Books
| Georgia Book Awards The Georgia Book Award program is sponsored by the College of Education at the University of Georgia. The purpose of the program is to foster the love of reading in the children of Georgia, and to introduce them to books of literary excellence. For more information about the selection of books, previous winners or teaching resources, click here. |
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2024-2025 Georgia Chapter Book Award Nominees
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2023-2024 Georgia Chapter Book Award Nominees
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2023-2024
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2023-2024
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2022-2023
Georgia Book Award Winners
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Previous Georgia Book Award Nominees
Why Use Picture Books With Older Students?
- Picture books can be an important teaching tool for any age. They provide a highly visual way to engage students in reading and writing. They deal with almost any topic imaginable, so they can be used in any academic area. Use the links on the left to explore titles for each subject.
- Due to their brevity and brilliant illustrations, picture books are a literary form enjoyed by people of all ages.
- Concise language combined with lavish illustrations stimulates the imagination.
- Many themes or stories reflect the experiences, concerns and personal issues crucial to older grades.
- Some picture books are written for a more mature audience with sophisticated humor and story lines.
- Picture books can provide or engage background knowledge for many topics of study.
- Picture books can be used as a springboard for discussions.
- Picture books enhance motivation and learning in content subjects more effectively than text books.
- Picture books appeal to visual learners.
- Reading and response time using a picture book is possible in one class period.
- Picture books serve as good models for writing and can be used to study literary elements, story structure, and writing styles.
- Picture books contain proactive issues and moral dilemmas that stimulate critical thinking and discussion.
- Picture books can be used to study differences in genre, in a format accessible to all students.
- Picture books can be used to show ways in which illustrations communicate meaning
- By providing less text and illustrations that carry part of the meaning, picture books can provide scaffolding for special needs students.
- Picture books aid in vocabulary development.
- By providing less text and illustrations that carry part of the meaning, picture books can provide scaffolding for special needs students.
- Reading picture books aloud provides practice in public speaking with nonthreatening material.
- Reading picture books aloud to students provides practice in listening skills.
- Reading picture books aloud to students provides a model of fluent reading.
- Reading picture books aloud to students exhibits the teacher's enthusiasm for literature, which might assist reluctant readers.
- Picture books may cause students to reflect on values and can be used to highlight specific character traits.
- Illustrations in picture books can be used to study different art media and technique.