Informational text dealing with an actual, real-life subject.
What is nonfiction?
100
This award is given each year for the most distinguished American children's picture book.
What is the Caldecott award?
100
This children's book award is for the writing, not the illustrations.
What is the Newbery?
100
A made up story that could actually happen and has "true to life" characters and settings.
What Realistic Fiction?
200
Writing that uses sounds, rhythm, rhyming words, and vivid words to create emotional responses or bring images to mind.
What is poetry?
200
Authors who create made-up stories from their imaginations are writing this genre.
What is fiction?
200
The Geisel award, for the best book for children who are beginning to read independently, is named after this famous author.
Who is Dr. Seuss or Theodore Geisel?
200
This award is named after a famous civil rights leader and honors the work of African-American authors and illustrators.
What is the Coretta Scott King award?
200
A book published in this country is not eligible to win a Newbery Honor or Medal.
What is any country outside the United States?
300
Fiction with strange or other worldly settings, magic, imaginary creatures or characters, or talking animals. The Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Warriors, and Narnia series are examples of this genre.
What is fantasy?
300
Fiction based on impact of actual, imagined, or potential technology, usually set in the future or on other planets.
What is Science Fiction?
300
The Pura Belpre award honors authors and illustrators from this ethnic/language group.
What is Latino/Latina or Hispanic?
300
This children's book award includes one medal and one or more honors.
What is the Caldecott (or Coretta Scott King, or Geisel, or Newbery) award?
300
A story demonstrating a useful truth, especially in which animals speak as humans, usually ending with a moral.
What is a fable?
400
In this nonfiction genre, the author is also the subject of the book.
What is autobiography?
400
An informational book written about the life of a real person, living or dead.
What is a biography?
400
This basketball-themed novel by Kwame Alexander is written in verse and won both the Newbery Medal and a Coretta Scott King award in 2015.
What is The Crossover?
400
This graphic novel by Cece Bell won a 205 Newbery Honor and a Cybils award.
What is El Deafo?
400
The 2015 Caldecott medal and honors were awarded to picture books published in this country and this year.
What are U.S.A. and 2014?
500
This genre tells the story about a main character, like Paul Bunyan or Pecos Bill, who is described to be extraordinary compared to people in real life. Some of these stories are based on real events but are highly exaggerated.
What are Tall Tales?
500
The songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a group of people as handed down by word of mouth.
What are folktales, folklore, or traditional literature?
500
The Great Lakes Book and Cybils awards winners are NOT selected by a group of these.
What are librarians or the American Library Association?
500
This novel in verse by Jacqueline Brown won both a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Author Award
What is Brown Girl Dreaming?
500
The author who was awarded Newbery medals for Number the Stars and The Giver.