The 2013 Golden Kite and Sid Fleischman Award Winners!

The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Announes the winners and honorees of the 2013 Golden Kite Awards and the Sid Fleischman Award!

The 2013 awards are presented for excellence in books for young readers published in the 2012 calendar year.

The Golden Kite Award Winners are,

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for Fiction...

The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook by Joanne Rocklin (Amulet Books/Abrams)

for Non Fiction...

Noah Webster & His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris (HM for Children) 

for Picture Book Illustration...

Lester's Dreadful Sweaters by K. G. Campbell (Kids Can Press) 

and for Picture Book Text

Me and Momma and Big John by Mara Rockliff (Candlewick) 

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And

The 2013 Sid Fleischman Award for Humor goes to...

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems ((HarperCollins)!

Congratulations to all the winners!

The red carpet will be rolled out and we'll get to hear from Joanne, Jeri, K.G., Mara and Mo at the upcoming 42nd Annual SCBWI Summer Conference in Los Angeles, August 2-5, 2013.


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Additionally, our congratulations to the Golden Kite Honor Recipients: 

for Fiction: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion) 

for Nonfiction:  We've Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson (Peachtree) 

for Picture Book Illustration:  Electric Ben by Robert Byrd (Dial)

and

for  Picture Book Text:  A Leaf Can Be… by Laura Purdie Salas (Millbrook)



(Time to party... and read some great, award-winning books!)