Dear Voting Readers,

Did you hear that the Caudill and Monarch book

books winners were announced this past Friday?

And I was there as they named the winners!!!

Pretty exciting, right?

You kids really had your favorite books and you

voted for the winners.  In fact, there were 36,000

votes cast for the Caudill winners, and 140,720

votes cast for the Monarch winners.

Now (drumroll, please) the first place winners: 

The MONARCH winner is a silly, colorful book

called Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas. 

Kids who enjoy reading picture books will delight in

this book.   For older readers, and a lot less

humorous is the CAUDILL winner, Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins. This book is full of suspense,

but beware of the sometimes disturbing story!

More books were honored as well, but these

are the two BIG winners.

Thanking you for voting,

Paige Turner!