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• 2025 CLCSC Awards Ceremony

  • When
    November 01, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Brand Studios, 1601 W Mountain Street, Glendale, CA 91201
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  You are invited to the 2025 CLCSC Awards Ceremony!
  
  Click on the "Register" button on the left to get started.

  Join us in celebrating the 2025 CLCSC Award Winners at the 

  2025 CLCSC Awards Ceremony

  Saturday, November 1, 2025
  10:00 am - 2:00 pm

  Brand Studios
  1601 W Mountain St, Glendale, CA 91201
  

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  2025 Award Winners

  
  

  Excellence in a Non-Fiction Picture Book:

  Milkweed for Monarchs by Christine Van Zandt

  
  

  
  

  Excellence in Picture Book Artistry: 

  The Ofrenda That We Built illus. Gabby Zapata

  
  

  
  

  Excellence in Juvenile Fiction:

  A Place to Shine by Marie Arnold

  
  

  
  

  Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry:

  The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté

  
  

  Peggy Miller Award for Young Adult Literature:

  This Is Me Trying by Racquel Marie

  
  

  
  

  Dorothy C. McKenzie Award for Distinguished Service to the Field of Children's Literature:
  Annabelle's Book Club of LA - Annabelle Chang

  
  

  PREORDER BOOKS

  Preorder books from Once Upon a Time Bookstore. The shop will have a limited number of additional books available at the event. After the awards presentation and winners' speeches, the 2025 winners will be signing their books.

  You may also bring their books that you already own.
  

  A box lunch will be served. Please note, we cannot guarantee vegan or vegetarian selections after October 20, 2024.

  Proceeds from the silent auction will benefit Children's Literature Council of Southern California, a 501(c)3 organization.

  Free parking is available in Brand Park.

  Bookmark this event page for further updates.

  Lifetime and Supporting Members register for free (log in to the website first, then select CLC Supporting or Lifetime Member ticket level on the registration page).

  Questions? Registration problems? General feedback? Please email Helen Fairman, awardsceremonychair@childrensliteraturecouncil.org.

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