2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award

Awards List

Body/Mind/Spirit

Knees: The Mixed Up World of a Boy with Dyslexia
(Gold Medal Winner)
Vanita Oelschlager

Book W/Merchandise

The Fabulous Adventures of Olly Oogleberry: Mission to Save Earth
(Gold Medal Winner)
Lou Hughes

First Book-Chapter

Grounded for Good
(Gold Medal Winner)
Dawn Daria

Holiday

Twas the Night Before Christmas
(Gold Medal Winner)
Clement C. Moore
  • / General Fiction
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Juvenile Fic-Er/1st Chap

Zeke Meeks Vs the Putrid Puppet Pals
(Gold Medal Winner)
D.L. Green

Multicultural-Picture Bk

I Came from the Water: One Haitian Boy's Incredible Tale of Survival
(Gold Medal Winner)
Vanita Oelschlager

Picture Book

My Hands Sing the Blues
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jeanne Walker Harvey

Good People Everywhere
(Gold Medal Winner)
Lynea Gillen

Picture Book-4-8 Yrs.

Little Lamb, Have You Any Wool?
(Gold Medal Winner)
Isabel Minhos Martins

Picture Book-Preschool

Picture My Day
(Gold Medal Winner)
Severine Cordier

Pre-Teen Fic-Hist/Cltrl

Outcasts of River Falls
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jacqueline Guest

Pre-Teen Fiction

Run, Marco, Run
(Gold Medal Winner)
Norma Charles

Y/A Fic-Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Edge of Time
(Gold Medal Winner)
Susan M. MacDonald

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
(Gold Medal Winner)
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Y/A Fic-Horror/Myst

Immortal Longings: A Vampire Novel
(Gold Medal Winner)
Diane Dekelb-Rittenhouse

Y/A Fic-Rel/Spiritual

Sliding Into the New Year
(Gold Medal Winner)
Dori Weinstein

Y/A Fiction-Mature Issue

How to Tend a Grave
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jocelyn Shipley

Y/A Fiction/General

The Green-Eyed Queen of Suicide City
(Gold Medal Winner)
Kevin Marc Fournier

Youth Author (Under 18)

Freddie Loses His Game
(Gold Medal Winner)
Dorian Clay

Alphabet/Counting Book

Over in the Forest: Come and Take a Peek
(Silver Medal Winner)
Marianne Berkes / Marianne Collins Berkes

Body/Mind/Spirit

The Hero in Me
(Silver Medal Winner)
Susan Fitzsimonds

Book W/Merchandise

Care for Our World Kit
(Silver Medal Winner)
Karen Robbins

Comic/Graphic Novel

Egghead
(Silver Medal Winner)
Karla Oceanak

First Book-Chapter

Pig & Toad: Best Friends Forever
(Silver Medal Winner)
Dayle Quigley

Illustrator

Only Cows Allowed!
(Silver Medal Winner)
Lynn Plourde

Juvenile Fic-Er/1st Chap

The Computer's Nerd
(Silver Medal Winner)
W. Royce Adams

Nonfiction-Picture Book

Road Trip to the Parks
(Silver Medal Winner)
Michael Dilorenzo; Jennifer Julich

Picture Book-4-8 Yrs.

Kokocat, Inside and Out
(Silver Medal Winner)
Lynda Graham-Barber

No!
(Silver Medal Winner)
Marta Altes

Picture Book-Preschool

Little Seeds
(Silver Medal Winner)
Charles Ghigna

Pop-Up/Cut-Out

Little Red Riding Hood
(Silver Medal Winner)
Kees Moerbeek

Pre-Teen Fic-Hist/Cltrl

Day of the Cyclone: Disaster Strikes, Book 7
(Silver Medal Winner)
Penny Draper

Pre-Teen Fiction

Calling Him Dad
(Silver Medal Winner)
Virgina Kamhi

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth
(Silver Medal Winner)
Victoria A. Brownworth

Y/A Fic-Horror/Myst

Mystery of the Tempest
(Silver Medal Winner)
Sam Cameron

Body/Mind/Spirit

And Still They Bloom: A Family's Journey of Loss and Healing
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Amy Rovere

Children's Poetry

And the Crowd Goes Wild!: A Global Gathering of Sports Poems
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Carol-Ann Hoyte

Health

When Billy Went Bald
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Julie C. Morse

Eartha Gets Well
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Kristi Falk

Holiday

Emma's American Chinese New Year
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Amy Meadows

Pre-Teen Fic-Fantasy

Quest for the Scorpion's Jewel
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Amy Green

Pre-Teen Fiction

Earthquake Surprise
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Linda Salisbury

Y/A Fic-Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Askari
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Mikko Azul

Drake's Story Stone
(Bronze Medal Winner)
T. Pumphrey

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

Freedom Bound
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jean Rae Baxter

Y/A Fiction-Mature Issue

Girl Fight
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Faye Harnest

Y/A Fiction/General

Shanghaied
(Bronze Medal Winner)
David Paul Collins

Youth Author (Under 18)

Wacko Academy
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Faith Wilkins

Award Categories

Activity-Games/Crafts

Alphabet/Counting Book

Audiobook

Board Book

Body/Mind/Spirit

Book W/Merchandise

Book W/Music

Children's Book W/Audio

Children's Poetry

Comic/Graphic Novel

Environment

First Book

First Book-Chapter

First Book-Picture

Graphic Novel

Health

Holiday

Illustrator

Juvenile Fic-Er/1st Chap

Multicultural Fiction

Multicultural Nonfiction

Multicultural-Picture Bk

Nonfiction Picture Book

Nonfiction-Animals/Pets

Nonfiction-Picture Book

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