Fox is Late by Corey R Tabor wins Mock Geisel gold this year!
Our honor books are:
Fox + Chick: The Party + Other Stories by Sergio Ruzzier
A Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes
See Zip Zap by David Milgrim
Tiger Vs. Nightmare by Emily TetriIt was an interesting year in Mock Geisel results. As you can see from this screenshot, if we were the Real Committee, we would have had to do at least one more ballot to determine our winner -- although Fox is Late had the highest number of first-place votes as well as the highest total points, there was not enough of a margin between it and Fox + Chick to satisfy the official rules. However, the results are certainly decisive enough for the purposes of this blog!
We had several different options for selecting honor books. We could have given an honor only to Fox + Chick, but would that have done justice to the many other distinguished titles on our ballot? In the end, we decided that four honors recognized the broad spectrum of books for beginning readers.
Congratulations to the talented author/illustrators represented above! Will any of them go on to be recognized by the 2019 Geisel Committee? We'll know in a few days -- the ALA Youth Media Awards announcement begins at 8:00 A.M. (Pacific Time) on Monday, January 28th. Check back here after the awards announcement for our reactions to the news!
My students really loved Fox is Late. I wish I'd put Fox & Chick in our mock, but it was busy for another committee I was finding readers for. I may have mentioned before that Tiger VS Nightmare was an honor for our Mock Caldecott, but most of my Geisel readers struggled with it. BTW, Baby Monkey would have stolen all the votes. I won our Mock Caldecott by almost double the points.
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