Geisel Award Books

Geisel Medal The Geisel Award was named in honor of Theodor Geisel a.k.a Dr. Seuss. It is awarded annually to authors and illustrators of the most distingushed American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States.

A list of books that have won the Geisel Award [1] since 2006.

In the Lists Below, The Titles We Own Are Linked To Our Catalog

2013 Geisel Award Winning Books

Up, Tall and High! written and illustrated by Ethan Long**
Let's Go for a Drive! written and illustrated by Mo Willems*
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons [2] by Eric Litwin and illustrated by James Dean*
Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover written and illustrated by Cece Bell*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2012 Geisel Award Winning Books

Tales for Very Picky Eaters [3] written and illustrated by Josh Schneider**
I Broke My Trunk! [4]written and illustrated by Mo Willems*
I Want My Hat Back [5] written and illustrated by Jon Klassen*
See Me Run written and illustrated by Paul Meisel*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2011 Geisel Award Winning Books

Bink and Gollie [6] by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee and illustrated by Tony Fucile**
Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same! written and illustrated by Grace Lin*
We Are in a Book! [7] written and illustrated by Mo Willems*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2010 Geisel Award Winning Books

Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! written and illustrated by Geoffrey Hayes**
I Spy Fly Guy! [8] written and illustrated by Tedd Arnold*
Little Mouse Gets Ready written and illustrated by Jeff Smith*
Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends written and illustrated by Wong Herbert Yee*
Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day [9] by Kate McMullan and illustrated by R. W. Alley*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2009 Geisel Award Winning Books

Are You Ready to Play Outside? [10] by Mo Willems**
Chicken Said, "Cluck!" [11] by Judyann Ackerman Grant*
One Boy [12] by Laura Vaccaro Seeger*
Stinky [13] by Eleanor Davis*
Wolfsnail: a Backyard Predator [14] by Sarah C. Campbell*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2008 Geisel Award Winning Books

There is a Bird On Your Head! [15] by Mo Willems**
First the Egg [16] by Laura Vaccaro Seeger*
Hello, Bumblebee Bat [17] by Darrin Lunde*
Jazz Baby [18] by Lisa Wheeler*
Vulture View [19]by April Pulley Sayre*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2007 Geisel Award Winning Books

Zelda and Ivy: the Runaways [20] by Laura McGee Kvasnosky**
Mercy Watson Goes For a Ride [21] by Kate DiCamillo*
Move Over, Rover! [22]by Karen Beaumont*
Not a Box [23] by Antoinette Portis*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

2006 Geisel Award Winning Books

Henry Mudge and the Great Grandpas [24] by Cynthia Rylant**
Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold*
Splendid Friend, Indeed [25] by Suzanne Bloom*
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa [26] by Erica Silverman*
Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day by Jean Van Leeuwen*

** author award winner
* author honor winner

Links:
[1] http://staging.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/geiselaward/geiselawardpastwinners/geiselawardpastwinners.cfm
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