The Geisel Award is given to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.

The award was announced today by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), during the ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition held January 24 - 28, in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA – Author and illustrator James Yang is the 2020 recipient of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for “Stop! Bot!” published by Viking, Penguin Young Readers. ALA Upcoming Annual Conferences & LibLearnX.Related Groups, Organizations, Affiliates & Chapters.Kids will get the clear message that libraries are great places to get comfy with books as well as to read them-and also that any library with room for a scooter-riding porker has room for you.Dealing with censorship challenges at your library or need to get prepared for them? Visit our Fight Censorship page for easy-to-access resources. The scooter-riding, beret-wearing Book Hog leads a life of enviable independence (kids will get a kick out of his happily hanging out on the john with book in hand), so his vulnerability helps put theirs in context it’s also a nice touch that the titles on all his books finally become legible when he can read.

The art bounces fluorescent pink off of glowing green, with black lines and a few paler or shaded takes on the basic colors for variety. While those who can read the jokes and references in the visually included titles and covers (some of them Pizzoli’s own) will get the most satisfaction, the text is a warm invitation to the wonders of the library. Best not to look too closely at the logic of the plot, since this is basically an old-school tribute to books and the book side of libraries. He immediately hauls his collection from home in for reading and becomes a diehard library patron, attending storytime after storytime and practicing hard until finally he masters reading all on his own. Happening on a library one day, he’s overwhelmed when kind Miss Olive, the elephant librarian, offers to read a book with him. The Book Hog is a perky pig who adores books (“He loved the way they smelled, and the way the pages felt in his hooves”) and collects them from all over-but he doesn’t actually know how to read.

The book hog by greg pizzoli