The ALSC/Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Committee is asking the ALSC membership to submit book titles for consideration. The Geisel Award is presented annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English during the preceding year. Honor Books may be named.
Beginning reader books are defined as those written and illustrated with creativity and imagination to engage children pre-K through grade 2 in reading. Authors must be U.S. citizens or residents. For the complete terms and criteria, please refer to the ALSC website.
The 2018 Geisel Committee calls on ALSC personal members to submit titles for consideration. Please remember: Only books from the 2017 publishing year are under consideration for the award. Also, please note that publishers, authors, illustrators, or editors may not nominate their own titles.
Please go to http://www.ala.org/alsc/2018-geisel-suggestion-form and login to post your suggestion, or send suggestions to Chair Sandra Imdieke at simdieke@nmu.edu no later than 1/26/18.
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Sandra J. Imdieke is the Professor of Children’s Literature at Northern Michigan University and the Chair of the 2018 Theodore Seuss Geisel Award committee.