Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Reading Program 2011-2012
Scroll to the bottom of this page to see who won the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan last year!
What is the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Program?
This program allows children to foster the love of reading and to honor outstanding books.
How does the program work?
A list of books are chosen by a committee made up of library media specialists and other interested people. Here at Whittier, grades K-5 will be watching and listening to the list of books in the picture book category using the video broadcast system. Grades 4 and 5 can also participate in the Grades 4-6 category by reading the books on the list independently. Students who read three or more titles on the list are able to vote in mid-April. After the students have read the books on the list, either by their media specialist or by themselves, the students will vote for their favorite book in that category. That's right! Only students can vote! Then the votes from schools all over Maryland are sent to the committee and the book with the most votes becomes the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Winner.
What kinds of books are chosen?
There is a criteria that all books must follow in order to be chosen as a nominee. For example, books may be fiction (story) or nonfiction (facts). Books must also have the copyright date of the current year or the past three years. So, this year, books must have the copyright date of 2012, 2011, 2010, or 2009. Books must also have received positive reviews from appropriate professional journals.
What are the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Picture Book Nominees for 2011-2012?
A Pig Parade is a Terrible Idea by Michael Ian Black
Persephone by sally Pomme Clayton
Clever Jack Takes the Cake by Candace Fleming
Chicken Big! by Keith Graves
That Book Woman by Heather Henson
Dave the Potter: artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill
I Didn't Do It by Patricia MacLachlan
Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum by Meghan McCarthy
The Lion's Share by Matthew McElligott
Gracias by Pat Mora
Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Guyku: a Year of Haiku for Boys by Bob Raczka
Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian
Mirror, Mirror: a Book of Reversible Rhymes by Marilyn Singer
Fly Free! by Roseanna Thong
What are the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Chapter Book Nominees (Gr.4-6) for 2011-2012?
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett
The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
Dream of Night by Heather Henson
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm
After All, You're Callie Boone by Winnie Mack
Everything for a Dog by Ann Martin
Emily's Fortune by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
A Long Water to Water by Linda Sue Park
The Gold Rush Kid by Mary Waldorf
42 Miles by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
This year's Whittier Winner AND MD Black-Eyed Susan Picture Book Winner was:
Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian
This year's MD Black-Eyed Susan Chapter Book Grades 4-6 Winner is:
The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
Last year's Whittier Winner was:
Never Smile at a Monkey: and 17 Other Important things to Remember
by Steve Jenkins
Last year's Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Picture Book Winner was:
Let's Do Nothing by Tony Fucile
Last year's Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Chapter Book Winner
for Grades 4-6 is: 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
To learn more about the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Reading Program or
to find a list of past nominees and winners,
visit http://www.maslmd.org/awards_nominees.php.