| Children's Fiction Winners |
The Utah Children's Fiction Book Award was begun in 1980 to
encourage the love of reading on the part of children and to
introduce children (and the adults in their lives) to good
books by outstanding authors. The original lists contained
20 nominated titles including both fiction and nonfiction
books for children in grades 3-6. Today, the nominations
list includes only fiction titles. |
- 2007 Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
- 2006 Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
- 2005 City of Ember by Jeanne Du Prau
- 2004 Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
- 2003 Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
- 2002 Midnight Magic by Avi
- 2001 Secret of Platform 13 by Eva lbbotson
- 2000 Frindle by Andrew Clements
- 1999 Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret
- 1998 Someone Was Watching by David Patneaude
- 1997 Watchdog and the Coyotes by Bill Wallace
- 1996 Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn
- 1995 Ghosts of Mercy Manor by Betty Ren Wright
- 1994 Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
- 1993 Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn
- 1992 A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
- 1991 Matilda by Roald Dahl
- 1990 This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us by Gary Greer
- 1989 Trapped in Death Cave by Bill Wallace
- 1988 Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
- 1987 Skinny Jones by Barbara Park
- 1986 Just Me and the Weirdos by Jane Sutton
- 1985 Stone Fox by John Gardiner
- 1984 Lost in the Devil's Desert by Gloris Skurzynski
- 1983 The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling
- 1982 Superfudge by Judy Blume
- 1981 Eddie's Menagerie by Carolyn Haywood
- 1981 The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring by John Bellairs
- 1980 Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
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| Informational Winners |
The Utah Children's Informational Book Award was launched
by CLAU in 1986 as a separate book award program, the
purpose being to promote outstanding titles in nonfiction
and informational books for children in grades 3-6. The
nominations list originally included 5-12 titles. Today, the
list consists of 10 titles. |
- 2007 Life-Size Dinosaurs by David Bergen
- 2006 Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
- 2005 How Angel Peterson Got his Name by Gary Paulson
- 2004 Leonardo's Horse by Jean Fritz
- 2003 Tiger Math : Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger by Ann Whitehead
- 2002 The Snake Scientist by Sy Montgomery
- 2001 If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz
- 2000 A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick
- 1999 Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki
- 1998 It's a Spoon, Not a Shovel by Caralyn Buehner
- 1997 Never Take a Pig to Lunch and Other Poems About the Fun of Eating by Nadine Bernard Westcott
- 1996 Mummies and Their Mysteries by Charlotte Wilcox
- 1995 Sadako by Eleanor Coerr
- 1994 Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross Sections by Richard Platt
- 1993 Dolphin Adventure by Wayne Grover
- 1992 Ant Colony by H. Fischner-Nagel
- 1991 Bill Peet : An Autobiography by Bill Peet
- 1990 How To Make Pop-Ups by Joan Irvine
- 1989 Your Amazing Senses by Ron Van Der Meer
- 1988 How Much Is A Million by David Schwartz
- 1987 ( There were No Nominees or Winners for this category in 1987 )
- 1986 Great Painters by Piero Ventura
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| Children's Picture Winners |
The Utah Children's Picture Book Award was added in 1995
to encourage children from kindergarten through 3rd grade to
read or have read to them picture books. The first winner
was announced in 1996. |
- 2007 Where's the Dragon by Jason Hook
- 2006 Some Dogs Do by Jez Alborough
- 2005 Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
- 2004 Bertie was a Watchdog by Rick Walton
- 2003 Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell
- 2002 Sitting Ducks by Michael Bedard
- 2001 Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
- 2000 A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
- 1999 Watch Out! Big Bro's Coming! by Jez Alborough
- 1998 Anansi and the Talking Melon by Eric Kimmel
- 1997 A Job for Wittilda by Caralyn Buehner
- 1996 Two of Everything : A Chinese Folk Tale by Lily Toy Hong
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| Children's Poetry Winners |
The Utah Children's Poetry Book Award was introduced in 2001, with the
first winner being announced in 2002. |
- 2007 Hotel Deep: Light Verse from Dark Water by Kurt Cyrus
- 2006 Rolling in the Aisles by Bruce Lansky
- 2005 Giant Children by Brod Bagert
- 2004 The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Cafe by Nancy Willard
- 2003 Insectlopedia : Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
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| Young Adults' Winners |
The first Utah Young Adults' Book Award winner was announced in 1991.
This award focuses on fiction books that are appropriate for Grades 7-12. |
- 2007 The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
- 2006 Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
- 2005 Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- 2004 Stormbreaker by Anthony Harowitz
- 2003 Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
- 2002 Downsiders by Neal Schusterman
- 2001 Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories by Richard Peck
- 2000 Little Sister by Kara Dalkey
- 1999 SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting
- 1998 Merlin Effect by T.A. Barron
- 1997 In My Father's House by Ann Rinaldi
- 1996 Nothing to Fear by Jackie French Koller
- 1995 Amazing Gracie by A. E. Cannon
- 1994 True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
- 1993 Sniper by Theodore Taylor
- 1992 Don't Look Back by Lois Duncan
- 1991 Other Side of Dark by Joan Nixon
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