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Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award is awarded by
the Children's Services Round Table of the Missouri
Library Association. This award is designed to encourage reading
aloud to children from birth through kindergarten age. |
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| 2007
Award Winner |
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Move Over Rover by Karen Beaumont |
| When a storm comes, Rover expects to have his doghouse all to himself but finds that various other animals, including a skunk, come to join him. It's raining cats and dogs! Good thing Rover is snuggled safe and dry inside his doghouse--until, one by one, a soggy menagerie of creatures shows up looking for a cozy place to sit out the storm. But who's the very unwelcome surprise visitor? Skunk, of course. Suddenly that doghouse isn't quite so crowded after all! |
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| 2008 Missouri Building
Block Picture Book Award Nominees |
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Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catalanotto |
| A terrier named Ivan keeps interrupting story hour. Ivan loves a good story. Like that one about the three bears or those three gruff billy goats. Where else can a dog find such playmates action fun...or a cookie? Ivan's own good story lands him just where he loves to be. In your lap. |
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Llama Llama Mad at Mama by Anne Dewdney |
| A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store. |
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The Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend |
| Jack the cat gets much more than he bargained for when he decides to build the perfect nest to attract the perfect chicken. |
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Badger's Fancy Meal by
Keiko Kasza |
| Badger is bored with the same old meals, but his search for more exciting food only leads to trouble. |
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Sally and the Some-Thing by
George O'Connor |
| One boring day, Sally goes down to the pond where she meets a new friend who is really something. |
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Not a Box by Antoinette Portis |
| To an imaginative bunny, a box is not always just a box. |
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Good, Boy Fergus! by
David Shannon |
| Except for his bath, Fergus experiences the perfect doggy day, from chasing cats and motorcycles to being scratched on his favorite tickle spot. |
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I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry |
| A giant squid brags about being bigger than everything else in the ocean--almost. |
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Bear Feels Sick by
Karma Wilson |
| When Bear is too sick to play, his animal friends go to his cave to make him soup and tea and keep him company. |
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Whopper Cake by Karma Wilson and Will Hillenbrand |
| Grandad bakes Grandma a whopper of a birthday cake. Includes recipe and directions for chocolate cake. |
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| Past
Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award Winners |
| 2006 - I
Ain't Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont |
| In the rhythm of a familiar folk song,
a child cannot resist adding one more dab of paint in surprising
places. |
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| 2005 - Bubble
Gum, Bubble Gum by Lisa Wheeler |
| After a variety of animals get stuck
one by one in bubble gum melting in the road, they must survive encounters
with a big blue truck and a burly black bear. |
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| 2004 - Bubble
Bath Pirates! by Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
| When pirate
mommy announces bath time, it is yo-ho-ho and to the bath we go for
her little pirates. |
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| 2003 - The
Little School Bus by Carol Roth, illustrated by Pamela Paparone |
| An assortment
of animals, including a goat in a coat, a quick chick, and a hairy
bear, ride the bus to and from school. |
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| 2002 - Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass &
Philemon Sturges, and illustrated by Ashley Wolff |
| A raccoon tries
to find out which of his animal friends stole the cookies. |
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| 2001 - Two
Cool Coyotes by Jillian Lund |
Frank the coyote
is sad when his friend Angelina moves away,
but then he finds a new friend when Larry moves into the den next
door. |
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| 2000 - Bark
George by Jules Feiffer |
| George is a
dog, yet when his mother asks him to bark all he can do is produce
various animal noises. George and the reader are in for quite a surprise
when his mother takes him to the vet. |
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| 1999 - No
David! by David Shannon |
| A young boy
is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly
admonished, but finally he gets a hug. |
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| 1998 - Cock-A-Doodle-Moo by Bernard Most |
| When the rooster
loses its voice and must ask the cow for help to wake everybody, the
resulting sound provides a hearty laugh for the farmer and his animals. |
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| 1997 - Hi,
Pizza Man! by Virginia Walter |
| While a young
girl waits for the delivery of a hot pizza, she provides the appropriate
animal sounds for a variety of pretend animal pizza deliverers. |
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| 1996 - Splash,
Splash by Jeff Sheppard |
| All kinds of
animals, from a bee to a frog, fall into the water, making their own
distinctive noises as they get wet. |
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