Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for younger readers (from “Young Adults” to picture books for beginning readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for eligibility are otherwise the same as for the Adult literature award. The question of which award a borderline book is best suited for will be decided by consensus of the committees.

2011
cover: A Conspiracy of KingsThe Queen’s Thief Series consisting of The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
2010 
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
2009
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
2008
J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series
2007
Corbenic by Catherine Fisher
Ptolemy’s Gate2006
The Bartimaeus Trilogy consisting of The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem’s Eye, and Ptolemy’s Gate, by Jonathan Stroud
2005
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
2004
The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle
2003
Summerland by Michael Chabon
2002
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
2001
Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun
2000
The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
1999
Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
1998
Young Merlin trilogy (consisting of Passager, Hobby and Merlin) by Jane Yolen
1997
(Combined with Adult Literature award)
1996
The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
1995
Owl in Love by Patrice Kindl
1994
The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas
1993
Knight’s Wyrd by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
1992
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

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