Virginia Readers Choice Award - Primary

Awards List

2016

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
(Nominee)
Duncan Tonatiuh

Lion Vs Rabbit
(Nominee)
Alex Latimer

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
(Nominee)
Peter Brown

Eat Like a Bear
(Nominee)
April Pulley Sayre

The Invisible Boy
(Nominee)
Trudy Ludwig

The Snatchabook
(Nominee)
Helen Docherty

Hi, Koo!
(Nominee)
Jon J. Muth

Sparky!
(Nominee)
Jenny Offill

The Most Magnificent Thing
(Nominee)
Ashley Spires

2015

Again!
(Winner)
Emily Gravett

Good News, Bad News
(Nominee)
Jeff Mack

Oh, No!
(Nominee)
Candace Fleming

Each Kindness
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

This Moose Belongs to Me
(Nominee)
Oliver Jeffers

Lucky Ducklings
(Nominee)
Eva Moore

Brief Thief
(Nominee)
Michael Escoffier

That Is Not a Good Idea!
(Nominee)
Mo Willems

Crankee Doodle
(Nominee)
Tom Angleberger

2014

The Gingerbread Man: Loose in the School
(Winner)
Laura Murray

Tiny Little Fly
(Nominee)
Michael J. Rosen

These Hands
(Nominee)
Margaret H. Mason

Pumpkin Trouble
(Nominee)
Jan Thomas

Over and Under the Snow
(Nominee)
Kate Messner

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
(Nominee)
Joyce Sidman

Stuck
(Nominee)
Oliver Jeffers

Extra Yarn
(Nominee)
Mac Barnett

Oh No, George!
(Nominee)
Chris Haughton

2013

I Need My Monster
(Winner)
Amanda Noll

Dinosaur vs. Bedtime
(Nominee)
Bob Shea

City Dog, Country Frog
(Nominee)
Mo Willems

Immi's Gift
(Nominee)
Karin Littlewood

Underground
(Nominee)
Shane W. Evans

Blue Chameleon
(Nominee)
Emily Gravett

Say Hello to Zorro!
(Nominee)
Carter Goodrich

I Want My Hat Back
(Nominee)
Jon Klassen

2012

We Are in a Book!
(Winner)
Mo Willems

The Odd Egg
(Nominee)
Emily Gravett

Harry and Horsie
(Nominee)
Katie Van Camp

Otis
(Nominee)
Loren Long

Testing the Ice
(Nominee)
Sharon Robinson

How Rocket Learned to Read
(Nominee)
Tad Hills

2011

Chester
(Winner)
Melanie Watt

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
(Nominee)
Karen Beaumont

I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean
(Nominee)
Kevin Sherry

Katie Loves the Kittens
(Nominee)
John Himmelman

Too Many Toys
(Nominee)
David Shannon

Rhyming Dust Bunnies
(Nominee)
Jan Thomas

Duck! Rabbit!
(Nominee)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Hansel and Gretel
(Nominee)
Rachel Isadora

Two Friends, Three Stories
(Nominee)
Laura Vaccaro Seeger

2010

Library Mouse
(Winner)
Daniel Kirk

Once Upon a Banana
(Nominee)
Jennifer Armstrong

Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
(Nominee)
Janice N. Harrington

Fred Stays with Me!
(Nominee)
Nancy Coffelt

Little Red Riding Hood
(Nominee)
Jerry Pinkney

Meerkat Mail
(Nominee)
Emily Gravett

Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
(Nominee)
Alan Madison

Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp
(Nominee)
Denise Fleming

Old Bear
(Nominee)
Kevin Henkes

2009

Once I Ate a Pie
(Winner)
Patricia MacLachlan

The Great Fuzz Frenzy
(Nominee)
Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track
(Nominee)
Joshua Prince

Library Lion
(Nominee)
Michelle Knudsen

Bad Boys Get Cookie!
(Nominee)
Margie Palatini

Wolves
(Nominee)
Emily Gravett

Duck at the Door
(Nominee)
Jackie Urbanovic

2008

He Came with the Couch
(Winner)
David Slonim

The Dog Who Cried Wolf
(Nominee)
Keiko Kasza

Once Upon a Time, the End
(Nominee)
Geoffrey Kloske

Duck and Goose
(Nominee)
Tad Hills

Russell and the Lost Treasure
(Nominee)
Rob Scotton

2007

Ish
(Nominee)
Peter H. Reynolds

Manana, Iguana
(Nominee)
Ann Whitford Paul

2006

The Monster Who Ate My Peas
(Winner)
Danny Schnitzlein

Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie
(Nominee)
Gloria Whelan

How Groundhog's Garden Grew
(Nominee)
Lynne Cherry

2005

Epossumondas
(Winner)
Coleen Salley

Don't Need Friends
(Nominee)
Carolyn Crimi

Mice and Beans
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

The Water Hole
(Nominee)
Graeme Base

2004

Recess Queen
(Winner)
Alexis O'Neill

2002

Hooway for Wodney Wat
(Winner)
Helen Lester

2001

Silver Packages
(Nominee)
Cynthia Rylant

A Bad Case of Stripes
(Nominee)
David Shannon

Dream Weaver
(Nominee)
Jonathan London

Barefoot
(Nominee)
Pamela Duncan Edwards

1999

My Little Sister Ate One Hare
(Winner)
Bill Grossman

1996

Dogzilla
(Winner)
Dav Pilkey

1995

The Rough-Face Girl
(Winner)
Rafe Martin

1993

The Talking Eggs
(Winner)
Robert D. San Souci

1991

Two Bad Ants
(Winner)
Chris Van Allsburg

1989

Heckedy Peg
(Winner)
Audrey Wood

1988

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
(Winner)
Alvin Schwartz

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