Golden Duck Award

The Golden Duck Awards for Excellence in Children's Science Fiction have been given annually since 1992.

Contents 1 Categories 2 Funding 3 Golden Duck Award Winners 3.1 Picture Book 3.2 Eleanor Cameron Award 3.3 Hal Clement Award 3.4 Special Award Winner 4 External links

Categories

The categories are:

• Picture Book
• K- 5th Grade Reader
• Middle Grades (the Eleanor Cameron Award)
• Young Adult (the Hal Clement Award)

There is also provision for a Special Award if a book is found to be outstanding but doesn't fit any of the standard categories

Funding

The Golden Duck Awards are funded by Super-Con-Duck-Tivity, Inc., a 501(c)3 corporation, which also sponsors the U.S. midwest regional science fiction convention DucKon. Winners are selected by a group of teachers, librarians, parents, high tech workers and reviewers.

Golden Duck Award Winners

Picture Book

• 2004 - Hazel Nutt , Mad Scientist by , David Elliot illustrated by True Kelley (Holliday House, c2003 ISBN 0823417115)
• 2005 - Science Verse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Illustrator) (Viking)
• 2006 - (tie)

Whales on Stilts by M. T. Anderson, illustrated by Kurt Cyrus (Harcourt, 2005. ISBN 0152053409)

The Fran That Time Forgot by Jim Benton (Aladdin, ISBN 0689862989)

• 2007 - Night of the Homework Zombies by Scott Nickel, Illustrated by Steve Harpster; (ISBN 9781598890358)

Eleanor Cameron Award

• 2004 - Escape from Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon & Schuster)
• 2005 - Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer (Hyperion)
• 2006 - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse, 2005)
• 2007 - Apers by Mark Jansen with Barbara Day Zinicola (Dailey Swan Publishing, 2006; ISBN 9780977367627)

Hal Clement Award

• 1992 - Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
• 1993 - River Rats by Caroline Stevermer
• 1994 - The Giver by Lois Lowry
• 1995 - The Ear, the Eye & the Arm by Nancy Farmer
• 1996 - TIE winners

Winds of Marsby by H.M. Hoover

Night Room by E.M. Goldman

• 1997 - Wildside by Steven Gould
• 1998 - Skade's Children by Garth Nix
• 1999 - Alien Dreams by Larry Segriff
• 2000 - The Game of World's: Out of Time by Roger McBride Allen, edited by David Brin
• 2001 - Jumping Off the Planet by David Gerrold
• 2002 - This Side of Paradise by Steven Lane
• 2003 - Feed by M.T. Anderson
• 2004 - Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove (Tor Books)
• 2005 - Balance of Trade by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (Meisha Merlin, 2004)
• 2006 - Uglies by Simon Pulse
• 2007 - Rash by Pete Hautman (Simon & Schuster, 2006; ISBN 9780689868016)
• 2008 - Sky Horizon by David Brin and illustrated by Scott Hampton (Subterranean Press, 2007, ISBN 9781596061095)
• 2009 - TIE winners

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2008, ISBN 9780439023481)

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC, 2008, ISBN 9780765319852)

Special Award Winner

• 1997 Strong Female Characters - Kipton and the Tower of Time by Charles L. Fontenay (Royal Fireworks Press, 1996)
• 1999 Australian Contribution to Children's Science Fiction - to Garth Nix
• 2000 Promotion of Reading - Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• 2003 Best Science and Technology Education - Tales of the Wonderzone (Entire Series) by Julie E. Czerneda (Trifolium Books)
• 2007 - Nonfiction - Write Your Own Science Fiction Story by Tish Farrell (Compass Point Books, 2006; ISBN 9780756516437)

External links

• Golden Duck website

Locus listing of all awards from the first year to 2009

• http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/GoldenDuckWinsByYear.html