2014 Moonbeam Children's Book Award

Awards List

Activity-Games/Crafts

Me and Giant Kangaroo
(Gold Medal Winner)
M.H. Clark

And Thenstory Starters, Volume II
(Gold Medal Winner)
M.H. Clark

Alphabet/Counting Book

ABC's from the Whippety Wood: The Magic in Nature
(Silver Medal Winner)
Pamela Harden

Albert the Muffin-Maker
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Eleanor May

Children's Poetry

Earf
(Gold Medal Winner)
Mark Bailen; Leaf Bailen

First Book-Chapter

The Sword of Demelza
(Gold Medal Winner)
J.E. Rogers

The Illuminator's Gift
(Silver Medal Winner)
Alina Sayre

Call of the Sun Child
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Francesca G. Varela

First Book-Picture

Pairs - Twins and Other Twosomes
(Gold Medal Winner)
Evan Welty

The Cow That Mooed Boo
(Silver Medal Winner)
Catherine Leininger

Health

Woolfred Cannot Eat Dandelions
(Gold Medal Winner)
Claudine Crangle

Every Turtle Counts
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Sara Hoagland Hunter

Illustrator

My Yellow Balloon
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Tiffany Papageorge

Juvenile Fic-Er/1st Chap

Odus and the Long Way Home
(Gold Medal Winner)
Dare Delano

The Case of the Buried Bones
(Silver Medal Winner)
Lewis B. Montgomery

The Pinkaboos, Bitterly and the Giant Problem
(Silver Medal Winner)
Laura Gosselin; Jake Gosselin

Izzy and Poe
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Anita Felicelli

Multicultural-Picture Bk

How Chile Came to New Mexico
(Gold Medal Winner)
Rudolfo A. Anaya

Nonfiction-Animals/Pets

On Kiki's Reef
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Carol Malnor

Nonfiction-Picture Book

The Pullman Porter
(Gold Medal Winner)
Vanita Oelschlager

Picture Book

What Do You Do with an Idea?
(Gold Medal Winner)
Kobi Yamada

Classic Bedtime Stories
(Gold Medal Winner)
Scott Gustafson

There Are No Moose on This Island
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Stephanie Calmenson

Picture Book-4-8 Yrs.

Before We Eat
(Gold Medal Winner)
Pat Brisson

The Cow in Patrick O'Shanahan's Kitchen
(Silver Medal Winner)
Diana Prichard

The Swamp Where Gator Hides
(Silver Medal Winner)
Marianne Berkes / Marianne Collins Berkes

Picture Book-Preschool

Your Red Shoes
(Gold Medal Winner)
John Hutton

Pre-Teen Fic-Fantasy

The Silver Rings
(Gold Medal Winner)
Samuel Valentine

The Circle
(Silver Medal Winner)
Cindy Cipriano

Pre-Teen Fic-Hist/Cltrl

A Bird on Water Street
(Gold Medal Winner)
Elizabeth O. Dulemba

Red Wolf
(Silver Medal Winner)
Jennifer Dance

The Boy Who Ran
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Michael Selden

Pre-Teen Fic-Mature Issu

Spillworthy
(Gold Medal Winner)
Johanna Harness

Eleven
(Silver Medal Winner)
Tom Rogers

Bird Face
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Cynthia T. Toney

Pre-Teen Fic-Mystery

Camp Secret
(Gold Medal Winner)
Melissa Mahle; Kathryn Dennis

Deadwood
(Silver Medal Winner)
Kell Andrews

Dagger and Dash Enter Three Witches
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Peggy Schaedler

Pre-Teen Fiction

Red River Raging
(Gold Medal Winner)
Penny Draper

Christmas Nevermore
(Silver Medal Winner)
Marc Cadieux; Herve Bastien

In His Father's Footsteps
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Bev Irwin

Reading Skills/Literacy

The Word Burglar
(Silver Medal Winner)
Chris Cander

Spaghetti Makes Words!
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Paula Hollins

Religion/Spirituality

When God Was a Little Girl
(Gold Medal Winner)
David Weiss

Series-Fiction/Chapter

Mystery of the Ballerina Ghost
(Gold Medal Winner)
Janelle Diller

Midnight at Moonglow's
(Bronze Medal Winner)
K.C. Sherwood

Terror at Deadwood Lake
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Lane Walker

Series-Fiction/Picture

When Jungle Jim Comes to Visit Fred the Snake
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Peter B. Cotton

Y/A Fic-Fantasy/Sci-Fi

The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
(Gold Medal Winner)
E.K. Johnston

Merlin's Blade
(Silver Medal Winner)
Robert Treskillard

Martyr
(Bronze Medal Winner)
A.R. Kahler

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

Is It Night or Day?
(Gold Medal Winner)
Fern Schumer Chapman

Morven and the Horse Clan
(Silver Medal Winner)
Luanne Armstrong

The Comic Book War
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jacqueline Guest

Desta: To Whom the Lions Bow
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Getty T. Ambau

Y/A Fic-Horror/Myst

Vision
(Gold Medal Winner)
Lisa Amowitz

Forest of Whispers
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jennifer Murgia

Y/A Fic-Rel/Spiritual

Shanti and the Magic Mandala
(Bronze Medal Winner)
F.T. Camargo

Y/A Fiction-Mature Issue

Teeny Little Grief Machines
(Gold Medal Winner)
Linda Oatman

Jamie's Got a Gun
(Silver Medal Winner)
Gail Sidonie Sobat

Bereft
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Craig Laurance Gidney

Y/A Fiction/General

Damsel Distressed
(Gold Medal Winner)
Kelsey Macke

Drifting
(Silver Medal Winner)
Lisa R. Nelson

84 Ribbons
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Paddy Eger

Youth Author (Under 18)

Remember Me
(Gold Medal Winner)
Melanie Batchelor

The Perpetual Papers of the Pack of Pets
(Silver Medal Winner)
Stanley and Katrina

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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