The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Readers’ Choice Award
Students across the state of Illinois read or hear five or more and vote for their favorite
Check out the 2021 nominees here!
2020 Award Winners
2019 Award Winners:
Previous Monarch Awards:
Creepy Carrots - Jasper loves carrots and picks a few every day, until he suddenly feels like they are creeping after him, and following him everywhere! Is it his imagination or could it be true?
Book Trailer Dear Primo -Carlitos and Charlie are in the same family, but they live worlds apart. One lives
in Mexico while the other lives in a big city in America. The cousins write to each
other back and forth about their lives. How different are they?
Video of Book Author website Frog and Fly -Frog likes to eat flies. In each story, he meets and interacts with a
fly before eating it. He even tricks a few of them. Then when it gets dark, he
thinks he is meeting another fly. Read to find out what happens next!
Video! Jimmy the Joey,The True Story of an Amazing Koala Rescue- is a nonfiction account of a joey that was rescued after falling from his
mother’s pouch and onto the side of the road. The joey was taken to a Koala hospital, and there
he was nursed back to health by a woman named Barb.
Koala photo album Nic Bishop Snakes- Nic Bishop takes the reader through every stage of a snake‟s life, with interesting, detailed facts about snakes, and incredible photographs of over twenty different snakes taken by Nic Bishop himself!
Author website Quiz yourself - a snake quiz! Prudence Wants a Pet - Prudence has one big wish. She wants a pet. Since her parents keep
saying no, she starts finding her own pets. First it is a branch. She names it Branch and takes it
for walks, but her dad keeps tripping on it, so it has to go. Then she finds Twig (which is a twig)
but he gets lost in the wash. What will be next? Will her parents finally see that Prudence is ready for a real pet?
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Each Kindness - When a new girl, Maya, is introduced to the class, Chloe sees she is poor. Because of how she looks, whenever Maya asked Chloe and her friends to play, they say no. What will Chloe learn about kindness and will it be in time?
Find out what the author says about the book Helen's Big World - This book tells the amazing story of Helen Keller’s life using text that young readers can
independently read, beautiful pictures, and real quotations from Helen Keller.
Online Museum of Helen Keller's Life Like Bug Juice on a Burger -
Eleanor goes to camp for the first time pretty excited because it was the same camp her mom went to and her mom loved it. But camp does not begin well. She trips, fails a swim test and hates the food! Will camp get better? or will Eleanor beg her parents to bring her home! Author Website Activities for Bug Juice on a Burger Take Me Out to the Yakyu- A boy goes to two baseball games:
one in America and one in Japan. See the American game on one page and the Japanese game on the next, learning how similar they are and the Japanese words that go with a baseball game!
Author website Japan vs. USA - 7th Inning Stretch |