The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2009 Nominees
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Butterworth, Chris
Sea Horse: the Shyest Fish in the Sea

Crimi, Carolyn
Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies

Davies, Nicola
Surprising Sharks

Harrington, Janice
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County

Jurmain, Suzanne
George Did It

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie
Nora's Ark

Knudsen, Michelle
Library Lion

McDonald, Megan
Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
This title is also available as an audiobook.

McLeod, Bob
Superhero ABC

McKissack, Patricia
Precious and the Boo Hag

O'Malley, Kevin
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude

Pennypacker, Sara
Clementine

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons

Rylant, Cynthia
Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas

Schachner, Judith
Skippyjon Jones

Sierra, Judy
The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School

Stevens, Janet and Susan Stevens Crummel
The Great Fuzz Frenzy

Walker, Alice
There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me

Willems, Mo
Today I Will Fly!

Wright, Betty Ren
The Blizzard