Moonbeam Spirit Award

Presented by Jenkins Group and Independent Publisher Online, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are designed to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading.

Moonbeam Spirit Awards – given for their dedication and compassion about children, humanity, and literacy, these books were hard to categorize, but impressed our judges with their inspired writing, illustrations and enthusiasm.

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Gold: My Champion,
written and illustrated
by S.K. Carnes
(Self-Published/
Illumina Publishing)

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The Moonbeam Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading.  A wide range of children’s publishing categories from alphabet books to young adult novels and including specialties like Children’s Poetry and Environmental Issues were judged by expert panels of youth educators, librarians, booksellers, and book reviewers.  Award recipients receive gold, silver and bronze medals and stickers depicting a mother and child reading and silhouetted by a full moon.

This year’s award-winning books present a diverse range of subjects and formats, and the winning publishers are widely dispersed geographically. Moonbeam medals were awarded to authors and publishers from 30 U.S. states, four Canadian provinces, and four countries overseas. The cause of promoting childhood literary knows no boundaries, and the award winners illustrate that point well, coming not only from long-established publishers and university presses, but also from small presses, foundations, museums, and self-published entrepreneurs.

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