Great Stone Face Award 2022-2023

Your VOTING VOICE is needed! Click HERE for 2022-2023 Great Stone Face book ballot! If you have read two or more of the current nominees, you may VOTE!

Click to access The Great Stone Face brochure  containing images and brief descriptions of the 2022-2023 Great Stone Face Nominees. These titles are great choice reads for independent reading selections.  We have multiple copies in our school library collection, as does the Amherst Town Library ! Check them out! 

Voting for the 2022-2023 Nominees will occur in April 2023 with the winner announced in May. 

Happy reading!

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

Congratulations to the 2022 Great Stone Face Award Winner!