Award Winners:
Outstanding Work of Fiction - Pam Munoz Ryan for Echo
Outstanding Picture Book - Antoinette Portis for Wait
Excellence in Illustration - Vincent X. Kirsch for Gingerbread for Liberty! written by Mara Rockliff.
Peggy Miller Award for Young Adult Literature - Noelle Stevenson for Nimona
Dorothy C. McKenzie Award for Distinguished Service to the Field of Children's Literature - Marjorie Arnett, Educator and coordinator of the Charlotte S. Huck Children's Literature Festival.