Golden Kite Award

The Golden Kite Awards are given annually by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators to recognize excellence in children’s literature. Instituted in 1972, the Golden Kite Awards are the only children’s literary award judged by a jury of peers. Eligible books must be written or illustrated by SCBWI members, and submitted either by publishers or individuals.

The award includes four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Book Text, and Picture Book Illustration. Winners are chosen by a panel of judges which consists of children’s book writers and illustrators. In addition to the four Golden Kite Award winners, four honor book recipients are named by the judges. Since 2006, the best author and illustrator in each category wins a $2,500 grant cash prize.

Recipients

2006

*Fiction: Firegirl, Tony Abbott
*Nonfiction: Wings, William Loizeaux
*Picture Book Text: Jazz, Walter Dean Myers (illustrated by Christopher Myers)
*Picture Book Illustration: Not Afraid of Dogs, Larry Day (authored by Susanna Pitzer)

2005

*Fiction: A Room on Lorelei Street, Mary E. Pearson
*Nonfiction: Children of The Great Depression, Russell Freedman
*Picture Book Text: Doña Flor, Pat Mora (illustrated by Raul Colón)
*Picture Book Illustration: Baby Bear's Chairs, Melissa Sweet (authored by Jane Yolen)

2004

*Fiction: Bucking The Sarge, Christopher Paul Curtis
*Nonfiction: Dust To Eat: Drought And Depression In The 1930s, Michael L. Cooper
*Picture Book Text: Apples to Oregon, Deborah Hopkinson (illustrated. Nancy Carpenter)
*Picture Book Illustration: The Mysterious Collection of Dr. David Harleyson, Jean Cassels

2003

*Fiction: Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli
*Nonfiction: , by Carmen Bredeson
*Picture Book Text: The Dirty Cowboy, by Amy Timberlake (illus. Adam Rex)
*Picture Book Illustration: I Dream Of Trains, by Loren Long (author Angela Johnson)

2002

*Fiction: Fresh Girl, by Jaïra Placide
*Nonfiction: , by Elizabeth Partridge
*Picture Book Text: George Hogglesberry, Grade School Alien, by Sarah Wilson
*Picture Book Illustration: Mrs. Biddlebox, by Marla Frazee

2001

*Fiction: True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff
*Nonfiction: , by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
*Picture Book Text: The Shoe Tree of Chagrin, by J. Patrick Lewis
*Picture Book Illustration: The Lamp, The Ice, And The Boat Called Fish, by Beth Krommes

2000

*Fiction: The Boxer, by Kathleen Karr
*Nonfiction: Darkness over Denmark, by Ellen Levine
*Picture Book Text: River Friendly, River Wild, by Jane Kurtz
*Picture Book Illustration: The Rain Came Down, by David Shannon

1999

*Fiction: Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
*Nonfiction: , by Marianne J. Dyson
*Picture Book Text: A Band of Angels, by Deborah Hopkinson
*Picture Book Illustration: The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza), by Amy Wolrod

1998

*Fiction: Rules of the Road, by Joan Bauer
*Nonfiction: , by Russell Freedman
*Picture Book Text: , by Kristine O'Connell George
*Picture Book Illustration: Snow, by Uri Shulevitz

1997

*Fiction: Stones in Water, by Donna Jo Napoli
*Nonfiction: , by Arlene Schulman
*Picture Book Text: The Paper Dragon, by Marguerite W. Davol
*Picture Book Illustration: The Paper Dragon, by Robert Sabuda

1996

*Fiction: The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw
*Nonfiction: Small Steps, by Peg Kehret
*Picture Book Text: Saving Sweetness, by Diane Stanley
*Picture Book Illustration: Market Day, by Holly Berry

1995

*Fiction: The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis
*Nonfiction: Abigail Adams, by Natalie S. Bober
*Picture Book Illustration: Fairy Wings, by Dennis Nolan and Lauren Mills

1994

*Fiction: Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
*Nonfiction: Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor, by Russell Freedman
*Picture Book Illustration: Big Fat Hen, by Keith Baker

1993

*Fiction: Make Lemonade, by Virginia Euwer Wolff
*Nonfiction: Eleanor Roosevelt, by Russell Freedman
*Picture Book Illustration: By the Light of the Halloween Moon, by Kevin Hawkes

1992

*Fiction: Letters From a Slave Girl, by Mary E. Lyons
*Nonfiction: The Long Road to Gettysburg, by Jim Murphy
*Picture Book Illustration: Chicken Sunday, by Patricia Polacco

1991

*Fiction: The Rain Catchers, by Jean Thesman
*Nonfiction: The Wright Brothers, by Russell Freedman
*Picture Book Illustration: Mama, Do You Love Me, by Barbara Lavallee

1990

*Fiction: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
*Nonfiction: The Boy's War, by Jim Murphy
*Picture Book Illustration: Home Place, by Jerry Pinkney

1989

*Fiction: Jenny of the Tetons, by Kristiana Gregory
*Nonfiction: , by Judith St. George
*Picture Book Illustration: Tom Thumb, by Richard Jesse Watson

1988

*Fiction: Borrowed Children, by George Ella Lyon
*Nonfiction: Let There Be Light, by James Cross Giblin
*Picture Book Illustration: Forest of Dreams, by Susan Jeffers

1987

*Fiction: Rabble Starkey, by Lois Lowry
*Nonfiction: Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark, by Rhoda Blumberg
*Picture Book Illustration: What the Mailman Brought, by Tomie DePaola

1986

*Fiction: After the Dancing Days, by Margaret Rostowski
*Nonfiction: Poverty in America, by Milton Meltzer
*Picture Book Illustration: Juma and the Magin Jinn, by Charles Mikolaycak

1985

*Fiction: Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
*Nonfiction: Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, by Rhoda Blumberg
*Picture Book Illustration: The Donkey's Dream, by Barbara Helen Berger

1984

*Fiction: Tancy, by Belinda Hurmence
*Nonfiction: , by James Cross Giblin
*Picture Book Illustration: Little Red Riding Hood, by Don Wood

1983

*Fiction: The Tempering, by Gloria Skurzynski
*Nonfiction: The Illustrated Dinosaur Dictionary, by Helen Roney Sattler
*Picture Book Illustration: Little Red Riding Hood, by Trina Schart Hyman

1982

*Fiction: Ralph S. Mouse, by Beverly Cleary
*Nonfiction: Chimney Sweeps, by James Cross Giblin
*Picture Book Illustration: Giorgio's Village, by Tomie de Paola

1981

*Fiction: Little, Little, by M. E. Kerr
*Nonfiction: Blissymbolics, by Elizabeth Helfman

1980

*Fiction: Arthur, For the Very First Time, by Patricia MacLachlan
*Nonfiction: The Lives of Spiders, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

1979

*Fiction: The Magic of the Glits, by C. S. Adler
*Nonfiction: Runaway Teens, by Arnold Madison

1978

*Fiction: And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, by Stella Pevsner
*Nonfiction: How I Came to Be a Writer, by Phyllis Reynolds

1977

*Fiction: The Girl Who Had No Name, by Bernice Rabe
*Nonfiction: Peeper, First Voice of Spring, by Robert McClung

1976

*One More Flight, by Eve Bunting

1975

*The Garden Is Doing Fine, by Carol Farley

1974

*The Girl Who Cried Flowers, by Jane Yolen

1973

*Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene

External links

* [http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/awards/juv/goldenkite.htm Past winners, Mid-Continent Public Library (US)]
* [http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/litrlawards.asp "Recommended Literature: K-12 Awards", California Department of Education]
* [http://www.scbwi.org/awards/gk_main.htm The Golden Kite Award Official Site]