Crystal Kite Award

The Crystal Kite Award (also known as 'Crystal Kite Members Choice Award) is given by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) each year to recognize great books from the 70 SCBWI regions around the world. Along with the SCBWI Golden Kite Awards, the Crystal Kite Awards are chosen by other children’s book writers and illustrators, making them the only peer-given awards in publishing for young readers.

Each SCBWI member votes for their favorite book from a nominated author in their region that was published in the previous calendar year.

Winners

International Regions

Africa

• 2013 Neil Malherbe - The Magyar Conspiracy

(Tafelberg Publishers)

• 2012 Jenny Hatton and Joan Rankin - Finding Aunt Joan
• 2011 Maja Sereda - A Kite's Flight

(Jacana Media - text by William Gumede.)

Australia

• 2013 Meg McKinlay - Ten Tiny Things

(Fremantle Press)

• 2011 Claire M. Saxby - There Was an Old Sailor

(Walker Books Australia)

The Americas (Canada/Mexico/Central & South America)

• 2013 Jennifer Lanthier - The Stamp Collector

(Fitzhenry and Whiteside)

• 2011 Marsha Skrypuch - Stolen Child

(Scholastic Canada)

Middle East/India/Asia

• 2013 Benjamin Martin - Samurai Awakening

(Tuttle Publishing)

• 2011 Monika Schröder - Saraswati's Way

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.)

UK/Europe

• 2014 Candy Gourlay - Shine (David Fickling Books / Random House)^[1]
• 2013 Dave Cousins - 15 Days Without a Head

(Oxford University Press)

• 2012 Sara Grant - Dark Parties (Indigo)
• 2011 Candy Gourlay - Tall Story

(David Fickling Books)

Regions in the United States

California/Hawaii

• 2013 Katherine Applegate - The One and Only Ivan

(HarperCollins)

• 2012 Lee Wardlaw - Won Ton - A Cat Tale Told in Haiku

(Henry Holt and Co.)

• 2011 Deborah Underwood - The Quiet Book

(Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)

Florida / Georgia / South Carolina / North Carolina / Alabama/Mississippi

• 2011 Jo S. Kittinger - Rosa’s Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights

(Boyds Mills Press)

Kansas / Louisiana / Arkansas / Tennessee /Kentucky / Missouri

• 2011 Kristin O'Donnell Tubb - Selling Hope

(Feiwel and Friends)

Minnesota /Iowa / Nebraska / Wisconsin / Illinois / Michigan / Indiana / Ohio

• 2011 Ann M. Angel - Janis Joplin Rise Up Singing

(Amulet Books)

Nevada / Arizona / Utah / Colorado / Wyoming / New Mexico

• 2011 Sydney Salter Husseman - Swoon At Your Own Risk

(Harcourt Children's Books)

New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island)

• 2011 Brian Lies - Bats at the Ballgame

(Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)

New York

• 2011 Kate Messner - Sugar and Ice (Walker Books)

Pennsylvania / Delaware / New Jersey / Wash DC / Virginia / West Virginia / Maryland

• 2011 Kathryn D. Erskine - Mockingbird

(Philomel Books - Penguin Young Readers Group)

Texas / Oklahoma

• 2011 Tammi Sauer - Mostly Monsterly

(Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)

Washington / Oregon / Alaska / Idaho / Montana / North Dakota / South Dakota

• 2011 Bonny J. Becker - A Bedtime for Bear

(Candlewick Press)

References

• SCBWI Website
• List of Winners
• 2013 List of WInners
• Announcement of 2011 Awards
• School Library Journal