Parenting Shelves
Visit our "Parenting Shelves" for books and magazines on babies, teens and every age between. Ask at the desk and we'll point it out to you.
Kate DiCamillo's PSA
On the Importance of Reading Aloud to Children
Award Winning Books
Red Clover
The Red Clover Award promotes the reading and discussion of the best of contemporary picture books in nearly all of Vermont's elementary schools. Each year over 25,000 K-4 students read, or have read to them, the ten nominated books.
Newberry Award
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Caldecott Award
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Dorothy Canfield Children's Book Award, first given in 1957, is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries. These books, to be read during the school year, comprise the master list for the award to be made each spring.