Each January, the Theodore Seuss Geisel award is given to the author and illustrator of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers. This year we held a First Grade Mock Geisel, and on January 29 the students shared their top five picks with a group of first graders from Coppell, Texas.
In preparation for the mock Geisel, first graders read a copious number of books and then chose 25 that they considered the most 'distinguished'. Their top five choices were (in no particular order): Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith, Just Like Bossy Bear by David Horvath, Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Scott Magoon, Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty, and Watch Me Throw the Ball by Mo Willems.
When the classes shared their top picks and which parts of the books were their favorite, they discovered that they had voted for many of the same books. Both sets of first graders seemed fascinated with each other and the Texans had many questions about how much snow falls in Brooklyn. As the Skype session came to a close, the children thanked each other and hoped that they could talk to each other again.
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