The Crystal Kite Award (also known as 'Crystal Kite Members Choice Award) is given by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) each year to recognize great books from the 70 SCBWI regions around the world. Along with the SCBWI Golden Kite Awards, the Crystal Kite Awards are chosen by other children's book writers and illustrators, making them the only peer-given awards in publishing for young readers.
Each SCBWI member votes for their favorite book from a nominated author in their region that was published in the previous calendar year.
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | There Was an Old Sailor | Claire M. Saxby |
2012 | The Last Viking | Norman Jorgensen |
2013 | Ten Tiny Things | Meg McKinlay |
2014 | Zac and Mia | AJ Betts |
2015 | Hello From Nowhere | Raewyn Caisley and Karen Blair |
2016 | A is for Australia | Frané Lessac |
2017 | Smile Cry | Tania McCartney and Jess Racklyeft |
2018 | The Scared Book | Debra Tidball |
2019 | At The End of Holyrood Lane | Dimity Powell |
2020 | Catch a Falling Star | Meg McKinlay [1] |
2021 | How to Make a Bird | Meg McKinlay [1] |
2022 | Heroes of the Secret Underground | Susanne Gervay [2] |
2023 | Bev and Kev | Katrina Germein and Mandy Foot [3] |
2024 | Hanukkah Upside Down | Elissa Weissman (Omer Hoffmann, illustrator) [4] |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Stolen Child | Marsha Skrypuch |
2012 | Witchlanders | Lena Coakley |
2013 | The Stamp Collector | Jennifer Lanthier |
2014 | I Dare You Not to Yawn | Helene Boudreau |
2015 | Bog | Karen Krossing |
2016 | A Brush Full of Colour | Margriet Ruurs |
2017 | Dot to Dot in the Sky, Stories of the Aurora | Joan Marie Galat |
2018 | My Beautiful Birds | Suzanne Del Rizzo |
2019 | The Outlaw | Nancy Vo |
2020 | Small World | Ishta Mercurio-Wentworth |
2021 | Night Walk | Ellie Arscott & Sara O'Leary |
2022 | Tough Like Mum | Lana Button |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | A Kite's Flight | Maja Sereda |
2012 | Finding Aunt Joan | Jenny Hatton and Joan Rankin |
2013 | The Magyar Conspiracy | Neil Malherbe |
2014 | Chick-o-Sarus Rex | Lenore Appelhans |
2015 | A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina’s Dream | Kristy Dempsey |
2016 | The Safest Lie | Angela Cerrito |
2017 | El Jardín Mágico | Lemniscates |
2018 | Will You Read My Book with Me? | Lawrence Schimel |
2019 | The Night Lion | Sanne Dufft |
2020 | The Untold, Bloody, and Absolutely Real History of Switzerland | Laurie Theurer |
2021 | The Hungry Ghost | Helle Sidelmann Norup |
2022 | The Stuff Between the Stars | Sandra Nickel |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Saraswati's Way | Monika Schröder |
2012 | Orchards | Holly Thompson |
2013 | Samurai Awakening | Benjamin Martin |
2014 | Bonkers! | Natasha Sharma |
2015 | Petu Pumpkin: Tooth Troubles | Arundhati Venkatesh |
2016 | The Adventures of Squirky the Alien #3: Who is the Red Commander? | Melanie Lee |
2017 | Somewhere Among | Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu |
2018 | Yossi and the Monkeys | Jennifer MacLeod |
2019 | The Clever Tailor | Srividhya Venkat |
2020 | Indigo Girl | Suzanne Kamata |
2021 | The Last Garden | Rachel Ip |
2022 | Temple Alley Summer | Sachiko Kashiwaba |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Tall Story | Candy Gourlay |
2012 | Dark Parties | Sara Grant |
2013 | Fifteen Days Without a Head | Dave Cousins |
2014 | Shine | Candy Gourlay |
2015 | The Year of the Rat | Claire Furniss |
2016 | Mind Games | Teri Terry |
2017 | More of Me | Kathryn Evans |
2018 | Mold and the Poison Plot | Lorraine Gregory |
2019 | Orphan Monster Spy | Matt Killeen |
2020 | The Tide | Clare Welsh |
2021 | Boy, Everywhere | A. M. Dassu |
2022 | The Bear and her Book | Frances Tosdevin |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Mockingbird | Kathryn D. Erskine |
2012 | The Absolute Value of Mike | Kathryn D. Erskine |
2013 | BOY + BOT | Ame Dyckman |
2014 | Flame in the Mist | Kit Grindstaff |
2015 | Pandemic | Yvonne Ventresca |
2016 | Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine | Laurie Wallmark |
2017 | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Debbie Levy |
2018 | 7 Ate 9: The Untold Story | Tara Lazar |
2019 | Hawk Rising | Maria Gianferrari |
2020 | Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor | Laurie Wallmark |
2021 | Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away | Meg Medina |
2022 | A Place to Hang the Moon | Kate Albus |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | The Quiet Book | Deborah Underwood |
2012 | Won Ton - A Cat Tale Told in Haiku | Lee Wardlaw |
2013 | The One and Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate |
2014 | The Kite That Bridged Two Nations | Alexis O'Neill |
2015 | Bombs Over Bikini: The World’s First Nuclear Disaster | Connie Goldsmith |
2016 | Under a Painted Sky | Stacey Lee |
2017 | Antsy Ansel: Ansel Adams, a Life in Nature | Cindy Jenson-Elliott and Christy Hale |
2018 | The Lost Boys | Darcey Rosenblatt |
2019 | She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein | Lynn Fulton |
2020 | The Downstairs Girl | Stacey Heather Lee |
2021 | Efrén Divided | Ernesto Cisneros |
2022 | Hello, Star | Stephanie Lucianovic |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Selling Hope | Kristin O'Donnell Tubb |
2012 | Between Shades of Gray | Ruta Sepetys |
2013 | The Dark Unwinding | Sharon Cameron |
2014 | The 13th Sign | Kristin O'Donnell Tubb |
2015 | Faking Normal | Courtney Stevens |
2016 | Top Secret Files of History – WWII | Stephanie Bearce |
2017 | Salt to the Sea | Ruta Sepetys |
2018 | A Dog Like Daisy | Kristin O'Donnell Tubb |
2019 | A Hippy-Hoppy Toad | Peggy Archer |
2020 | Poetree | Shauna LaVoy Reynolds |
2021 | The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read | Rita Lorraine Hubbard |
2022 | I'll Meet You in Your Dreams | Jessica Young |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing | Ann M. Angel |
2012 | Bluefish | Pat Schmatz |
2013 | Creepy Carrots | Aaron Reynolds |
2014 | Sophie's Squash | Pat Zietlow Miller |
2015 | I am Cow, Hear Me Moo | Jill Esbaum |
2016 | Wherever You Go | Pat Zietlow Miller |
2017 | The Quickest Kid in Clarksville | Pat Zietlow Miller |
2018 | Blue Sky White Stars | Sarvinder Naberhaus |
2019 | The Rabbit Listened | Cori Doerrfeld |
2020 | Just Like Rube Goldberg | Sarah Aronson |
2021 | Old Rock (is not boring!) | Deb Pilutti |
2022 | Headstrong Hallie! The Story of Hallie Morse Daggett, the First Female "Fire Guard" | Aimee Bissonette |
2024 | Woven of the World | Katey Howes / Dinara Mirtalipova |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Bats at the Ball Game | Brian Lies |
2012 | Pearl | Jo Knowles |
2013 | See You at Harry's | Jo Knowles |
2014 | The Story of Fish & Snail | Deborah Freedman |
2015 | Feathers: Not Just for Flying | Melissa Stewart |
2016 | Fish in a Tree | Lynda Mullaly Hunt |
2017 | Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine | Heather Lang |
2018 | This House, Once | Deborah Freedman |
2019 | The Rough Patch | Brian Lies |
2020 | The Bridge Home | Padma Venkatraman |
2021 | Let's Dance! | Valerie Bolling |
2022 | Red, White, and Whole | Rajani LaRocca |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Sugar and Ice | Kate Messner |
2012 | Thelonious Mouse | Orel Protopopescu |
2013 | Capture the Flag | Kate Messner |
2014 | Crankenstein! | Samantha Berger |
2015 | Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (And Their Noses) are Saving The World | Nancy Castaldo |
2016 | The Truth About Twinkie Pie | Kat Yeh |
2017 | Saving Kate’s Flowers | Cindy Sommer |
2018 | Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel | Nancy Castaldo |
2019 | Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Dee Romito |
2020 | The Little Green Girl | Lisa Anchin |
2021 | The Boy and the Gorilla | Jackie Azúa Kramer |
2022 | Dumplings for Lili | Melissa Iwai |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Rosa's Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights | Jo S. Kittinger |
2012 | Cleopatra's Moon | Vicky Alvear Shecter |
2013 | Glory Be | Augusta Scattergood |
2014 | The Ballad of Jessie Pearl | Shannon Hitchcock |
2015 | Just a Drop of Water | Kerry Cerra |
2016 | Outer Space Bedtime Race | Rob Sanders |
2017 | Wish | Barbara O’Connor |
2018 | Mouse | Zebo Ludvicek |
2019 | Evangeline of the Bayou | Jan Eldredge |
2020 | The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng | Sophia Gholz |
2021 | The Little Blue Cottage | Kelly Jordan |
2022 | The Longest Letsgoboy | Derick Wilder |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Swoon At Your Own Risk | Sydney Salter Husseman |
2012 | Black & White: The Confrontation Between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor | Larry Brimner |
2013 | How to Baby Sit a Grandpa | Jean Reagan |
2014 | Tea REX | Molly Idle |
2015 | All Four Stars | Tara Dairman |
2016 | Audacity | Melanie Crowder |
2017 | Space Boy and the Space Pirate | Dian Curtis Regan |
2018 | If Your Monster Won’t Go to Bed | Denise Vega |
2019 | The 11:11 Wish | Kim Tomsic |
2020 | Truman | Jean Reidy |
2021 | Midnight at the Barclay Hotel | Fleur Bradley |
2022 | Watercress | Andrea Y. Wang |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | Mostly Monsterly | Tammi Sauer |
2012 | Mine! | Patrice Barton |
2013 | Chained | Lynne Kelly |
2014 | Army Camels: Texas Ships of the Desert | Doris Fisher |
2015 | Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood | Varsha Bajaj |
2016 | Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton | Don Tate |
2017 | Tiny Stitches – The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas | Gwendolyn Hooks |
2018 | The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist | Cynthia Levinson |
2019 | The Boy, the Boat, and the Beast | Samantha Clark |
2020 | Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl's Brave Fight to Walk | Meredith Davis and Rebeka Uwitonze |
2021 | Dusk Explorers | Lindsay Leslie |
2022 | Dark and Shallow Lies | Ginny Myers Sain |
Year | Title | Author |
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2011 | A Bedtime for Bear | Bonny J. Becker |
2012 | The Friendship Doll | Kirby Larson |
2013 | Pickle | Kim Baker |
2014 | Once Upon A Memory | Nina Laden |
2015 | Be a Change Maker: How to Start Something That Matters | Laurie Ann Thompson |
2016 | If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, DON’T! | Elise Parsley |
2017 | The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle by Janet Fox | Janet S. Fox |
2018 | The Book of Mistakes | Corinna Luyken |
2019 | Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have A Horse | Marcy Campbell |
2020 | Ghost Cat | Kevan Atteberry |
2021 | The Starkeeper | Faith Pray |
2022 | The Last Cuentista | Donna Barba Higuera |
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