The Awards: A "putting my money where my mouth is" retrospective for 2015

This is the awards hibiscus.
Like the statistics octopus.
It's a thing.

So, every year, more or less, I post one of my "putting my money where my mouth is" lists of which award titles I purchased. This year I suddenly realized that, although I make a lot of guesses about what will and won't circulate, I never really follow up. So, here is how the award books I purchased did this year in my library. Of course, there are a lot of other factors - how long have we owned them, did I push them at pre-summer school booktalks, average circulation in those areas (easy readers circulate more than teen fiction) the books I forgot to put on this list, etc. but this gives you a rough idea.

I've highlighted titles that had really good circulation, compared to the average circ of their location.

Cybils Awards (* were also ALA awards)

• Here comes the Easter cat by Deborah Underwood
• Added March 2014
• Circulation: 10
• Maple by Lori Nichols
• Added May 2014
• Personally recommended to multiple parents
• Circulation: 21
• Shhh! We have a plan by Chris Haughton
• Added May 2015
• Circulation: 15
• This is a moose by Richard Morris
• Added May 2014
• Booktalked at pre-summer visits to great acclaim
• Circulation: 21
• Chasing Cheetahs by Sy Montgomery
• Added June 2015
• Used in book club
• Circulation: 15
• Feathers by Melissa Stewart
• Added February 2014
• Used in birdwatching station display; Used in outreach visit storytimes
• Circulation: 22
• When lunch fights back by Rebecca Johnson
• Added September 2014
• Booktalked at pre-summer visits; On staff picks display
• Circulation: 14
• Extraordinary Warren by Sarah Dillard
• Added February 2014
• Booktalked at pre-summer visits
• Circulation: 13
• Like carrot juice on a cupcake by Julie Sternberg
• Added May 2014
• Circulation: 6
• Lulu and the rabbit next door by Hilary McKay
• Added February 2014
• Circulation: 11
• My new friend is so fun by Mo Willems
• Added 2 copies July 2014
• Circulation: 41/34
• Okay Andy by Maxwell Eaton
• Added July 2014
• Circulation: 22
• Pigsticks and Harold and the incredible journey by Alex Milway
• Added April 2015
• Booktalked at pre-summer visits, used in book club
• Circulation: 10
• Chicken Squad the first misadventure by Doreen Cronin
• Added May 2014
• Circulation: 14
• Violet Mackerel's possible friend by Anna Branford
• Added June 2014
• Circulation: 12
• Bird and squirrel on ice by James Burk
• Added November 2014
• Circulation: 17
• *El Deafo by Cece Bell
• Added September 2014
• Booktalked at pre-summer visits, Used in book club
• Circulation: 12
• Death by Toilet Paper by Donna Gephart
• Added August 2014
• Circulation: 9
• Ice dogs by Terry Lynn Johnson
• Added May 2014
• Booktalked at pre-summer visits
• Circulation: 18
• *Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• Added March 2015
• Circulation: 9
• Meaning of Maggie by Megan Sovern
• Added May 2014
• Circulation: 10
• Castle behind thorns by Merrie Haskell
• Added July 2014
• Circulation: 9
• Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the Hydra by Jason Fry
• Added January 2015 (donated by the author)
• Booktalked at pre-summer visits
• Circulation: 5
• *Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Wilson
• Added October 2014
• Booktalked at pre-summer visits
• Circulation: 17
• Hi Koo by Jon Muth
• Added March 2014
• Circulation: 21
• Be a changemaker by Laurie Ann Thompson
• Added December 2014
• Circulation: 3
• Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
• Added February 2014
• Circulation: 10

ALA Awards

• Beekle by Dan Santat
• Added May 2014
• Circulation: 20
• Nana in the city by Lauren Castillo
• Added March 2015
• Circulation: 20
• Sam and Dave dig a hole by Jon Klassen
• Added October 2014
• Circulation: 21
• You are (not) small by Anna Kang
• Added July 2014
• Circulation: 25
• Neighborhood sharks by Katherine Roy
• Added October 2014
• Booktalked at pre-summer visits
• Circulation: 9
• Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Elya
• Added April 2015
• Circulation: 7
• Green is a chile pepper by Roseanne Thong
• Added February 2014
• Circulation: 12
• Boy and a jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz
• Added March 2015
• Circulation: 14
• I'll give you the sun by Nelson Jandy
• Added September 2014
• Circulation: 14
• And we stay by Jenny Hubbard
• Added March 2015
• Circulation: 7