Children's Choice Book Awards!

Last night, the winners of the Children's Choice Book Awards were announced! 

 Congratulations to the winners! 

Bravo to the finalists, who are among my favorites!!

K-2nd Grade
Winner:  THREE HENS AND A PEACOCK by Lester L. Laminack, illustrated by Henry Cole (Peachtree)
Finalists: Bailey by Harry Bliss (Scholastic)
Dot by Patricia Intriago (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan)
Pirates Don’t Take Baths by John Segal (Philomel/Penguin)
Zombie in Love by Kelly DiPucchio, illustrated by Scott Campbell (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)

3rd - 4th Grade Winner: BAD KITTY MEETS THE BABY by Nick Bruel
Finalists: A Funeral in the Bathroom: And Other School Bathroom Poems by Kalli Dakos, illustrated by Mark Beech (Albert Whitman)
The Monstrous Book of Monsters by Libby Hamilton, illustrated by Jonny Duddle and Aleksei Bitskoff (Templar/Candlewick)
Sidekicks by Dan Santat (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
Squish #1: Super Amoeba by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House)

5th - 6th Grade Winner: OKAY FOR NOW by Gary D. Schmidt
Finalists: Bad Island by Doug TenNapel (GRAPHIX/Scholastic)
How to Survive Anything by Rachel Buchholz, illustrated by Chris Philpot (National Geographic)
Lost & Found by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog by Garth Stein (HarperCollins)

Teen Choice Winner: CLOCKWORK PRINCE The Infernal Devices, Book Two by Cassandra Clare
Finalists: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (Little, Brown)
Divergent by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins)
Passion: A Fallen Novel by Lauren Kate (Delacorte/Random House)
Perfect by Ellen Hopkins (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)



Author of the Year: Jeff Kinney for Diary of A Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever
Finalists: Christopher Paolini for Inheritance(Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
James Patterson for Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life(Little, Brown)
Rick Riordan for The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, Book 2) (Disney Hyperion)
Rachel Renée Russell for Dork Diaries 3: Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster)

Illustrator of the Year: Brian Selznick for Wonderstruck Finalists: Felicia Bond for If You Give a Dog a Donut(Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)
Eric Carle for The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse(Philomel/Penguin)
Anna Dewdney for Llama Llama Home With Mama(Viking/Penguin)
Victoria Kann for Silverlicious(HarperCollins)