Easy to Read Series

Fiction, grades 2-5

Fiction Series grades 2-5

Nonfiction, grades 2-5 

 

Easy to Read

 

2013

Tedd Arnold for Buzz Boy and Fly Guy

 

2012

Lori Haskins Houran and illustrator Joe Mathieu for Too Many Cats

 

2011

Diane ZuHone Shore for How to Drive Your Sister Crazy 

 

2010
Mo Willems for Today I Will Fly!

2009

Tedd Arnold for Super Fly Guy

 

2008

Carol Wallace and illustrator Steve Bjorkman for One Nosy Pup

 

2007

Lola M. Schaefer (pictures by Sylvie Wickstrom) for Loose Tooth

 

2006

Tomie dePaola for T-Rex is Missing!

 

2005

Paula Danziger and Tony Ross for Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown

 

2004

Paula Danziger and Tony Ross for It's Justin Time, Amber Brown

 

2003

Carl Meister and Rich Davis for Tiny Goes to the Library

 

2002

Barbara Baker and Kate Duke for One Saturday Afternoon

 

2001

Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Pat Schories for Bathtime for Biscuit

 

2000

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge in the Family Trees

 

1999

Marc Brown for Arthur's Reading Race

 

1998

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge and the Best Day of All

 

1997

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge and the Careful Cousin

 

1996

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge and the Wild Wind

 

1995

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and the Long Weekend

 

1994

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps

 

1993

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge and the Happy Cat

 

1992

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge get the Cold Shivers

 

1991

James Marshal for Fox on the Job

 

1990

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble

 

1989

Peggy Parish and Lynn Sweat for Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia

 

1988

Peggy Parish and Lynn Sweat For Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping

 

1987

Alvin Schwartz and Dirk Zimmer for In a Dark Dark Room and Other Scary Stories

 

1986

Pat Ross and Marylin Hafner for M & M and the Bad News Babies

 

1985

Majorie Sharmat and Marc Simont for Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail

 

1984

Majorie Sharmat and Mar Simont for Nate the Great and the Missing Key

 

1983

James Stevenson for Clams Can't Sing and Jane Yolen and Bruce Degan for Commander Toad in Space

 

1982

Mary Q. Steele and Marylin Hafner for Mrs.Gaddy and the Ghost

 

1981

Arnold Lobel for Grasshopper on the Road

 

1980

Peggy Parish and Lynn Sweat for Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia

 

1979

Dick Gackenbach for Hattie Rabbit and Leatie Weiss and Ellen Weiss for Heather's Feathers

 

1978

Arnold Lobel for Owl at Home

 

1977

Peggy Parish and Arnold Lobel for Dinosaur Time

 

 

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Easy to Read series

 

2012

Tedd Arnold for I Spy Fly Guy

 

2011

Tedd Arnold for Hooray for Fly Guy!

 

2010

Tedd Arnold for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy

 

2009

Cynthia Rylant (ilustrations by Sucie Stevenson) for Henry and Mudge and the Big Sleepover

 

2008

Cynthia Rylant (ilustrations by Sucie Stevenson) for Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas

 

2007

Paula Danziger (illustrations By Tony Ross) for Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown

 

2006

Cynthia Rylant for Henry and Mudge and the Tall Tree House

 

2005

Alyssa Capucilli and Pat Schories forBiscuit Goes to School

 

2004

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Mitchell Sharmat and Martha Weston for Nate the Great: San Francisco Detective

 

2003

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge and Annie's Perfect Pet

 

2002

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge and the Snowman Plan

 

2001

Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson for Henry and Mudge and the Sneaky Crackers

 

 

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Fiction, grades 2-5

 

2013

Lincoln Peirce for Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

 

2012 

Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

 

2011

Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

 

2010

Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid

 

2009

Dav Pilkey for Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People

 

2008

Andrew Clements (illustrations by Brian Selznick) for Lunch Money

 

2007

Andrew Clements (cover art by Brian Selznick) for The Last Holiday Concert

 

2006

Kate DiCamillo for The Tale of Despereaux

 

2005

Jerry Spinelli and Mark Elliot for Loser

 

2004

Dav Pilkey for Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman

 

2003

Megan McDonald and Peter Reynolds for Judy Moody

 

2002

Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

 

2001

Louis Sachar, jacket art by Vladimir Radunsky for Holes

 

2000

Dav Pilkey for Adventure of Captain Underpants

 

1999

Paula Danziger and Tony Ross for Forever Amber

 

1998

Louis Sachar for Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

 

1997

Paula Danziger and Tony Ross for Amber Brown is Not a Crayon

 

1996

Ellen Conford and Diane Palmisciano for Nibble, Nibble, Jerry Archer

 

1995

Lois Lowry and Diane DeGroat for Attaboy, Sam!

 

1994

Johanna Hurwitz and Sheila Hamanaka for School's Out

 

1993

Beverly Clearly and Kay Life for Muggie Maggie

 

1992

Louis Sachar and Joel Schick for Wayside School is Falling Down

 

1991

Betsy Byars, Cathy Bobak and Carol Newson for The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown and Johanna Hurwitz and Sheila Harnanaka for Teacher's Pet

 

1990

James Howe and Leslie Morrill for Nighty-Nightmare

 

1989

Lois Lowry for Anastasia Has the Answers

 

1988

Patricia MacLachlan and Marcia Sewall for Sarah Plain and Tall

 

1987

Lois Lowry for Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst

 

1986

Beverly Cleary and Paul Zelinsky for Dear Mr. Henshaw

 

1985

Beverly Cleary and Paul Zelinksy for Ralph S. Mouse

 

1984

Beverly Cleary and Alan Tiegreen for Ramona Quimby, Age 8

 

1983

Judy Blume for Superfudge

 

1982

Beverly Cleary and Alan Tiegreen for Ramona and Her Mother

 

1981

Katherine Paterson for The Great Gilly Hopkins

 

1980

Beverly Cleary and Alan Tiegreen for Ramona and Her Father

 

1979

Hila Colman for Nobody Has to Be a Kid Forever

 

1978

Marilyn Sachs and Anne Sachs for Dorrie's Book

 

1977

Donald Sobol and Leonard Shortall for Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand

 

 

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Fiction Series, grades 2-5

 

2013

Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth

 

Nonfiction, grades 2-5

 

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2013

Jeff Kinney for The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary

 

2012

Craig Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff and Juliana Hatkoff for Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learn to Swim Again

 

2011

Nic Bishop for Frogs 

 

2010

Craig Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff, Dr. Paula Kahumba, and Peter Greste for Owen and Mzee: The Language of Friendship

 

2009

Joanna Cole (illustrations by Bruce Degen) for The Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition  

 

2008

Shel Silerstein for Runny Babbit: A Billy Book

 

2007

Steve Jenkins for Actual Size

 

2006

Steve Jenkins and Robin Page for What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

 

2005

Christopher Sloan for Bury the Dead: Tombs, Corpses, Mummies, Skeletons and Rituals

 

2004

Barbara Kerley and Brian Selznick for The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

 

2003

Judith St. George and David Small for So You Want To Be President?

 

2002

Gail Gibbons for Behold...The Dragons!

 

2001

Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt for Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (And What the Neighbors Thought)

 

2000

David Adler and Terry Widener for Lou Gehring: the Luckiest Man

 

1999

Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen for The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive

 

1998

Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen for The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane

 

1997

Margery Facklam and Paul Facklam for The Big Bug Book

 

1996

Aliki for My Visit to the Aquarium

 

1995

Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen for The Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor

 

1994

Seymour Simon for Big Cats

 

1993

Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen for The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

 

1992

Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen for The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body

 

1991

Seymour Simon for Volcanoes

 

1990

Francine Patterson and Ronald Cohn for Koko's Story

 

1989

Sally Ride for To Space and Back

 

1988

Mary J. Shapiro and Huck Scarry for How They Built the Statue of Liberty

 

1987

Jack Prelutsky and James Stevenson for The New Kid on the Block: Poems

 

1986

Lee J. Ames for Draw 50 Monsters, Creeps, Superheroes, Demons, Dragons, Nerds...

 

1985

Shelly Lipson and Janice Stapleton for It's Basic: The ABC's of Computer Programming

 

1984

Shel Silvertstein for A Light in the Attic

 

1983

Marybeth Sullivan and Linda Bourke for A Show of Hands: Say it in Sign Language

 

1982

Aliki for Mummies Made in Egypt

 

1981

Millicent Selsam for Tyrannosaurus Rex

 

1980

Tomie DePaola for The Quicksand Book

 

1979

Jill Krementz for A Very Young Dancer

 

1978

Millicent Selsam and Esther Bubley for How Kittens Grow

 

1977

Marion T. Place for On the Trail of Bigfoot

 

 

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