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.
2026 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards
The 22nd annual Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards. Listed below are the award and honor books for each category.
2026 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award
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How to Find a Yeti, written and illustrated by Matt Hunt (Nosy Crow), 2025. |
2026 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Honor Book
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The Littlest Drop, written by Sascha Alper, illustrated by the late Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney (Roaring Brook Press), 2025. |
2026 Comstock Read Aloud Book Award
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Stalactite and Stalagmite, written and illustrated by Drew Beckmeyer (Atheneum), 2025. |
2026 Comstock Read Aloud Honor Book
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Our Lake, written and illustrated by Angie Kang (Kokila), 2025. |
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 Ä¢¹½tv 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.