The 2024 CLCSC Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2024 CLCSC Award Winners:
Excellence in a Picture Book - In Every Life by Marla Frazee
Excellence in Juvenile Fiction - The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn by Sally J. Pla
Delicious Middle Grade Novel to Devour - The Takeout by Tracy Badua
Peggy Miller Award for Young Adult Literature - Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
Distinguished Body of Work - Dan Santat
Dorothy C. McKenzie Award for Distinguished Service to the Field of Children’s Literature - Stephanie Moran Reed and Muammar Reed, Founders of MiJa Books
Caroline Gill Award for Exceptional Volunteer Service - Olivia Bates, Volunteer for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Congratulations to the winners!
Thanks to the Awards Committee for their work in selecting this year’s winners.
Save the date for the 2024 Awards Ceremony (formerly the Fall Gala)
Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 10:00 am
at Luminarias Restaurant
3500 West Ramona Boulevard, Monterey Park, CA 91754
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The CLCSC Awards Committee convenes in January each year. Submissions of books published in the prior year may be sent directly to the Awards Chair for awards consideration. Please include an official submission form with each entry.