The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals has released shortlists for the 2016 Carnegie Medal (author of a book for children and young people) and the Kate Greenaway Medal (illustrator of a book for children and young people), which are judged by a panel of expert librarians. Winners will each receive £500 (about $710) worth of books to donate to their local library and a specially commissioned golden medal. Since 2000, the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal has been awarded the £5,000 (about $7,080) Colin Mears Award cash prize and, from 2016, the Carnegie Medal winner will also be awarded an equal amount of prize money from the same fund. Winners will be announced June 20.
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Winners of the 2015 Golden Kite Awards, presented to children's book authors and artists by their peers and sponsored by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, are:
Fiction: Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (HarperCollins)
Middle grade/young reader fiction: The Detective's Assistant by Kate Hannigan (Little, Brown)
Nonfiction: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle (Atheneum)
Picture book illustration: Marvelous Cornelius by John Parra, written by Phil Bildner (Chronicle)
Picture book text: Boats for Papa by Jessixa Bagley (Macmillan)
Honor Books
Fiction: The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes (Dial)
Middle grade/young reader fiction: Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow Books)
Nonfiction: Mesmerized by Mara Rickliff, illustrated by Iacopo Bruno (Candlewick)
Picture book illustration: Thomas Jefferson Grows a Nation by Stacy Innerst, written by Peggy Thomas (Calkins Creek)
Picture book text: Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder, illustrated by Julie Morstad (Chronicle)
Sid Fleischman Award for Humor: Teddy Mars: Almost a World Record Breaker by Molly B. Burnham (HarperCollins)
Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award (given every three years)
Winner: Forest Has a Song by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, illustrated by Robbin Gourley (Clarion)
Honor books: Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole by Irene Latham, illustrated by Anna Wadham (Millbrook Press); and Feeding the Flying Fanellis by Kate Hosford, illustrated by Cosei Kawa (Carolrhoda Books)