Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Rules About the Awards


John Newbery Honor Award
 The award is given to the author of "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." The John Newbery award was the first award for a book.

Schneider Family Book Award
The Schneider Family Book Award can be given out to Illustrators or Authors or both. The Schneider Family Book Award is always given to a book with someone who has a medical or physical problem like David in Rules.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (DCF)
The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award annually recognizes one new American children's book selected by the vote of Vermont school children.  That means that the book is mainly kid-friendly 

2 comments:

  1. This sounds funny and exiting have fun reading! :)

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  2. Well, written. You can see that you have read over it and not just rushed through it. I liked the way that you described the awards. It meats all the criteria except pgs. It is really good.

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