Children's Book Week & Whimsy Book Awards

Next week is the 100th Anniversary of Children's Book Week and we are so excited to celebrate for the second year by donating books to our Milbank Schools.

This year we decided to host our very own Whimsy Book Awards with the students and let them tell us which books are their favorites. We have been carefully selecting the books we wanted to add to this year's list. All of the books have been published after May 2018. Some of the books on our list were just published this month!

We will be delivering our books to Koch Elementary, St. Lawrence, Milbank Middle School and Milbank High School next week and the voting will begin. The voting will run through May 17, 2019. We will announce our winners May 22, 2019. All of the kids that vote will be entered into a drawing for prizes and we will holding a drawings for a few special prizes to the teachers in the Milbank schools that choose to participate.

Here is a look at the books for each grade level that they will be voting on this year.

Kindergarten:

• Willbee The Bumblebee by Craig Smith and Maureen Thomson
• Underwear by Jenn Harney
• The Three Little Superpigs: Once Upon a Time by Claire Evans

First Grade:

• Tails from History: The Cat Who Ruled the Town by May Nakamura
• How I learned to Fall Out of Trees by Vincent X. Kirsch
• Remarkably You by Pat Zietlow Miller

Second Grade:

• The Sun Shines Everywhere by Mary Ann Hoberman
• The Sloth Who Slowed Us Down by Margaret Wild
• Because by Mo Willems

Third Grade:

• Mac B. Kid Spy: The Impossible Crime by Mac Barnett
• Safari Pug: The Dog who Walked on the Wild Side by Laura James
• WeirDo by Anh Do

Fourth Grade:

• Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
• Sweep the Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
• Katt vs Dogg by James Patterson
• The Hotel Between by Sean Easley

Fifth Grade:

• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
• The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu
• Lions & Liars by Kate Beasley
• The Collectors by Jacqueline West

Sixth Grade:

• Miles Morales Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds
• The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Orphaned by Eliot Schrefer
• The Dollar Kids by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Seventh Grade:

• Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco
• To Best the Boys by Mary Weber
• The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin
• The Reckless Club by Beth Vrabel

Eighth Grade and Above (Young Adult):

• Nine by Zach Hines
• Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
• Invisible Ghosts by Robyn Schneider
• A Room Away From the Wolves by Nova Ren Suma

Stay Tuned for more posts about the above books and all of the fun we will be having for Children's Book Week!