The Utah Beehive Awards
The Children’s Literature Association of Utah (CLAU) is a volunteer organization of individuals who have a personal or professional interest in children’s literature. The organization’s purposes are: to encourage the reading, study, and writing of children’s literature; to provide a forum for all points of view and levels of experience in children’s books; and to gather and share information about children’s literature.
The association sponsors book awards that motivate reading. CLAU annually sponsors awards in five categories:
- Utah Children’s Picture Book Award
- Utah Children’s Fiction Book Award
- Utah Children’s Informational Book Award
- Utah Young Adults’ Book Award
- Utah Children’s Poetry Book Award
Winners are chosen from the nominated books by the children of Utah, who vote for their favorite books.
2010 BEEHIVE AWARD NOMINEES
Children’s Fiction Books
The Big Field By Mike Lupica
The Cabinet of Wonders By Marie Rutkoski
A Crooked Kind of Perfect By Linda Urban
Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree By Lauren Tarshis
The Girl Who Could Fly By Victoria Forester
The Magic Theif By Sarah Prineas
Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf By Jennifer Holm
The Mysterious Benedict Society By Trenton Stewart
Night of The Howling Dogs By Graham Salisbury
Someone Named Eva By Joan Wolf
Informational Books
11 Planets A New View of the Solar System By David Aguilar
Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman By Marc Nobleman
How Big Is It!? A Book About Bigness By Ben Hillman
Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau By Jennifer Berne
Nic Bishop Spiders By Nic Bishop
Seven Miles To Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story By Janet Halfmann
Sisters and Brothers: Sibling Relationships the Animal World By Steve Jenkins
Two Bobbies: A True Story or Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival By Kirdy Larson
We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball By Kadir Nelson
What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke The Rules, Charmed the World and Drove Her Father Crazy By Barbara Kerley
Children’s Picture Books
When Dinosaurs Came With Everything By Elise Broach
The Chicken of the Family By Mary Amato
I Am Invited To A Party By Mo Williams
My Travelin’ Eye By Jenny Kostecki-Shaw
South By Patrick McDonnell
Mary Had A Little Lamp By Jack Lechner
The Black Book Of Colors By Menena Cottin
The Cow That Laid An Egg By Andy Cutbill
The End By David LaRochelle
Louder Lili By Gennifer Choldenko
Children’s Poetry Books
42 Miles By Tracie Zimmer
Crocs! By David Greenberg
Frankenstein Takes The Cake By Adam Rex
Imaginary Menagerie: A Book Of Curious Creatures By Julie Larios
M is For Mischief: An A to Z Of Naughty Children By Linda Ashman
Oh, Theodore! Guinea Pig Poems By Susan Katz
Oops! By Alan Katz
Pizza, Pigs, And Poetry: How To Write A Poem By Jack Prelutsky
A River Of Words: The Story or William Carlos Williams By Jennifer Bryant
This is Just To Say: Poems of Apology and Foregiveness By Joyce Sidman
Young Adults Books
Airman By Eoin Colfer
Beastly By Alex Flinn
Book Of A Thousand Days By Shannon Hale
Climbing The Stairs By Padma Venkatraman
Evolution, Me and Other Freaks Of Nature By Robin Brande
Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins
House Of Many Ways By Diana Jones
Schooled By Gordon Korman
Shirft By Jennifer Bradbury
Sun and Moon, Ice And Snow By Jessica Day George
Unwind By Neal Shusterman
Waiting For Normal By Leslie Connor
If I Built A Car By Chris Van Dusen
-Utah Children’s Fiction Book Award
The Candy Shop War By Brandon Mull
-Utah Children’s Informational Book Award
The Dangerous Book for Boys By Gonn Iggulden
-Utah Children’s Poetry Book Award
Dogku By Andrew Clements
-Utah Young Adult’s Book Award
Wildwood Dancing By Juliet Marillier
The Beehive Awards Past Winners
-Utah Children’s Picture Book Award
Mommy? By Maurice Sendak (2008)
Where’s the Dragon By Jason Hook (2007)
Some Dogs Do By Jez Alborough (2006)
Diary of A Worm By Doreen Cronin (2005)
Bertie Was a Watchdog By Rick Walton (2004)
Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon By Patty Lovell (2003)
Sitting Ducks By Michael Bedard (2002)
Hooway for Wodney Wat By Helen Lester (2001)
A Bad Case of Stripes By David Shannon (2000)
Watch Out! Big Bro’s Coming By Jez Alborough (1999)
Anansi and the Talking Melon By Eric Kimmel (1998)
A Job for Wittilda By Caralyn Buehner (1997)
Two of Everything By Lily Toy Hong (1996)
-Utah Children’s Fiction Book Award
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane By Kate DiCamillo (2008)
Princess Academy By Shannon Hale (2007)
Dragon Rider By Cornila Funke (2006)
City of Ember By Jeanne Duprau (2005)
Ruby Holler By Sharon Creech (2004)
Two Princesses of Bamarre By Gail Carson Levine (2003)
Midnight Migic By Avi (2002)
Secret of Platform 13 By Eva Ibbotson (2001)
Frindle By Andrew Clements (2000)
Earthquake Terror By Peg Khret (1999)
Someone Was Watching By David Patneaude (1998)
Watchdog And The Coyotes By Bill Wallace (1997)
Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story By Mary Hahn (1996)
Ghosts of Mercy Manor By Betty Wright (1995)
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher By Bruce Coville (1994)
Dead Man In Indian Creek By Mary Hahn (1993)
There’s A Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom By louis Sachar (1992)
Matilda By Roal Dahl (1991)
This Island Isn’t big Enough to the Four of Us By Gery Greer (1990)
Trapped in Death Cave By Bill Wallace (1989)
Wait Till Helen comes: A Ghost Story By Mary Hahn (1988)
Skinnybones By Barbara Park (1987)
Me and the Weirdos By Jane Sutton (1986)
Stone Fox By John Gardiner (1985)
Lost in the Devil’s Desert By Gloria Skurzynski (1984)
The Chocolate Touch By Patrick Catling (1983)
Superfudge By Judy Blume (1982)
The Letter, the Witch and the Ring By John Bellairs (1981)
Eddie’s Menagerie By Carolyn Haywood (1980)
-Utah Children’s Informational Book Award
What If You Met A Pirate By Jan Adkins (2008)
Life-Size Dinosaurs By David Bergen (2007)
Actual Size By Steve Jenkins (2006)
How Angel Peterson Got His Name By Gary Paulsen (2005)
Leonardo’s Horse By Jan Fritz (2004)
Tiger Math; Learning to Graph From A Baby Tiger By Ann Nagda (2003)
The Snake Scientist By Sy Montgomery (2002)
If You Hopped Like A Frog By David Schwartz (2001)
A Drop of Water: A book of Science and Wonder By Walter Wick (2000)
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story By Ken Mochizuki (1999)
It’s a Spoon, Not A Shovel By Caralyn Buehner (1998)
Never Take A Pig To Lunch and Other Poems By Various Authors (1997)
Mummies and Their Mysteries By Charlotte Wilcox (1996)
Sadako By Eleanor Coerr (1995)
Stephen Biesty: Incredible Cross-Sections By Richard Platt (1994)
Dolphin Adventure: A True Story By Wayne Grover (1993)
An Ant Colony By Heiderose Fischer-Nagel (1992)
Bill Peet: An Autobiography By Bill Peet (1991)
How to Make Pop-Up’s By Joan Irvine (1990)
Your Amazing Senses By Ron Van Der Meer (1989)
How Much Is A Million By David Schwartz (1988)
Great Painters By Piero Ventura (1987)
-Utah Young Adult’s Book Award
Bad Kitty By Michelle Jaffe (2008)
The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan (2007)
Airborn By Kenneth Oppel (2006)
Eragon By Christopher Paolini (2005)
Stormbreaker By Anthony Horowitz (2004)
Touching Spirit Bear By Ben Mikaelsen (2003)
Downsiders By Neal Shusterman (2002)
Long Way From Chicago By Richard Peck (2001)
Little Sister By Kara Dalkey (2000)
SOS Titanic By Eve Bunting (1999)
Merlin Effect By T.A. Barron (1998)
In My Fathers House By Ann Rinaldi (1997)
Nothing to Fear By Jackie Koller (1996)
Amazing Gracie By A.E. Cannon (1995)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle By Avi (1994)
Sniper By Theodore Taylor (1993)
Don’t Look Behind You By Lois Duncan (1992)
The Other Side of Dark By Joan Nixon (1991)
-Utah Children’s Poetry Book Award
Once I Ate a Pie By Patricia MacLachlan (2008)
Hotel Deep: Light Verse From Dark Water By Kurt Cyrus (2007)
Rolling In The Aisles By Bruce Lansky (2006)
Giant Children By Brod Bagert (2005)
The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Café By Nancy Willard (2004)
Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs By Alan Katz (2003)
Insectiopedia: Poems and Paintings By Florian Douglas (2002)
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