Book them and hook them

HOLIDAY | Lindsey Romain

In this age of digital technology and toy gadgetry, children may be keener to flip on the TV or shuffle their MP3 player than crack open a book. This holiday season, try reigniting their imagination with the gift of words. Here are some of 2011’s award-winning and honor books for young readers.

1. Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte Press, $16.99) Newbery Medal

2. Turtle In Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House, $16.99) Newbery Honor

5. One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad, $8.92) Newbery Honor

6. A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook Press, $16.99) Caldecott Medal

7. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Little, Brown and Company, $11.95) Caldecott Honor

3. Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (Amulet Books, $15.95) Newbery Honor

4. Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton Mifflin, $16.99) Newbery Honor

8. Interrupting Chicken written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein (Candlewick Press, $16.99) Caldecott Honor

9. Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown and Company, $17.99) Michael L. Printz Medal

10. Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Knopf, $16.99) Michael L. Printz Honor