Another Sommer-Time Story Awards
All 20 Picture Books & Read-Alongs Have Won These Prestigious Awards*


Teachers’ Choice AwardsSM

The Teachers' Choice Award is an annually event for products around the world held by Learning® Magazine.  The products are evaluated on quality, instructional value, ease of use and innovation.
   Teachers' Choice is the only awards program that is judged by teachers in the classroom.  They stated that "eighty teams of teachers from across the United States evaluated over 400 different products."  Teachers and students have selected this series, which they claim is the "most important awards program for educational products."

Mom’s Choice Award

 The Mom’s Choice Award is given to those books whose content and design are stellar and notable. The award is to help parents and teachers to choose appropriate materials with positive messages for their children.

Benjamin Franklin Award

The Benjamin Franklin Award is a yearly event for Publishers Manufacturing Association.  Over 3,500 independent publishers belong to this organization.  Their judges come from various relevant disciplines and are considered experts in their fields.

ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year

ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award aim is to "to bring increased attention from librarians and booksellers to the literary achievements of independent publishers and their authors. A jury of librarians, booksellers and reviewers are selected to judge the categories for entry, and they select winners and finalists based on editorial excellence and professional production as well as the originality of the narrative and the value the book adds to its genre."

The Communicator Award 

The Communicator Award is an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding work in the communication field. The communicator’s prestigious Crystal Award of Excellence is presented to those entrants whose ability to communicate makes them the best in their field. Only 13 percent of the entries won this award.

The books and read alongs have won the Crystal Award of Excellence in three fields: Writing/Creative Concept, Production/Editing, and Audio Production/Education.  

Family Review Center Gold Award

Family Review Center purpose, focus, and goal is to provide a place for parents to find products they could trust for their children, their home, and their role as parent. Their aim is to give an unsolicited and unbiased view of products.   

 iParenting Media Award

iParenting Media’s Award Program provides a credible and objective method of determining the best products in the children’s media and juvenile products industry, and recognizes those products with their awards.

Family Choice Award

The Family Choice Awards is one of the most family-friendly business and service consumer-award programs. The Family Choice Awards recognize the best in children’s and parenting resources.

*Many of these comments are taken from the award granting organizations.


Individual Book Awards

It's Not Fair!—Children's Choice Award

Children's Choice award sponsored by International Reading Association and The children's Book Council where 10,000 children from different regions of the United States read and vote on their favorite recently published books. They choose It's Not Fair!

Mayor for a DayToday’s Librarian “Best Children’s Picture Book”

 “This title merits recognition as an outstanding publication that belongs in every public library.”
   
Keri Davies, Publisher, Kimberly Hundley, Editor, Today’s Librarian

The Ugly Caterpillar—Benjamin Franklin Award

 The Benjamin Franklin Award is a yearly event for Publishers Manufacturing Association.  Over 3,500 independent publishers belong to this organization.  Their judges come from various relevant disciplines and are considered experts in their fields. The Ugly Caterpillar won first place in the Children's Picture Book division.

The Ugly CaterpillarChildren's Music Web Award for
 Best Spoken Word Recording for Younger Children

  Endorsements