Suggestions
We would love to hear from you! If you have suggestions of Fiction and Non-Fiction books to appeal to the K-3 age range and meet our criteria, please share! Suggestions must be submitted by June 1 for the next year's nominees (selected by August).
CRITERIA
Nominated titles must be published within the last 2 years and preferably the book has not already won a national award at the time it is announced for COCBA nominating year. The rationale is to highlight authors and illustrators of high quality works. Typically, once an author has been recognized as a nominee, the committee reserves the right to not select another book by the author. Our hope is for participating schools to look for new works each year by the authors and illustrators who have been recognized as nominees. Our goal is that through participation in the COCBA program, students, librarians, and teachers are building their repertoire of authors and illustrators.
Fiction nominated titles must be in a picture book format, possess a read aloud quality, strong literary value, and offer an interest and appeal to children in kindergarten through grade three.
Nonfiction nominated titles should connect to content area curriculum and include back matter for further investigation.
Nominated titles should be a nominated title for another state's consideration in order to foster conversations about books with students beyond the state of CT (optional requirement).