A Winning Selection for Children’s Book Week
The Children’s Book Council (CBC) in association with Every Child a Reader, Inc. (the CBC Foundation), announced the winners of the third annual Children’s Choice Book Awards at a gala in New York City this week. Children across the country voted for their favorite books, author, and illustrator at bookstores, school libraries, and at www.BookWeekOnline.com, casting over 115,000 votes.
The Children’s Choice Book Award winners are as follows:
James Patterson for Max (A Maximum Ride Novel) (Little, Brown)
Peter Brown for The Curious Garden (Little, Brown)
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Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year
Lulu the Big Little Chick by Paulette Bogan (Bloomsbury USA)
Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Knopf/Random House)
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Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year
Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life by Rachel Renée Russell (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster)
Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
The Children’s Choice Book Awards program, launched in 2008 by The Children’s Book Council (CBC) in association with Every Child a Reader, Inc. (the CBC Foundation), was created to provide young readers with an opportunity to voice their opinions about the books being written for them and to help develop a reading list that will motivate children to read more and cultivate a love of reading.