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Kids' Catalog | Award Winners | Gryphon Award Winners

The Gryphon Award of $1,000 is given each year to an English language work of fiction or non-fiction for which the primary audience is children in Kindergarten through Grade 4. The title chosen best exemplifies those qualities that successfully bridge the gap in difficulty between books for reading aloud to children and books for practiced readers. Gryphon Award Terms and Criteria.

2007
Pericoli, Matteo. 
The True Story of Stellina.

Honor Books:
Butterworth, Chris. 
Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea.
Look, Lenore. 
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything.
Shannon, David. 
Good Boy, Fergus!

2006
Edwards, Michelle. 
Stinky Stern Forever.

Honor Books:
Cowley, Joy. 
Chamleon, Chameleon.
Haas, Jessie. 
Jigsaw Pony.
Holm, Jennifer. 
Babymouse: Queen of the World.

2005
Bang-Campbell, Monika. 
Little Rat Rides.

Honor Books:

Hoberman, Mary Ann.  You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together.
Nolan, Lucy. 
Down Girl and Sit: Smarter than Squirrels.

2004
Florian, Douglas. 
Bow Wow Meow Meow: It's Rhyming Cats and Dogs.

Honor Books:
Benton, Jim. 
Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist: Lunch Walks among Us.
Fenner, Carol. 
Snowed in with Grandmother Silk.