My Favorite Sounds from A to Z and Colorful World were both published by Maren Green Publishing in Minnesota. The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards were established to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and lifelong reading. “Creating books that inspire our children to read, to learn, and to dream is an extremely important task,” says a Moonbeam spokesperson. “These awards were conceived to reward those efforts.”
Silver Medal winner My Favorite Sounds from A to Z was written by Peggy Snow and illustrated by Brian Barber. Rhyming poems and colorful pictures teach the alphabet from A (acorns cracking under bicycle wheels) to Z (zippers zipping on tents during family camping trips). The book encourages children and adults to take time to listen and be more in tune with their environment. Snow has written a second alphabet book, My Favorite Places from A to Z, also published by Maren Green.
Gold Medal winner Colorful World was inspired by a song by Grammy-winning artist CeCe Winans. Illustrator Melodee Strong created lively, multi-hued pictures to accompany lyrics like “We have millions of children with possibilities, from the streets of Nairobi to the hills of Tennessee.” The book includes a CD of Winans singing the song. This is the second award for Colorful World, which recently won a 2009 Teachers’ Choice for Children’s Books Award. Children’s Literature praised it as “a book that sings to children from all different backgrounds.”
Both award-winning books are available from the publisher, bookstores, and distributors nationwide.
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