Selection Criteria

   
Rhode Island Children's Book Award Nominees are
selected according to the following criteria:

  1. Titles nominated should be appropriate for and appeal to children in grades 3-6.
  2. Fiction and nonfiction titles published between 2005-2006 were eligible for the 2008 list.
  3. Nominee titles must currently be in print.
  4. A title listed once may not be nominated again.
  5. Only one title per author may be nominated in a given year.
  6. Authors must be currently living in the United States at the time of nomination.
  7. The winning author will be excluded from the nomination the following year.
  8. All nominated books should have literary value.
  9. Editors of collected works by other authors will not be considered.


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