The 2012 Golden Kite Award Winners and the 2012 Sid Fleischman Award Winner!

March 01, 2012

Recognizing the most outstanding children's books published during the previous year, The Golden Kite Awards are awarded to authors and/or illustrators who are members of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

The awards will be presented Sunday, August 15, 2012 at The Golden Kite Luncheon, the centerpiece event of SCBWI's 41st Annual Conference on Writing and Illustrating for Children, in Los Angeles, California.

The 2012 Golden Kite Awards go to:

• Fiction: Between Shades Of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel, Penguin Group USA)
• Non-Fiction: Amelia Lost: The Life And Disappearance Of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade, Random House)
• Picture Book Text: Over And Under The Snow by Kate Messner, Illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal (Chronicle Books)
• Picture Book Illustration: Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet (Houghton Mifflin)

The Luncheon will also present the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor, which recognizes an author's work that exemplifies excellence in the genre of humor.

The 2012 Sid Fleischman Award for Humor goes to:

• The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander (HarperCollins)

To find out more about the awards visit The Official SCBWI Blog.