The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Fiction. The Little Peeps Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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 first look rounds from all 2024 LITTLE PEEPS entries to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Little Peeps Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

• Claire Annette Nolad – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
• Ann Marie Perales Thompson – Halloween Pumpkins in Spring
• Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
• Michele L. Sayre – Along Came Spider the Making of a Superhero the Web Society
• Michele L. Sayre – Oh No Bunny You’re Still Not Funny Happy Tails
• Jack Wiens – What Bear Said
• Anne Lacourrege – The Greatest Treasure
• Rory Foresman – Timber and Loony Moony Night Rescue Book 2
• Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
• Anita Dromey – Littlest Mano at Bedtime
• Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
• Ollie Miller – What is This?
• Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
• Elizabeth Fulgaro – Santa Claus Celebrates Jesus’s Birthday
• Robyn McCullough – The Journey of the Wee Shell
• Tracy Spring – Love Doesn’t Care Who You Love
• Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
• A.J. Chilson – Mary the Merry Miracle
• Ben St. James – Guinea Pig Power
• Brian Cleven – Kenzie Runs the World
• Grace Wolf – May I Come to Your Party?
• Stephen G. Bowling – Grandma’s House is Haunted
• P.E. Calvert & Charlotte Calvert Piel – WWCC Heroes: Pablo’s Adventure
• Irit Tal – Popina & Slumberina
• Lexie Kattelman – Grace’s Groceries: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating
• Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
• Yolanda S Pascal – High Hopes Big Dreams
• Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
• Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
• Sara H. Fowler – Castle of Knots
• Samantha Pillay – When I’m the President
• Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
• Daryllen Stone – Sienna the Spotless Giraffe
• Ruthie Godfrey – Grumpy Grump
• Regina Tranfa – My Dad Took Me To Dinosaur land
• Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
• Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
• Sheryl Bass – Baby Dragon Finds His Family
• David Huerta – Why Max “Meows” and Risa “Nyaas”?: Cracking the Code of Animal Sounds Across Cultures
• Lynn Helton – Min: the Cat Who Guards the Castle
• Jeff Dorrill – Brunt and Eggbert
• Jill Neimark – Forest Joy: Mindfulness in Nature
• C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle’s Big Rescue
• Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
• Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
• Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
• Ruth Amanda – There’s a Pigeon in St Pancras
• Mike Darcy – Little Joe and the Big Rain
• Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
• Leila Summers – Mog and Tom
• Milt Lowe – The Hippo Who Hated To Fight
• A.J. Chilson – When Un-Bear-Able Braxton Bullied Me
• Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
• Mary Brodsky – Dew Falls Lightly
• Kat Chen – Play Outside With Me
• Annette Gagliardi – Resourceful Erica
• Kathleen J. Shields – The First Unicorn – Bedtime Inspirational
• Dee Write – Little Ruth First Day of School
• Roni McFadden – Romeo and Emilia
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – Tessy Turtle
• Ashley Wall – The Day I Had a Dinosaur
• Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
• Deborah L. Staunton – Owls Can’t Sing
• Alysson Foti Bourque – Alycat and the Sunday Scaries
• Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
• Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
• Carrie A. Buck – Ivy’s Dinosaur Tea Party
• Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy
• J.E. Rogers – Dressing for Dreamtime
• Antwinette Scott – When I Was
• Antwinette Scott – The Land of Hearts
• Ann P. Borrmann – Chester the (almost) Pirate
• Sands Hetherington – Night Buddies and Evil School Bus #264

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

By Shaziya Jaffer, Brad Rudover and Jessica Alexanderson

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!