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Award Winning Children’s Books

Award Winning Children’s Books

I will never forget the first time I read Johnny Tremain, one of the great Newbery award winning children’s books by Esther Forbes.  I was transported to Boston at the time of the American Revolution.  I soaked up every word and lived every moment.  The story created in me a life-long love of the time period and the people and stories therein.  The story — told with such wonder by Ms. Forbes — is still so clear in my mind that I could relate it to you today without missing a scene.

One of the best ways to help your children succeed in school is to help them be good readers.  Whatever the subject — even math — students have a better opportunity to do well when they read well.  Social Studies, History, Science, and certainly English and other languages are built on reading.  It sounds simplistic, but good reading skills are developed by reading, and award winning childrens books are the place to start.  Build your childs vocabulary, help them with comprehension, and teach them to evaluate outcomes and approach new ideas with a well-rounded background in outsanding literature.

Children have all sorts of wonderful information available to them from television and the internet.  It can become something of a trap to let others tell you how to think and what to believe.  Short tidbits and quick soundbites are fun and easy, but do very little to develop an ablilty to understand extended concepts or appreciate the arc of a wonderful story.  To go fishing with Sterling and Rascal or fight the Nothing with Meg and Charles Wallace, one must open a book — an award winning children’s book.

Good writing captures the imagination and stirs the soul.  It can move young readers to a clearer understanding of their own place in the world.  It can also just entertain, enlighten, or enliven the reader.  This is the sort of story-telling that we have come to expect from Caldecott and Newbery award winners, the best of award winning children’s books.  Search through the ones below to choose from old favorites and new selections.  Find the tales that appeal to you or to the youngsters in your life.  Serve up a new one every few weeks.  Sit down and experience the joy of great books with your child or grandchild.  You could watch a tv show or movie — or read a book together.  I recommend a good book, especially one of these terrific award winning children’s books.  Get yours today!

Here are some wonderful Newbery award winners for your consideration:

 

And for the younger set, Caldecott selections.
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