2012 Ladybug Nominees

The Ladybug Picture Book Award committee has chosen the nominees for the 2012 Ladybug Picture Book Award. New Hampshire children, from preschool to third grade, will select the winning picture book when they vote in November 2012.

Full catalog records for all of the nominated titles are available in the NHU-PAC. Voting materials will be posted on the Ladybug web page in August. If you want to get ahead of the crowd you can go ahead and order your Ladybug Stickers anytime.

And the 2012 nominees are:

• Blackout by John Rocco (Hyperion, 2011)   
• Calvin Can't Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie by Jennifer Berne & Keith Bendis (Sterling, 2010)
• Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld (Henry Holt, 2011)
• Me Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown, 2011)
• Neville by Norton Juster & G. Brian Karas    (Schwartz & Wade, 2011)  
• Perfect Square by Michael Hall (Greenwillow, 2011)  
• Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin & James Dean (Harper Collins, 2010)  
• Stars by Mary Lyn Ray & Marla Frazee (

  Beach Lane

  Books, 2011)  
• Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman & Beth Krommes (Houghton Mifflin, 2011)  
• Three Hens and a Peacock by Lester Laminack & Henry Cole   (Peachtree, 2011)