The First Annual SEUSS! Awards: A Retrospective

With todays announcement of The Day the Crayons Quit as winner of the First Annual SEUSS Awards Choice Picture Book, we find ourselves at the end of one of the most exciting weeks in Scarletta history. A little chunk of that history hasn't been shared with you lovely people yet, and so I've asked the wonderful queen of all things Scarletta (Desiree) to share the details:

SEUSS Awards: SEUSS Choice Award

Hooray! The Day the Crayons Quit is the winner of the First Annual SEUSS Awards Choice Picture Book! Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers are quite the team!

Want to share your appreciation for their work? Reach out to Drew and Oliver on Twitter @drewdaywalt & @oliverjeffers

Thanks for your participation and votes! We can't wait for the 2014 Picture Books to be every bit as wonderful as the past year's!

SEUSS AWARDS: Best Story Content

Congratulations to The Snatchabook! Helen and Thomas Docherty are the winners of the First Annual SEUSS Award for Best Story Content.

Interested in keeping up with the authors or congratulating them for their work? Reach out to them on Twitter @docherty_helen. 

Stop back tomorrow when we reveal the winner of the overall victor: the SEUSS Choice Award! 

SEUSS Awards: Best Illustration

Congratulations! Journey is the winner of Best Illustration in the First Annual SEUSS Awards!

Want to congratulate Aaron Becker? You can do so by following him on Twitter and letting him know you love his work! @storybreathing

Check back tomorrow morning to see who takes the cake for Best Story Content!

SEUSS Awards: Best Read Aloud

Congratulations and a big round of applause! Tea Rex is the winner of Best Read Aloud in the First Annual SEUSS Awards! 

Want to congratulate the author? Tell her how wonderful it is on twitter @MollyIdle

Stop back in tomorrow to see who gets the Best Illustrated award!

Thanks again for all your votes!

            

                    

                                                      

SEUSS Awards: Best Character

Congratulations! Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great is the winner of Best Character in the First Annual SEUSS Awards! 

Want to congratulate the author? Tell him how great his book is on Twitter @bobshea

Check back tomorrow morning to see who takes the cake for Best Read Aloud! 

Thanks for all your votes!

The First Annual SEUSS Awards! (that aren't affiliated with Dr. Seuss or his books even a little bit)

Hello and welcome to the inaugural SEUSS awards!

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You may be asking yourself what the heck a SEUSS award is and how it pertains to Scarletta. Well, you're in for a treat, dear reader, because we've plenty to tell you about our brand new award. And, believe me, there's nothing we love more--especially this time of year--than a good award. Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, ha! These pale in comparison to the most distinguished honor an author/illustrator and his/her book can receive: the SEUSS! award (that is in no way affiliated or acknowledged by Dr. Seuss, his books, or his publishers).

The SEUSS! award--that's "Scarletta's Exciting and Unbelievably Spectacular Story!" Award--is a brand new honor that will be decided from YOUR VOTES on the fantastic children's picture books that the Scarletta staff has nominated this year. We've compiled our favorites from 2013 in five distinguished categories for our adoring followers, likers, and readers to choose from. The winners will be announced March 3-7 in support of Read Across America Day on March 2nd!

We hope you love our choices just as much as we do.

And while we know you would just vote for Scarletta favorites Monster Needs a Costume or A Day at the Lake, we deliberately chose to exclude our own books from the running. It just simply wouldn't be fair to the rest of 'em!

*Ahem* And the nominees are...