2016 Golden Kite Winners

WINNERS

FICTION

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (HarperCollins)

MIDDLE GRADE/YOUNG READER FICTION
The Detective's Assistant by Kate Hannigan (Little, Brown)

NONFICTION
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle (Atheneum)

PICTURE BOOK ILLUSTRATION

Marvelous Cornelius by John Parra, written by Phil Bildner (Chronicle Books)

PICTURE BOOK TEXT

Boats for Papa by Jessixa Bagley (Macmillan)

SID FLEISCHMAN HUMOR AWARD
Teddy Mars: Almost a World Record Breaker

by Molly B. Burnham (HarperCollins)

HONOR BOOKS

FICTION The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes (Dial Books)	MIDDLE GRADE/YOUNG READER FICTION Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow Books)	NONFICTION Mesmerized by Mara Rockliff, illustrated by Iacopo Bruno (Candlewick)
PICTURE BOOK ILLUSTRATION Thomas Jefferson Grows a Nation by Stacy Innerst, written by Peggy Thomas (Calkins Creek)	PICTURE BOOK TEXT Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder, illustrated by Julie Morstad (Chronicle Books)

Winner of the Lee Bennet Hopkins Poetry Award

Forest Has a Song by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, illustrated by Robbin Gourley
(Clarion)

Honor Books

Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
by Irene Latham, illustrated by Anna Wadham (Millbrook Press)

Feeding the Flying Fanellis by Kate Hosford, illustrated by Cosei Kawa
(Carolrhoda Books)