Check out these great primary grade books nominated for the NYSRA Charlotte Award. NY students in any grade can vote in this category–often older kids read these books as well as books in their own category–so we recommend these books for all readers!
Primary (Grades preK-2)
Bubble Trouble (Mahy and Dunbar)
City Dog, Country Frog (Willems and Muth)
*Our interview with Mo Willems.
Clever Jack Takes the Cake (Fleming and Karas)
*Our interview with Candace Fleming.
Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes (Palatini and Moser)
*Our interview with Margie Palatini.
Memoirs of a Goldfish (Scillian and Bowers)
*Our interview with Devin Scillian.
*Our interview with Tim Bowers.
Stars Above Us (Norman and Lewis)
*Our interview with E.B. Lewis.
That Cat Can’t Stay (Krasnesky and Parkins)
*Our interview with illustrator David Parkins.
Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! (Sayre and Patterson)
*Our interview with April Pulley Sayre.
*Our interview with Annie Patterson.
We Planted a Tree (Muldrow and Staake)
* Our interviews with Bob Staake and Diane Muldrow
