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.

2023 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards

The 19th annual Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards. Listed below are the award and honor books for each category.

2023 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award

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Mina, written and illustrated by Matthew Forsythe (Paula Wiseman Books). 2022

2023 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Honor Books

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I Can’t Draw, written by Stephen W. Martin and illustrated by Brian Biggs (Margaret K. McElderry Books). 2022

Acorn Was a Little Wild, written by Jen Arena and illustrated by Jessica Gibson ( Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers). 2022

2023 Comstock Read Aloud Book Award

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Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion, written by Shannon Stocker and illustrated by Devon Holzwarth (Dial Books). 2022

2023 Comstock Read Aloud Honor Book

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A History of Me written by Adrea Theodore and illustrated by Erin K. Robinson (Neal Porter Books). 2022

Hello, Opportunity: The Story of our Friend on Mars, written by Shaelyn McDaniel and illustrated by Cornelia Li (Page Street Publishing). 2022

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.