Vermont Golden Dome Book Award

Each spring a committee of eight adults selects a "Master List" of thirty books first published during the previous calendar year.

The list is announced at the annual Dorothy Canfield Fisher Conference, usually in May,[3] and is available at Vermont school and public libraries for children who wish to participate over the next eleven months.

[1][2] Vermont sponsors two other statewide book awards determined by the votes of younger and older students.

[8] Several writers have won more than one DCF Award: Beverly Cleary in 1958, 1966, and 1985; Mary Downing Hahn in 1988, 1996, and 2006; Jerry Spinelli and Kate DiCamillo and Alan Gratz twice each.

Seven times from 1985 to 2005 (‡), and no others, the schoolchildren selected the winner of the annual Newbery Medal (dated one year earlier, established 1922).