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 Semi-Finalists 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 the 2023 Little Peeps Early Readers Short List to the 2023 Little Peeps Book Awards Semi-finalists. 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 Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are the FINALISTS 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.

• Beth Davis – Hanna the Hawk is a Super Youneek Beast
• Laura Teste – Book of Bad Manners
• Joshua Swank – Barry the Brave: A Flowerageous Journey to Courage
• Michael Michie – Pablo Avocado
• Adalgisa and David Nico – Fish in the Desert: The Untold Story of the Death Valley Pupfish
• Susan Sullivan – Bob Tales, Land of the Woody Warbles
• Beth Davis – Lacinda the Lion is a Super Youneek Beast
• Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, A Friend For Life
• Julie G Fox – Katya’s Sunflowers
• K.R. King – Charlie the Champion
• Hillary Harper – Thankful FUR You
• Ruth Amanda – Geckos in the Garden
• Julie G Fox – The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed The War Over
• David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: Do the Robot!
• Brooks Olbrys – The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob – A Secret in the Deep
• Jonna Laster – Nutshell Regatta
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – A Child’s Love
• Shaziya M. Jaffer, Brad W. Rudover , Jessica Alexanderson – The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans
• Raven Howell – Friends Come in all Sizes
• Anthony Delauney – Rohan and Nyra and Big Sister’s Bet
• Katharine Mitropoulos – Ready… Set… Frog!
• T.K. Sheffield – The Night Icelandic Horses Saved Christmas Eve
  
• Katrina Johnson – Lily’s Song

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 Winners here

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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