Books in Blue Crab Book Award - Beginning Nonfiction
The Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award is a literature award created to recognize high-quality books for beginning and transitional readers in kindergarten through fourth grade. It is granted annually by the Maryland Library Association's Children's Services Division (CSD). The Children's Services Division initiated the award in 2004 as a means of identifying and promoting the best fiction and nonfiction books for beginning readers.
2025
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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How to Bird | Rasha Hamid | Winner | Log In To Like |
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I want to be a Scientist | Laura Driscoll | Honor | Log In To Like |
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What We Wear When We Take Care | Sarah Finan | Honor | Log In To Like |
2024
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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You Are a Raccoon! | Laurie Ann Thompson | Winner | Log In To Like |
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It Is Time: The Life of a Caterpillar | Lizzy Rockwell | Honor | Log In To Like |
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I Live in a Tree Trunk | Meg Fleming | Honor | Log In To Like |
2023
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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A Seed Grows | Antoinette Portis | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Am I a Frog? | Lizzy Rockwell | Honor | Log In To Like |
2022
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Let’s Pop, Pop, Popcorn! | Cynthis Schumerth | Winner | Log In To Like |
| Ocean Animals: Crabs | Derek Zobel | Honor | Log In To Like |
2021
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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My Stinky Summer by S. Bug | Paul Meisel | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals | Katy S. Duffield | Honor | Log In To Like |
| Earth Hour: A Lights-Out Event for our Planet | Nanette , Luu, Bao Heffernan | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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A World Together | Sonia Manzano | Honor | Log In To Like |
2020
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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What Is a Refugee? | Elise Gravel | Winner | Log In To Like |
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And the Bullfrogs Sing: A Life Cycle Begins | David L Harrison | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins | Michelle Meadows | Honor | Log In To Like |
| National Geographic Readers: Puffins | Maya Myers | Honor | Log In To Like |
2019
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Mapping Sam | Joyce Hesselberth | Winner | Log In To Like |
| Frogs! | Kathryn Hoffman | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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Terrific Tongues! | Maria Gianferrari | Honor | Log In To Like |
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What Do They Do with All That Poo? | Jane Kurtz | Honor | Log In To Like |
2018
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Ants Rule: The Long and Short of It | Bob Barner | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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What Will Grow? | Jennifer Ward | Honor | Log In To Like |
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If Picasso Painted a Snowman | Amy Newbold | Honor | Log In To Like |
2017
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Plants Can't Sit Still | Rebecca E Hirsch | Winner | Log In To Like |
| Can I Eat That? | Joshua David Stein | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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I Am Not a Dinosaur! | William Lach | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Octopuses One to Ten | Ellen Jackson | Honor | Log In To Like |
2016
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Water Is Water: A Book about the Water Cycle | Miranda Paul | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Bee Dance | Rick Chrustowski | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Woodpecker Wham! | April Pulley Sayre | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Spectacular Spots | Susan Stockdale | Honor | Log In To Like |
2015
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Sea Otters | Margo Gates | Winner | Log In To Like | |
| Jumbo Jets | Aaron Carr | Honor | Log In To Like |
2014
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Monkeys | Anne Schreiber | Honor | Log In To Like |
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What Is Part This, Part That? | Harriet Ziefert | Honor | Log In To Like |
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The Eye of the Whale | Jennifer O'Connell | Honor | Log In To Like |
2013
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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How Long?: Wacky Ways to Compare Length | Jessica Gunderson | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Welcome to the World, ZooBorns! | Andrew Bleiman | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Get Dressed! | Seymour Chwast | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Monkey Colors | Darrin Lunde | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do | Kathryn Heling | Honor | Log In To Like |
2012
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Capybara | Anita Ganeri | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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About Hummingbirds: A Guide for Children | Cathryn Sill | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature | Joyce Sidman | Honor | Log In To Like |
2011
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Just One Bite | Lola Schaefer | Winner | Log In To Like |
| National Geographic Readers: Safari | Gail Tuchman | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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For the Love of Soccer! | Frank Morrison | Honor | Log In To Like |
2010
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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My People | Langston Hughes | Winner | Log In To Like |
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One Wolf Howls | Scotti Cohn | Honor | Log In To Like |
| Big and Small, Room for All | Jo Ellen Bogart | Honor | Log In To Like |
2009
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator | Sarah C. Campbell | Winner | Log In To Like |
| Uno: Blue-Ribbon Beagle | Stephanie Spinner | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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Hamsters, Shells, and Spelling Bees: School Poems | Lee Bennett Hopkins | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Farm Animals | Wade Cooper | Honor | Log In To Like |
2008
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee | Roberta Edwards | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Hello, Bumblebee Bat | Darrin Lunde | Honor | Log In To Like |
| The Life Cycle of a Bean | Linda Tagliaferro | Honor | Log In To Like | |
| Camiones de basura / Garbage Trucks (Bilingual edition) | Terri Degezelle | Honor | Log In To Like |
2007
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Emperor Penguins | Patricia Trattles | Winner | Log In To Like |
| Storms! | Leslie Dickstein | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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Giant Pandas | Michelle Levine | Honor | Log In To Like |
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After the Dinosaurs: Mammoths and Fossil Mammals | Charlotte Lewis Brown | Honor | Log In To Like |
2006
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Chameleon, Chameleon | Joy Cowley | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Starfish | Lisa Fipps | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Aircraft Carriers | Matt Doeden | Honor | Log In To Like |
| A Chick Grows Up | Pam Zollman | Honor | Log In To Like |
2005
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Platypus! | Ginjer Clarke | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Moon | Grace Hansen | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Rain | Amanda Sun | Honor | Log In To Like |
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What is Gravity? | Lisa Trumbauer | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Clouds | Marion Dane Bauer | Honor | Log In To Like |
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Eat My Dust! Henry Ford’s First Race | Monica Kulling | Honor | Log In To Like |
| From Idea to Book | Pam Marshall | Honor | Log In To Like | |
| Guess Who Swoops | Sharon Gordon | Honor | Log In To Like |
2004
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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| Hunting Sharks | Kristin Nelson | Winner | Log In To Like | |
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Jackie Robinson | Lola M. Schaefer | Honor | Log In To Like |
| Cats on the Farm | Mari C. Schuh | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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Amelia Earhart | Lola M. Schaefer | Honor | Log In To Like |
| Leaf-Cutting Ants | Helen Frost | Honor | Log In To Like | |
| The Life Cycle of a Kangaroo | Lisa Trumbauer | Honor | Log In To Like | |
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Wind | Marion Dane Bauer | Honor | Log In To Like |
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African Elephant | Edana Eckart | Honor | Log In To Like |