The winners of the 2006 Golden Kite Awards, sponsored by the Society
of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators for excellence in
children's literature, have gone to:
- Fiction: Firegirl by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Nonfiction: The Adventures of Marco Polo by Russell Freedman (Arthhur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
- Picture Book Text: Jazz by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Christopher Myers (Holiday House)
- Picture Book Illustration: Not Afraid of Dogs, illustrated by Larry Day, written by Susanna Pitzer (Walker)
For honor book and other prize winners, please visit the SCBWI Web site.
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The 39 winners of the 2006 James Patterson PageTurner Awards, given to people and organizations who "go
to extraordinary lengths to spread the joy of books and reading across
the country," include many familiar bookstores, libraries and
organizations.
The $100,000 PageTurner of the Year went to the Washington Center for
the Book, Seattle, which started the "one city, one book" program. The
$50,000 PageTurner Champion Awards went to several organizations such as 826 National,
Dave Eggers' group that helps improve children's reading and writing
skills, and First Book, which aims to give the first book to
underprivileged children.
$5,000 PageTurner Award winners included:
- Elaine Petrocelli, Book Passage, Corte Madera and San Francisco, Calif., for "working day and night to keep books and bookselling exciting as well as effective."
- Emma Rodgers, Black Images Book Bazaar, Dallas, Tex., for helping to "conceive of the Romance Slam Jam, a unique annual conference that allows black romance writers to showcase their work and possibly even win an eponymous Emma Award, which honors excellence in romance action."
- Jill Lamar, director of the Discover Great New Writers program at Barnes & Noble, for aiming "to get the word out on new literary authors that the public may not be aware of."
- Kathy Patrick, founder of Beauty and the Book, Jefferson, Tex., and the Pulpwood Queens book club, for "her love of reading and determination to have fun."
- Kendra Cullin, a category marketing specialist at Borders, who "is always willing to help out, contribute ideas and is an irreplaceable employee who knows every nook and cranny of the book marketing world."
- Mary Yockey, a buyer at Anderson's Bookshop, Naperville, Ill., for her "hard work and dedication to getting interesting and much loved books onto the shelves--and authors in the stores (even our own James Patterson has entertained a packed house there)" and for participating in the Book Angel Project.
- Paul Ingram, book buyer at Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Iowa, for spending "decades bringing national and international high profile authors to the store--as well as promoting these events on a local radio program called Live from Prairie Lights--giving customers a chance to meet and learn from their favorite writers."
- The Poisoned Pen, Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz., "which serves as an amazing book and author event resource to the surrounding area."
- R.J. Julia Bookshop, Madison, Conn., for its events, writing workshops, children's events, author visits, and owner Roxanne Coady's regular appearances on Connecticut Public Radio.
- Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance for its Authors Round the South, the Spoken Word and SIBA Book Awards programs. "While their outreach is immeasurable, book lovers everywhere are touched everyday by SIBA's passion to spread the joy of reading."