2013 E. B. White Read-Aloud Award Finalists

Opinion:  Every child should experience E.B. White's Charlotte's Web as a read-aloud. (I could argue that this is a fact.)  

Fact: I've been impatiently waiting for the American Booksellers Association to release the 2013 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award finalists. 

Fact: The E.B. White Read-Aloud Award is my favorite book award after the Caldecott and Newbery. 

Fact: The E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards finalists were released last week. 

Fact: Past winners include Jon Klassen, Tom Angleberger, Kate Messner, and Peter Brown. 

Fact: The winners will be announced on April 18. 

Fact: We should read aloud to our students every day. 

• The False Prince, by Jennifer A. Neilsen (Scholastic)

• The Last Dragonslayer: The Chronicles of Kazam, Book I, by Jasper Fforde (Harcourt Children’s Books)

• The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.) (HarperCollins)

• Same Sun Here, by Silas House and Neela Vaswani (Candlewick)

• Three Times Lucky, by Sheila Turnage (Dial Books for Young Readers)

• Wonder, by R.J. Palacio (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

Creepy Carrots!, by Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Bear Has a Story to Tell, by Philip C. Stead, Erin Stead (Illus.) (Roaring Brook Press)

Extra Yarn, by Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)

Oh, No!, by Candace Fleming, Eric Rohmann (Illus.)  (Schwartz & Wade)

Too Tall Houses, by Gianna Marino (Viking Juvenile)

Z Is for Moose, by Kelly Bingham, Paul O. Zelinsky (Illus.) (Greenwillow Books)