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

Gold seal for the Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award

How to Find a Yeti, written and illustrated by Matt Hunt (Nosy Crow), 2025.

2026 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Honor Book

Silver seal for the Wanda Gág Read Aloud Honor Book

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

Gold seal for the Comstock Read Aloud Book Award

Stalactite and Stalagmite, written and illustrated by Drew Beckmeyer (Atheneum), 2025.

2026 Comstock Read Aloud Honor Book

Silver seal for the Comstock Read Aloud Honor Book

Our Lake, written and illustrated by Angie Kang (Kokila), 2025.
Comstock Read Aloud Book Award
Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award
Past Award Winners & Honor Books
Best Read Aloud Picture Books

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.