The Star of the North is a picture book award that
Minnesota students K-2nd grade 
get to vote for. It was established in 2013
and is much like the Maud Hart Lovelace Award 
for 3rd - 6th grade. 


This years nominees are~

• Begin With a Bee by Liza Ketchum, Jacqueline Briggs Martin & Phyllis Root

• The Box Turtle by Vanessa Roeder
• The Electric Slide and Kai by Kelly J. Baptist
• Federico and the Wolf by Rebecca J. Gomez
• Jayden's Impossible Garden by Mélina Mangal
• Josie Dances by Denise Lajimodiere
• Laxmi's Mooch by Shelly Anand
• Old Truck by Jarrett Pumphrey
• The Paper Kingdom by Helen Ku Rhee
• What Color is My Hijab by Hudda Ibrahim