The Red Clover Book Award is designed for children in kindergarten through fourth grade. Each year thousands of Vermont school children read the 10 nominated picture books and vote for their favorite in the spring. The award has been handed out annually since 1997.
2022-2023 Red Clover Award Books & Resources
Coming Soon!
Bearcat Booktalks
Get an introduction to this year's Red Clover Award nominees from some of our very own Bearcats!
Someone Builds the Dream
by Lisa Wheeler and Loren Long
A Song of Frutas
by Margarita Engle
The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field
by Scott Riley
Mel Fell
by Corey R. Tabor
I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story by Mark Pett
The Capybaras
by Alfredo Soderguit
Watercress
by Andrea Wang
The Midnight Fair
by Gideon Sterer
by Richard Ho
by Stacey Abrams
Miss this week's Red Clover book? Want to share it with somebody? Check out the videos below or stop in to the Bearcat Library to borrow it!
Nominee Read Alouds for 2022-2023
*read alouds for I Eat Poop: a Dung Beetle Story by Mark Pett and The Midnight Fair by Gideon Sterer coming soon
Someone Builds the Dream
by Lisa Wheeler and Loren Long
A Song of Frutas
by Margarita Engle
he Floating Field: how a group of Thai boys built their own soccer field
by Scott Riley
Mel Fell
by Corey R. Tabor
The Capybaras
by Alfredo Soderguit
Watercress
by Andrea Wang
The Lost Package
by Richard Ho
Stacey's Extraordinary Words
by Stacey Abrams
In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom lead him and his misfit friends on a perilous adventure.
Prior Red Clover Award Books & Resources
Try using the Pathfinder "Red Clover Award Books" in OPALS!