The Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader announced the winners of the seventh annual Children’s Choice Book Awards (CCBAs) at a charity gala benefitting Every Child a Reader in New York City on May 14, 2014. The announcement is an annual highlight of Children’s Book Week (May 12-18, 2014) as the CCBAs is the only national book awards program where the winning titles are selected by kids and teens. Young readers across the country voted in record numbers for their favorite books, author and illustrator at bookstores, school libraries, and at bookweekonline.com.

2014 Winners

Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year
THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers (Philomel)

Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year
BUGS IN MY HAIR! by David Shannon (Blue Sky Press / Scholastic Inc)

Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS MYTHS BUSTED! by Emily Krieger, illustrated by Tom Nick Cocotos (National Geographic Children’s Books)

Teen Choice Book of the Year
ALLEGIANT by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books)

Author of the Year
Rush Limbaugh for RUSH REVERE AND THE BRAVE PILGRIMS (Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster)

Illustrator of the Year
Grace Lee for SOFIA THE FIRST: The Floating Palace (Disney Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group)

Impact Award Honoree
LeVar Burton, former host of the Peabody-Award winning PBS show "Reading Rainbow" and co-founder of RRKidz