Golden Kite Award Winners

Each year, the Society of Children Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) honor the most outstanding children’s books of the prior year, called the Golden Kite Awards.  Unlike other such awards, winners of the Golden Kite are chosen by their peers.

Fiction: Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

Nonfiction: Muckrakers by Ann Bausum

Picture Book Text: Pierre in Love by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Petra Mathers

Picture Book Illustration: Little Night illustrated and written by Yuyi Morales