The winners and honorees of the 2005 Golden Kite Awards, sponsored by
the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and given for
the most outstanding children's books published during that year by
members of the Society, are:
The winners will have to wait until Sunday, August 7, to receive their statuettes and plaques. The Golden Kite Luncheon takes place during the Society's Annual Conference on Writing and Illustrating for Children in Los Angeles.
- Fiction Award Winner: A Room on Lorelei Street by Mary E. Pearson (Holt)
- Fiction Honor Book: Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles (Harcourt)
- Nonfiction Award Winner: Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
- Nonfiction Honor Book: The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students by Suzanne Jurmain (Houghton Mifflin)
- Picture Book Text Award Winner: Dona Flor by Pat Mora, illustrated by Raul Colon (Knopf)
- Picture Book Text Honor Book: Grandma's Pride by Becky Birtha, illustrated by Colin Bootman (Albert Whitman & Co.)
- Picture Book Illustration Award Winner: Baby Bear's Chairs by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Harcourt)
- Picture Book Illustration Honor Book: Cinderella written and illustrated by Barbara McClintock (Scholastic)
The winners will have to wait until Sunday, August 7, to receive their statuettes and plaques. The Golden Kite Luncheon takes place during the Society's Annual Conference on Writing and Illustrating for Children in Los Angeles.