US CHILDREN’S CHOICE BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Kids Vote Rick Riordan (left) Author of the Year and David Wiesner Illustrator of the Year
NEW YORK, NY — May 2, 2011 — The Children’s Book Council (CBC) in association with
Every Child A Reader, the CBC Foundation, announced the winners of the fourth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards at a gala in New York City this evening as part of Children’s Book Week (May 2-8, 2011). Children across the country voted in record numbers for their favorite books, author, and illustrator at bookstores, school libraries, and atwww.BookWeekOnline.com

, casting over 500,000 votes.

The Children’s Choice Book Award winners are as follows:

Author of the Year

Rick Riordan

for The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, Book 1) (Disney-Hyperion)

Illustrator of the Year

David Wiesner

for Art & Max (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year

Little Pink Pup

by Johanna Kerby (Putnam/Penguin)

Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year

Lunch Lady and the Summer Camp Shakedown

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Knopf/Random

House)

Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year

The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1)

by Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion)

Teen Choice Book of the Year

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by John Green and David Levithan (Dutton/Penguin)