2005 Mitten Award Winner!
by kidlit
The Michigan Library Association's Children's Services Division has announced the winner of the 2005 Mitten Award.
The Award goes to I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont. It is illustrated by David Catrow.
This rollicking, colorful picture book is about an irrepressible young boy who loves to paint. After he paints a wall, his mother hides the paints. But he finds them and proceeds to use his entire body as a canvas.
The 2005 Mitten Honor Books are Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff and The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L.Going.
Past winners of the Mitten Award are:
1999 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
2000 Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate
DiCamillo
2001 Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
2002 When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
2003 Old Cricket by Lisa Wheeler
2004 Ida B:--And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan.
Have you read them all?
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