Given to fifteen books that represent excellence in the field of children’s literature, the Crystal Kites Awards are peer-selected, voted on by SCBWI members from local regions. Congratulations to our wonderful 2018 winners for books published in 2017, listed here by regional division.
For more information about submitting to the Crystal Kites, go to the official award description page here.
Atlantic (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Wash DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland)
7 ATE 9: THE UNTOLD STORY by Tara Lazar
Australia, New Zealand
The Scared Book by Debra Tidball
California, Hawaii
Lost Boys by Darcey Rosenblatt
Canada
My Beautiful Birds by Suzanne Del Rizzo
Internationals Other
Will You Read My Book with Me by Lawrence Schimel
Mid South Division (Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana)
A Dog Like Daisy by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
Middle East, India, Asia
Yossi and the Monkeys by Jennifer MacLeod
Mid West Division (Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio)
Blue Sky White Stars by Sarvinder Naberhaus
New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island)
This House, Once by Deborah Freedman
New York
Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel by Nancy Castaldo
South East Division (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama
Mouse by Zebo Ludvicek
South West Division (Nevada, Arizona, Utah, southern Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico)
If Your Monster Won’t Go to Bed by Denise Vega
Texas, Oklahoma
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson
UK, Ireland
Mold and the Poison Plot by Lorraine Gregory
Western Division (Washington, Oregon, Alaska, northern Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota)
The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
