Contest: Moonbeam Children's Book Awards

Enter the world's most comprehensive children's book contest:

•         43 print categories, 6 ebook categories
  
•         Spanish language categories
•         14 Fiction categories/age groups
•         Best Illustrator, Best First Book, and Series categories
  
•         Health, Self-Esteem, and Environmental Issues categories
  
  
  

Enter your award-worthy children's books into the 8th annual Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, honoring the year's best children's books, authors, and illustrators. The program accepts entries released since October 1, 2012 and is open to authors, illustrators, and publishers of children's books written in English or Spanish, appropriate for the North American market. These awards bring an opportunity for recognition to deserving authors and publishers who have a hard time breaking through to win library association awards like the Newbery and Caldecott. 

Entry fee is $75 per title, per category, until the early-bird deadline of March 22nd (this is postmark deadline -- save $20 per entry), and the final entry deadline is September 1, 2014. Gold, silver and bronze medals are presented in each category. Medalists will be named on about October 1, 2014 and the awards ceremony will take place during the Traverse City Children's Book Festival on November 8, 2014.
                          
To learn more about the awards:
See categories and eligibility requirements.
Check out the online entry form.
Print out guidelines and entry PDF.
See last year's Moonbeam Awards results and photos.
View last year’s Moonbeam Award ceremony program.

Judging is based on content, originality, design, and production quality, with emphasis on social relevance and age appropriateness. Our judging panels include experts from the fields of editing, design, teaching, bookselling and library, and some categories are judged by teachers and their students.