The North Carolina Children's Book Award Program is a children's choice award program sponsored by the school and public librarians in North Carolina designed to introduce children to current literature and to instill a love of reading.
A Picture Book category and Junior Book category are selected each year. Those titles are listed below. They can be located in the CMMC.
View the North Carolina Children's Book Award Activity Booklet for classroom ideas.
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Big bad wolves at school / by Stephen Krensky ; illustrated by Brad Sneed Rufus, a young wolf, has a hard time fitting in at the Big Bad Wolf Academy where he has been sent to learn to huff and puff until the day he uses his true talent. Rufus doesn't like school at first. He loves being a wolf and doing wolf stuff -- like running through the woods or howling at the moon. But Rufus, like all wolves, must go to school to learn real wolf work, like wearing clever disguises and speaking sheep. While Rufus learns, he also teaches: Sometimes you have to cut loose and learn to be yourself! |
PZ7 .K883 BIG 2007 |
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A haiku poem about a lovable dog. |
PS3553 .L3957 D64 2007 |
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An egg is quiet / by Dianna Aston ; illustrated by Sylvia Long Introduces readers to more than 60 types of eggs and an array of egg facts. |
QL956.5 .A88 2006 |
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Henry's freedom box / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia. |
PZ7 .L57833 HEN 2007 |
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Hey, Mama Goose / by Jane Breskin Zalben ; illustrated by Emilie Chollat. While seeking a larger home for her many children, the Old Woman visits the dwellings of famous fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters and discovers "There's no place like a shoe." |
PZ8.3.Z335 HE 2005 |
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Knock, knock! / Saxton Freymann Knock-knock jokes by fourteen artists. |
PN6231 .K55 K56 2007 |
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Marimba! : animales from A to Z / by Pat Mora ; illustrated by Doug Cushman When Lily Brown paints, she imagines all sorts of fantastic things in the scenes that she sees every day. |
PZ8.3 .M794 MAR 2006 |
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Millie waits for the mail / Alexander Steffensmeier Millie the cow loves to scare the mailman and chase him off the farm, until the mailman comes up with a plan that ends up pleasing everyone. |
PZ7 .S81712 MI 2007 |
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Mr. Pusskins : a love story / written and illustrated by Sam Lloyd Grumpy Mr. Pusskins hates doing ordinary cat things such as playing with his owner Emily but a night out on the streets in search of adventure makes him reconsider the advantages of a loving home. |
PZ7 .L77875 MR 2007 |
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The perfect nest / Catherine Friend ; illustrated by John Manders Jack the cat gets much more than he bargained for when he decides to build the perfect nest to attract the perfect chicken. |
PZ7 .F91523 PER 2007 |
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Previously / Allan Ahlberg ; Bruce Ingman The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man. |
PZ7 .A2688 PRE 2007 |
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Snow day! / written by Lester L. Laminack ; illustrated by Adam Gustavson Someone is very, very excited about the possibility of missing school due to snow, and plans a whole day of sledding, building forts, reading, and sipping hot chocolate rather than going to school for that test on chapter ten. |
PZ7 .L1815 IAAN 2007 |
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Who is Melvin Bubble? / by Nick Bruel Winner of 2009 Award An introduction to six-year-old Melvin Bubble as presented by his family, friends, and others. |
PZ7 .B82832 WH 2006 |
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Children's poetry, American. |
PS3611 .U435 W65 2007 |
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Birmingham, 1963 / Carole Boston Weatherford The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. |
PS3623 .E375 B57 2007 |
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Jenny, a mysterious dog, shows up on Sam's birthday and pulls many of the other dogs in the neighborhood into her quest to prevent the destruction of the world. |
PZ7 .M5798 CIT 2007 |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid/Jeff Kinney Winner of 2009 Award |
PZ7 .K6232 DIA 2007 |
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Are you a cat lover? A dog person? Either way, this book is for you! Read about how your favorite companion came to be a pet and how its body works. Then, flip the book over and find out about the other kind. |
SF426.5 .J46 2007 |
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Hey there, stink bug! / Leslie Bulion ; illustrated by Leslie Evans "Describes various types of insects using different poetic forms. Includes glossary and poetry notes"--Provided by publisher. |
QL467.2 .B85 2006 |
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How to steal a dog : a novel / by Barbara O'Connor Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left and they were evicted from their apartment, her family has been living in their car. With her mama juggling two jobs and trying to make enough money to find a place to live, Georgina is stuck looking after her younger brother, Toby. And she has her heart set on improving their situation. When Georgina spots a missing-dog poster with a reward of five hundred dollars, the solution to all her problems suddenly seems within reach. All she has to do is “borrow” the right dog and its owners are sure to offer a reward. What happens next is the last thing she expected. |
PZ7 .O217 HOW 2007 |
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Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business. |
PZ7 .P2843 LAS 2007 |
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In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry. |
PZ8.1 .D3782 MAR 2007 |
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Night of the howling dogs / Graham Salisbury In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami. |
PZ7 .S15225 NIG 2007 |
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One thousand tracings : healing the wounds of World War II / Lita Judge The author describes her family's efforts to help their friends and others who were left homeless and hungry in the aftermath of World War II. |
D809 .U5 J84 2007 |
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Paint the wind / Pam Muñoz Ryan After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode. |
PZ7.R9553 PAI 2007 |
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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. |
PZ7 .S65766 PE 2007 |
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While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother. |
PZ7.B51197 PE 2005 |
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The road to Paris / Nikki Grimes Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision. |
PZ7 .G88429 RO 2006 |
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Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic. |
PZ7 .L87734 RUL 2006 |