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 2025 LITTLE PEEPS entries to the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2025 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, CAC26.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2026 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 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

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

• Alison Frenz – I Bet I Can Make You Yawn
• Amy B. Mccoy – Katie Finds Her Voice: A Story About Autism
• Andrew Woolnough – Nuts About Dinosaurs
• Andy M Riley – Finding Hanna’s Happy Place
• Angelina Natale – Peanut and Butter: A Sky View Farm Adventure
• Ann P. Borrmann – You Little Monkey
• Ann P. Borrmann – Never Take a Pirate’s Pearls
• Anna Gerrodette – Wild Rides with Pedal and Blaze
• Anne Polli – Mason the Magnificent
• Antonia Blackmore & illustrated by Sarah P Sharpe – Figgles & Flo the Elephant in the Room
• Ben St. James – Cowboy Cooper and the Ghost Town
• Brandon Moore – Bridget Kimble Learns Self Control
• Bridgetta Tomarchio – Monsters Don’t Say Meep Even the Tiniest Roar Can Make the Biggest Difference
• Brittany Petish- Sally the Brave
• Cal Lopez & Natalia Ulloa – Humans Are Awesome: A Kid’s Guide to Staying Smarter Than AI
• Carrie A. Buck – Ivy Learns to Share
• Christine Kessides – Tail Tale Too
• Corey Turner – Cloudy Days
• David Waugh – Benny the Lost Balloon
• Deborah L. Staunton – Owls Can’t Sing
• Dzvinka Hayda – The Legend of the Dipper
• Ellissa Schwartz – This Day I Hold Dear
• Everett Livingston – The Story of You
• G.R. Foster – The Puppy That Wanted to Be a Flower
• Gail Heath – Miracle on the Mountain: An Appalachian Christmas
• Glenda Keiper – Clancy McFancy and the Tree with Bright Green Leaves
• Gretchen K. Webber – Beanie the Weenie
• J.W. Zarek – Bella Brown Visits a Bee Farm
• J.W. Zarek – Bella Brown’s Messier Than Messy Room
• J.W. Zarek – Bella-Brown Grandma’s Missing Butterfly Locket
• J.W. Zarek – The Stomp-Clomp-Clump Monster Above the Bed
• Jane Xu – Can Pandas Be Koalas Too
• Jessica A. Macpherson – The Little Things We Do
• Jessica Mcanelly – Birdie’s Picnic Party a Tasty Take on Food Safety
• Jomo Jesus Thomas Suriel – The Angry Vacuum
• Kate Shooltz – Kate the Earthling
• Kelly Curtin and Molly Hallinan – Molly and Potato
• Kenneth Brown – Saving Private Brown
• Kim P. Chesney – A Mysterious Night at the Library
• Kim Sloan – Billy Bob’s Adventures Learning the 50 States
• Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The Problem with Science Fairs, Cicadas, and Sewers
• Kristy Whilden – Alice’s Colorful New World
• Laura Ball – Albert the Donkey Solves a Mystery
• Leslie Calimeri – One Day with Dinosaurs
• Lisa Mueller – Dot’s Spots
• Lolisa Marie Monroe – Dungoolee
• Lori Hoffman Penna – Catawampus the Story of a Crooked Cat
• Lori Orlinsky – Being Middle
• M.D. Mcalister – Phin York and the Giants of Wintercoombe
• Mark Anthony King – Trigger the Dog That Thought He Was a Horse
• Michele L Sayre – The Long Lazy Summer Wonders of Childhood Beyond
• Michelle Mcalister – Carolina Is a Knight
• Michelle Mcalister – Gilly Green Will Sing
• Michelle Mcalister – Nighttime for Everyone
• Michelle Mcalister – Snelliot the Bold
• Mike Darcy – Little Joe and the Big City
• Mike Stonecypher – There’s a Girebra in the Forest
• Miki Taylor – Bentley Finds a Hippopotomonsterous
• Mr. Steve – Fishing Is Fun
• Mr. Steve – The B Hive
• Nicole Metas – Hemi Bunny Finds a Mommy
• Olga Podoprigora – The Banana From Space and Other Stories From Riverstone
• Once Upon a Dance – Bellyrina
• Paloma Williams – Milo’s Big Beautiful Journey
• Pamela Gray Willcox – Tux the Little Emperor
• Patty York Raymond – There Was a Tenacious Teacher Who Scarfed Down a Sticker
• Payton Lynch – The Journey To You
• Rae St. Clair Bridgman – W Is for Winnipeg a Little Architect’s ABC
• Robin Currie – How Do You Sleep
• Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
• Sally Kashner – River Song
• Sally Kashner – The Night Has a Secret
• Sherry Roberts – Amica Helps Zoe
• Sherry Roberts – Just Call Me Pardner
• Shlomo Goldman – Ryder the Spider Discovers the Body
• Svetlana Kitik – Mother’s Mega Marrow: a Gardening for Kids Nature Storybook About Growing Food, Sharing, and Outdoor Learning
• Sydney Roubian – Scarecrow Finds a Heart
• Tamara Neal – I Know Why the Red Bird Talked
• Thomas Anthony – Walter the Polar Bear
• TK Sheffield – Nellie’s Island Small Hooves Big Heart Island Adventures Start
• Tom Morency – Doris the Dragon
• Vassi Rombis – Luna the Little Witch the Magic of Teamwork
• Victoria Fletcher – Lovely Locks of Gold
• Wanda Carter Roush – The Jellybean Gospel the Born-Again Bunny

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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Congratulations once more to the 2024 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

Island Moon

By Ruth Amanda

Click here to see the full list of 2024 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2026 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2025 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2026 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 17 – 19, 2026! 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 and discover why!

The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Early Readers and Picture Books. 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 Finalist List for the 2024 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

These titles have moved forward  from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be 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 FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS 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 Noland – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
• Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
• Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
• Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
• Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
• Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
• Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
• Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
• Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
• Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
• Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
• Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
• Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
• Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
• Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
• Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
• Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
• Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
• Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
• Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
• Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

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!

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  from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS SHORT LIST to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards SEMI-FINAL LIST. 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 FINALISTS 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 Noland – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
• Ann Marie Perales Thompson – Halloween Pumpkins in Spring
• Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
• 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
• Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
• Lexie Kattelman – Grace’s Groceries: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating
• Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
• 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
• Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
• Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
• Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
• Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
• Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
• Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
• Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
• Leila Summers – Mog and Tom
• Milt Lowe – The Hippo Who Hated To Fight
• Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
• 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!
• 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
• Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

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!

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  from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS LONG LIST to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards 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 SEMI-FINALISTS 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 Noland – 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
• 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
• 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
• Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
• Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
• Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
• Ruth Amanda – There’s a Pigeon in St Pancras
• Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
• Leila Summers – Mog and Tom
• Milt Lowe – The Hippo Who Hated To Fight
• Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
• Kat Chen – Play Outside With Me
• 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!
• 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
• Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy
• Antwinette Scott – The Land of Hearts
• Sands Hetherington – Night Buddies and Evil School Bus #264

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

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!

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 Noland – 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

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

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!

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

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