If you've got the time (1:05:00) and you want the award-season thrill, watch the full video recording of the Golden Kite Awards ceremony and acceptance speeches here!
The winner in each category received $2,500 plus an additional $1,000 to donate to a non-profit organization of their choice. Each honor recipient received $500 plus an additional $250 to donate.
If you're in a rush, or just need to add to your to-read pile now, here's the list of honorees and winners:
(scroll down, so we don't have any spoilers...)
PICTURE BOOK TEXT
Winner: Fly written by Brittany J. Thurman, illustrated by Anna Cunha (Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum)/Simon & Schuster)
Donation: Young Authors Greenhouse https://www.youngauthorsgreenhouse.org/mission
Honor: The Talk written by Alicia D. Williams, illustrated by Briana Mukodiri Uchendu (Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)
Donation: Promising Pages https://promising-pages.org/
PICTURE BOOK ILLUSTRATION
Winner: Kumo the Bashful Cloud illustrated by Nathalie Dion, written by Kyo Maclear (Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada)
Donation: LePhare (The Lighthouse) https://phare-lighthouse.com/
Honor: Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Donation: Virginia Children’s Book Festival https://www.vachildrensbookfestival.org/
NONFICTION TEXT FOR YOUNGER READERS
Winner: Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth written by Stacy McAnulty, illustrated by David Litchfield (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan)
Donation: The Sierra Club Foundation https://www.sierraclubfoundation.org/
Honor: H is for Harlem by Dinah Johnson, illustrated by April Harrison (Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Donation: Children’s Defense Fund https://www.childrensdefense.org/
NONFICTION TEXT FOR OLDER READERS
Winner: Absurd Words: A Kid's Fun and Hilarious Vocabulary Builder for Future Word Nerds by Tara Lazar (Sourcebooks)
Donation: The Highlights Foundation https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/
Honor: Save the People!: Halting Human Extinction written by Stacy McAnulty, illustrated by Nicole Miles (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Donation: The Sierra Club Foundationhttps://www.sierraclubfoundation.org/
MIDDLE GRADE FICTION
Winner: The Civil War Of Amos Abernathy by Michael Leali (HarperCollins)
Donation: Ali Forney Center https://www.aliforneycenter.org
Honor: Iveliz Explains it All by Andrea Beatriz Arango, illustrated by Alyssa Bermudez(Random House Books for Young Readers)
Donation: Boys and Girls Club of Central Virginia https://bgclubcva.org
ILLUSTRATED BOOK FOR OLDER READERS
Winner: The Adventures of Team Pom: Squid Happens, by Isabel Roxas (Flying Eye Books)
Donation: The Center for Fiction https://centerforfiction.org/
Honor: Esme's Birthday Conga Line: illustrated by Marissa Valdez, written by Lourdes Heuer (Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada)
Donation: Save the Children https://www.savethechildren.org/
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Winner: Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey (Scholastic Press)
Donation: Literacy for Incarcerated Teens https://www.literacyforincarceratedteens.org/
Honor: Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg (Scholastic Press)
Donation: NMAC: the National Minority AIDS Council https://www.nmac.org/
SID FLEISCHMAN AWARD FOR HUMOR
Winner: Freddie vs. the Family Curse by Tracy Badua (Clarion Books)
Donation: The Filipino American National Historical Society http://fanhs-national.org/filam/
Honor: The Real Riley Mayes by Rachel Elliott (Balzer + Bray)
Congratulations to all the nominees, honorees, and winners!
Illustrate, Translate, and Write On,
Lee
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