2011 Children's Choice Book Award Winners Announced

Posted on May 3, 2011

The Children's Book Council (CBC) announced the winners of the fourth annual Children's Choice Book Awards at a gala in New York City this evening as part of Children's Book Week (May 2-8, 2011). The Children's Choice Book Award winners are as follows:

• Author of the Year: Rick Riordan for The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) (Disney-Hyperion)
• Illustrator of the Year: David Wiesner for Art & Max (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year: Little Pink Pup by Johanna Kerby (Putnam/Penguin)
• Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year: Lunch Lady and the Summer Camp Shakedown by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Knopf/Random House)
• Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1) by Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion)
• Teen Choice Book of the Year: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (Dutton/Penguin)

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