Ninth Annual Children’s Choice Book Award Winners Revealed

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On Friday, May 6, the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader announced the winners of the ninth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards, the only national book awards program where the winners are selected by children and teens. The announcement is a highlight of the 97th annual celebration of Children’s Book Week, which runs May 2–8.

This year’s Children’s Choice Book Award winners are:

  • Book of the Year, Kindergarten through 2nd Grade: The Little Shop of Monsters by R.L. Stine; illustrated by Marc Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
  • Book of the Year, 3rd through 4th Grade: I’m Trying to Love Spiders by Bethany Barton (Viking Books for Young Readers)
  • Book of the Year, 5th through 6th Grade: Hilo Book 1: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Winick (Random House Books for Young Readers)
  • Teen Choice Book of the Year: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
  • Children’s Choice Debut Author: Alex Gino for George (Scholastic Press)
  • Teen Choice Debut Author: Kelly Loy Gilbert for Conviction (Disney-Hyperion)
  • Children’s Choice Illustrator: Kate Beaton for The Princess and the Pony (Arthur A. Levine Books)

The deadline for bookstores participating in this year’s Children’s Book Week display contest to submit pictures of displays, along with a photo credit, to ABC Children’s Group Manager Matthew Zoni is May 6. The display contest winner will be announced later this month.

The winning bookstore will receive a visit from one of the winning authors or finalists for the 2016 Children’s Choice Book Awards as well as coverage in the Children’s Book Council’s Update newsletter, in ABA’s Bookselling This Week, in social media posts, and on bookweekonline.com.