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Now Presenting!. Black-Eyed Susan Nominees for 2012 - 2013. How do you choose your favorite toy? . How do we choose Black-Eyed Susan books?. Here is the criteria to determine a nominated book: Books may be fiction or nonfiction.

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  1. Now Presenting! Black-Eyed Susan Nominees for 2012 - 2013

  2. How do you choose your favorite toy?

  3. How do we choose Black-Eyed Susan books? • Here is the criteria to determine a nominated book: • Books may be fiction or nonfiction. • Books must can be from the current year or one of the three years before the current year. • Each title selected will have received positive reviews from appropriate professional journals. • Books must have been read, discussed, and voted upon by the appropriate Black-Eyed Susan reading committee.

  4. What are the Black-Eyed Susan books?

  5. What are the Black-Eyed Susan books? • A list of nominated books is presented for you, the students, to select your favorite. So this is a children’s choice award. No adult votes.

  6. WHO?

  7. WHO? • All children, K-12, in the state of Maryland are eligible to read and vote on their favorite book. You need to read at least (three, or whatever your school uses!) books from the list before you can vote.

  8. WHEN?

  9. WHEN? • Starting now and lasting until the vote is recorded, tallied, and mailed in April 2012.

  10. WHERE?

  11. WHERE? • Books are available here in the media center or from your favorite public library branch. • Check out the special display in the fiction section……

  12. WHY?

  13. WHY? • You have the opportunity to reward an author for a job well done.

  14. Choose your favorite Black Eyed Susan Book to evaluate! • Click on the Black Eyed Susan to link to the evaluation sheet!

  15. Max’s Castle by Kate Banks When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.

  16. Hampire! by SudiptaBardhan-Quallen Duck cannot sleep because he is hungry, but while he is preparing a snack the Hampire, who roams the barnyard at night sinking his fangs into food, is creeping near.

  17. Cat Secrets by JefCzekaj Important secrets about how best to live a cat's life will be revealed only to those who can prove that they are genuine cats.

  18. The Princess and the Pig by Jonathan Emmett When a new baby princess accidentally changes places with a piglet, both of their lives are forever changed. (

  19. Perfect Square by Michael Hall A perfect square that is perfectly happy is torn into pieces, punched with holes, crumpled, and otherwise changed but finds in each transformation that it can be something new, and just as happy.

  20. Tsunami! by KimikoKajikawaA wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.

  21. Argus by Michelle Knudsen Sally gets a strange egg when her teacher hands them out for a science project, and when it hatches into a green, scaly creature with yellow eyes, while all the other kids have fuzzy little chicks, Sally begins to wonder if she would be better off without him.

  22. Tornado Slim and the Magic Cowboy Hat by Bryan Langdo The coyote asks a cowboy named Tornado Slim to deliver a letter to the sheriff of Fire Gulch City, and as Slim embarks on his journey, wearing the special hat given to him by the coyote, disaster strikes.

  23. The Chiru of High Tibet: A True Story by Jacqueline Briggs Martin Conservationist George Schaller describes his experiences trekking through the mountains to find and secure the protection of the birthing place of the chiru, an animal native to China and Tibet that is at risk from poachers who want its soft wool.

  24. Me…Jane by Patrick McDonnell Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals.

  25. Detective Little Boy Blue by Steve Metzger Little Boy Blue grows up to be a top-notch detective and his latest case has him searching for Miss Muffet with the help of their nursery rhyme friends.

  26. Mama Miti: WangariMaathai and the Trees of Kenya by Donna Jo Napoli WangariMaathai, known as Mama Miti, mother of trees, shares her wisdom with other women by advising them to plant trees native to Kenya to solve their many problems.

  27. Blackout by John Rocco Neighbors gather on the roof after the power goes out on a hot night in the city and start having so much fun not everyone is happy when the lights go back on.

  28. Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet Tells the story of puppeteer Tony Sarg, the man who first invented the helium balloons that have become the trademark of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

  29. The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos A cumulative tale of a farm maiden who, aided by a group of animals, prepares "Arroz con Leche," or rice pudding. Includes recipe and glossary of the Spanish words that are woven throughout the text.

  30. Think about three elements to evaluate your books:- Book Cover- Illustrations - Story

  31. READ AND VOTE !! • Keep track of the books you have read on your own list and use a rating scale of some kind to remember your favorite.

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