Here are the winners of the 2016 Children’s Choice Book Awards which are the only national awards where the winning titles are selected by children and teens. And what lovely choices they are:

Kindergarten-2nd Grade Book of the Year

The Little Shop of Monsters by R.L. Stine, illustrated by Marc Brown

 

3rd-4th Grade Book of the Year

I’m Trying to Love Spiders by Bethany Barton

 

5th-6th Grade Book of the Year

Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Winick

 

Teen Book of the Year

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

 

Children’s Choice Debut Author 

Alex Gino for George

 

Teen Choice Debut Author

Kelly Loy Gilbert for Conviction

 

Children’s Choice Illustrator

Kate Beaton for The Princess and the Pony