2010 Children’s Choice Book Awards Finalists
The Children’s Book Council, in association with Every Child a Reader, the CBC foundation, announces the finalists for the third annual Children’s Choice Book Awards! Finalists were determined by over 14,000 children and teens.
Your child can cast their votes for their favorite book, author, and illustrator at bookstores, schools, libraries and at BookWeekOnline from March 15 to May 3.
This year’s CCBA finalists are as follows:
Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year
- The Birthday Pet by Ellen Javernick, illustrated by Kevin O’Malley (Marshall Cavendish)
- Lulu the Big Little Chick by Paulette Bogan (Bloomsbury USA)
- Mouse Was Mad by Linda Urban, illustrated by Henry Cole (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett (Simon & Schuster)
- Opposnakes by Salina Yoon (Little Simon/Simon & Schuster)
Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year
- The Book That Eats People by John Perry, illustrated by Mark Fearing (Tricycle Press)
- Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins)
- Gonzalo Grabs the Good Life by Janice Levy, illustrated by Bill Slavin (Eerdmans)
- Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Knopf/Random House)
- Oceanology by Ferdinand Zoticus deLessups (Candlewick)
Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year
- The Adventures of Benny by Steve Shreve (Marshall Cavendish)
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life by Rachel Renee Russell (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster)
- Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca (Atheneum/Richard Jackson/Simon & Schuster)
- Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood by Tony Lee, Sam Hart, and Artur Fujita (Candlewick)
- Zoobreak by Gordon Korman (Scholastic Press)
Teen Choice Book of the Year
- Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, Book 4) by Richelle Mead (Razorbill/Penguin)
- Blue Moon (The Immortals, Book 2) by Alyson Noel (St. Martin’s Griffin/Macmillan)
- Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
- City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, Book 3) by Cassandra Clare (McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
- Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)
Author of the Year
- Suzanne Collins for Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) (Scholastic Press)
- Carl Hiaasen for Scat (Knopf/Random House)
- Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw and Dog Days (Amulet Books/Abrams)
- James Patterson for Max (A Maximum Ride Novel) (Little, Brown)
- Rick Riordan for The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians Book 5) (Disney Hyperion)
Illustrator of the Year
- Peter Brown for The Curious Garden (Little, Brown)
- Robin Preiss Glasser for Fancy Nancy: Explorer Extraordinaire! (HarperCollins)
- Victoria Kann for Goldilicious (HarperCollins)
- Susan Roth for Listen to the Wind (Dial/Penguin)
- David Soman for Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy (Dial/Penguin)
The Children’s Choice Book Awards winners will be announced live at the Children’s Choice Book Awards gala on May 11 in New York City as part of Children’s Book Week (May 10-16, 2010), the oldest national literacy event in the United States.
