Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards Program

The Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards program supports two awards the Comstock Read Aloud Book Award and the Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award.

2024 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards

The 20th annual Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards. Listed below are the award and honor books for each category.

2024 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award

Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award Gold Seal

I am a Tornado, written and illustrated by Drew Beckmeyer (Atheneum). 2023

2024 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Honor Books

Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award Silver Seal

The Together Tree, written by Aisha Saeed and illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Salaam Reads). 2023

2024 Comstock Read Aloud Book Award

Comstock Read Aloud Book Award Gold Seal

That Flag, written by Tameka Fryer Brown and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith (Harper). 2023

2024 Comstock Read Aloud Honor Book

Comstock Read Aloud Book Award Silver Seal

Finding Papa, written by Angela Pham Krans and illustrated by Thi Bui (Harper). 2023

Remembering, written by Xelena Gonzalez and illustrated by Adriana M. Garcia (Simon & Schuster). 2023

Funding & Donations

The Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards program is partially funded by a grant from the Solomon G. Comstock Memorial Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Wanda Gág Book Award Fund of the Minnesota State University Moorhead Foundation, Moorhead, Minnesota. For more information regarding donations to either of these book awards, contact Louie Lauer. Donations are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.