2015 Moonbeam Children's Book Award

Awards List

First Book-Chapter

Azalea, Unschooled
(Gold Medal Winner)
Liza Kleinman; Brook Gideon

First Book-Picture

Momma Tree
(Gold Medal Winner)
Charles M. Long

Illustrator

The Man Made of Stars
(Gold Medal Winner)
M.H. Clark

Multicultural-Picture Bk

Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories
(Gold Medal Winner)
Phuoc Thi Minh Tran

Picture Book-4-8 Yrs.

Hungry Coyote
(Gold Medal Winner)
Cheryl Blackford

Picture Book-Preschool

My Kiss Won't Miss
(Gold Medal Winner)
Lesley Dahlseng

Pop-Up/Cut-Out

Silly Haunted House
(Gold Medal Winner)
Janet Lawler

Pre-Teen Fic-Fantasy

The Three Thorns
(Gold Medal Winner)
Michael Gibney

Pre-Teen Fic-Hist/Cltrl

The Dead House
(Gold Medal Winner)
Allen Johnson Jr.

Pre-Teen Fic-Mystery

The Case of the Cursed Dodo
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jake G. Panda

Pre-Teen Fiction

Trash Mountain
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jane Yolen

Series-Fiction/Chapter

The Ghost of Stonebridge Lane
(Gold Medal Winner)
Roberta Hoffer

Series-Fiction/Picture

Monster Needs a Christmas Tree
(Gold Medal Winner)
Paul Czajak

Y/A Fic-Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Shadow of Deception
(Gold Medal Winner)
Sophia L. Johnson

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

Surviving Santiago
(Gold Medal Winner)
Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Y/A Fic-Horror/Myst

The Forlorned
(Gold Medal Winner)
Angela Townsend

Y/A Fiction-Mature Issue

Maxine Wore Black
(Gold Medal Winner)
Nora Olson

Y/A Fiction/General

Infandous
(Gold Medal Winner)
Elana K. Arnold

Board Book

Where's My Hug?
(Silver Medal Winner)
Sally Clark

Body/Mind/Spirit

Stickley Sticks to It!
(Silver Medal Winner)
Brenda Miles; Steve Mack

Book W/Merchandise

A Reindeer Tradition
(Silver Medal Winner)
Chanda Bell

First Book-Chapter

Muddy Madeleine Meets an Arach-A-Doo
(Silver Medal Winner)
Amanda Stone Norton

Juvenile Fic-Er/1st Chap

Savanna's Treasure
(Silver Medal Winner)
Chris J. Behrens

Little Kids, Big Voices
(Silver Medal Winner)
Taneeka Bourgeois-Dasilva

Picture Book

The Coal Thief
(Silver Medal Winner)
Alane Adams

Picture Book-4-8 Yrs.

Music Is for Everyone
(Silver Medal Winner)
Jill Barber

Noah Chases the Wind
(Silver Medal Winner)
Michelle Worthington

Picture Book-Preschool

Ice in the Jungle
(Silver Medal Winner)
Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar

Pre-Teen Fic-Fantasy

The Fog of Forgetting
(Silver Medal Winner)
G.A. Morgan

Archie Wilson & the Nuckelavee
(Silver Medal Winner)
Mark A. Cooper

Pre-Teen Fic-Hist/Cltrl

Through Flood and Fire
(Silver Medal Winner)
Anne Patton

Pre-Teen Fic-Mature Issu

Echo and the Magical Whispers
(Silver Medal Winner)
Paul Haston

Pre-Teen Fic-Mystery

The Mystery at Grizzly Graveyard
(Silver Medal Winner)
Carole Marsh

Pre-Teen Fiction

Secrets
(Silver Medal Winner)
Barbara Becker Holstein

Reading Skills/Literacy

The Reading Promise
(Silver Medal Winner)
Troy Kent

Read to Me!
(Silver Medal Winner)
Chris Bridge

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

Halley
(Silver Medal Winner)
Faye Gibbons

Y/A Fic-Horror/Myst

Tortured Souls
(Silver Medal Winner)
Kimber Leigh Wheaton

Y/A Fic-Rel/Spiritual

Just Myrto
(Silver Medal Winner)
Laurie Gray

Y/A Fiction-Mature Issue

89 Walls
(Silver Medal Winner)
Katie Pierson

Y/A Fiction/General

Eco Warrior
(Silver Medal Winner)
Philip Roy

Alphabet/Counting Book

Numbers!: Take the Dog Out
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Lynne Dempsey

Board Book

Sleepy Bee
(Bronze Medal Winner)
John Hutton

Body/Mind/Spirit

Go Away Bad Mood
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Nayera Salam

Children's Poetry

The Lollipop Garden
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Karen J. Roberts

Environment

Kirby's Journal: Backyard Butterfly Magic
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Charlotte Caldwell

First Book-Chapter

The Ruby Brooch of Atlantis
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Monica Lasarre

Juvenile Fic-Er/1st Chap

The On-Again, Off-Again Friend: Standing Up for Friends
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Wiley Blevins

Picture Book

Wait for Me
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Suzanne J. Faber

Picture Book-4-8 Yrs.

The Little Mouse Santi
(Bronze Medal Winner)
David Eugene Ray

Pop-Up/Cut-Out

Easter Numbers
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jennifer Preston Chushcoff; Yevgeniya Preston Yeretskaya

Pre-Teen Fic-Fantasy

The Monster Realm
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Nara Duffie

Pre-Teen Fic-Hist/Cltrl

The One and Only
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Valerie Tripp

Pre-Teen Fic-Mature Issu

Bullies, Coasters, Hermits, and Heroes
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Suse Wilcox

Pre-Teen Fic-Mystery

Frankie DuPont and the Mystery of Enderby Manor
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Julie Anne Grasso

Pre-Teen Fiction

Monet's Fun Camp
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Debra Tracy

Series-Fiction/Chapter

Fish Boy
(Bronze Medal Winner)
M.G. Higgins

Y/A Fic-Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Guardian
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Natasha Deen

A Time to Die
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Nadine Brandes

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

The Freelancer
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Brenda Hasse

Y/A Fic-Horror/Myst

Pieces of Revenge
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Valia Lind

Y/A Fic-Rel/Spiritual

The Misfortune, Manifestation, and Revelation of Onesiphorus Wood
(Bronze Medal Winner)
C.E. Danielson

Y/A Fiction-Mature Issue

Forever Julia
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jodi Carmichael

Youth Author (Under 18)

The Sparks
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Kyle Prue

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

Award Years

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