2003 Chapman Awards for
Best Classroom Read-Alouds : Picture Books		  

The Dot
by Peter H. Reynolds
(Candlewick)
In English, of Course
by Josephine Nobisso,
illustrated by Dasha Ziborova
(Gingerbread House)
Punctuation Takes a Vacation
by Robin Pulver,
illustrated by Lynne Rowe Reed
(Holiday House)
Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile
by Won-Ldy Paye and
Margaret H. Lippert
(Holt)

The Hard-Times Jar
by Ethel Footman Smothers,
illustrated by John Holyfield
(Farrar Straus Giroux)
   

 

The purpose of the Chapman Award for Shared Reading is to seek out and promote work in American secular children's trade literature that are must-haves for every elementary
school classroom. Besides being entertaining, beautiful, funny, moving, creative, informative, multicultural and/or groundbreaking, or otherwise posessing such qualities that make the book engaging to K-6 elementary classroom audiences, winners of the Chapman award

Must be easy to read aloud to a group
Must be a catalyst for discussion
Must lend itself naturally to classroom extensions
.
 Who gives the Chapman Award?
The award is given by PlanetEsme.com, a privately run website that accepts no advertising and has received over a million hits in 2002.The site is run by author Esmé Raji Codell with a small advisory team of teachers and web consultants
Esmé RajiCodell.
"PlanetEsme.com"
<http://www.planetesme.com/>
28,June 2004