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.
2025 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards
The 21st annual Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards. Listed below are the award and honor books for each category.
2025 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award |
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Mr. Fox’s Game of “No!” written by David LaRochelle and illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka (Candlewick Press). 2024 |
2025 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Honor Books |
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Mela written by Maddalena Schiavo and illustrated by Eleonora Pace (Creative Editions). 2024 The Yellow Bus written and illustrated by Loren Long (Roaring Brook Press). 2024 |
2025 Comstock Read Aloud Book Award |
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Growing Up Under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution written by Ying Chang Compestine and illustrated by Xinmei Liu (Rocky Pond Books). 2024 |
2025 Comstock Read Aloud Honor Book |
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Into the Goblin Market written by Vikki VanSickle and illustrated by Jensine Eckwell (Tundra Books). 2024 The Dictionary Story written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston (Candlewick Press). 2024 |
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.