1. Colorado Children’s Book Award 2018 winners and 2019 Junior Book nominees
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2. Colorado Children’s Book Awards
2018
Winners
Runner up
Runner up

3. Magical Realism
Graphic novel winner by Raina Telgemeier. Not a memoir like Sisters, but the magical realism is great. Some controversy when it first came out from Native American groups, but it seems to have blown over. Kids do love her books. Great context for Day of the Dead.
Link to 2 minute Scholastic trailer with Raina Telgemeier in SafeShare
Scholastic 30 second Trailer in SafeShare

4. 2 min. Scholastic Bookfair Trailer in SafeShare
Young readers edition of memoir by ultra marathoner Dion Leonard. While doing a marathon in the Gobi dessert of China he was befriended by a little dog and the memoir is that story. Since these nominations there has been a picture book published telling the story from Gobi’s point of view. DRA40 IL L

5. Walden Media Educator’s guide
Can’t get the link to work in a powerpoint so either do a google search:” Ms. Bixby’s Last Day Discussion Questions” or type in the link
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Ms. Bixby unexpectedly announces that she is very sick and won't be able to finish the school year, and Topher, Brand and Steve come up with a plan to tell her how much she means to them. RL 5.2 IL L
Ms. Bixby Educators Guide

6. 2 min Scholastic Bookfair Video
Narwhal is a happy-go-lucky narwhal. Jelly is a no-nonsense jellyfish. The two might not have a lot in common, but they do they love waffles, parties and adventures. This easy reading graphic novel is accessible to kids from 2nd grade on. RL 2.4 IL K L

7. 2 min. Gordon Korman introduces Restart Scholastic Bookfair Trailer
Chase is a football player/bully with a messy past who falls off his roof and ends up with amnesia. Will he take this chance to decide who he’s going to be
RL 5.1 IL L

8. Max Brallier video preorder offer from last year - Just a chance to see him - 1 min. YouTube
Kids love the humor and illustrations in this fantasy about life after the apocalypse. Lots of action, monsters and technology to help kids “SAVE THE WORLD”. Jack Sullivan, June Del Toro, Quint Baker, Dirk Savage, and Rover. Fight the Nightmare King in this installment of this semi graphic novel.

9. 2 minute Scholastic Bookfair Trailer introduced by the Author
Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world. RL IL L

10. 1 min. Scholastic Bookfair Trailer
In January 1942, twelve-year-old Colton is on his family's fishing boat in the Atlantic with his older brother Danny when the boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, and Danny is severely injured; realizing how close the enemy is, Colton takes his brother's enlistment papers and joins the Navy, determined to do his part to defeat Germany--if only he can keep his age a secret. Based upon a true story of the youngest Navy sailor in WWII.

11. Barbara O'Connor Website with 1 minute introduction to Wish
Wish discussion guide
Barbara O'Connor Website with 1 minute introduction to Wish
Charlie Reese is sent to live with a family she barely knows, but with the help of a skinny stray dog who captures her heart and a neighbor boy named Howard, she learns what the real meaning of family may be. Great for readers who love Anne of Green Gables. Gus and Bertha (Charlie’s Grandparents) are my favorite characters this year.
RL 4.5 IL L

12. Wishtree trailer from Macmillan 3 min. on YouTube
Wishtreebook.com
An old Red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk. RL 4.6 IL L

13. Land of stories Party Kit Download from thelandofstories.com
Book 6 is the conclusion to this best selling fairy tale fantasy series. Conner and Alex must fight the biggest battle to restore order between the human and fairy tale world. Contains an epilogue/prologue of Connor at age 80. RL 6.3
IL L Still have interactions with lots of the characters from the series. Can be read without reading others in the series because the characters are based upon fairy tale characters kids hopefully already know.

14. 2020 Nomination Guidelines
Copyright 2015 – 2020
One title per author, not last year’s winners
Book prior to any other format (production)
# of schools before # of nominations
Each school can submit up to 20 titles when they vote before March 2, 2018
Children may vote for 1 PB and 1 JB if they have read or hear at least 3 in the category

15. Find Guidelines at vote at CCIRA
Find Guidelines at vote at CCIRA.org-->Awards-->Colorado Children's Book Award
Nominated books must be currently in print and published in the five years preceding the award year.
Only one title per author will be included in each year's ballot.
Last year's WINNING authors are not eligible this year.
Books previously nominated are not eligible for nomination in following years.
A book title nominated by more that one school or library will be considered more heavily for inclusion in the final list.
Books based on movies, TV shows, toys, or apps are not eligible for nomination unless the book preceded the production.
The author of a nominated book must be a living author.
Caldecott and Newbery Award books are not eligible. Honor books are eligible.
Once a book in a series has won, all other books in that series by that author will not be eligible for nomination.
Children may vote for one picture book and one junior book provided they have read a minimum of three books in each category.
Submit the top 20 BOOK TITLES NOMINATED by children with the TOTAL nominations for each book to the CCBA Committee by March 1, 2018.
PLEASE be sure to put the number of students who nominated the book.

16. Have a great Summer and school year!
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Have a great
Summer and school year!
Grass is always greener story.