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Founded in 1980, the Beehive Book Awards are the only children's choice award for literature in the state of Utah. Here are some past winners!

By Jason Hook
New York: Sterling Children's Books, 2004.

Look inside this amazing picture book and feel the embossed pages. Can you see and touch the dragon? Can you find lots and lots of dragons? They're everywhere! That's because Mr. Jones is simply mad about the creatures. He carves them out of wood and he tells thrilling stories about them. But he's never seen a real dragon, so he and his grandson George have set sail in search of one. Come along and help, using your sharp sense of sight and sensitive fingers to navigate through the pictures. But remember: to discover a really, truly fire-breathing dragon, you have to hunt high and low and always, always believe hard enough. A story kids will joyously read over and over again.

By Melissa Sweet
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011.

Award-winning artist Sweet tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America -- the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

By Kate Messner
Illustrated by Ruth Greg
New York: Scholastic Press, 2017.

Told in rhyming text, a boy accompanies his grandfather on the Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom, a demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day that pays tribute to American veterans.

The Princess and the Pig
By Jonathan Emmett
Illustrated by Poly Bernatene
New York: Walker & Co., 2011.

When a new baby princess accidentally changes places with a piglet, both of their lives are forever changed.

Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
By Chris Barton
Illustrated by Don Tate
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2016.

Chronicles the life and achievements of the NASA engineer and inventor, from his childhood to his accidental invention of the Super Soaker water gun.




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