Finalists for 2012 Children's Choice Book Awards Announced

Posted on March 16, 2012

The finalists for 2012 Children's Choice Book Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced at the Children's Choice Book Awards Gala on May 7th.

Here are the finalists in the Author of the Year and Illustrator of the Year categories.

Author of the Year

• Jeff Kinney for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever (Amulet Books/Abrams)
• Christopher Paolini for Inheritance (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• James Patterson for Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life (Little, Brown)
• Rick Riordan for The Son of Neptune (Disney Hyperion)
• Rachel Renee Russell for Dork Diaries 3: Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster)

• Felicia Bond for If You Give a Dog a Donut (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)
• Eric Carle for The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse (Philomel/Penguin)
• Anna Dewdney for Llama Llama Home With Mama (Viking/Penguin)
• Victoria Kann for Silverlicious (HarperCollins)
• Brian Selznick for Wonderstruck (Scholastic)