Golden Kite Winners Announced
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 4/5/2004
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators has announced the winners of the 2003 Golden Kite Awards. The winner for fiction was Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (Knopf), with the nonfiction award going to Robert Byrd for Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer (Dutton). The award for best picture book text went to The Dirty Cowboy by Amy Timberlake, illustrated by Adam Rex (FSG), and I Dream of Trains by Angela Johnson, illustrated by Loren Long (S&S) won for best picture book illustration. And Millicent Min by Lisa Yee has been given the SCBWI's Sid Fleischman Humor Award.
