The Red Clover Award is a Vermont children's choice award. Named after the state flower, the Red Clover Award began in 1997 and is given each year to the picture book Vermont students in grades K-4 vote as their favorite from a list of 10 preselected books.
Past Red Clover Award Winners
2016: Shh! We Have a Plan, written and illustrated by Chris Haughton
2015: The Day the Crayons Quit, written by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
2014: The World's Greatest Lion, written by Ralph Heifer, illustrated by Ted Lewin
2013: The Princess and the Pig, written by Jonathan Emmett, illustrated by Poly Bernatene
2012: Born Yesterday, written by James Solheim, illustrated by Simon James
2011: Let's Do Nothing! written & illustrated by Tony Fucile
2010: Owney, the Mail Pouch Pooch, written by Mona Kerby and illustrated by Lynne Barasch
2009: Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, written & illustrated by Melanie Watt
2008: Flotsam, written & illustrated by David Wiesner
2007: The Great Fuzz Frenzy, written & illustrated by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel
2006: Knuffle Bunny, written & illustrated by Mo Willems
2005: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, written and illustrated by Mo Willems
2004: I Stink! written & illustrated by Kate and Jim McMullan
2003: Baloney (Henry P.), written & illustrated by Jon Scieszka
2002: Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type, written & illustrated by Doreen Cronin
2001: Bark, George, written & illustrated by Jules Feiffer
2000: 10 Minutes Till Bedtime, written & illustrated by Peggy Rathmann
1999: Akiak, written and illustrated by Robert Blake
1998: Art Dog, written & illustrated by Thacher Hurd
1997: Piggie Pie!, written & illustrated by Margie Palatini