Winners of the 2014 Children's Choice Book Awards Announced

Posted on May 15, 2014

The winners of the 2014 Children's Choice Book Awards have been announced. The winners were announced during Children's Book Week at a charity gala benefiting Every Child a Reader in New York City. The Children's Book Council says it received more than 1,261,000 votes on ccbookawards.com this year.

The cover of The Day the Crayons Quit, winner in the Kindergarten to Second Grade category, is pictured above. Rush Limbaugh was named Author of the Year and Grace Lee was named Illustrator of the Year. LeVar Burton is the Impact Award Honoree.

Here is the list of winners:

• Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year: The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers (Philomel)

• Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year: Bugs in My Hair! by David Shannon (Blue Sky Press / Scholastic Inc)

• Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year: National Geographic Kids Myths Busted! by Emily Krieger, illustrated by Tom Nick Cocotos (National Geographic Children's Books)

• Teen Book of the Year: Allegiant by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books)

• Author of the Year: Rush Limbaugh, Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans (Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster)

• Illustrator of the Year: Grace Lee, Sofia the First: The Floating Palace (Disney Press)

• Impact Award Honoree: LeVar Burton, former host of Reading Rainbow and co-founder of RRKidz