The Maryland Library Association, Children’s Services Division has announced the 2011 winners of the Maryland Blue Crab Awards. Blue Crabs are awarded to authors of books for beginning or transitional readers. This year’s winners are:
- For Beginning Fiction: We Are In A Book, by Mo Willems
- For Beginning Non-Fiction: Just One Bite, by Lola Schaefer
- For Transitional Fiction: Lulu and the Brontosaurus, by Judith Viorst
- For Transitional Non-Fiction: Pika: Life on the Rocks, by Tannis Bill.
A complete list of honor books, and winners and honors from previous years, as well a description of the criteria for the award, can be found on the MLA website.