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Monarch Award

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Country
  
United States

Official website
  
ISLMA website

First awarded
  
2003

Awarded for
  
Reader's choice award for K-3rd Illinois students

Presented by
  
Illinois school library media association

The Monarch Award: Illinois' K-3 Readers' Choice Award was established in 2003 by the Illinois school library media association (ISLMA) to help Kindergarten through 3rd grade readers become familiar with books, illustrators and authors; encourage children to read critically; and to develop a statewide awareness of outstanding literature for children.

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The award name and image was chosen as a symbol of growth, change and freedom and to help familiarize students with the state's insect.

Award Process

The award is given annually (beginning in 2005) to a single author and/or illustrator by a collective vote of Kindergarten through 3rd grade students in Illinois. The award is administered by a steering committee that seeks nominations from public librarians, school library media specialist, teachers, and students. A volunteer reading committee then forms a master list of 20 of the nominated titles which include a range of interests and reading levels as well as 3 of each of the following types of children's books:

  • Picture books
  • Easy readers
  • Chapter books

    • Students vote in February of each year for their favorite from the master list and the results are announced the following month.

    Criteria for nomination

  • Nominator must have read the book
  • Book copyrighted within the past 5 years
  • Be in print at the time of selection
  • Author and/or illustrator must be living at the time of selection of mater list
  • Book must be of interest and appeal to children in grades kindergarten through 3rd grade
  • Must have literary merit
  • May be fiction or nonfiction
  • No title or series may be on two consecutive master lists
  • If a title in a series has been awarded, other books in that series are ineligible for 5 years
  • Book must not be a textbook, anthology, translation, toy, puzzle, pop-up or formula fiction

    • Recipients

    Yellow background distinguishes winners from those runners-up that are listed.

    References

    Monarch Award Wikipedia
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