Blue Peter Book Awards (2000-10)

2009-10 info from Booktrust.org accessed 3/6/10. 2000-2008 info from Wikipedia accessed 3/6/10.

The 2010 winners are:
Most Fun Story with Pictures: Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things by Guy Bass (Stripes)

Best Book With Facts: Why Eating Bogeys is Good For You by Mitchell Symons (Random House Children’s Books)

Book I Couldn’t Put Down: Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes (Oxford University Press)

Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes won the Blue Peter Book of the Year award for children's fiction, which is judged by a panel of 8- to 9-year-old readers, the Guardian reported.

"I think if you asked any children's author which they thought was the most important prize for children's books, it's highly likely they would say the Blue Peter prize," said Sparkes.

"It's not the kind of book that I would have picked out in a shop," said Jamie Fenlon, one of the youthful judges. "The cover didn't persuade me and the blurb didn't persuade me, and the introduction [in which the two modern characters are stuck indoors on a rainy day in the summer holidays] was really dull. But the rest of the book is fantastic--it's outstanding."

The 2010 Blue Peter Book Awards Shortlist was:

Best Book With Facts:
Usborne Lift-the-flap Picture Atlas – Alex Frith & Kate Leake (Usborne)
Tail-End Charlie – Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom (Francis Lincoln Children’s Books)
Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You – Mitchell Symons (Red Fox)

Book I Couldn’t Put Down:
Cosmic – Frank Cottrell Boyce (Macmillan)
The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 – Harriet Goodwin (Stripes)
Frozen in Time – Ali Sparkes (Oxford)

Most Fun Story with Pictures:
Peter the Penguin Pioneer – Daren King (Quercus)
Spells – Emily Gravett (Macmillan)
Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things – Guy Bass (Stripes)

The winners of the 2009 Blue Peter Book Awards were announced on the programme on 4 March.

Shadow Forest by Matt Haig was the Overall Winner and also won the Book I Couldn't Put Down category.

The Best Book with Facts was Planet in Peril by Anita Ganeri.

The Most Fun Story with Pictures was Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman.

The prestigious Blue Peter Book Awards were established in 2000. Winners are shortlisted by a panel of adult judges; then a group of young Blue Peter viewers judges the three categories:

Book I Couldn’t Put Down
Best Book with Facts
Most Fun Story with Pictures

The winners of each category then compete for the accolade Blue Peter Book of the Year.

The shortlists for the 2009 Awards were announced on 10 November 2008.

Best Book With Facts
Archaeology Detectives by Simon Adams (Oxford University Press)
100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet by Anna Claybourne (A&C Black)
Horrible Geography Handbooks: Planet in Peril by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips (Scholastic)

Book I Couldn't Put Down
Abela by Berlie Doherty (Andersen Press)
Shadow Forest by Matt Haig (Corgi)
Foul Play by Tom Palmer (Puffin)

Most Fun Story with Pictures
Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman (Egmont)
Fleabag by Helen Stephens (Alison Green Books)
Lost! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong, illustrated by Rowan Clifford (Puffin Books)

List of Prize Winners
2007
* Book of the Year: The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S. F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean
o Most Fun Story With Pictures: You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum by Andy Stanton and David Tazzyman
o Best Book with Facts: The Worst Children's Jobs in History by Tony Robinson
o Book I Couldn't Put Down: The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S. F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean

2006
* Book of the Year: Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
o Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud: Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
o Best Book with Facts: Spud Goes Green by Giles Thaxton (Egmont)
o Book I Couldn't Put Down: Blood Fever by Charlie Higson (Puffin)

2005
* Book of the Year: Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (Collins)
o Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud: The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Macmillan)
o Best Book with Facts: Explorers Wanted! At the North Pole by Simon Chapman (Egmont)
o Book I Couldn't Put Down: Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (Collins)

2004
* Book of the Year: Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram (Templar)
o Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud: Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram (Templar)
o Best Book with Facts: The Ultimate Book Guide edited by Daniel Hahn (A and C Black)
o Book I Couldn't Put Down: Montmorency by Eleanor Updale (Scholastic)

2003

* Book of the Year: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (Scholastic)

o Best Book to Read Aloud: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Macmillan)
o Best Book with Facts: Pirate Diary by Richard Platt, illustrated by Chris Riddell (Walker)
o Book I Couldn't Put Down: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (Scholastic)

2002
* Book of the Year: Feather Boy by Nicky Singer (Collins)
o Best Book to Read Aloud: Crispin, the Pig Who Had It All by Ted Dewan (Random House)
o Best New Information Book: Ada Lovelace: The Computer Wizard of Victorian England by Lucy Lethridge
o Book I Couldn't Put Down: Feather Boy by Nicky Singer (Collins)
* Voter's Awards:
o Best Storybook: The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson (Yearling)
o Best Book With Facts In: Terrible Tudors by Terry Deary, illustrated by Martin Brown (Scholastic)

2001
* Book of the Year: The Wind Singer by William Nicholson (Egmont)
o Best Book to Read Aloud: The Bravest Ever Bear by Allan Ahlberg and Paul Howard (Walker)
o Book I Couldn't Put Down: The Wind Singer by William Nicholson (Egmont)
o Best Book to Keep Forever: The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press)
* Voters' Awards:
o Best Storybook: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)
o Best Book of Knowledge: Rotten Romans by Terry Deary (Scholastic)

2000
* Book of the Year: A Pilgrim's Progress retold by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft (Hodder)
o Special Book to Keep Forever: A Pilgrim's Progress retold by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft (Hodder)
o Book I Couldn't Put Down: Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons (Orion)
o Best Book to Read Aloud: The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Macmillan)
* Voters' Awards:
o Best Book With Facts In It: Guinness World Records 2000 (Guinness)
o Book that Made Me Laugh the Loudest: Matilda by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake (Puffin)
o Best Book to Share: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)

Shortlists
2008
Most Fun Story with Pictures:
o Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton and David Tazzyman (Egmont)
o Fleabag by Helen Stephens (Alison Green Books)
o Lost! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong, illustrated by Rowan Clifford (Puffin Books)

Best Book with Facts:
o Archaeology Detectives by Simon Adams (Oxford University Press)
o 100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet by Anna Claybourne (A&C Black)
o Horrible Geography Handbooks: Planet in Peril by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips

The Book I Couldn't Put Down:
o Abela by Berlie Doherty (Andersen Press)
o Shadow Forest by Matt Haig (Corgi)
o Foul Play by Tom Palmer (Puffin)

2007
Most Fun Story with Pictures:
Melrose and Croc Together at Christmas by Emma Chichester Clark
Charlie Cook's Favourite Books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum by Andy Stanton and David Tazzyman

Best Book with Facts:
Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy
The Worst Children's Jobs in History by Tony Robinson
A Little Guide to Wild Flowers by Charlotte Voake

The Book I Couldn't Put Down:

Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce

The Bad Spy's Guide by Pete Johnson
The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S. F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean

2006
Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:
Traction Man is Here by Mini Grey
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
Guess Who's Coming for Dinner by John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell

Best Book with Facts:
Connor's Eco Den by Pippa Goodhart
Poo by Nicola Davies and Neal Layton
Spud Goes Green by Giles Thaxton (Egmont)

Book I Couldn't Put Down:
GRK and the Pelotti Gang by Joshua Doder
Blood Fever by Charlie Higson (Puffin)
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo

2005
Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:
The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler
Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey (Red Fox)
Aristotle by Dick King-Smith, illustrated by Bob Graham (Walker)
Rapunzel: A Groovy Fairy Tale retold by Lynn Roberts, illustrated by David Roberts

Best Book with Facts:
Explorers Wanted! At the North Pole by Simon Chapman (Egmont)
What's My Family Tree? by Mick Manning, illustrated by Brita Granström
Art Fraud Detective by Anna Nilsen, illustrated by Andy Parker
Rome in spectacular cross-section by Andrew Solway, illustrated by Stephen Biesty

Book I Couldn't Put Down:
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Macmillan)
SilverFin by Charlie Higson (Puffin)
Thora by Gillian Johnson (Hodder)
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (Collins)

2004
Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:
The Woman Who Won Things by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Katharine McEwen
Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram (Templar)
Quiet! by Paul Bright, illustrated by Guy Parker Rees (Little Tiger Press)
Atticus the Storyteller's 100 Greek Myths by Lucy Coats, illus. by Anthony Lewis
The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler

Best Book with Facts:
Journey into the Arctic by Bryan and Cherry Alexander (OUP)
Brilliant Brits: Shakespeare by Richard Brassey (Orion)
Who is Emily Davison? by Claudia Fitzherbert (Short Books)
The Ultimate Book Guide edited by Daniel Hahn (A and C Black)
I Spy: Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwaite (Collins)

Book I Couldn't Put Down:
Stealing Stacey by Lynne Reid Banks (Collins)
Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde (Egmont)
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan)
When Mum Threw Out the Telly by E. F. Smith (Orchard Books)
Montmorency by Eleanor Updale (Scholastic)

Golden Kite Awards (1973-2006,2009-10)

2009-10 info from SCBWI website accessed 3/6/10.  1973-2006 info from Wikipedia accessed 3/6/10.

The winners of the 2010 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, are:

Fiction: Sea of the Dead by Julia Durango (S&S Books for Young Readers)
Nonfiction: Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's Song by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/S&S)
Picture Book Text: The Longest Night by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Ted Lewin (Holiday House)
Picture Book Illustration: Gracias Thanks, illustrated by John Parra, written by Pat Mora (Lee & Low Books)
Golden Kite Honor Recipients

Fiction: Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle by Nan Marino (Roaring Book Press)
Nonfiction: Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's Life by Catherine Reef (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Picture Book Text: Bella & Bean by Rebecca Kai Dotlich, illustrated by Aileen Leijten (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/S&S)
Picture Book Illustration: Bad News for Outlaws, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie, written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda Books)
The Golden Kite Awards will be presented to at the Golden Kite Luncheon during SCBWI's 39th Annual Conference on Writing and Illustrating for Children, which takes place in Los Angeles July 30-August 2. For more information and lists of previous winners, go to scbwi.org.

2009 Winners:
GOLDEN KITE AWARD WINNERS:

Fiction: Down Sand Mountain by Steve Watkins
Candlewick Press
Editor: Kaylan Adair

Nonfiction: A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts by Pamela S. Turner
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Editor: Melanie Kroupa

Picture Book Text: A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker
Illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton
Candlewick Press

Picture Book Illustration: Last Night by Hyewon Yum
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Designer: Irene Metaxato

GOLDEN KITE HONOR RECIPIENTS:

Fiction: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Henry Holt & Co.

Nonfiction: The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black Holes by Ellen Jackson
Photographed & illustrated by Nic Bishop
Houghton Mifflin

Picture Book Text: Before John was a Jazz Giant by Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by Sean Qualls
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers

Picture Book Illustration: I Love My New Toy illustrated and written by Mo Willems
Hyperion

2006

* Fiction: Firegirl, Tony Abbott

* Nonfiction: Wings, William Loizeaux
* Picture Book Text: Jazz, Walter Dean Myers (illustrated by Christopher Myers)
* Picture Book Illustration: Not Afraid of Dogs, Larry Day (authored by Susanna Pitzer)

2005

* Fiction: A Room on Lorelei Street, Mary E. Pearson

* Nonfiction: Children of The Great Depression, Russell Freedman
* Picture Book Text: Doña Flor, Pat Mora (illustrated by Raul Colón)
* Picture Book Illustration: Baby Bear's Chairs, Melissa Sweet (authored by Jane Yolen)

[edit] 2004

* Fiction: Bucking The Sarge, Christopher Paul Curtis
* Nonfiction: Dust To Eat: Drought And Depression In The 1930s, Michael L. Cooper
* Picture Book Text: Apples to Oregon, Deborah Hopkinson (illustrated. Nancy Carpenter)
* Picture Book Illustration: The Mysterious Collection of Dr. David Harleyson, Jean Cassels

[edit] 2003

* Fiction: Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli
* Nonfiction: After The Last Dog Died: The True-Life, Hair-Raising Adventure Of Douglas Mawson And His 1911-1914 Antarctic Expedition, by Carmen Bredeson
* Picture Book Text: The Dirty Cowboy, by Amy Timberlake (illus. Adam Rex)
* Picture Book Illustration: I Dream Of Trains, by Loren Long (author Angela Johnson)

2002
* Fiction: Fresh Girl, by Jaïra Placide
* Nonfiction: This Land Was Made For You And Me: The Life And Songs Of Woody Guthrie, by Elizabeth Partridge
* Picture Book Text: George Hogglesberry, Grade School Alien, by Sarah Wilson
* Picture Book Illustration: Mrs. Biddlebox, by Marla Frazee

2001
* Fiction: True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff
* Nonfiction: Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
* Picture Book Text: The Shoe Tree of Chagrin, by J. Patrick Lewis
* Picture Book Illustration: The Lamp, The Ice, And The Boat Called Fish, by Beth Krommes

2000
* Fiction: The Boxer, by Kathleen Karr
* Nonfiction: Darkness over Denmark, by Ellen Levine
* Picture Book Text: River Friendly, River Wild, by Jane Kurtz
* Picture Book Illustration: The Rain Came Down, by David Shannon

1999
* Fiction: Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
* Nonfiction: Space station Science: Life in Free Fall, by Marianne J. Dyson
* Picture Book Text: A Band of Angels, by Deborah Hopkinson
* Picture Book Illustration: The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza), by Amy Wolrod

1998

* Fiction: Rules of the Road, by Joan Bauer

* Nonfiction: Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life, by Russell Freedman
* Picture Book Text: Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems, by Kristine O'Connell George
* Picture Book Illustration: Snow, by Uri Shulevitz

1997
* Fiction: Stones in Water, by Donna Jo Napoli
* Nonfiction: Carmine's Story: A Book About a Boy Living With AIDS, by Arlene Schulman
* Picture Book Text: The Paper Dragon, by Marguerite W. Davol
* Picture Book Illustration: The Paper Dragon, by Robert Sabuda

1996
* Fiction: The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw
* Nonfiction: Small Steps, by Peg Kehret
* Picture Book Text: Saving Sweetness, by Diane Stanley
* Picture Book Illustration: Market Day, by Holly Berry

1995

* Fiction: The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis

* Nonfiction: Abigail Adams, by Natalie S. Bober
* Picture Book Illustration: Fairy Wings, by Dennis Nolan and Lauren Mills

1994

* Fiction: Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman

* Nonfiction: Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor, by Russell Freedman
* Picture Book Illustration: Big Fat Hen, by Keith Baker

1993
* Fiction: Make Lemonade, by Virginia Euwer Wolff
* Nonfiction: Eleanor Roosevelt, by Russell Freedman
* Picture Book Illustration: By the Light of the Halloween Moon, by Kevin Hawkes

1992
* Fiction: Letters From a Slave Girl, by Mary E. Lyons
* Nonfiction: The Long Road to Gettysburg, by Jim Murphy
* Picture Book Illustration: Chicken Sunday, by Patricia Polacco

1991
* Fiction: The Rain Catchers, by Jean Thesman
* Nonfiction: The Wright Brothers, by Russell Freedman
* Picture Book Illustration: Mama, Do You Love Me, by Barbara Lavallee

1990

* Fiction: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi

* Nonfiction: The Boy's War, by Jim Murphy
* Picture Book Illustration: Home Place, by Jerry Pinkney

1989
* Fiction: Jenny of the Tetons, by Kristiana Gregory
* Nonfiction: Panama Canal: Gateway to the World, by Judith St. George
* Picture Book Illustration: Tom Thumb, by Richard Jesse Watson

1988
* Fiction: Borrowed Children, by George Ella Lyon
* Nonfiction: Let There Be Light, by James Cross Giblin
* Picture Book Illustration: Forest of Dreams, by Susan Jeffers

1987

* Fiction: Rabble Starkey, by Lois Lowry

* Nonfiction: Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark, by Rhoda Blumberg
* Picture Book Illustration: What the Mailman Brought, by Tomie DePaola

1986

* Fiction: After the Dancing Days, by Margaret Rostowski

* Nonfiction: Poverty in America, by Milton Meltzer
* Picture Book Illustration: Juma and the Magic Jinn, by Charles Mikolaycak

1985

* Fiction: Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan

* Nonfiction: Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, by Rhoda Blumberg
* Picture Book Illustration: The Donkey's Dream, by Barbara Helen Berger

1984
* Fiction: Tancy, by Belinda Hurmence
* Nonfiction: Walls: Defenses Throughout History, by James Cross Giblin
* Picture Book Illustration: Little Red Riding Hood, by Don Wood

1983
* Fiction: The Tempering, by Gloria Skurzynski
* Nonfiction: The Illustrated Dinosaur Dictionary, by Helen Roney Sattler
* Picture Book Illustration: Little Red Riding Hood, by Trina Schart Hyman

1982

* Fiction: Ralph S. Mouse, by Beverly Cleary

* Nonfiction: Chimney Sweeps, by James Cross Giblin
* Picture Book Illustration: Giorgio's Village, by Tomie de Paola

1981
* Fiction: Little, Little, by M. E. Kerr
* Nonfiction: Blissymbolics, by Elizabeth Helfman

1980
* Fiction: Arthur, For the Very First Time, by Patricia MacLachlan
* Nonfiction: The Lives of Spiders, by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

1979

* Fiction: The Magic of the Glits, by C. S. Adler

* Nonfiction: Runaway Teens, by Arnold Madison

1978
* Fiction: And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, by Stella Pevsner
* Nonfiction: How I Came to Be a Writer, by Phyllis Reynolds

1977
* Fiction: The Girl Who Had No Name, by Bernice Rabe
* Nonfiction: Peeper, First Voice of Spring, by Robert McClung

1976 * One More Flight, by Eve Bunting

1975 * The Garden Is Doing Fine, by Carol Farley

1974 * The Girl Who Cried Flowers, by Jane Yolen

1973 * Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene

Books for a Better Life Awards (2010)

The winners of the Books for a Better Life Awards, sponsored by the Southern New York Chapter of the National MS Society and honored last night, are:

Childcare/Parenting: NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman (Twelve)
First Book: Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe by Sorrel King (Grove/Atlantic)
Green: Just Food by James E. McWilliams (Little, Brown)
Inspirational Memoir: Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder (Random House)
Motivational: Throw Out Fifty Things by Gail Blanke (Grand Central)
Personal Finance: The Difference by Jean Chatzky (Crown)
Psychology: Connected by Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D. and James H. Fowler, Ph.D. (Little, Brown)
Relationships: You were Always Mom's Favorite: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives by Deborah Tannen (Random House)
Spiritual: Writing in the Sand by Thomas Moore (Hay House)
Wellness: The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David A. Kessler, M.D. (Rodale)

Strand Magazine Critics Award (2009)

Nominees for the 2009 Strand Magazine
Critics Awards, recognizing excellence in
mystery fiction, are:

Best Novel:

Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (Ballantine)
Life Sentences by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
The Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker (Dutton)
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Riverhead)

Best First Novel:

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (Little, Brown)
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry (Penguin Press)
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin)

Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley (Touchstone)

Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (Harper)

Also, the Strand gave its lifetime achievement award to Elmore Leonard "for his huge body of mystery and crime novels."

The winners of the Critics Awards will be announced on July 7.

Icelandic Literary Prize (2009)

Bankster, a novel by Gudmundur Óskarsson, and Jöklar á Íslandi (Glaciers in Iceland), a nonfiction work by Helgi Björnsson, received the Icelandic Literary Prize, the Iceland Review reported.

Lincoln Prize (1991-2009)

from Gettysburg College website accessed 2/24/10

Michael Burlingame will receive the $50,000 Lincoln Prize (2010) for his book, "Abraham Lincoln: A Life" (Johns Hopkins University Press), as well as a bronze replica of Augustus Saint-Gaudens life-size bust, "Lincoln the Man." Burlingame is the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. The prize, sponsored by Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will be awarded April 27 at the Union League in New York.
The prize was co-founded in 1990 by businessmen and philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, Co-Chairmen of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York and co-creators of the Gilder Lehrman Collection - one of the largest private archives of documents and artifacts in the nation. The Institute is devoted to history education, supporting magnet schools, teacher training, digital archives, curriculum development, exhibitions and publications, as well as the national History Teacher of the Year program.

2009
First Place: James McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief and Craig Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War
Honorable Mention: Jacqueline Jones, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War. Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer and William Lee Miller, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman.

2008
First Place: James Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (W. W. Norton)
Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (Viking)
Honorable Mention: Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf)

2007
First Place: Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Vintage)
Finalists: Martha Hodes, The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (W. W. Norton); Harry S. Stout, Upon the Alter of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War (Viking Adult).

2006
First Place: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster)
Finalists: Carol Bundy, The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-1864 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Margaret Creighton, The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History - Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle (Basic Books); and Richard F. Miller, Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (University Press of New England).

2005
First Place: Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (Simon & Schuster)
Second Place: Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Simon & Schuster)
Finalists: Jonathan D. Martin, Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South (Harvard University Press); Jane A. Schultz, Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America (University of North Carolina Press).

2004
First Place: Richard J. Carwardine, Lincoln (Pearson Education Ltd.)
Special Achievement Award: John Y. Simon for editing 26 volumes--to date--of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (Southern Illinois University Press)
Finalist: Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press)

2003
First Place: George C. Rable, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (University of North Carolina Press)
Second Place: John Stauffer, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Harvard University Press)
Honorable Mention: Michael Fitzgerald, Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890 (Louisiana State University Press)
E-Lincoln Prize: John Adler for HarpWeek Presents Lincoln and the Civil War.com (website)

2002
First Place: David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, (Harvard University Press).
Honorable Mention: Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-1865 (University of North Carolina Press)
Honorable Mention: Kenneth J. Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (Taylor Trade Publishing, Dallas).

2001
First Place: Russell F. Weigley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 (Indiana University Press).
Second Place: Leonard L. Richards, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (Louisiana State University Press).
Finalist: Mark L. Bradley, This Astounding Close Road to Bennett Place, (University of North Carolina Press)
E-Lincoln Prize Winner: Edward L. Ayers, Anne S. Rubin, and William G. Thomas for Valley of the Shadow: The Eve of War (CD-ROM)
Second Place: Stephen Railton for Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture (web site).

2000
First Place: John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation (Oxford University Press) and Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.).
Second Place: Michael Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (Oxford University Press).
Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard N. Current, University Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

1999
First Place: Douglas L. Wilson, Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (Alfred A. Knopf).
Second Place: J. Tracy Power, Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, from the Wilderness to Appomattox (Univ. of North Carolina Press).

1998
First Place: Jim McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (Oxford University Press)
Second Place: William C. Harris, With Charity For All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union (University Press of Kentucky)
Honorable Mention: Gary Gallagher, The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could Not Stave off Defeat (Harvard University Press).
Honorable Mention: James Robertson, Jr., Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (MacMillan Publishing Co).

1997
First Place: Don FehrenbacherDred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (Stanford University Press).

1996
First Place: David Donald, Lincoln (Touchstone Books).
Second Place: Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians 1861-1865 (Cambridge University Press).
Finalist: Michael Fellman, Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (Random House).

1995
First Place: Phillip Shaw Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (University Press of Kansas).
Second Place: William Marvel, Andersonville: The Last Depot (University of North Carolina Press).
Finalist: Charles B. Dew, Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge (W.W. Norton & Company).

1994
First Place: (co-winners) Ira Berlin, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, Leslie Rowland, eds., Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (New Press).
Second Place: Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (Oxford University Press).
Finalist: Winthrop D. Jordan, Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy (Louisiana State University Press).
Finalist: John Evangelist Walsh, The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Anne Rutledge Legend (University of Illinois Press).

1993
First Place: Kenneth Stampp, Lifetime Achievement with special recognition of The Peculiar Institution (Vintage Books).
Second Place: Albert Castel, Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (University Press of Kansas).
Finalist: John F. Marszalek, Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order (Vintage Books).
Finalist: Craig L. Symonds Joseph E. Johnston, A Civil War Biography (W.W. Norton & Company).

1992
First Place (split equally): William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass (W.W. Norton & Company) and Charles Royster, The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans (Vintage Books).
Finalist: Ira Berlin, et al., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation 1861-1867: Series I, Volume III, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South (New Press)

1991
First Place: Ken Burns, The Civil War (Howell Press)
Finalist: Mark E. Neely, Jr., The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (Oxford University Press).
Finalist: Warren Wilkinson, Mother May You Never See The Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Last Year of the Civil War (HarperCollins).

Black Quill Award (2010

http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-winners/  accessed 2/22/10
Winners of the third annual Black Quill Awards--honoring the best work in dark horror, suspense and thrillers--were named by Dark Scribe magazine. Editors' choice and readers' choice prizes were given in each category.

For novel of the year, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn was the editors' choice and Drood by Dan Simmons the readers' choice. The "Best Small Press Chill" awards went to Kelland by Paul G. Bens Jr. (editors' choice) and As Fate Would Have It by Michael Louis Calvillo (readers' choice).