South Carolina


Children's & Picture Book


Award Nominees

2007-2008 Children's Book Award Nominees 2007-2008 Picture Book Award Nominees
Title Author Title Author
Abby Takes a Stand McKissack About Arachnids Still
Ballpark:  The story of America's Baseball Field Curlee Actual Size Jenkins
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan Williams Apples to Oregon Hopkinson
Defiance Hobbs Bad Kitty Bruel
Each Little Bird that Sings Wiles The Bumblebee Queen Pulley-Shore
Escape from Saigon:  How a Vietnam War Orphan became an American Boy Warren Carolina's Story:  Sea Turtles Get Sick, Too Rathmell
Escape to West Berlin Dahlberg Coming on Home Soon Woodson
The Greatest Skating Race:  A World War II Story from the Netherlands Borden The Dog Who Cried Wolf Kasza
Hidden Child Millman Elephants Can Paint, Too Arnold
A House of Tailors Giff Hachiko:  The True Story of a Loyal Dog Turner
Lowji Discovers America Fleming If You Decide to go to the Moon McNulty
The Missing Manatee DeFelice Leaf Man Ehlert
The Old Willis Place:  A Ghost Story Hahn Leonardo the Terrible Monster Williams
Only Emma Warner Llama Llama Red Pajama Dewdney
The Penderwicks:  A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy Birdsall My Big Brother Cohen
Rosa Giovanni My Teacher for President Winters
Show Way Woodson Not Norman: A Golgfish Story Bennett
Stumptown Kid Gorman Papa, Do You Love Me? Joosse
Tackling Dad Levy Precious and the Boo Hag McKissack
When Ratboy Lived Next Door Woodworth Reaching for the Moon Aldrin
    Sequoyah:  The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing Rumford
    Sweet Tooth Palatini
    Too Many Frogs! Asher
    Turtle Tide:  The Ways of Sea Turtles Swinburne
    When Charlie McButton Lost Power Collins