The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. These books have advanced to the Long List for the 2023 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Little Peeps Early Readers entries to the 2023 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Little Peeps Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2023 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

• Michele L. Sayre – The Unluckiest Leprechaun by Far (Happy Tails)
• Ginger Smith – The Magic Blanket
• Cheryl Carpinello – Grandma Tales 3: Vampires in the Backyard and A Fish Tale
• Janet Earnest-Jenkins – Hoppin’ Hankaroo-Zoo Adventure
• Michele L. Sayre – What I Would Wish to Be (Wonders of Childhood & Beyond)
• George M. Johnson – Sophia’s Secrets
• Donna L. Huntriss – Bowerbirds!
• Aniela Emma Chaudhuri – The Accidental Orchestra
• Beth Davis – Hanna the Hawk is a Super Youneek Beast
• Laura Teste – Book of Bad Manners
• W. B. Murph – Molly’s Miracle
• Hugh Pittman – Chika’s Mysterious Phone
• TK Sheffield – Nellie’s Island, a tiny filly from a small farm earns her “filly esteem” while working among giant draft horses on Mackinac Island
• Michael Dow, RN, MS – Nurse Florence® for Beginning Readers: Help, I’m Bleeding!
• Joy K. Ball – Winnie’s Christmas Treasure Hunt
• Kimberly Delude – Freddie the Fly: Seeing Through Another Lens
• Brenda Wilson Huddleston – Liam & Little Tail
• Cynthia C. Huijgens – Polar Bear and the UFO
• David Lane – I Have Questions, Lots and Lots of Questions: A True Story of Christmas
• Joshua Swank – Barry the Brave: A Flowerageous Journey to Courage
• Miranda Sada – Wings of Glitter
• Michael Michie – Pablo Avocado
• Adalgisa and David Nico – Fish in the Desert: The Untold Story of the Death Valley Pupfish
• O.L. Flubermin – A Dinosaur Named Alone: What Will I Do?
• Grace Wolf – May I Sit At Your Table?
• Susan Sullivan – Bob Tales, Land of the Woody Warbles
• Victoria Smith – Tuxedo Baby and His Annoying Cousins
• Liana Somerset – Detective Buster Cuffs: Catching the Treat Snatcher
• Beth Davis – Lacinda the Lion is a Super Youneek Beast
• Carolyn Wild – Jacob Sheep: Do You Have A Little Lamb?
• Michele L. Sayre – The Not So Funny Bunny (Happy Tails)
• Carolyn Wild – I Like Ducks: All Year Long
• Laura Teste – Book of Bad Bargains
• Chloe and LaRanda Burke – Keys to Your H.E.A.R.T.
• Katrina Johnson – Captain Patch and the Treasure of the Sea Gods
• Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, A Friend For Life
• Miki Taylor – Bentley’s Fantabulous Idea
• Victoria Smith – Priscilla and Tux: Brothers are Caring
• Johnny Marfia – Marco & Me
• Brenda Wilson Huddleston – The Squirrel & the Dragonfly
• Julie G Fox – Katya’s Sunflowers
• Tzuri King & Julie G Fox – The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed the War Over
• Lynne Marie – The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project
• Conrad J. Storad – Story Monster’s S.T.E.A.M. chronicles. Book one, Night watchers : nocturnal creatures of North America : coyotes, snakes, owls, spiders, and more
• K.R. King – Charlie the Champion
• Beth Davis – Mykal the Monkey is a Super Youneek Beast
• Hillary Harper – Thankful FUR You
• Ruth Amanda – Geckos in the Garden
• Carolyn Wild – This Kitten; Has Blue Eyes
• Sheryl Bass – Baby Dragon’s Big Sneeze
• Julie G Fox – The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed The War Over
• David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: Do the Robot!
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – Mr Moon Mr Moon
• Brooks Olbrys – The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob – A Secret in the Deep
• Jonna Laster – Nutshell Regatta
• Kristin Crowell Ellis – Firefly Fran’s Fran-tastic Day
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – A Child’s Love
• Carolyn Wild – Big Dogs Little Dogs: On The Farm
• TK Sohal and Ms. Raman Kaur – Twin Adventures
• Lori Keenen Smith – Lorlee and the Light
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – What Little Girls Can Do!
• Shaziya M. Jaffer, Brad W. Rudover , Jessica Alexanderson – The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans
• Geraldine Moran and Illustrated by Daniella Banco – The Moon Child
• Raven Howell – Friends Come in all Sizes
• Aniela Emma Chaudhuri – Picnic Pandaemonium
• Anthony Delauney – Rohan and Nyra and Big Sister’s Bet
• Laura Shovan – Welcome to Monsterville
• Erik Perezbrain – Good Luck is My Guardian Angel
• Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer and The Jared Box Project
• Katharine Mitropoulos – Ready… Set… Frog!
• Katherine Lockwood – Why Me, Mama?
• Anthony C. Delauney – Michael and Hannah and the Magic Money Tree
• Joey Benun – Pebbles and the Biggest Number
• Dominique Ellis – The Wisdom Tree: A Father’s Love
• T.K. Sheffield – The Night Icelandic Horses Saved Christmas Eve
  
• Katrina Johnson – Lily’s Song
• Laura Teste – Book of Best Words
• Betsy Coffeen – Cate and the Garden Bandits

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

Ravens Roost 

by Maggie Bates

See the Full List of 2022 Little Peeps Winners here

We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Books. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. 

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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