Great Stone Face Award 2023-2024
Thank you in advance if you participated in the annual Great Stone Face Voting tradition for grades 4 through 6! The GSF winner will be announced towards the middle of May. Please stay tuned...
Below you will find a Google Doc containing images and brief descriptions of the 2023-2024 Great Stone Face Nominees. Just click on the Great Stone Face image below to view these. Please remember these titles are choice reads. These are not manditated reading selections.
Congratulations to the 2023 Great Stone Face Award Winner! Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter. This 2021 graphic novel publication received the greatest number of votes out of the 20 nominees! Congratulations, to both the author (Megan Wagner Lloyd) and the graphic artist (Michelle Mee Nutter).
Be sure to check it out at the McKelvie Intermediate School Library if you have not already read it! You can also read an eBook version or listen to Allergic using Sora! Many of the current GSF Nominees are available. Simply log into your Sora account to browse.
If you have already read Allergic, you may want to consider reading the 2023 collaboration by Lloyd and Nutter titled Squished. This is pictured below! It is avaible in print at the McKelvie Intermediate School Library or via Sora in eBook format.
The Great Stone Face Award is sponsored by the Children's Librarians of New Hampshire (CHILIS) and is given each year to an author whose book receives the most votes from fourth through sixth graders throughout the state. Each year a committee chooses 20 recently published titles, which children then use as a guide for voting. The vote takes place every April during National Library Week, and the winner is announced in May. The purpose of the award is to promote reading enjoyment/recreational reading, to increase awareness of contemporary writing, and to allow children to honor their favorite author. These titles are independent/choice reads. You and your child can select and discuss which, if any titles, you would like them to read.
The criteria to be selected as a nominee for this award is as follows:
Only titles published within 3 years of the current school year are eligible
Titles shall be appropriate for grades 4 to 6
An author may be a resident of any country
More than one title by the same author can be nominated
A title in a series must stand alone
Newbery Award and other award winners can be nominated for the list
Non-fiction titles (informational, biographical, & poetry) can be nominated
A title originally published outside of the United States can be nominated based on its US publication date
FUN FACT!
Please click HERE to find the lyrics to a song dedicated to the Great Stone Face aka the Old Man Of The Mountain.This HERE is the free song. Just click the play button! Grammy nominated Songwriter Rick Lang and friend Evan Richert recently collaborated to offer a musical tribute to celebrate the legacy of New Hampshire’s “Old Man Of The Mountain". This is what the New Hampshire Great Stone Face Award is named after. The story line of the song was inspired by the novel by author Nathaniel Hawthorne.