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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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| 2008
Award Winner |
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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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| 2009 Missouri Building
Block Picture Book Award Nominees |
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Bye-Bye, Big Bad Bullybug by Ed Emberley |
| Die-cut pages reveal the scary and mean parts of a bullybug as it prepares to attack some itty-bitty baby bugs, but a rescuer arrives on the scene before the bully can make good on its threats. |
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Mail Harry to the Moon! by Robie H. Harris |
| Harry's older brother, unhappy that the new baby seems to have taken over, dreams up imaginative ways to get rid of him. |
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Wolf's Coming! by Joe Kulka |
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Ducks Don't Wear Socks by John Nedwidek |
| Emily, a serious girl, meets a duck who helps her see the more humorous side of life. |
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The Boy Who Wouldn't Share by Mike Reiss |
| Edward, unwilling to share his toys with his sister, has a change of heart when she has something he wants. |
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Little Hoot
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
| Little Hoot wants to go to bed early, like all of his friends do, and he is hopping mad when Mama and Papa Owl insist that he stay up late and play. |
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Dinosaur vs. Bedtime by Bob Shea |
| A young dinosaur takes on many challenges and wins every time. Then Dinosaur faces his toughest challenge of all: bedtime. |
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Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic |
| Maxwell Duck is trying to invent a soup that everyone will remember him for, but when he goes out to look for the missing ingredient and his friends show up, they think he has fallen into the soup. |
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The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! by Mo Willems |
| The pigeon really, really wants a puppy, but when a puppy arrives the pigeon changes its mind. |
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A Dog Needs a Bone! by Audrey Wood |
| In this rhyming tale, a dog makes extravagant promises to its mistress if only she will give it a bone. |
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| Past
Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award Winners |
| 2007 -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. |
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| 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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