Awards: Golden Kite Winners; Jane Grigson Trust Shortlist

Winners of the 2021 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, have been named. Golden Kite recipients receive a cash prize of $2,500 plus $1,000 to be donated in their name to a nonprofit of their choice. Golden Kite Honor recipients receive $500 plus $250 to be donated in their name to a nonprofit of their choice. This year's winning titles are:

Golden Kite Award Winners

Illustrated Book for Older Readers: Chance: Escape from the Holocaust: Memories of a Refugee Childhood by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Middle Grade/Young Readers Fiction: Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
Picture Book Text: All Because You Matter by Tami Charles (Orchard Books)
Nonfiction Text for Younger Readers: William Still and His Freedom Stories by Don Tate (Peachtree)
Picture Book Illustration: The Bear and the Moon by Catia Chien (Chronicle Books)
Nonfiction Text for Older Readers: All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)
Young Adult Fiction: The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri L. Smith (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Sid Fleischman Humor Award: Lupe Wong Won't Dance by Donna Barba Higuera (Levine Querido)

Golden Kite Honor Books

Illustrated Book for Older Readers: Flamer by Mike Curato (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
Middle Grade/Young Readers Fiction: Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Picture Book Text: We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (Roaring Brook Press)
Nonfiction Text for Younger Readers: Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery by Meeg Pincus (Sleeping Bear Press)
Picture Book Illustration: Outside In by Cindy Derby (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Nonfiction Text for Older Readers: Alphamaniacs: Builders of 26 Wonders of the Word by Paul Fleischman (Candlewick Studio)
Young Adult Fiction: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
Sid Fleischman Humor Award: Zeus, Dog of Chaos by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb (Katherine Tegen Books)

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A shortlist has been unveiled for the £2,000 (about $2,770) Jane Grigson Trust Award, created in memory of the British food writer to recognize "a first-time writer of a book about food or drink, from any nonfiction genre, which has been commissioned but has not yet been published," the Bookseller reported. The winner will be announced March 22 in London. This year's shortlisted titles are:

Breadsong: How Bread Changed our Lives by Kitty and Alex Tait 
Hungry Heart: A Story of Food and Love by Claire Finney 
Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation by Gurdeep Loyal

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