Excellence in children’s video

Winner

Children Make Terrible Pets

Most distinguished informational book for children

 

Honor Books

Black & White by Larry Dane Brimner

Drawing from Memory by Allen Say (Hurrah!)

The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O’Connell

Witches! by Rosalyn Schanzer

 

Winner

Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet (Oh, that’s so great!!)

Outstanding title originally published in another country and another language:

 

Honor Book

The Lily Pond by Annika Thor

 

Winner

Soldier Bear by Bibi Dumon Tak (on my to-read pile, it may move to the top!)

Michael Morpurgo

Audiobook award for children and teens

 

Honor Books

Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt (Well, that’s at least one for this great book!)

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt

 

Winner

Rotters by Daniel Kraus

Illustrator Award

Honor Books:

The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos, illustrated by Rafael Lopez

Marison McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios

Winner:

Diego Rivera: His World and Ours by Duncan Tonatiuh

 

Text Award

Honor Books:

Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel by Xavier Garza

Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle (I LOOOOVE her work!)

Winner

Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Honor Books

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

The Returning by Christine Hinwood

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

 

Winner

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Finalists:

Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

Bootleg by Karen Blumenthal

Wheels of Change by Sue Macy

Music Was It by Susan Goldman Rubin

The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin

 

Winner:

The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin

For YA Debut Author (love this award and I hope it expands to other ages for a debut award)

Winner

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley