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In other not-so-late-breaking news, a winner for the Story prize has been chosen. Tobias Wolf took home $20,000 for Our Story Begins. Runners-up Jhumpa Lahiri (Unaccustomed Earth) and Joe Meno (Demons in the Spring), earned cash prizes of $5,000 each.

Even longer ago, the Society of Children’s Book & Illustrators named the Golden Kite winners :

Fiction

Down Sand Mountain, by Steve Watkins

Nonfiction

A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts, by Pamela S. Turner

Picture Book Text

A Visitor for Bear, by Bonny Becker, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton

Picture Book Illustration

Last Night, illustrated and written by Hyewon Yum

Each winner received $2,500. For a more complete list of winners and honor recipients visit the SCBWI website.

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