Red Clover Books
http://www.mothergooseprograms.org/lit_red_clover_overview.php
"The Red Clover Award program promotes the reading and discussion of the best of contemporary picture books in nearly all of Vermont’s elementary schools. The Red Clover Award nominees are selected by a committee comprised of Vermont teachers, librarians and sponsors. The committee reviews all picture books published in the prior year.
The list of nominees is published each March. Here are the book selection criteria:
- The book must have been published in the prior year.
- The award is for the entire book-text and illustrations.
- Both the author and illustrator must be living at the time of the selection.
- Only one title by the same combination of author and illustrator may be chosen in a given year.
- The books must be appropriate, in the aggregate, for a range of children in grades K-4.
- Both fiction and non-fiction are eligible" taken from http://www.mothergooseprograms.org/lit_red_clover_overview.php
2019-2020 Red Clover Nominated Books
The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker
Misunderstood Shark by Ame Dyckman
Friends and Foes: Poems about Us All by Douglas Florian
Hawk Rising by Maria Gianferrari
Potato Pants! by Laurie Kellerk
Drawn Together by Le Minh
Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon by Annete Pimentel
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Link to past winners: http://libraries.vermont.gov/sites/libraries/files/RedCloverWinnerPoster18.pdf