From: Nicole Deming <Nicole.Deming_at_cbcbooks.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:15:14 -0500

Hello!

A few folks mentioned that they were having trouble with the 2012 Children’s Choice Book Awards finalist attachment, so here’s the full list!

**Voting opens online March 14 at bookweekonline.com and runs through May 3.** Learn

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children’s choice book awards 2012 finalists

KINDERGARTEN TO SECOND GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR


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Bailey by Harry Bliss (Scholastic)

Dot by Patricia Intriago (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan)

Pirates Don’t Take Baths by John Segal (Philomel/Penguin)

Three Hens and a Peacock by Lester L. Laminack, illustrated by Henry Cole (Peachtree)

Zombie in Love by Kelly DiPucchio, illustrated by Scott Campbell (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)

THIRD GRADE TO FOURTH GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR


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Bad Kitty Meets the Baby by Nick Bruel (Roaring Brook/Macmillan)

A Funeral in the Bathroom: And Other School Bathroom Poems by Kalli Dakos, illustrated by Mark Beech (Albert Whitman)

The Monstrous Book of Monsters by Libby Hamilton, illustrated by Jonny Duddle and Aleksei Bitskoff (Candlewick)

Sidekicks by Dan Santat (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)

Squish #1: Super Amoeba by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House)

FIFTH GRADE TO SIXTH GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR


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Bad Island by Doug TenNapel (GRAPHIX/Scholastic)

How to Survive Anything by Rachel Buchholz (National Geographic)

Lost & Found by Shaun Tan (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog by Garth Stein (HarperCollins)

TEEN CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR


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Clockwork Prince: The Infernal Devices, Book Two by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (Little, Brown)

Divergent by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins)

Passion: A Fallen Novel by Lauren Kate (Delacorte/Random House)

Perfect by Ellen Hopkins (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)

AUTHOR OF THE YEAR


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Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever (Amulet Books/Abrams)

Christopher Paolini for Inheritance (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)

James Patterson for Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life (Little, Brown)

Rick Riordan for The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, Book 2) (Disney Hyperion)

Rachel Renйe Russell for Dork Diaries 3: Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster)

ILLUSTRATOR OF THE YEAR


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Felecia Bond for If You Give a Dog a Donut (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)

Eric Carle for The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse (Philomel/Penguin)

Anna Dewdney Llama Llama Home With Mama (Viking/Penguin)

Victoria Kann for Silverlicious (HarperCollins)

Brian Selznick for Wonderstruck (Scholastic)

Children and teens may enter their votes individually, or you can tally and enter kids' votes from your classroom or library as a group.

Last year, over 500,000 children and teens voted for their favorite books. Encourage all the young readers in your life to make their voices heard and help us reach 1 million votes this year!

Sample tweets/Facebook posts that will help us spread the word:

· Voting for _at_CBCBook's 5th Annual Children's Choice Book Awards opens online March 14! http://bit.ly/9RMoeI #CCBAs

· by _at_ is a @CBCBook 2012 Children’s Choice Book Awards Finalist! Voting opens March 14! #CCBAs http://bit.ly/bYT2P

· I just downloaded my free _at_CBCBook Children's Book Week "It's A Bookmark" by Lane Smith here! #CBW http://bit.ly/afjiaR

· David Wiesner's free _at_CBCBook 2012 Children's Book Week poster is now available here! http://bit.ly/cqZXeq

· Join _at_CBCBook in celebration of the 93rd annual Children's Book Week, May 7-13, 2012! #CBW http://bit.ly/bYT2P

· Celebrate books and reading with _at_CBCBook May 7-13, 2012! #CBW http://bit.ly/bYT2P

Check out the 2012 Digital Toolkit

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Winners will be announced live during the Children ’s Choice Book Awards Gala on May 7 in NYC. For the first time this year, footage of the entire ceremony, featuring award presentations by kid lit heavyweights Jarrett Krosoczka, Marc Brown, Mary Pope Osborne, S.E. Hinton, and many more, will be available in its entirety on the CBC site on May 8. Host a Gala viewing party in your school, library, bookstore, or home!


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