKywf0U&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]] || **Title:** Turtle's Penguin Day