The 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature were announced at BookExpo America.  There are winners in three categories as well as honor books for each.  Here are the winners:

Picture Book

 

Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen

Fiction

No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

Nonfiction

Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck Close

And the Honor Books:

Picture Books

 

And Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Erin E. Stead

And the Soldiers Sang by J. Patrick Lewis, illustrated by Gary Kelley

Fiction Books

 

Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Nonfiction Books

  

Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O’Keeffe Painted What She Pleased by Amy Novesky, illustrated by Yuyi Morales

The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O’Connell & Donna M. Jackson, photographs by Caitlin O’Connell and Timothy Rodwell

The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards are given annually to two children’s books: one in the young adult/middle reader category and the other in the picture book category.  The award winner is chosen by two different groups of children and teens. 

Here are the winners:

 

Young Adult/Middle Readers: The Whole Truth by Kit Pearson

Picture Book: Loon by Susan Vande Griek, illustrated by Karen Reczuch

The CBI Book of the Year for 2012 has been announced. 

The winner of the CBI Book of the Year is also the winner of the Children’s Choice Award, the first time the same book has won both awards!

The winner is:

Into the Grey by Celine Kiernan

 

The Eilis Dillon Award is awarded to a first time author or illustrator.  The winner is:

The Butterfly Heart by Paula Leyden

 

Three additional awards were given this year:

  

The Judges Special Award went to My Dad Is 10 Years Old by Mark O’Sullivan

The Honour Award for Illustration went to Stuck by Oliver Jeffers

The Honour Award for Fiction went to Maitríóisce by Siobhan Parkinson

 

There is also a 2012 shortlist that features the best of Irish writing and illustration for young people.  It includes the titles above and the following four:

  

A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle

Bruised by Siobhan Parkinson

 

O Chrann Go Crann by Caitriona Hastings, illustrated by Andrew Whitson

Will Gallows and the Snake-Bellied Troll by Derek Keilty

The winners of the Children’s Choice Book Awards were announced on May 7th.  Here are the winners in each category:

  

K-2 Book of the Year – Three Hens and a Peacock by Lester L. Laminack

3-4 Book of the Year – Bad Kitty Meets the Baby by Nick Bruel

5-6 Book of the Year – Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

  

Teen Book of the Year – Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

Author of the Year – Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever

Illustrator of the Year – Brian Selznick for Wonderstruck

The California Young Reader Medal winners have been announced for the 2011-2012 year.   Books considered for the award are nominated by children, teens, teachers, librarians, parents and others who work with young people.  Nominees must have a strong appeal for the age group, be often read or requested by children or teens, must have been published in the last four years and still be in print, must be written by a living author, and must be a work of fiction available in English.  The winners are selected in specific age categories.

Here are the winners for 2011/2012:

PRIMARY

I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll

INTERMEDIATE

Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning by Danette Haworth

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

YOUNG ADULT

Graceling by Kristen Cashore

PICTURE BOOK FOR OLDER READER

Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators give this award annual to great books from the fifteen regional SCBWI divisions around the world.  Each member of the organization is allowed to vote for their favorite book from a nominated author in their region that was published in the previous year.

Here are the 2012 Crystal Kite Winners:

  

AFRICA

Finding Aunt Joan by Jenny Hatton, illustrated by Joan Rankin

AUSTRALIA

The Last Viking by Norman Jorgensen

CALIFORNIA/HAWAII

Won Ton: A Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw, illustrated by Eugene Yelchin

  

FLORIDA/GEORGIA

Cleopatra’s Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter

KANSAS/LOUISIANA

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

MINNESOTA/IOWA

Bluefish by Pat Schmatz

  

NEVADA

Black & White by Larry Brimner

NEW ENGLAND

Pearl by Jo Knowles

NEW YORK

Thelonious Mouse by Orel Protopopescu

  

PENNSYLVANIA/DELAWARE/NEW JERSEY

The Absolute Value of Mike by Kathryn Erskine

TEXAS/OKLAHOMA

Mine! by Patrice Barton

AMERICAS

Witchlanders by Lena Coakley

  

UK/EUROPE

Dark Parties by Sara Grant

MIDDLE EAST/ASIA

Orchards by Holly Thompson

WASHINGTON

The Friendship Doll by Kirby Larson

May 3rd is the deadline for children to vote in the 2012 Children’s Choice Book Awards.  There are thirty finalists in six categories.  Last year over half a million children participated, and this year it is expected to reach over 1 million participants.  The winners will be announced as part of Children’s Book Week.  The mix of books is intriguing with many books that you will not see on other award nominee lists.

Children can vote here.

Here are the nominees:

Kindergarten – 2nd Grade

   

Bailey by Harry Bliss

Dot by Patricia Intriago

Pirates Don’t Take Baths by John Segal

Three Hens and a Peacock by Lester L. Laminack, illustrated by Henry Cole

 

3rd – 4th Grade

  

Bad Kitty Meets the Baby by Nick Bruel

A Funeral in the Bathroom: And Other School Bathroom Poems by KalliDakos, illustrated by Mark Beech

The Monstrous Book of Monsters by Libby Hamilton, illustrated by Jonny Duddle and Aleksei Bitskoff

 

Sidekicks by Dan Santat

Squish #1: Super Amoeba by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm

 

5th – 6th Grade

  

Bad Island by Doug TenNapel

How to Survive Anything by Rachel Buchholz, illustrated by Chris Philpot

Lost & Found by Shaun Tan

 

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog by Garth Stein

 

Teen Books

  

Clockwork Prince: The Infernal Devices, Book Two by Cassandra Clare

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Divergent by Veronica Roth

 

Passion: A Fallen Novel by Lauren Kate

Perfect by Ellen Hopkins

 

Author of the Year

  

Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever

Christopher Paolini for Inheritance

James Patterson for Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life

 

Rick Riordan for The Son of Neptune

Rachel Renée Russell for Dork Diaries 3: Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star

 

Illustrator of the Year

 

Felicia Bond for If You Give a Dog a Donut

Eric Carle for The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

Anna Dewdney for Llama Llama Home With Mama

 

Victoria Kann for Silverlicious

Brian Selznick for Wonderstruck

The winners of the 26th Annual Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and New Illustrator Awards have been announced.  The awards celebrate authors and illustrators who "impart Ezra Jack Keats’ values—the universal qualities of childhood, a strong and supportive family, and the multicultural nature of our world.”  The awards are given by The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in partnership with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.

2012 New Writer Award Winner

Meg Medina for Tia Isa Wants a Car

2012 New Illustrator Award Winner

Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw for Same, Same but Different

2012 Honorable Mentions

New Writer Honor:

Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw for Same, Same but Different

New Writer Honor:

Nicola Winstanley for Cinnamon Baby

New Writer and New Illustrator Honor:

Anna White and Micha Archer for Lola’s Fandango

New Illustrator Honor:

David Ercolini for Not Inside This House!