(Theodore Seuss) Geisel Award Winners - Gary Strong Curriculum Center - College of Education, Health and Human Sciences

Geisel Award

The Geisel Award is named for famed childrens author Dr. Seuss. Established in 2006, the award is given by the American Library Association to the "author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year."

Geisel Winners at the Curriculum Center or Main Library

2021 - See the Cat: Three Stories about a Dog by David LaRochelle; Mike Wohnoutka (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC LaRochelle See
2020 - Stop! Bot! by James Yang (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Yang Stop
2018 - Charlie and Mouse by Laurel Snyder; Emily Hughes (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Snyder Charlie
2017 - We Are Growing! by Mo Willems (Illustrator); Laurie Keller (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Keller Growing
2015 - You Are (Not) Small by Anna Kang; Christopher Weyant (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Kang You
2014 - The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Pizzoli
2013 - Up, Tall and High! by Ethan Long (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Long
2012 - Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Schneider
2011 - Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo; Alison McGhee; Tony Fucile (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC DiCamillo
2010 - Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! by Geoffrey Hayes (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ7.H3784B46 2009
2009 - Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Williams
2008 - There Is a Bird on Your Head! by Mo Willems (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Williams

Geisel Honor Books at the Curriculum Center or Main Library

2017 - Good Night Owl by Greg Pizzoli (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Pizzoli Good
2017 - Oops, Pounce, Quick, Run! by Mike Twohy (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Twohy Oops
2017 - Go, Otto, Go! by David Milgrim (Illustrator)
Call Number: PBK JFIC Milgrim Go
2017 - The Infamous Ratsos by Kara LaReau; Matt Myers (Illustrator)
Call Number: FIC LaReau Infamous
2015 - Waiting Is Not Easy! (an Elephant and Piggie Book) by Mo Willems (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Willems Waiting
2011 - We Are in a Book! by Mo Willems (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Williams
2010 - I Spy Fly Guy! by Tedd Arnold (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Arnold
2010 - Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith (Artist)
Call Number: GSCC GN FIC Smith
2010 - Mouse and Mole, Fine Feathered Friends by Wong Herbert Yee (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ7.Y34M684 2009
2008 - First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC 571.8 SEE
2008 - Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre; Steve Jenkins (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ328.S388V85 2007
2006 - A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom
Call Number: GSCC JFIC Bloom