Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Program
The Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (BES) is a children's choice book award for the state of Maryland. The award honors outstanding picture books and chapter books – each year 15 picture books and 10 chapter books are nominated.
Students get to pick the winning books in each category by voting for their favorite. In order to vote for their favorite book, the students must have read or listened to at least 8 of the 15 nominated picture books and/or at least 3 of the 10 nominated chapter books. Voting takes place in the middle of April.
The Media Center will have multiple copies of each book for students to check out. Many of these books are also available in the public library. The BES program is a voluntary program.
Please click here for a list of Maryland Black-Eyed Susan books.